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Huffington Post Canada | By Jesse Ship Posted: 11/27/2012 5:25 pm EST Updated: 11/27/2012 5:25 pm EST Anyone who has played video games in the last three decades has at some point likely taken a trip to Hyrule — the land ruled by gaming’s beloved and oft-kidnapped princess Zelda — throughout the franchise’s …
Duke Slammer is the latest moniker from established techno maverick, Luke’s Anger. As he said in his BBC Introducing interview, he enjoys “looking for albums that sound like Prince but aren’t as good” to help create his electro-boogie, spandex-obsessed sound. You can hear ‘GO$$IP’ from …
Once again, I was scared, frightened, yet quite excited to be tackling another assignment for Musicworks, the world’s leading magazine in experimental music. This month’s issue had Juno-winning electronic artist Tim Hecker on the cover, whom I helped nominate this past spring! Click the articles …
I love this video because it has the hype of a British heist flick and because it was partially shot in Taiwan, where I spent a year teaching English in 2007. The vast rows of scooters were kind of a giveaway at first, but I …
Lee Fields is a true veteran of Motown. Having made his first recording in 1969, he’s been chugging away ever since. After a brief hiatus in the 80s, he returned in the 90s and has not stopped. His current group is Lee Fields and The …
Posted on Oct 25th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship There was much-excitement awhile back amongst fans of fast-rising dance act Azari & Illwhen British paper The Sun announced the foursome would be opening Madonna‘s MDNA world tour. Unfortunately, that wasn’t exactly the case. Madonna had actually fingered Avicii to open for …
A little bit of a shameless plug here. No, I’m not working directly with the Sapient, the artist, but I was hired to write the press release for his new album, SLUMP, thanks to GoLightly Media. It’s actually a really tight sounding record, so …
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chariot, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix of his own tunes and …
Photo: Sean Berrigan Posted on Oct 9th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship A lot has happened to Jeremy Rose a.k.a. Zodiac in the past couple of years. Barely 23, he was (arguably) robbed of some of his most valuable credits for his work with The Weeknd (snapped up by Drake) but …
What? Snoop Dogg and Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize?? I had a sneaky suspicion that the BNR label woudl be up to more celebrity endorsement-style collaborations after they dropped that “Burst” track with Peaches. I actually asked them if there would be more to come …