When you’re offered five minutes with one of your heroes, you jump on it with vigor like Kool Aid-geeked grade schoolers on a trampoline. Or at least, you should. Such is the case with one Mike Diamond, aka Mike D, the high-pitched smooth talker in the archetypal Beastie Boys. In this humble man’s opinion, if […]

Our friends over at DROID BEHAVIOR are celebrating the 9th Anniversary of their landmark INTERFACE party, and it goes down tomorrow night (Saturday, December 17th). The DROID crew (Drumcell, Audio Injection & Raiz) invited the great Speedy J and Los Angeles DJ Silent Servant to join the festivities and turn it up to 11. Expect […]

One half of highly regarded French fashion & music label Kitsuné, Gildas Loaec, just released his followup to the aptly titled Gildas Kitsuné Club Night Mix. The well curated followup effort features the A-Trak remix of The Rapture’s “How Deep Is Your Love?”, Madeon’s “Shuriken” and Mark Ronson, plus some of Gildas’ own work. Unlike many […]

Back in October Milano electro-nauts Crookers streamed their Dr. Gonzo album for all to hear before they released it, and now they’re doing that again with their latest EP/maxi-single, “Hummus”, and its various remixes. Remixers include Botnek, Donovan, Hybrid Theory and Astronomar, but personally we dig the Slow Waves Mix the most. Pick up the […]

Los Angeles based label Crooks & Castles once again teams with SE Bikes to create a custom-designed limited edition bike. Spicing up the “PK Ripper” Fixed Gear bike, the new design features a Hunting Club Motif with desert camo frame, safety orange accents and a series of white parts: bars, saddle, chain, cranks and tires. The […]

Australia’s Bleeding Knees Club play simple, no frills, direct-to-the-gut pop punk. We heard their track “Teenage Girls” — a straightforward 2-minute ditty about chicks, gum, smoking weed out of an apple pipe and the perfect age for nubile love — and were hooked. So we interviewed them. Their debut EP Virginity dropped last month on […]

The hard working Italian brothers-in-electro duo Crookers dropped their new album this Tuesday, and they’re streaming it for all to hear before purchase. Released on Southern Fried Records, the 13-track Dr. Gonzo follows the Milano-based party rockers as they take their base electro sound and augment it with leftfield touches like demented laughing samples and […]

Tonight at the esteemed Wooster Street Social Club the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game is manifested into the art world via some of the world’s top contemporary artistic minds. Artists from the U.S. and Mexico — including Sam Flores, 3rassiere, Estevan Oriol, Eyeone, Jeremy Fish, Jorge Alderete, N8 Van Dyke, Rico Deniro and Robert […]