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…

From Fool’s Gold to Secret Stash: 30 days in 10 epic downloads. FOOL’S GOLD: DAY OFF FIRE Fool’s Gold DAY OFF started out five years ago in a parking lot in SoHo: a place for friends and label fam to celebrate music’s electric, unclassifiable underground. Today, DAY OFF spans five cities, a lineup featuring everyone from…

Recently, Florian Adamsky presented a paper at a USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. The paper reported on a study his team conducted on the possibility of exploiting BitTorrent protocols for Distributed Reflective Denial of Service Attacks (DRDoS). The risk being that an attacker could exploit a user unknowingly and have them direct traffic to a…

From Mr. Carmack to MT. OSSA: 30 days in 10 downloads. MR. CARMACK: RED EP In the world of West Coast future trap, there’s pre-Carmack, and there’s post-Carmack. The experimental producer has pioneered a raw, otherworldly sound from heavy distortion and hip hop; choosing unconventional song structure and self-distribution over electronic’s mainstream. In June, Carmack announced…

The ten best things we heard in June. From Crookers and Snails, to Open Hearts and Horrors: we’ve got the playlist for your summer nights (or nightmares) covered. Herewith, 30 days in 10 downloads, spanning electronic, punk, hip hop and classic rock. HO99O9: HORRORS OF 1999 EP Ho99o9 (pronounced “horror”) are punk rock’s unholy heirs: unsettling, uncompromising,…