One of our favorite daily reading websites is without a doubt Grantland. Founded and helmed by Bill Simmons — author of Now I Can Die In Peace, The Book Of Basketball and a sports writer without equal — Grantland serves as the nexus of where sports collides with pop culture, and explodes in a fireworks […]
The Punisher is, without a doubt, one of the most undervalued characters in the Marvel Comics catalogue. Frankly he should be bigger than Spiderman (in whose comic, incidentally, he debuted… as a villain), yet due to two shit movie attempts at capturing the story of Frank Castle he languishes in the zeitgest somewhere between Ghost […]
Toronto-based label Paper Bag Records is releasing another digital LP as part of their successful cover series, of which fans receive a free download. This cover LP spans twelve songs from David Bowie’s groundbreaking The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album, which happens to be celebrating its 40th anniversary […]
One of our favorite large scotch distilleries, The Balvenie, is celebrating the dedication of half a century of work of David Stewart, now the longest tenured malt master in Scotland, with an expression aptly titled The Balvenie Fifty. Known farflung as the ‘Modest Man of Whisky’, Stewart first began interning at the Speyside distillery back […]
Unemployment got you down? Looking for a little extra spending money? Are you over your job and searching for something that’ll bring adventure and excitement back into your life? Or are you simply looking to power up like a coked-out Superman? (OK, that’s got nothing to do with anything, we just wanted to tie in […]
The Los Angeles based Black Hippy collective (Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, and Ab Soul) have been gaining a lot of attention this past year, at first individually and now collectively. ScHoolboy Q, who’s currently touring with Ab Soul (and will be in Los Angeles August 10th with Childish Gambino and again Aug. 26th with A$AP […]
David Corden is one of the UK’s leading realism tattoo artists. While his work may not have the social impact or exotic skullduggery of, say, Russian Prison Tattoos, his impressive pin-ups and portraits demonstrate talent with a very keen attention to detail, smooth color transitions and striking resemblance to the source image. All of which […]
We’ve unfortunately seen them live, caught them at a festival assaulting the eardrums of the brainless & clueless, and avoided their residencies at Ed Hardy-filled clubs from New York to Las Vegas, Miami to Los Angeles; but how much money are they actually making from pretending to play stuff? Check out who made the Top […]