On Saturday, June 30th, ten thousand people marched their way down Broadway St in Chinatown, protesting the plan of a Walmart store location in the area. Put together by labor union activists and joined by many supporters of the cause, the air was filled with exclamations of Walmart’s atrocities and pickets as far as the [...]
Ellen Rogers is into photography, but so are a lot of people, right? I saw one of her images floating around on tumblr some years back, credit amiss. I became obsessed with tracking down the artist, and then some while ago I stumbled across her work in a magazine. She has an enviable unique style [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =JyfLdGxPJAg It has been two years since I saw The Heartbreaks play upstairs at the Matrix Club in my hometown of Grimsby. A band which, at the time, instantly grabbed my attention and whom I have been obsessing over ever since. This time though, I am in a different City and in a different pub. [...]
"Hipster" is a term that's been prominent within the past few years. I don't think anybody knows exactly what it means or represents but people feel a little better classifying a certain group of people under one word. But the makers of American Hipster Presents are slowly showing America, if not the world, exactly what [...]
Despite his busy tour schedule in light of the new album, Shark Wolf Rabbit Snake releasing on May 22nd, Brooklyn based producer Eliot Lipp had a few minutes to speak with us last week. See what he had to say about creating a record label, the state of electronic music today and the curious inspiration [...]
The Style Rookie is all grown up. Still in high school, fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson is far from her blog's namesake. In a few short years, her dreamy, quirky, and unique fashion sense attracted the fashion world's attention. Beginning a blog which gained instantaneous popularity at age fourteen and recently starting the online magazine Rookie are [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =KUlv7qraZaM Martin Solveig has finally a video for "The Night Out" which I'm certain will be a summer anthem. The video features a few surprise appearances by Laidback Luke, Sidney Samson, A-Trak, Madeon, Zedd, Porter Robinson and Dillon Francis
London's Avec Sans covered Bon Iver’s ‘Perth’ and it's pretty amazing if you ask me. The group lists two members — Jack St. James and Alice Fox but side from that there isn't more information about the duo but with that said I can't wait to hear some more material from Avec Sans in the [...]
Joshua Leary, the 22-year-old UK producer better known as Evian Christ Evian Christ just remixed an awesome rework of Marina & The Diamonds' single "Primadonna." Leary released a well received mixtape early this year Kings and Them , which you can download here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =eblGD5yuid8 Jessie Ware teamed up with producer Julio Bashmore for the electro-soul, "110%". Listen and watch the video above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =OI3shBXlqsw Major Lazer has unveiled a new single, which features Amber Coffman (Dirty Projectors) on vocals. This track was actually previewed last June when Major Lazer was in Jamaica working on their sophmore album. You can definitly hear some of the ryhmictic influence in the track. You can download the track by heading here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =zaksxY38dIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =LtBNPLIZkeg During the weekend of August 10-12th, San Francisco’s premiere music festival, Outside Lands, will be headlined by living legends Stevie Wonder, Neil young & Crazy Horse and Metallica along with other big names include Jack White, Foo Fighters, Beck, Skrillex, Sigur Ros and Justice. You can check out the full list below along with [...]
Austin's White Denim swapped took their song Street Joy, and kind of re-worked it a bit, changing the lyrics out for R. Kelly‘s Get Back to Love.
Drake has released pair of videos coinciding with two tracks from his acclaimed sophomore effort Take Care. 'Take Care" featuring Rihanna and "HYFR" featuring Lil Wayne.
On April 18th, First Amendment Gallery features a new group exhibit, "The Rusted Souls, A Sci Fi Journey." "James (gaNyan) Garcia, Christopher de Leon, Jesse Hernandez, Karlo Santa Ana, Emerson Tung, Eve Skylar, Dino Ignacio, Ivera Pennant, and Jeremy Sorrell will all create their own series of work based on a fictional sci-fi narrative about Machine vs. [...]
After attending last week's Premiere: a fashion trade event for exclusive brands, I was thrilled to see such great designs coming out of the US. The usual stand outs included True Religion, [Blank] NYC and Rebecca Taylor. But I was pleasantly surprised to see a few of my personal favorites launching in Australia including Bleulab Denim, [...]
The dynamic duo of Erol Alkan and Boys Noize is set to release a new 2 track EP on Boys Noize Records, produced using only analog instruments. ‘Roland Rat’ and ‘Brain Storm’ will hit Beatport on Monday, April 2nd.
Van She returns with "Idea of Happiness" their the first (and title) track forthcoming album, out on Modular July 6th. My question is will we also see the return of Van She Tech? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =JzRR8Soh4zM
A year after BTSTU was released London's Jai Paul is back to satisfy with a new track titled 'Jasmine'.