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Scottish alt-rock band Twin Atlantic on L.A., their lost iPod and their influences.

J. Cole took a break from the Campus Consciousness Tour and filled us in on his plans to go back to school, what it’s like to go on vacation with Jay-Z and how his next album is like The Hunger Games.

Dani Deahl, Now, Now, Said The Whale, Short Dawg and Xombie all fight for a spot in rotation on this week’s Freshmen.

Maximalist electro-house guru Wolfgang Gartner (aka Joey Youngman) is out with his latest single “Redline.”

There was a ton of votes this week as our top 3 bands obviously have tremendous fan support…

Trigg Da Kidd loves Orlando, Mechanical Engineering and is able to outrun crazed fans even with his hands full of shopping bags.

Wednesday’s kinda suck. Always have. So we’re fighting back today with the bass drenched, synth-twinkling veritable explosion that is Paper Diamond’s new video for “Turn The Lights Off.”

Here’s Karmin’s new video for “I Told You So.”

Here’s the latest video from Grammy winning North Carolina string band Carolina Chocolate Drops. Not many people can rock banjo’s, fiddles and mando’s like these guys so enjoy!

New Medicine, Ruckus Roboticus, The Jezabels, The Nearly Deads and Thomas Fiss all fight for a spot in rotation on this week’s Freshmen.