Continuing the release of the Wu Tang Clan’s new album A Better Tomorrow (not to be confused with their other new album coming soon, but just for one person), the Wu has dropped a video to accompany the eponymous single. Perhaps related to the group’s long maturation as both artists and citizens, or simply the needs of the […]

Starting early this past summer, Raekwon figured out for us that #TBT can mean more than posting old acne-scarred photos of prom night. Since then, vintage soul and R&B jams got a Raekwon weekly redo thanks to a little Wu-spiration. The “Throwback-Thursday/TBT” mixes included new flows over the likes of many classics from the Gap Band, the Isley Brothers and The Spinners, […]

Man up and have some balls with the Hello Kitty Headphones from Beats by Dr. Dre. Because with this being Hello Kitty’s 40th anniversary, your balls might just be the only thing out there which haven’t had the the HK license slapped on them yet. Yet. But fear not, with Hello Kitty being plastered across […]

The Wu, perhaps a little hungry to stay ahead of the hype in any way possible, continues on the quest for the marketer’s new edge on the music industry. With all the buzz about the one-album-only concept surrounding their upcoming release of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, it’s not surprising A Better Tomorrow, their twentieth anniversary album, would […]

Dieter Rams, the product-design mastermind behind four decades of Braun products (and this iconic watch), first published Less, but Better in 1995. Though the book has since gone out of print, the titular phrase has withstood as emblematic of his approach to design. Or better yet, how Rams would say it “Weniger, aber besser”. The classic has now been […]

British producer and remixer Irn Mnky earned DJ Shadow’s attention 3 years ago when he won a remix contest held by Shadow himself. Soon Shadow was playing Irn Mnky’s remix of “Walkie Talkie” on a regular basis, and a mutual relationship was born. Now to celebrate the release of DJ Shadow’s limited edition box set Reconstructed: […]

The latest video from DJ Shadow‘s recently released album The Less You Know, The Better, aptly titled “Border Crossing” shines a light on Shadow’s feelings on Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law. The grind house-esque video was made by filmmaker Dean Fernando. Good to have  new music by Shadow in the world…

It’s been a long minute since we’ve been treated to new DJ Shadow music, and this is the first single cut from his The Less You Know The Better album which drops September 26th, 2011. The video for “I’m Excited” features Afrikan Boy on vocals, and seems to have a very Major Lazer tinge to […]