A-Trak
It’s been more than ten years since Alain Macklovitch, a.k.a. A-Trak, won DMCs World DJ Championship at the tender age of 15. The Montreal native has been on a collision course with superstardom ever since—drawing inspiration from big bro David Macklovitch
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DoseOne
Visionary, poet, illustrator, musician, animator, emcee and entrepreneur DoseOne (aka, Adam Drucker) is the co-founder of the revered underground Oakland label Anticon and has released genre-bending music as a member of cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, and this year, as
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Ezra Furman
Ezra Furman, the 20-year-old songwriter—still a student at Tufts University—shrieks, squeals and wails his way through angsty metaphors and bizarre notions such as Moses braiding his hair into cornrows or God as a terribly lonely, middle-aged woman. After
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Morgan Geist
Morgan Geist listened to disco when it was very uncool to listen to disco. And now that disco fever is running rampant again, he’s one of its apostles. The New Jersey-born remixer and producer has always ministered to the oft-neglected emotive side of techno,
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Pepi Ginsberg
Pepi Ginsberg recorded her latest album, Red, in a makeshift recording studio, which is a step up from where her last album was allegedly recorded: The eccentric singer/ songwriter made Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe in her Brooklyn apartment bathtub. Channeling
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Samantha Ronson
What do you really know about Samantha Ronson? No, really. Well, for one thing, she was the first “rock act” (read: white girl) signed to Jay-Z’s label, Roc-AFella Records in 2004, only a few years after first spinning on MTV. The London-born DJ is maybe
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Asher Roth
Having grown up in not-so-hoodish Morrisville, Pennsylvania, rapping newcomer Asher Roth spent hours and hours of his adolescence searching for the right hip-hop alias, yet somehow, inexplicably, his given name ended up satisfying the street quota. Roth’s
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Langhorne Slim
As a child, the now-Brooklynite, Pennsylvania-born Sean Scolnick yearned to reinvent himself as a black soul singer and adopted the pseudonym/country-western alter-ego Langhorne Slim (named for his hometown). It was on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that Slim
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Ira Wolf Tuton and Chris Keating
Ira Wolf Tuton and Chris Keating are members of the critically acclaimed experimental Brooklyn collective Yeasayer. Despite the band’s mere two years together and only one release (All Hours Cymbals) out on the micro-indie label We Are Free, The New York Times
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Shira Yevin
In 2004, Shira Yevin’s glam-punk band Shiragirl crashed the Vans Warped Tour, playing out of their pink RV right in front of the venue. By 2005, the New Jersey native had created an all-girl rogue stage for female-fronted bands, hosting up-and-comers like the
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