Artist Features

Interview: Cougar 

Sep 30, 2009

Interview: Speech Debelle 

Aug 18, 2009

South London's Speech Debelle offers her cathartic debut, marked by sweet vocal delivery, warm instrumentation and production by Wayne Lotek....

Interview: Sian Alice Group 

Aug 10, 2009

With a new album, Troubled, Shaken Etc., out and a tour in the offing, Sian Alice Group is already looking ahead to its next studio adventure....

Interview: Bomba Estéreo 

Jul 28, 2009

Bomba Estéreo merges traditional Columbian instruments and folk sounds with hip-hop, reggae and more. Producer Simon Mejia explains how....

Interview: Moby 

Jul 10, 2009

Homebody Moby holed up in his home studio to craft his latest release, Wait for Me, finding solace in the charms of a Bakelite radio another studio friends....

Nosaj Thing  

Jun 19, 2009

Nosaj Thing lets the keys do the talking on his debut LP, Drift....

Interview: The Field 

Jun 2, 2009

Axel Willner used to think he needed to complete songs while the ideas were still fresh without going back to rework any unfinished notions....

Interview: White Lies 

May 26, 2009

UK trio White Lies nails their debut, To Lose My Life, with a little help from studio stars Ed Buller, Max Dingel and Alan Moulder. Some kids have all the luck...

White Rabbits 

May 19, 2009

White Rabbits get all retro on our asses with their analog-heavy release, It's Frightening. Also? Spoon's Britt Daniel drops by to handle production duties....

Ape School: Perfect 10 

May 5, 2009

Look, this weird morphed picture of Michael Johnson/Ape School is freaking us out too, okay? What's more important is his top 10 fave tracks....

Mini Q&A With Bike for Three's Greetings From Tuskan 

Apr 30, 2009

Cross-continental duo Bike for Three (what?) will release its debut album, More Heart Than Brains, on Anticon this month....

Nas and C-Sick 

Apr 28, 2009

Red Bull Big Tune beat battle winner C-Sick gets to collaborate with Nas on an original track. Pretty frickin' sweet, huh?...

IAMX: Perfect 10 

Apr 23, 2009

IAMX is gearing up to drop Kingdom of Welcome Addiction on May 19, so we checked in with him to get the skinny on his fave tracks....

Interview: Winter Gloves 

Apr 21, 2009

Looks like Canada is at it again. Those crazy, "eh"-saying folks from the north have produced yet another sweet-sounding band: Winter Gloves....

Interview: Prefuse 73 

Apr 16, 2009

He may go by many aliases, but as Prefuse 73, Guillermo Scott Herren is the master of multilayered-hip-hop-meets-electro-ambient....

Q&A With Harmonic 313 (aka Mark Pritchard) 

Apr 9, 2009

From the sound of When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence, one might think Harmonic 313, aka Mark Pritchard, hails straight from the D. ...

Xrabit + DMG$ 

Mar 12, 2009

What does an ex-rabbit have to do with damaged goods? A lot, it turns out, in the form of Xrabit + DMG$. Sweet....

PLATINUM PIED PIPERS 

Mar 1, 2009

Who's got soul but is not a soldier? The Platinum Pied Pipers, that's who. Remix sits down to discuss the R&B group's latest, Abundance....

Circlesquare 

Mar 1, 2009

Remix tortured Jeremy Shaw, aka Circlesquare, by asking him for his top 10 fave songs of all time. What can we say? We're sadistic like that....

Kinky 

Mar 1, 2009

Kinky loves mixin' the old school with the new school and then schoolin' us all on how Barracuda came together....

Pure Energy: Akon 

Mar 1, 2009

Akon takes a new cue from European dance music while tapping into the supernatural side of songwriting on his latest solo effort, Freedom....

Q&A With Broken Spindles 

Feb 24, 2009

Joel Petersen, aka Broken Spindles, is totally frigging busy (which is a really good thing when you're a musician (....

Video: Sweet Success—Akon's Personal House Tour 

Feb 20, 2009

Is Akon a successful artist? His personal gas pump, alligator pit and remote control for everything make us say "WTF?!" and "hells yeah."...

Q&A With Andre Anjos of Remix Artist Collective 

Feb 19, 2009

Andre Anjos is a remixing freak. And by "freak" we mean he's done a shitload of awesome remixes of songs by artists we love....

Video: Akon on Studio and Live Production Techniques 

Feb 18, 2009

Multiplatinum hip-hop artist/producer Akon talks about some of his production techniques, both live and in the recording studio. ...