Fifteen years ago, DJ Shadow released Endtroducing…, a timeless masterpiece that secured his legacy as a pioneer of instrumental hip-hop and inspired several generation of beatmakers. With his latest The Less You Know, The Better, released last month on Verve, the legendary turntablist returns to his roots after experimenting on his confrontational and polarizing 2006 album The Outsider. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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champoyhate Before becoming a singer, Anika was a political journalist splitting her time between Bristol and Berlin. But after meeting Portishead producer Geoff Barrow, she quit her job as correspondent and released an album she recorded with Barrow’s latest project BEAK> in just twelve days on Stones Throw/Invada. She speaks here from somewhere in the [...]

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With Outmind, he explores how these found sounds and more familiar beats can work together, producing music that exists in a realm in between, oscillating between ambience and rhythm, structure and space. Texture-heavy west coast hip-hop runs deep (“International feat. Dogbite”). Delicate and gauzy ambience (“Group Tea feat. Flying Lotus”) flows into heady dubstep-leaning beats.

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Hanni El Khatib plays bluesy garage rock with a lot of soul and a little folk for Highland Park’s Innovative Leisure label. He destroys live with only an electric guitar and drums played by his best friend from high school. From Café Tropical in Silver Lake, he speaks about preferring amps to humans, a memorable mushroom experience in the snow and his various encounters with strippers. He celebrates the release of his debut LP at the Echo tonight. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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It’s been five years since David Lynch released his last film, Inland Empire, and since then, the 65-year-old auteur—who directed cult classics like Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive—has done pretty much everything but direct another movie. These days, when he’s not giving weather reports, bemoaning the debt crisis, or creating installations at Duran Duran [...]

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Jonwayne Dublab fundraiser at {open} in Long Beach with Matthewdavid, Jonwayne, Miniature Houses, Feed The Feeble, Alyssandra Nighswonger, Alicia Murphy, DJ Cornejo (MOLAA Resident DJ), DJ Rahfee, and DJ xie xie on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Photos by Lainna Fader. .

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Chad Brown knows more about country music than anyone you’ll ever meet and DJs what he calls “the real American soul music”—music that comes from places where you can’t park. He makes music of his own as CB Brand and served as music supervisor for Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me. He will DJ tonight at Big Freak. This Interpreter curated by Lainna Fader.

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Director Sion Sono started out as a poet and staged guerrilla experimental poetry street performances before making films about brutal murders, twisted families, and demonic hair. His latest film is Cold Fish, a twisted tale about a struggling fish store owner who falls into the dark orbit of a rich, charismatic—and murderous—owner of a successful high-end fish shop. He speaks here about crime and creativity, pervert power, and his own cult experiences. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Strangeloop‘s gorgeous a/v project Fields is out today on Brainfeeder! He’s also got a gallery show at Gus Harper Studios celebrating the release with Fields prints, drawings, sketches, paintings, and video installations. The exhibit only runs til the 30th so make sure you check it out ASAP. See below for some of the stunning work [...]

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Brainfeeder audio-visual artist Strangeloop’s latest Fields is a beautiful and mesmerizing experiment in sound and image. He celebrates its release with a gallery exhibit at Gus Harper Studios this Saturday, and speaks here about being in a metal band, what the real apocalypse looks like, and the DMT trip that showed him his rhythm. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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