Surely you recall Victory or Death, the massive RZA-helmed tribute to Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's George Washington Crossing the Potomac painting, except with Wu-Tang members and hidden ninjas and a... Continue reading "RZA's Official Statement on What It Was Like to Dress Up As George Washington for Victory or Death: "More baggy, more space for my nuts."" >
Um, 80" by 60", 50 hidden elements per canvas, an original acrylic handprint straight from the palm of the RZA, a Wu-Tang flag, and a website that plays a remix of "O Fortuna" at swelling volume a... Continue reading "The Greatest Painting of 2010: RZA's Victory or Death" >
2009 Opening Ceremony Max Jumpsuit or 1994 Northface Bubble Goose? You decide. Das Racist + Spiderfang: "Pink Polo Shorts" ... Continue reading "Download: Das Racist + Spiderfang "Pink Polo Shorts"" >
OK, let's give this a shot--on Wednesday, at an undisclosed NYC location, presumably an undisclosed basketball location, there will be a three-on-three tournament in which it seems probable tha... Continue reading "Our Money Is Pretty Firmly on Jim Jones's Squad in This Converse Band of Ballers Thing" >
Not that we'll point you anywhere in particular to find it, but the Black Eyed Peas' new The E.N.D. has very much leaked onto the internet, in a blaze of bar mitzvah jams ("I Gotta Feeling" is gonna o... Continue reading "New Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. Leaks, To Spectacular Effect" >
Rebecca SmeyneThese guys, coming to a Barnes & Noble, near you next Tuesday The Barnes & Noble series Upstairs at the Square is a live made-for-podcast "show where writers and music mix" (that's the ... Continue reading "Japanther, Masterminds Behinds Such Highfalutin Titles as Tutt Tutt Shake Your Butt and Dump the Body in Ricki Lake, Coming to a Brightly Lit Bookstore Near You" >
We just spent the better part of an hour staring at this picture, promising ourselves we wouldn't post it, a promise we're breaking now. Tony Yayo in a hazmat suit carrying a naked baby. With a feral ... Continue reading "Tony Yayo Will Have Survived Swine Flu, Feral Pigs Long After Jesus Himself Succumbs" >
This song marked pretty much the exact moment when we threw up our hands in the Asylum offices and realized that Cam'ron was making an emo record that just happened to be called Crime Pays. [via Rap... Continue reading "Spend the Night with Cam'ron, Maybe Bake Cookies or Something" >
New millennial performance artists Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford long since one-upped the once-extreme antics of avant-pioneers like Marina Abramović or Chris Burden. Car-crucifixions and sel... Continue reading "Ponzi Titan R. Allen Stanford Meets the Art World: Chris Burden's Gold Frozen" >
Having chatted via IM with (bet-hedging ahead) someone claiming to be Carles, the enigmatic proprietor of memesphere giant Hipster Runoff , I suppose it behooves us to acknowledge this new Tao Lin ... Continue reading "Let's Get Your Obligatory Hipster Runoff Update Out of the Way, Shall We?" >
This Gay Talese thing does make for a bizarre story--a man famous for his bulletproof sartorial style and glamorous townhouse parties takes to the streets with font-laded laserprinted signs bearing ... Continue reading "Gay Talese Amongst the Poor: Comedy, Tragedy, Or Kind Of OK?" >
n+1 posts its long-awaited "One More Time: The Britney Symposium," a colloquium on the 10-year anniversary of the first week "... Baby One More Time" reached #1. NBS, hitting first: Imagine you're ... Continue reading "n+1's 'The Britney Symposium': Too Slow, Not Enough Trumpet" >
Someday, if things break your way, "Brooklyn" will no longer be the thing you desperately hustle to escape from but the name of the fluffy white dog your two endearing children talk about incessantl... Continue reading "Biggie's Kids Push Things Forward" >
Let's let this Vibe clip/description speak for itself: Captured on video by singer John Legend, the Obamas walked up to greet Beyonce. Michelle Obama says, "Mr. President, you didn't tell Beyonce a... Continue reading "Inauguration Special, Pt II: Barack, Michelle, Beyonce" >
This clip of Beyoncé singing Etta James's "At Last" at last night's ABC-televised inaugural ball while Barack and Michelle Obama sway giddily on a spotlit stage seems more like the final, triumphant... Continue reading "Barack and Michelle Dance to Beyoncé's "At Last"; Nation Looks For Scrolling Credits, Other Signs of Unreality " >
It was Halloween. Everyone was in a costume except for me. There were probably thirty people in the room and then this band started playing. One by one they left. By the end, there was just this guy... Continue reading "Mr. Dream, The Band" >
Compare with the original: If you, set adrift in your post-Crystal Castles crystalline stupor, missed the USC marching band perform Avenged Sevenfold's speed-metal jam "Almost Easy" at the Rose B... Continue reading "USC Marching Band Does Avenged Sevenfold, Joins Band Dork Hall of Fame" >
So the Vivian Girls, who are now getting their turn on the hype-machine-massacre internet blog-fuck electric chair, have now been forced to make a public apology for being less than totally reverent... Continue reading "You All Should Be Embarrassed: Vivian Girls Forced to Apologize" >
Previously: Jay-Z , Nas , T.I. ; all via Nah Right , a/k/a the new Politico .
Picture of HR via Free Williamsburg This picture just makes me feel really sad.
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