The latest nine-track mixtape “Backwards Books” from the Brainfeeder Records MC. In this edition of Friday Download: Azizi Gibson’s latest release, “Backwords Books” is the latest notch in the much-hyped LA MC’s belt. Throughout the nine-track mixtape, Gibson offers fans a flow that seems all too effortless, sauntering confidently through a mix of melodic, clouded…

The director of Red Army, in theaters January 23 talks to us about sport as religion in Soviet Russia. Gabe Polsky’s acclaimed film, Red Army (Sony Pictures Classics), examines the rise and fall of the Soviet nation through the lens of hockey: Cold War battles fought in stadiums, on ice. The Red Army BitTorrent Bundle,…

The comedian/writer/director talks to us about selling your film, without selling out. In 2013, David Cross finished work on HITS, a dark comedy about fame and delusion in the Internet age. Katelyn (Meredith Hagner) is fixed on winning a role on The Voice. Dave (Matt Walsh) is fixated on outing government conspiracies. Brooklyn is determined…

BitTorrent to launch first paygated documentary series, featuring a catalog of 16 acclaimed films from leading independent distributor FilmBuff. In September, we launched Bundle paygates with Thom Yorke. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes was downloaded by 4.4 million fans around the world. In November, we opened up paygate applications to all artists. And on February 3, we’ll…

Today our partner Adzerk unveiled that we are working together to power display ads for the BitTorrent Media Network, which includes the BitTorrent Bundle platform, and both the BitTorrent and uTorrent clients. We have built a custom advertising solution on top of Adzerk’s API, which is designed to scale with our millions of users. Our…