The Black Madonna: Stay

Despite it raining the entire weekend, Sustain-Release had an incredible debut last September as it hosted underground techno and house sets at a summer camp in upstate New York. Releasing Year Two’s full line-up today, festival founders Aurora Halal and Zara Wladawsky have pulled together a drastically diverse list of artists—in hometown, age, gender and style—and attendees are certain to discover their next favorite act …

Jessy Lanza feat. DJ Spinn, Taso: You Never Show Your Love

We can already feel summer start to pick up its pace, but before it’s over in the blink of an eye, slow things down with Canadian producer and singer Jessy Lanza’s collaboration with Teklife’s DJ Spinn (who founded Teklife with the late DJ Rashad) & Taso. The video for “You Never Show Your Love” (a quiet track that leans to more unhurried R&B than fast …

Interview: DJ Alex Graham

At the new exhibit celebrating rock promoter Bill Graham, his son reflects how his father’s legacy inspired his career in music

Alex Graham grew up on the island of Maui and spent the summers in the San Francisco Bay Area with his father Bill Graham, the most influential rock promoter of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. In 1991, when Alex Graham was 13 years old, his father died in a helicopter accident—but the time they spent together had already planted the seeds for what would influence …