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 YouTube algorithms and making its way to the mainstream. keshi, who at the time was sitting on a few million […]
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. Others will say that they’re all hype. But no matter what your opinions on them are, it’s impossible to ignore […]
2020 was a weird year. I don’t think it’s necessary for me to go on about why 2020 stands out as one for the history books, but it’s an important factor that has heavily influenced the way that we consumed music over the past 12 months. In a year filled with tragedy, deranged politics, and […]
EPs, to us, serve one of two purposes for a band. For some, they’re an experimental stomping ground to test out new ideas without completely committing to a new artistic direction. For others, they announce the arrival of a musical artist in full force long before a full-length feature is dropped. While we’ve selected some […]
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 mostly a singular effort–I was scouring Spotify playlists, combing through YouTube recommendations and SoundCloud links in order to find the […]