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Le Youth is going to teach us about reinvention and goal setting. He makes great house music with a sexy infusion of R&B, but it wasn’t always that way. After early success in the music business, it all went pear shaped. The music wasn’t moving him, and a lawsuit from a band member threatened to unravel everything he worked for. Spoiler alert: He won the case, started over with new music, and has...

This week we bring you a very special recording of our first ever LIVE podcast. Brought to you in partnership with Honda Financial Services. To all you college grads out there, this is your time. And Honda’s here to help you get going. Save $500 on any 2016 or newer Honda vehicle. Check out http://www.hondafinancialservices.com to learn more. Our guest, Jennifer Kushell, came up on stage and told...

Mattie Safer has made music across three genres. You might know him as the bassist for The Rapture, the indie (or something) band whose track House of Jealous Lovers was called a top-10 song of the decade by NME. But Mattie’s true passion is in soul and hip-hop. So much so that he left The Rapture so he could make music that really speaks to him. His debut EP — All We Are — feels like more of a tr...

This episode is part of our ongoing ARTWORK REBELS series — hosted in partnership with Guerilla One — in which we talk to the most talented and creative people creating art in the streets. Check www.rebelradio.net for other ARTWORK REBELS episodes. Michael Delahaut, aka Wise, is a bit of a double agent. As a member of the Seventh Letter crew, he’s a graffiti veteran. By day, he’s a creative direct...

This week’s episode is another installment in our ARTWORK REBELS series in partnership with Guerilla One. Check out the others at www.rebelradio.net. If you don’t know OG Slick, you don’t know LA graffiti. My dude has been famous since the 80s. More precisely, since the Slick x Hex battle at the Levitz furniture factory, which ended up as an early reality show on local TV. He’s gone on to become o...

Amanda Micallef says her company, Arsenic, offers an innovative medium that is crowdsourced and crowd curated. We think it’s about pictures and videos of fine ass women. But what do we know? Could be both? Either way, Arsenic is the most-followed brand on Snapchat and is killing the game on Instagram. Innovative for sure. It’s a “magazine” with no magazine, and a digital company with no website. A...

Ally is a YouTube celebrity, with views by the millions on her videos. She’s one of the leaders of the ASMR movement, or genre, or whatever it is. Picture pretty women whispering and playing different characters, or just talking. Whispering, rather. Some people get a tingling sensation and then get very relaxed and fall asleep to these videos. Millions of people. Ally is joined in our studio by he...

Champagne Drip creates a sort of trap - future bass - tropical house - glitch fusion. Or something like that. What I’m trying to say is stop trying to categorize his music and just enjoy it. He makes bangers for Mad Decent, a recent collaboration with Dillon Francis, and prior to his reinvention as Champagne Drip, he was making drum & bass under the name SPL. Sam drops by the studio to tell us how...

Bishop Lamont is here to teach us about perseverance. As an up-and-coming rapper, he was discovered by Dr. Dre and signed to Aftermath Records, on his way to stardom. That was 11 years ago. He got shelved, dropped, and had to reinvent his career and find another way. He released a series of mixtapes that kept him relevant in the streets while he could figure out how to navigate the business, soaki...

Antwon is a rapper. Sort of. That is to say that he raps, but his raps don’t sound like the stuff you’d expect to hear in 2016 if you listen to the Pandora Hip Hop channel or the radio. Antwon’s sound falls somewhere between the uber-backpack rap coming from his label Anticon and Bay Area a la Mac Dre. I’m guessing at this point you have no idea what I’m talking about. He’s also the leader of the...

Sacha Jenkins is more than a journalist or filmmaker. He’s spent the better part of two decades documenting and commentating hip hop and other underground cultures. He’s been a creative force behind Mass Appeal magazine, the recent documentary Fresh Dressed, and was a founder of Ego Trip’s subversive media empire that encompassed books and magazines as well as TV shows. If that’s not enough, he al...

R3ll stops by Rebel Radio to tell us what it’s like to be young and enthusiastic. He moved to LA after becoming a popular party promoter and DJ in the Jersey Club scene and is now bringing his energetic bass sound to audiences across the country and around the world. He gives us some insights into how he keeps it fun for himself and for fans, and how he tries to create an experience that goes beyo...

