FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #4: Full Metal Ninja
Artwork by Tomoe Hayama For the fourth edition of the FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ series, we asked ourselves, “What would it sound like to get your butt sliced off by a ninja robot in the year … read more »
View ArticleVideo: DJ Blaqstarr & Rye Rye, “Shake It To The Ground”
Imagine being a 16-year-old in Baltimore, not doing much other than dancing and being cute, and all of the sudden local club genius DJ Blaqstarr (read up on him here) puts you on a song … read more »
View ArticleReminder: FADER Party Tonight In Greenpoint
It is starting to get dark, so we thought we’d give you one last reminder that we’re celebrating the release of our icon issue at Shangri-La in Greenpoint tonight from 9-1. In addition to performances...
View ArticleLive: Dri, Free Blood And Blaqstarr At The FADER 54 Release Party
We piled in a grip of Bass Ale and head up to the tippy top of Greenpoint, Brooklyn this past Wednesday to celebrate the release of our Aaliyah icon issue. Dri, Blaqstarr and Free Blood, … read more »
View ArticleVideo: M.I.A. + Blaqstarr, “Way Down in the Hole”
Since we heard that M.I.A. and Blaqstarr were doing a Baltimore-influenced cover of “Way Down in the Hole,” the opening theme from The Wire, we were a little skeptical. After hearing the original blast...
View ArticleFreeload: We Make It Good Mix by Blaqstarr
Not that they ever really went away, but from where we’re sitting it looks like Nirvana might be making a comeback into the realm of Music People Listen to Regularly again. After appearing on Gaslamp …...
View ArticleVideo/Freeload: Chairlift Vs. Kanye + Blaqstarr Bang Out
So yesterday when we questioned the completion status Kanye’s new video we neglected to actually check Kanye’s post of it. Turns out he only released it now because Chairlift had already released a...
View ArticleFreeload: Rye Rye feat. M.I.A., “Bang”
We put Rye Rye in our summer music issue LAST YEAR thinking the world would trip over itself for the jams available only on her MySpace, so please excuse us, we get excited. This time, … read more »
View ArticleVideo: Blaqstarr, "Oh My Darling"
Blaqstarr is officially the life of the party. He’s kind of always been the go-to guy at the helm of Baltimore’s dance scene, but more as a DJ and producer. When he gets on the … read more »
View ArticleVideo: Blaqstarr, “Oh My Darling”
We’d heard a couple years ago that Blaqstarr really wanted to stop DJing so that he could focus on his career as an artist. Until then, his electrocized Baltimore club music had been mainly production...
View ArticleStream: M.I.A., “XXXO” MP3 and Check Out This Insane Blog Page
Can’t tell what we’re more excited about: the fact that M.I.A. made a deconstructionist mall-pop jam (which sounds more like Sleigh Bells‘ Derek Miller was on beats than actual producers Blaqstarr and...
View ArticleBlaqstarr f. MIA, “Lemme Hump You” MP3
This is the best found-footage video we’ve seen yet: find a bunch of free porn on the internet, have someone animate it so it’s safe for all ages (cough, sort of), slap a song called … read more »
View ArticleVideo: Blaqstarr, “Pressure”
Wow, Blaqstarr‘s clearly somewhere near MIA‘s paranoid brainspace—this video puts the viewer in spy position, peeping in on dude spooning his homegirl as though watching from a closed circuit...
View ArticleVideo: Blaqstarr, “Rider Girl”
For the video for “Rider Girl,” a kind and jilted “She Lives In My Lap“-type paean, Maya‘s boy Blaqstarr took it down a notch to lover-burn, stacked his hair in a pyramid and cut up … read more »
View ArticleInterview: Blaqstarr Spaces Out
Blaqstarr’s Divine EP came out last week, a strange and sexed up Galactic Quest that channels slurred AutoTune as much as the future-club drum breaks he is usually known for. Since releasing his last...
View ArticleVideos: Blaqstarr, “Never Hesitant” + “Turning Out” + “Ride Remix” MP3
Captured our hearts with the K-Swift intro, RIP :-(. The aesthetic of this video is super YouTube, crazy pixel glows and green-screen artifacts left and right, but laptop speakers are not the place for...
View ArticleBlaqstarr’s Blaqstarr the Mixtape
When we spoke to Blaqstarr two months ago, we could swear he said this was going to be a Baltimore Club mixtape. It’s not, and it’s hard to say what is. The self-titled mixtape features … read more »
View ArticleVideo: Blaqstarr, “Feel It in the Air”
FADER PREMIERE My favorite thing Mad Decent ever did was also one of the first things they ever did: release Blaqstarr’s Supastarr EP, in 2007. The Baltimore producer’s “Feel It in the Air” had entered...
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