The Glitch Mob have steadily grown from a few guys rocking the LA breaks scene in the mid-2000s. Originally a five-piece mob who formed in 2006, they are now a trio of bass-heavy DJs and producers consisting of beat benders ediT, Boreta and Ooah. Following the unexpected success of the sophomore album Love Death Immortality — […]


We all have a car nut in our lives. Gear-brains. Petrolheads. You know the deal. Guys who like to strap on a helmet every Saturday morning and spend the first couple hours of the weekend slicing up asphalt on a beautiful mountain road. Dudes who walk straight to the car section at the bookstore, and […]


7 Sep
Los Angeles surf & psych-rock built for coastal living

Los Angeles-based Allah-Las are just days away from releasing their debut self titled album on Innovative Leisure, home to fellow LA-based artist Hanni El Khatib (who we’ve interviewed HERE) and Nick Waterhouse — who also happened to produce Allah-Las’ album. The quartet encompasses everything you’d hope to hear from a Los Angeles-based band as they […]


9 Aug
Revisioned by Best Coast, Washed Out, The Kills, MGMT & more

Just Tell That You Want Me is the new Fleetwood Mac tribute album featuring a handful of our favorite indie bands including Best Coast, Washed Out, The New Pornographers, Tame Impala, The Kills, Lykke Li, MGMT and more, and is now up to stream via SoundCloud. When covering a band so iconic and influential, and […]


Today two of the best of the new wave of hip-hop artists dropped mixtapes — Lil B and Theophilus London. Among the top in the fresh crop of Twitter Rappers, the two albums include the Bay Area’s Lil B, aka Based God, who has compiled all his freestyle raps into one expansive encyclopedia of stream-of-consciousness babble […]


28 Oct
A heavenly instrument of chilly justice

Sharper Image is one of those stores that can suck you in with their cornucopia of cool shit that you will never, ever really need in life. The Crossbow Snowball Launcher is just the latest in unnecessary items you can buy and store in your closet for a rainy, er, snow day. We may not […]


16 Jun
Takayuki Hori’s folded and connected Oritsunagumono series

Takayuki Hori’s Oritsunagumono takes Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, and reshapes it with an environmental-themed collection of translucent skeletal Origami works. Oritsunagumono (“things folded and connected”) is made up of eight endangered species native to Japan’s coast — even more imperiled after the recent earthquakes and tsunamis. They are made of translucent […]


14 Jun
The latest Adult Swim Single from Bethany Cosentino & Co.

The latest video for Best Coast is also the latest Adult Swim Single, “Gone Again”. Bethany Cosentino’s gastrohomicidal video was directed by Daniel Garcia…