The New Zealand songstress Kimbra is becoming something like an enchanting, music-making goddess in the States. After being featured in Gotye’s infectious “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Kimbra started to be recognized as a stunning force of art. She then worked with Mark Foster and A-Trak for the “Warrior” joint, and killed it at [...]

Are you ready to jump? In two weeks the greatest show on earth is about to begin. Madonna hits the road once again to makes us go wild at her MDNA world tour and as the first stop is Tel Aviv the citizens of the gay capital of the Middle East are ready to strike [...]

If there was someone who had a profound love for music, that person was Sir John Peel. The legendary British DJ and broadcaster literally lived for eclectic sounds that pretty much ruled the BBC Radio 1 airwaves, from 1967 all the way to his death in 2004. Peel was responsible for showcasing the best of [...]

The city of Derby in England is not exactly a hip-hop Mecca, but on Monday night legendary New York emcee, Masta Ace, braved the cold wind and the pouring rain to perform an intimate show to a bunch of dedicated hip-hop heads as part of his Son of Yvonne/Arts Decade tour. I was honoured to sit down with [...]

“It’s good to be home,” said School of Seven Bells frontwoman Alejandra Deheza from the stage at Le Poisson Rouge on May 5.  The duo, formed with guitarist Benjamin Curtis, came back to New York to wrap up its national tour in support of recently-released third album Ghostory.  From the stunning album opener “The Night” [...]

It’s a new dawn, It’s a new day, It’s a new life for us and yes, we’re feeling pretty damn good. We trust you have all been able to overcome your respective Cinco De Mayo/weekend festivities ’cause it’s Tuesday and you should be ‘up and atom’ by now. If the promise of a new day [...]

The Beastie Boys have done huge things for music. There are few bands that could be considered more successful and more diverse than the New York trio who have been lighting up stages since their 1984 debut. The infamous line-up of Adrock, MCA and Mike D has been on musical journeys unlike any other band. [...]

Nasir “Nas” Jones is back. Being the emcee that brought us smashes like “Thief’s Theme,” “Made You Look” and “Hip Hop is Dead,” it is no surprise that his latest track is an absolute banger. Nas has focused his attention back on representing his home – New York City – and on staking his claim [...]

Last week, the Drums brought their summertime sorrow to New York City’s Webster Hall on a night that matched the gloomier side of the band’s identity. The quintet brought their retro-prep style to their hometown at the beginning of a cross-country tour in support of their 2011 album Portamento. World-weary, memento mori lyrics and all, [...]

Reasons to celebrate? You betcha, especially if it is during the first day of the week. Here at The WILD we waste no time sorting out the tracks we like to hear, the ones that are revolting the blogsphere and our humble iPods. That being said, why not share the love with our fellow readers? [...]

With each track beginning with the sample: “You’re now listening to AraabMuzik,” it’s pretty hard to mistake an AraabMuzik joint. But being able to recognise his production goes way beyond a simple name-check sample. The undisputed MVP of the MPC has taken live-performance beat making to the next level with his incredible technical skill. Whether [...]

Music lovers everywhere are coming off their very own ‘holiday’, Record Store Day, celebrated just this past weekend. Many would say it’s just another way to support your fellow vinyl joint, but its true purpose is to celebrate the art of music. It basically brings artists and fans together under one big frenzy of album/single [...]

For dwellers of the Northern Hemisphere, summer is coming, which means preparing a summer soundtrack is a necessary task. The perfect track to start off with is “Walkin’” by Brainfeeder artist Thundercat. This little gem comes from his Flying Lotus-produced debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse, and is yet another example of the type of unique and imaginative music Brainfeeder [...]

Yuksek, aka Pierre-Alexandre Busson, is not the latest artist continuing France’s strong reputation for electronic music right now. He’s just one of the best. Below is the second half of our conversation. You can check out part one here. It does sound like you’re in a much better place with touring now than you were [...]

Yuksek, aka Pierre-Alexandre Busson, is not the latest artist continuing France’s strong reputation for electronic music right now. He’s just one of the best. In addition to two albums of his own, the dance-pop maestro has remixed artists from M83 to Lady Gaga to Ghostface Killah. His 2009 debut Away From The Sea was filled with party-ready [...]

It’s hard to believe that this is WILD playlist number 30. The big 3-0! 300 songs have made it to this weekly posting and hopefully there will be plenty of more to come in the near future. For now we will refrain of talking about the importance of music and how it affects our lives, [...]

The dazzling Nina Kraviz has found herself as one of the most respected names of tech house at the moment. It is not a surprise that the breakthrough Russian doll’s work is being massively emphasised by the devoted press, from Mixmag to Resident Advisor. Indeed, if we should give a name to current hot electro, [...]

