Video: Les Sins - Youth Gone

Max Bell prefers to speak Flemish. Kool Keith had Dr. Octagon (and Black Elvis and Dr. Doom and other names I'm forgetting). RZA had Bobby Digital. Mos Def has rechristened himself Yasiin Bey—I still call him Mos Def. And before there was MF Doom there was KMD's Zev Love X. Basically, music, and rap music especially, is a great place for reinvention and multiple aliases. New names, new side projects, or whatever all offer the prospect of artistic exploration and growth. Some are fail miserably (Lil Wayne and guitars). Others work well (post-N'Sync [...]

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As Toro y moi Chazwick Bundick already had a way with turntables, disc spinners and all the electronic trappings that make us think of the Matrix yet produce an uncannily structured and catchy sound. As Les Sins , the South California native takes his chill waves influences and turns them into very lounge-music like track, with strong house influences and even some minimal touches. This turn either can be accounted for or accounts for the young man's upcoming record beging released under Caribou's new label Jiaolong - for the creation of which the Canadian also [...]

Animal Collective fans ought to cancel their Sunday night plans for the next couple of weeks and tune into the group's radio show, appropriately titled Animal Collective Radio. The weekly five hour program is scheduled to run every Sunday night from 9 P.M. to 2 A.M. beginning this Sunday and going until August 19 and is said to include guest appearances from Haunted Graffiti and Sublime Frequencies. For more information head over to Pitchfork , or check out the band's hard to watch and hard to listen to promotional video below: [...]