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Most billboard advertisements for music streaming services are foregone conclusions: large posters for artists whose clout is so undeniable that the billboard-as-co-sign is painfully obvious and rarely very interesting. Naturally, cruising down any major street in central Los Angeles offers no respite from these billboards, because, Hollywood. That is, until you get to Fairfax, where at […]
When the first trailer for Alita: Battle Angel hit the internet in December of 2017, one thing immediately jumped out: Those eyes. Those very big eyes. Alita, the titular protagonist—played by real-life human Rosa Salazar—in Robert Rodriguez’s new dystopian sci-fi saga, is a teenage cyborg warrior with peepers so large, they’d make Bambi blush. The […]
In a sneaker climate where performance basketball isn’t nearly as hyped-up as it was eight or nine years ago, a collaboration can really move the needle. Kith did it last year with the LeBron 15. Concepts put its spin on the Kyrie 5 this past December. Now, Los Angeles-based streetwear brand Rokit has crafted its […]
John Elliott is standing in front of a floor-length board, pointing at digital mockups of the set design for his Fall/Winter 2019 runway show, which took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday. “We are literally gonna have models walk through half-constructed homes,” he says at his showroom in Manhattan, a few days before […]
From the release of “They Ain’t 100” in 2016, to going No. 1 with Dave last year, to now finally releasing your debut album on a major—when you were just a guy from the roads who rapped every now and then, did you ever think you would be in the position that you’re in […]
Early December, 2018, a day before Swindle’s headline show that saw Ghetts, Kojey Radical, Etta Bond, Knucks and more take to the stage, I had never seen an artist so focused on the task at hand. Rehearsing at Shepherd’s Bush Studios with his band members, a cool, calm and collected Swindle took on an ambitious […]
Donovan Mitchell disappointed dunk fans when he recently announced he wouldn’t defend his Dunk Contest crown this year. They’re going to be even more disappointed to hear he was cooking up a couple of crazy ones—you know, just in case he had a change of heart—that probably won’t see the light of day. “A […]
There aren’t many rappers who were present during the inception of the road rap scene that are still making music today, over a decade later. So much has changed since that time, from listening to songs via CD or sending them to your friends via Bluetooth, to easily accessing music on YouTube or streaming services […]
For decades, the Bay Area’s marquee export has been rap slang. Since the early days of E-40 and Too $hort, the region has been reinventing the hip-hop lexicon, and Oakland’s ALLBLACK is poised to be one of the next great linguistic innovators to break out on a national level. With a charismatic, cascading flow with […]
On first listen, you’d be hard-pressed to associate Ambar Lucid’s music with a specific time or place. Her voice is a dramatic instrument, equally comfortably singing just above a whisper and belting inpirational choruses. Ambar sings in both English and Spanish, a nod to her Mexican-Dominican background—and an affront to the relatives who told her […]
