2010’s cornerstone artist on Madison Avenue’s nondenominational holiday mixtape, Vampire Weekend recently filed a BBC Radio 1 session. They came armed with horns, a maneuver with precedent (see: Flying Lotus’s own recent BBC performance, and/or Vampire Weekend’s KCRW stop-in). They also knocked out a curve...

Steven FlyLo Ellison recorded a session at the BBC’s Maida Vale studio with Gilles Peterson on hosting and interview duties. Stereogum Top 50 LP Cosmogramma’s saxophonic flights and often mesmerizing jazz/beat-music fusion seem to have fueled the lineup of the live band Ellison brought with him for the set, with the instrumen...

Everybody’s work-week anthem “Kill Your Co-Workers” comes from Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma follow-up, the seven-song Pattern + Grid World. This animated video was put together by Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann). It starts with a sunny small town parade complete with “rainbows are yummy” signs. Then...

Electro auteur will hit the road next month for five dates

Pair this with “Camera Day,” it’s another track from Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma follow-up Pattern + Grid World, the seven-track set Steven Ellison’s releasing just three months after his proper LP’s bold-stroked beat opus. This one plays with drum and bass BPMs and intersecting synth li...