You may know Jimmy O. Yang as Jian Yang on Silicon Valley. You’ll surely know him soon from the upcoming movie, Patriot’s Day where he shares the screen with Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman. We know him as a funny ass comedian on YouTube and the Arsenio Hall Show, where he muses about being an Asian dude in America, being broke, and listening to hip hop. Jimmy stops by the Rebel Radio studios to gi...

Saber is not the first to describe graffiti as an addiction. It’s way beyond a simple act of rebellion or self-expression. It's thrill of getting away with it, the positive reinforcement from friends and peers, and of course, the fumes that get so many youngsters hooked after their first hit. In our interview — co-hosted by Eddie Donaldson from Guerilla One — Saber explains how his comrades in the...

DJ Spider isn’t just a great DJ; he makes it look fun too. He preaches work-life balance: “I don't know how long term you can be burning up the clubs without burning up your life." He makes hilarious videos, such as his Vine series Mag Life or the multi-million-view Whole Foods Parking Lot featuring DJ Dave. He goes on tour with rockstars: Blink 182 this summer. He starts social media firestorms i...

Denzel Slager started playing soccer at five years old. It wasn’t until his twenties that he learned what the struggle was really about. After rising through the ranks in his native Holland, he hit the big leagues — a contract with Coventry City. Just as everything was starting to go his way, it all fell apart. Two years later, he’s in Los Angeles playing for LA Galaxy II with side hustles includi...

Eddie Cruz is a true innovator. He’s also the co-founder of one of our favorite brands. Undefeated was the first to bridge the gap between athletic apparel and streetwear. In doing so, the brand not only created a global opportunity for itself — 10 stores and counting — but also helped to further the evolution of the genre, including an increasing number of collaborations between upstart streetwea...

Warning: Today’s episode gets pretty deep. Don’t worry, we’ll be back to our regular shallow selves next week. Super CW flew in from Hawaii just to chop it up with us. She’s on a break from being one of the island’s hardest working people: DJ, blogger, marketer, documentary filmmaker, and part of the Pow! Wow! crew that is becoming famous around the world for its cutting-edge art shows. While she...

If you truly love music, discovering the music Kenny Fresh put outs on his label is likely to make your whole day. While most labels are looking to capitalize on the latest trends, Kenny’s Portland-based Fresh Selects instead focuses solely on putting out music he loves, introducing the world to unique, innovative artists such as beatmakers Mndsgn and Iman Omari, R&B singers SiR and Coultrain, and...

EXTRA SPECIAL 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE. Today we bring you a special birthday treat: Lessons from one of the best in the business. Never give up. That’s the lesson we get today from Dirtybird Records chief Claude VonStroke. He’s a DJ, producer, label boss, and the leader of a tribe that trusts him to provide a full-service entertainment experience that includes events and merchandise. The Dirtyb...

Michelle Tam of Nom Nom Paleo drops by the studio to bring Josh a vinyl toy of herself (complete with bacon and meat cleaver) and tell us a bit about how she’s become the “Martha Stewart of paleo.” For her, that means having one of the leading paleo blogs and a book that was nominated for a James Beard award. She’s surprisingly not that hardcore about her paleo (she even eats white rice) and recom...

Missy Suicide is a badass, if you can’t tell by the name. She’s the owner of the world’s largest collection of naked goth chicks. More accurately, she’s co-founder of Suicide Girls, a community of over 20 million people that is redefining beauty not only through glamorous portraits of unclothed women who often don’t fit traditional definitions of beauty, but through candid and supportive discussio...

This episode is part two in our ARTXWORK REBELS series, brought to you in partnership with Guerilla One, our go to source for information on graffiti and street art. Guerilla One is on hiatus online, so hit us up directly if you want more information. Graffiti art legend Risk stops by our studio to tell us about his latest project — a joint show with fellow Rebel Radio alum TAZ — and give us some...

Them Jeans is our tallest guest so far! He’s a DJ, producer, and host of two popular podcasts: The Stew (food) and Tall Tales (music). Josh knew him as the doorman at Cinespace at the forefront, literally, of the electro-indie explosion that birthed the careers of Steve Aoki, Franki Chan, Thee Mike B, and the like. Jeans stops by Rebel Radio headquarters to tell Josh he looks like Ray Romano and g...

Welcome to the first episode in our ARTxWORK REBELS series, brought to you in partnership with Guerilla One, our go to source for information on graffiti and street art. Guerilla One is on hiatus online, so hit us up directly if you want more information. What a great artist to start with. Jim Evans has had more impact on how musicians communicate visually with their fans than almost anyone on the...