A great, super quick 7-minute mini-mix from London’s incomparable A.Skillz highlighting the massive cross-genre influence of The Beatles. “This is a Mini Mix I was asked to do for The Beatles & Black Music Documentary on BBC Radio 1xtra Hosted By Semtex and featuring Interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Q-tip, Questlove, Common, Benga and Roots […]

The ability to legally add color and design to locations underfoot throughout their urban areas is just one of the ways the Japanese culture has outdone us (where are their graffiti police?). The book Drainspotting is a collection of photographs taken of custom painted manhole covers found throughout the country, a reflection of the fact […]

Don’t you hate it when you take out your iPhone/iTouch/cell phone only to realize that the screen has been scuffed and scratched like a neglected street scamp? I know I do. And I know Coolbeans717 on Etsy hates it too, because Coolbeans717 has created a unique set of nerd-endorsed iPhone/iTouch/cell phone covers that range from […]

Remember the days of gathering paper bags from a grocery store and custom building a book jacket for each of your school books at the beginning of each school year. What was the best part about that is all of the potential for doodling the paper bag held as it was wrapped around your Algebra […]

As a fledgling youth in Boston, there were many a day I found solace in the angular guitar chords of Walter Schreifels. As the guitarist for New York hardcore luminaries Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today, he added joy to my life in ways unexplained. But it wasn’t till he formed Quicksand in the early […]

Berlin’s eBoy collective has just released an Amnesty poster for Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign, available here for about $31. I love their hyper detailed Legos-meets-8bit interpretations of the world, and this Amnesty poster is no exception. They’ve also released posters for London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Baltimore, Cologne and Venice, and just for […]