In one of the funnier Saturday Night Live skits of late, longtime SNL staple Fred Armisen plays Ian Rubbish — fictional frontman of the punk band Ian Rubbish & the Bizzarros. It’s pretty clear from the History Of Punk skit that Armisen is a huge fan of the music, as his portrayal of a late [...]

Seminal proto-hardcore band The Misfits lend their iconic skullface mascot (from their 1979 single “Horror Business”) to New York’s Supreme for a Spring/Summer collection that spans from lighters and buttons to trench coats and tshirts. The crewneck sweatshirt above is perhaps the best piece, along with the 5-panel hat — although I wonder how Glenn [...]

Binary’s EP Amber came out right before the vernal equinox on March 18, released through their own imprint, Echoplex Records. The music on this, their latest, engages as it builds. The confessional symbolism on the first track (and their first single) “You Need the Blue Key” establishes the London-based band’s place in the universe of industrial shoegaze — [...]

Do you wanna be adored? Who doesn’t. A good place to start then would be with a bucket hat, like that worn so liberally by The Stone Roses back in the day. One of the bands instrumental in putting Manchester on the map in the late 80s, The Stone Roses made waves in many cultural [...]

Pitchfork put together this documentary about The Flaming Lips seminal album The Soft Bulletin. Although they’d experienced some success prior to The Soft Bulletin, that album is what elevated the Oklahoman alt rockers from struggling indie band to the cult favorites that they are today. The world is full of stories about how rad Wayne [...]

Essentially invested in the happy accident of the bow tie, Le Noeud Papillon is the French name of that sartorial creation, translating literally to ‘the knot of the butterfly’. Besides the Bow Ties, Pocket Squares and Smoking Jackets which we’ve covered before, the Sydney, Australia based company is now tying an additional knot with its fine [...]

OK, we admit it — we were intrigued when the first teasers leaked for Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers film. I’m a bit dubious because Korine hasn’t done anything watchable since Kids, but who knows this could be promising. When you have a bunch of teenage girls (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, Ashley Benson) robbing [...]

Most kids don’t remember how awesome Def Leppard was back in the day, they just maybe know “Pour Some Sugar On Me” from a drunken karaoke night and think that’s where it begins. Uh uh, slow down there Taylor Swift. Even before “Photograph” put their Pyromania album on the map they had already dropped two [...]