When we first interviewed keshi (Casey Luong) back in 2018, he was still at the cusp of breaking through. Lo-fi, and more specifically, lo-fi hip hop as a genre, was slowly creeping its way through ...
If you’re a frequent festival-goer, Elephante is a name that you may be all too familiar with. A Harvard graduate and one-time businessman at a global consultant firm, Elephante (Tim Wu) left it all behind ...
The world is listening to Stephanie Poetri right now. With over 500 million streams on her 2019 single “I Love You 3000” and the 2021 release of her EP AM:PM (plus an acoustic version), Stephanie ...
Ask any two people about 88Rising, and you’d probably get two wildly differing opinions on their work as a group. There are those in the camp who think everything that they touch turns to gold. ...
Here are our favorite albums of 2019. Part 2/3.
Deciding which songs would be on our Best Songs of 2019 list was, in many ways, leagues different than it was for 2018. When I was putting our list together back in 2018, it was ...
Widely making headlines as “China’s Rihanna”, 88Rising signee Lexie Liu has dropped her latest—and very first—EP, 2030. Featuring both Chinese and English lyrics, her bilingual songs are not out of the ordinary for 88Rising, which has ...
Here are our favorite EPs from 2018.
“Nostalgia is bullshit”. At least, that’s one of the ideas behind “History”, one of the highlights from 88Rising’s collaborative showcase album Head in the Clouds, released earlier this year. Featuring Indonesian rapper Rich Brian (Brian Immanuel) of ...
Ever heard of Filthy Frank or Pink Guy? If you’ve been on the Internet for the past few years, chances are you probably have. Japanese-Australian singer, songwriter, rapper, and retired Youtuber Joji (George Miller) is ...