From Heidecker & Wood b-sides to Joywave’s secret mixtapes: your unofficial guide to November’s best releases. Read up. HEIDECKER & WOOD: GOOD AS IS (2007 – 2015) Comedian Tim Heidecker and composer Davin Wood’s project subverts and pays tribute to dadwave in equal measure. In Good As Is (2007 – 2015), the duo shares a 58-track collection of lost and…

30 days in 10 essential downloads from The FADER, Soulection, Fresh Moss, and more. Soulection: White Label Series 001 – 016 The influential beat collective shares a living digital archive for all things White Label, spanning 16 editions, including the latest from Monte Booker, and bonus tracks. Euro League: Continuum EP Volume 1 At 26,…

When you click a magnet link on a website to get a torrent, it automagically opens a torrent file with a list of files you can download. Ever wonder how uTorrent finds that file in the big mess of the peer to peer internet? You can now see how this works  with a new visualization…

200 creators weigh in on the present and future of creative sustainability. 2015 marked a year of massive change for the creative industry. Music got a universal release date. Theaters are agreeing to 17-day release windows (well, some of them). Apple added a music streaming service. (So did Jay Z.) You can now watch videos…

Searching for truth in web’s black markets, shopping for kicks in the crowded streets of Tokyo, and chasing down summer’s last golden hours. September marks the end of summer: when we fall back into routine, settle into shorter days, and start doing basic things like seasonal lattes. Up against all that, it made sense to…