A collective history of electronic sound, compiled by the good people of OWSLA. This marks the summer that EDM became Officially A Thing: the subject of a thousand thinkpieces on music, the pulsing beat behind the top-charting Billboard songs, the chief contender for sound-of-a-generation status. Electronic music today is audio sprawl; a constantly spreading and…

Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. In this edition of Staff Picks: A past-Staff Pick returns to Bundle and brings the goods. We first featured At Dawn We Rage, the Los Angeles live electronic…

A multimedia intro to The Alliance, The Start-up of You, and the office culture we build next. This Monday’s read: a bootstrap kit to building your career, and reinventing the way business works. It sounds lofty. But Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh’s new book, The Alliance, is a practical blueprint for changing the…

Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle Publishers. In this edition of FDL: five generations of family history, through the lens of an extraordinary house. Filmmaker Nick Fitzhugh provides viewers with an intimate look at the history of his family’s vacation home Starboard Light, an…

The newest signing to Roadrunner Records gives fans a digital box set in advance of their major label debut. Empress AD doesn’t pull any punches. Ferocious guitars and blistering drums peppered with atmospheric nuance and artfully-executed time signature changes. The band was started with one simple, yet challenging goal in mind; to make the heavy…