Eden Rice and Charlotte Kemp Muhl are really pretty things that make really pretty songs. The two met in the lazy, hazy heat of suburban Georgia when they were just little girls (Rice was six and Muhl was four) and as little girls will do, made up their own language and waxed poetic about faeries. [...]

This may not be a video game, but I doubt anyone is complaining. Lana Del Rey, the internet sensation who finds herself in a public love/hate relationship with listeners has emerged on an unlikely, but great sounding track from Brooklyn’s very own production duo The Kickdrums. Enlisting help from the leader of the trillwave A$AP [...]

There is always a time when a performer comes along with a proposal so unusual and ‘out there’ that even the underground looks up and takes notice. Yet the underground would have some sort of trouble categorizing said performer into an especific style. This is the case of multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, choreographer, singer/songwriter Ana Lola [...]

April is the cruelest month. At least that’s what T.S. Elliot said on the first line of his modernist poem The Waste Land. But still, there is a lot to dispute about that: the warm weather has finally settled in, the flowers are blossoming high and regular folks are flooding the parks for their wish [...]

It is quite obvious that women are underrepresented in hip hop, and the genre, even today, remains a patriarchal one. It doesn’t help that there is still a great deal of misogyny and machismo in songs and music videos. This doesn’t mean there aren’t any decent female rappers out there though. In fact, the evidence [...]

With the release of their debut studio album rapidly approaching, the Parisian foursome finally unveiled their brilliant master plan. Each Tuesday until May 21st, the official release date, they will reveal an extract of their forthcoming album. The first song introduced to us, “Just Kiss Her,” is a little indie gem tinted with nostalgia and [...]

Hardcore ABBA fans screamed with joy when reps of the legendary Swedish supergroup announced that an unreleased song would see the light of day as part of the tracklist for the Deluxe Edition of their 1981 swansong “The Visitors,” due out April 23rd. It came as a surprise for everyone, as it’s the first time [...]

Since working with Terry Urban on his 2008 mixtape, Goin’ Ape, Ohio-native Stalley has been doing his utmost to establish himself in the ever-competitive world of hip hop. Having toured alongside major hip hop players like Mos Def, Styles P, Jay Electronica and KRS-One, he is now starting to gain recognition as a standout artist [...]

A new month means new beginnings, new opportunities, and new ways to make it better than the previous month. At The WILD, it also means new and cool features, new outlooks at life and our surroundings, new trends, and of course – new music. In this edition of Music To Start The Week With, we once [...]

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was best known to 19th-century’s society as a radical fellow who dared to question the value and objectivity of truth, with a substantial influence that went within and beyond the boundaries of philosophy. He was also a poet, a composer and an accomplished piano player. One of his most famous quotes, [...]

Fiona Apple is back enthralling fans live after a hiatus. It’s been five years since she played live and seven years since her last album. “There was no hello. No small talk. No chatter. Instead, she began to spasm as her band cranked into the stop-start, piano-based jazz groove of ‘Fast as You Can,’ a [...]

No matter how mild a winter, the vernal equinox is always a welcome arrival. Mark Twain once said, “In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” The Earth’s axis has tilted in favor of the sun in the northern hemisphere, bringing life to our limbs and color to [...]

The past 24 hours were all about insomnia for hardcore Madonna fans (and worried Lady Gaga fans). After last night, the songs off Madge’s new album – out on the 26th of March, now internationally called #madonnamonday – started to leak online many of us spent our Tuesday without trying to catch our breath. As [...]

Weather is still messing with our minds, people. NYC has not escaped yet out of this confusing ‘warm winter’ wave and with it, the affluence of early alergies affecting men and women of any age. All while a beeming sun collides most days with a chilly wind. In late March. WTF? Just like Donna Summer [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal is no stranger to music videos. He has previously made cameo appearances in videos for tracks by Jamie Foxx and Vampire Weekend. Now he’s taken more of a starring role in the epic eight-and-a-half minute video for The Shoes’ song “Time to Dance”. The song itself is a catchy electro-pop number that has [...]

Jurassic 5 DJ and producer, DJ Nu-Mark, has joined forces with legendary emcee Bumpy Knuckles (aka Freddie Foxxx) on his latest offering ‘Dumpin’ ‘Em All’. The track effortlessly balances Nu-Mark’s bouncy production with Knuckles’ aggressive vocal style and there is a definite tinge of that old-skool J5 sound, which was always so appealing. Coming in [...]

