“Santa Barbara’s electronic dream team Candyland consisting of Josie Martin and Ethan Davis, refuse to disappoint fans and continually surprise critics.  Their secret seems to be a constantly evolving sound that taps into a myriad of genres, from glitch to disco and back again.” Candyland and Kill Paris has played

“To call GoldLink an aspiring rapper would not do him justice. The DMV-bred emcee accrued over three million plays on his Soundcloud and captured the attention of an entire industry with the first project he ever released. GoldLink’s sound doesn’t throw it all the way back to the boom-bap, New

    Kool Keith comes in many forms and many incarnations, but his style is distinctly his own. Just as there’s no mistaking his smooth lyrical delivery and searing hip-hop prose with its underlying edgy beats, there’s no denying the incredible force of power that is Kool Keith. Whether as a

Greg and Inara met a few years ago. They discovered a common love of jazz standards…nerded out for a couple of hours playing every song they knew…and then wrote and recorded a record together. With all of these elements you have what we now know as The Bird and The

Arthur Ashin is the American singer behind Autre Ne Veut. The name Autre Ne Veut is taken from an inscription in French on a 15th-century British dress ornament that is stored at The Cloisters and is translated to English as “I want no other.” The title of Age of Transparency acts as

Mick Jenkins is an American hip-hop recording artist born in Huntsville, Alabama on April 16th, 1991. That’s right…1991. Which means that he’s not only younger than anyone on the BAS editorial staff, but that we are obviously doing this whole “life” thing all wrong. In 2014, Jenkins released “The Water[s]”, a project

An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo, Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. They’ve been compared to New Order, Future Bible Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a