• PressPlay >>Rewind 003: REACT Presents Wins The Week, Skrillex Strikes Back At Deadmau5, Lots Of New Music

    PressPlay >>Rewind 003: REACT Presents Wins The Week, Skrillex Strikes Back At Deadmau5, Lots Of New Music

    Happy Monday, readers — PressPlay Rewind landing a day late after a busy Halloween weekend filled to the brim with festival and concert action pretty much everywhere. Hard DOTD sounds like it went off without a hitch, while we can verify that React Presents’ inaugural running of Freaky Deaky as a full-blown festival was one… [continued]

  • Essentials: “First Mythz” – Rustie

    Essentials: “First Mythz” – Rustie

    Following a steady stream of free releases, Glaswegian producer Rustie‘s gifted us with “First Mythz,” the lead single off his upcoming album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE. Dolphin trills echo through a technicolor blast of incandescent synths, emitting a buoyant sound that’s reminiscent of trance and happy hardcore on “First Mythz.” The neon artwork and stadium-rattling maximalist positivity in… [continued]

  • Gig Review: Beach House at O2 ABC

    Gig Review: Beach House at O2 ABC

    Mesmeric shoegaze-pop straight outta’ Baltimore is what rainy Monday nights in Glasgow are all about… So it was perhaps no surprise that last Monday the city’s O2 ABC venue played host to the gorgeously ambient sounds of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, otherwise known as Beach House. Following the duo’s successive 2015 LPs, Depression Cherry and… [continued]

  • Album Review: I Changed A Lot – DJ Khaled

    Album Review: I Changed A Lot – DJ Khaled

    DJ Khaled is one of a kind. Equal parts the prototype for the modern hip hop caricature and the caricature itself, he’s grown acutely aware of his image and its strangely subversive clout in 2015. I Changed A Lot is perhaps the strongest testament yet to his varied talent — which ultimately amounts to making music… [continued]

  • Feeling Spooky? Here’s Our Halloween Playlist

    Feeling Spooky? Here’s Our Halloween Playlist

    With everyone’s favourite autumn night just around the corner, here’s a few songs guaranteed to give you goosebumps. Get ready to awaken your inner ghoul with the Halloween edition of Saint Audio Selects – (Disclaimer: playlist does not contain the traditional Monster Mash or Thriller, go to Youtube) 1.”Black Magic Woman” – Fleetwood Mac Sultry vocals… [continued]

  • ESSENTIALS: Focus – Ariana Grande

    ESSENTIALS: Focus – Ariana Grande

    Pop music’s notorius doughnut-licker and “America-hater”Ariana Grande comes out strutting with “Focus,” a sassy, clap-back to those very labels given to her earlier this year. The sound of “Focus” brings familiar vibes from Ari’s last summer hit, “Problem”, and “Hands On Me” from her platinum-status album, My Everything. Bruce Dickenson can go to sleep happy at night… [continued]

  • PressPlay Mixes #011: Swisha Sweet

    PressPlay Mixes #011: Swisha Sweet

    I first chased up this interview and mix with Swisha Sweet all the way back in July. Being the champ that he is, he whipped up a mix the day I hit him. I sent him way too many questions and he was busy (playing shows on both American coasts and slanging a slew of new edits… [continued]

  • Blood Orange Pens Thoughts On “Sandra’s Smile” Lyrics

    Blood Orange Pens Thoughts On “Sandra’s Smile” Lyrics

    Following the release of “Sandra’s Smile,” New York based artist Devonte Hynes, known as Blood Orange, provided a further look at his poignant lyrics for his tribute to Sandra Bland. [continued]

  • K Dot Drops The Video For ‘These Walls’

    K Dot Drops The Video For ‘These Walls’

    Kendrick Lamar treated us to the rambunctious video for his To Pimp A Butterfly cut, “These Walls.” In typical Kendrick fashion, he manages to create a playfully comedic story with serious undertones. [continued]

  • Action Bronson Hospitalized?

    Action Bronson Hospitalized?

    Queens-based rapper, respected gourmet chef, and creator of VICE’s Fuck That’s Delicious, Action Bronson seems to be hospitalized in Alaska. Bam-bam shared a picture of him resting in a hospital bed on Instagram, the caption reading, “Well this Alaska trip turned me into having emergency surgery. #Fuckthatsdelicious #Recovery”. In the past two days Bronson instagrammed baked whitefish with rendered… [continued]