It’s always nice to revisit a few topics we went through on earlier editions of “Music To Start The Week With”, mainly because they are pretty universal, like the power of music and images that inspire. This time we found an iconic photo of the even more iconic Grandmaster Flash in all his glory…mixers, turntables, [...]

Sometimes you hear a song for the first time and are blown away. This happened to me when I first heard “The Black Dog” by the Canadian artist Black Atlass. The haunting Babe Ruth sample and hushed R&B vocals play off beautifully against the looped and layered instrumental backing. It sounds like something that could [...]

It is difficult to pinpoint what exactly it is it that qualifies a song or artist as being hip hop these days. The way in which hip hop has diversified over the past few years has left many people confused as to how to accurately describe the genre. Do you merely need an emcee and [...]

Ever since their inception in 2007, the multiple members of Odd Future, or, to give them their full name, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), have been on a mission to shake things up. Careering at full throttle into the mainstream music world’s consciousness in 2011 meant they had to crank it up [...]

It’s that time again: another Monday, another month of the year, another WILD playlist to satisfy your needs. A few things are happening on March, one more sincerely important than the other. Still, it’s nice to enjoy some fresh air accompanied by a sweetly curated selection of tunes. In this edition of “Music To Start [...]

Some artists convey an unmistakable message that transcends language barriers. Reading between the lines, or listening between the sound waves, fans the world over just seem to get it. Ana Tijoux, a French Chilean hip hop artist uses her subtle flow and classic beats to convey social messages that have grabbed hold of America Latina [...]

The ever-classy Norah Jones just dropped the first single to her May 1 release, Little Broken Hearts, but it is the album’s cover art that has caught our attention. The illustration that adorns Jones’ fifth LP was inspired by “a sadistically sensual motion picture,” set in the days of the Depression and Prohibition. The 1965 [...]

More than a decade ago, a Detroit-born girl often quoted as the ‘Queen of Pop’ once said that ‘music makes the people come together’. Boy, wasn’t that hell raiser right? When you think about it, that catchy line from a chart-topping hit single is not just a line, but a complete and truthful statement of [...]

The neo-soul sensation D’Angelo has been pretty quiet over the last few years. However, he seemed to suddenly re-appear in January and has just completed a number of European tour dates in major cities like London, Paris, Stockholm and Oslo. It seems the music world is starting to get excited about Mr Michael Eugene Archer’s [...]

During several appearances that take place in February and March, Bjork has been introducing a New York audience to Biophilia, her most recent project that is both an album and an interactive collaboration. The ten new songs, presented by The Creators Project and performed at New York Hall of Science and Roseland Ballroom, were composed in conjunction with a downloadable app that is presented within the context [...]

Le Tigre still bears an uncertain future. Since the DVD release of their documentary, “Who Took The Romp? Le Tigre On Tour”, the trio of Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD Samson have been quite busy with their own projects. Samson is one who’s not that worried about Le Tigre. In fact Samson, one of [...]

Here at The WILD, we are sure that our American audience must be lying in bed or somewhere else pretty and calm, celebrating President’s Day without a care in the world. Well, except for maybe one thing: we need spring here ASAP! Though the Sun has graced us with its presence over the past few [...]

There can be no denying that France has had its fair share of international music successes. From Gainsbourg and Hallyday, through to Daft Punk, the Ed Banger Records crew and superstar producers like David Guetta and Bob Sinclar, there’s definitely global love for our Gallic friends. French hip hop may be harder to sell abroad [...]

It doesn’t matter if you claim to hate a festivity supposedly created for economic purposes; everybody has a special someone, a lover, a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a ‘boo’ to cater unconditionally. And if you’re single, then a nice set of friends will do just fine. February is the month of love and this week [...]

Most uncomfortable and terrible news break down when you least expect them. I was minding my own business on Saturday night, having drinks with an old friend in East Harlem, getting ready to start my weekend fiesta when all of a sudden I received a message that shook me to the core, originally assuming it [...]

Darkest [Dim] comes from Tokimonsta’s Creature Dreams EP out now on super-label of the moment, Brainfeeder. The track has a wonderful, ethereal quality that really lets the mind wander. Tokimonsta’s simple, looped and layered production works as the perfect backdrop for Gavin Turek’s beautifully soulful vocals, creating a kind of 21st century trip-hop sound (think of a shuffled-up, 1990s Morcheeba). Director Doug Chang has taken [...]

On Monday, the online music hub Stereogum was kind enough to share a list of Fred Armisen’s top Portland bands. Armisen is of course the co-star of the awesomely weird sketch comedy show Portlandia that takes endearing jabs at progressive and alternative subcultures. For this edition of Heavy Rotation, we are going to dive into [...]