In October 2008, while Steven Ellison’s mother lay dying in a hospital bed, he was at her side recording her. The young L.A.-based musician, who records abstract electronic music as Flying Lotus, hadn ...

The one album that defined The Sound of Los Angeles in 2010 came from a spiritually minded stoner from Winnetka with deep jazz connections. Sure, his Los Angeles album from 2008 might have already ...

Last year, after his mother suffered a heart attack, Steven Ellison did two things that might seem odd but are, nevertheless, in keeping with the way he approaches his life and art. One was to record ...

In case you haven’t heard, Flying Lotus is kind of a big deal. Shrouded in left-field hip-hop mystique just a few months ago, the laptop virtuoso has, in the last year alone, played the Detroit ...

Cosmogramma, the third record by Flying Lotus, is one of the records of the year to date, a so-called "space opera" steeped in ‘90s G-funk, downbeat electronica and the experimental, orchestrated ...

Cosmogramma is a sprawling, post-Web 2.0 cacophony. It’s like hurtling through the digital darkness of Spotify with everything blaring at once. At some points it’s perplexing, at others it’s thrilling ...

Flying Lotus is the most exciting thing in music right now, and “Cosmogramma,” his second full-length album, is a masterpiece. FlyLo — born Stephen Ellison — is the rare sort of electronic-music ...

More juicy details of Flying Lotus's new record, Cosmogramma have emerged, including the all-important release date as well as the MORE important tracklisting. Hoorah! Oh, and the artwork, too!

Flying Lotus‘ third album, “Cosmogramma,” is a strangely cohesive amalgam of exotic sounds. On the new set, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 album “Los Angeles,” the… By Billboard Staff ...

Having won acclaim for albums named after his date of birth (1983) and home town (Los Angeles), leftfield hip-hop producer Flying Lotus heads for outer space on Cosmogramma, named after a map of the ...