Kendrick Lamar's rap voice is already a special effect, an endlessly versatile rat-tat-tat blur that switches octaves and inflections with dizzying speed. But on his remix of Kendrick's sad-drunk…   Read Story »

The Florida band Hundred Waters make dazed, impressionistic, pastoral music -- folk music, sort of, except made with sequencers and laptops and without traditional song-structure. The Montreal…   Read Story »

Blood Diamonds is a line-blurring Montreal producer and a Grimes buddy. Dominic Lord is an ultra-fashionable young New York rapper. On the new track "Barcode," a forthcoming Blood Diamonds single,…   Read Story »

Vancouver producer and Grimes buddy Blood Diamonds just released the 12" single version of his Grimes collab "Phone Sex," and one of its B-sides is a spacey, dissolving remix from the Nashville…   Read Story »

On Sunday afternoon, the L$D video "DONT SMOKE MY BLUNT BITCH," a collaborative effort from Grimes, Kreayshawn, Blood Diamonds, and Tragik, debuted on Tragik's Tumblr. The video was accompanied by…   Read Story »

Here is a video that took under an hour to make, for a song that took under ten minutes to record, by a group of artists that may or may not have fomented this project via Twitter DM. It comes by way…   Read Story »

Blood Diamonds -- AKA Vancouver's Mike Tucker -- will put out a 12'' this summer, and today yields that release's vivid lead cut, the tropical electro-dance groove "Phone Sex." It features vocals…   Read Story »

On September 13th, Himanshu K. Suri aka Heems's Greedhead Music label will release Relax, the debut full-length from Brooklyn-based rapscallions Das Racist. This builds on two celebrated mixtapes --…   Read Story »

Back again with another monthly mix which, per its title, you should continue to expect monthly. We're glad you guys enjoyed the last installment, and thoroughly appreciate the feedback. In case you…   Read Story »

Blood Diamonds is the project of Vancouver producer Mike Tucker, a multi-instrumentalist with a background in classical and modern jazz, though he does something different under his electro-dance…   Read Story »