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This week’s guest is Thee Mike B. In this episode you will find snippets of music from NWA, Dr Dre, Daft Punk, and more. The EDM.com Track of the Week is Tiga - Bugatti (Tommy Trash Remix)https://soundcloud.com/edm/tiga-bugatti-tommy-trash-remix-edmcom-premiere. Don’t forget to follow, comment, and share. Mike B is a trip. He’s known as a DJ’s DJ, which means he’s a talented selector who can cross genres and command dance floors in a variety of environments. After apprenticing under hip hop mix show pioneer Stretch Armstrong of Stretch & Bobbito fame, he left the gritty New York scene and returned to his hometown of LA to launch one of the most influential events in nightlife history - Banana Split - with partners DJ AM (RIP) and Steve Aoki (Dim Mak Records). Mike as a personality comes off as a cross between a Serious Musician and The Fat Jew; at times earnest about the love for music that has driven him since before he was a teen, at others cavalier about his occasional quests for drugs and sex (boy

This week's EDM.com Track of the Week is from Penthouse Penthouse. The track is "What You Sippin' On." https://soundcloud.com/lavish/penthouse-penthouse-what-u-sippin-on Let us know what you think of the song. Kira Soltanovich is hilarious. Good thing too because she's a comedian. Maybe you saw her on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (she played the “photo booth” for seven years), or maybe on Girls Behaving Badly. Or maybe you have never seen her at all. Listen to our conversation about how she pushed through after bombing consistently when she was getting started, how she finds inspiration everywhere she looks, and how she supports her friends, even though they don't always support her. Tune in, laugh, cry, sneeze. Okay don’t sneeze. Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes or Soundcloud. Do both! Hit us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/rebelradionet and leave us comments or suggestions for future guests. See what EDM.com has to say about the interview here: http://edm.com/articles/2015-08-05/rebel-radio-ep8-k

This week’s guest is KCRW's Garth Trinidad. In this episode you will find snippets of music from Thundercat, Isley Brothers, J. Dilla, and Eric B & Rakim. And the EDM.com Track of the Week is Patawawa - Back to Life (LBCK remix)by Ivory Oasis https://soundcloud.com/ivoryoasis/patawawa-back-to-life-lbck-remix. Garth has been a DJ on LA’s legendary KCRW independent radio station for over 18 years, helping to shape the city’s landscape of progressive music. His playlist blends an international mix of future soul, deep dance, indie rock, and jazz, and his show has won LA Weekly’s award for Best Radio Program multiple times. He helped to break some of the most important alternative artists of our time — Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Little Dragon, and he keeps on digging. We talk about the important mentors in Garth’s career, including American Idol judge Randy Jackson, and how he manages all of his side hustles: Music journalism (NPR, PBS, LA Canvas magazine), music supervision (Entourage), and most recently music p

This week’s guest is Gabriel Garzon-Montano. In this episode you will find snippets of music from Prince, Omar, and more. And the EDM.com Track of the Week is Elenne - King of Thebes https://soundcloud.com/edm/el-nne-king-of-thebes-edm-com. If you're just hearing the name Gabriel Garzón-Montano for the first time, you are late to the game. He's already done Rebel Red Bull Sound Select Artist, with Lenny Kravitz, and recently had his song “68" sampled by Drake on “Jungle." We got to sit down with him just after he killed at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles. We speak on early influences including his vocalist mother and legendary artist, Prince, and what it was like going from playing in front of 200 people to going on tour with Kravitz. He also tells us why he will never sell out his own values just to be culturally relevant. Hit play and peep game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s guest is AMG, the rapper. In this episode you will find snippets of music from DJ Quik, Eazy-E, Fila Fresh Crew, and New Edition. And our EDM.com Track of the Week is from TroyBoi: Do you ft. Armani White. Check out our EP 5: Playlist to hear all of the songs featured. In 1991, AMG released “Bitch Better Have My Money,” a furious combination of sexual energy, teenage bravado, and soul and hip hop samples that set dance floors on-fire across the country. With no video and no radio support, the song spent 50 consecutive weeks on the Billboard charts. The song’s title, recently appropriated by Rhianna for her own single, has remained part of the urban lexicon for more than two decades. Then, he lost the plot. He lost the fire. After a solid debut album, he made a follow-up that even he didn’t like, bounced back once in a short-lived partnership with DJ Quik, called The Fixxers, and has since taken his time to rediscover his passion and what really moves him to create. We talk about all of this, pl

This week’s guest is Marques Wyatt. In this episode you will find snippets of music from Aerosmith, Loosid, FKA Twigs, Depeche Mode, and Jesse Saunders. Not only is Marques the godfather of LA’s deep house scene, his lineage traces directly to the great Frankie Knuckles, who mentored Marques after meeting him in a club in New York in the 1980s. From those auspicious beginnings, Marques went on to pioneer some of Los Angeles's most important clubs, including Brass, Does Your Mama Know, and most recently, Deep, exposing fans to groundbreaking acts such as Brand New Heavies, Louie Vega, and Jamiroquai. He’s a DJ’s DJ, a house music purist who integrates his love for yoga and his spiritual quest into his effort to move people on the dance floor. In our interview, we discuss the highs and lows of club promotion, the way house music has changed over the years, and meeting Paris Hilton. That’s the second Paris Hilton story on Rebel Radio, by the way! This dude has seen some major changes over the years, and has

Every episode comes with snippets of old and new school tracks! Listen to sounds from Mayer Hawthorne, Detroit Swindle, Rae Sremmurd, Grandmaster Flash, + more. See playlist for more! Rebel Radio caught up with retro soul singer Mayer Hawthorne and producer Jake One, known together as the funk throwback Tuxedo. We found out how they balance jumping between different genres of music (Mayer: It literally keeps me sane) and why they wanted to collab after both working solo for so long. Jake says the best part is having “Somebody to tell you when you cross that fine line between keeping it G and Kenny G!” They break down indie labels vs. majors, what selling out means to them, and learning from other artists on tour, plus their go to DJ “get out of jail free” songs. “The music business is extremely unfortunately 99 percent business and one percent music. That is just the sad truth of it, but it’s the truth. Sometimes that is really hard to get around. Having fun is the key to everything." We also got some

DJ Nu-Mark began as a mobile DJ here in Los Angeles and has grown to be one of the most innovative DJs in music culture known worldwide. We sat down to talk about his career highs like ”What’s Golden” and his recent reunion with Jurassic 5 at Coachella after a seven year break. He also shared with us that he is putting out an album called "TradeMark" with Slim Kid Tre from The Pharcyde and working on his own interview show called Hot Plate where he interviews artists over dinner (dinner with Nu-Mark? Count us in!) Of course we asked him about his obsession with children's toys in his stage show and he let us in on a little secret that he's debuting a new group of them soon. Tune in for all the details! EDM.COM wrote about us: http://edm.com/articles/2015-06-24/rebel-radio-2-craft-is-key Check out DJ Numark's Soundcloud Channel: https://soundcloud.com/djnumark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could working with Joe Jonas or Selena Gomez be a bad career move? Well, if you’re an artist whose core sound isn’t pop, it could mean taking a few years to get your career back on track. At least that was the case for our first Rebel Radio guest, Static Revenger aka Latroit. "I slapped my name on everything. I got pop associations and I sort of bought into all the money I was going to make... I could have had the greatest record you ever heard in the dance underground, but DJs were not going to respond to that. I couldn't get a promo opened from an underground DJ after that." Dennis White, best known as Static Revenger, and more recently as Latroit, has created tracks and remixes for everyone from Madonna to Steve Aoki and Swedish House Mafia and has sold over 3.5 million records including "Happy People," which was named a top-10 song of the decade, by Fatboy Slim. We sat down to talk about his career, the importance of separating your credited name and your musical sound, and why he comes to the defe