We’re just a little over a month away from the fifth annual two-day HARD Summer music event at L.A.’s Historical State Park in Downtown L.A. Headliners include acts like dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, the legendary James Murphy, Little Dragon, Miike Snow, Datsik, up-and-comer Lunice and perhaps most importantly the reunion of Bloc Party (whose highly […]

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 […]

When you say that Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s landmark 1995 debut Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version is one of the best Wu Tang Clan records, you’re basically suggesting it’s one of the best hip hop albums of all time. And you’d be right. Next to eminent classics like GZA’s Liquid Swords and Raekwon’s […]

Ten years ago Harley-Davidson introduced their first V-Rod motorcycle, a high performance, drag-inspired line of beefed up 2-wheelers created to take on the big-engined Japanese competition. Sporting a 122 horsepower liquid-cooled powerplant engineered in collaboration with Porsche, the V-Rod made a strong stake in the market. Now for 2012 Harley unleashes their Night Rod Special […]

After the clean version of their new Hot Sauce Committee Part Two LP leaked last week, the Boys Beastie decided to offer the unedited “filthy dirty nasty version” on their site. So if you can’t wait til May 3rd when the album hits store shelves (and iTunes digital folders), then hit up Hot Sauce Committee […]

To promote his upcoming American tour, the Dutch electro DJ/producer Bart B More is dropping this aptly titled USA Tour mixtape. Joining the never-ending assault of Dutch DJs invading American shores and record bins, the Utrecht-based artist otherwise known as Bart van der Meer produced one of the bigger tracks of the past summer with “Brap!”, […]

The raison d’être of  Blood Bros — a DJ duo comprised of Dirty South Joe and DJA — is simply (and awesomely) to create mixtapes culled from the best 80s action movie and kung fu flick soundtracks. What on Earth is there not to like about that? Sure it’s not as cerebral as, say, Chris […]

I really love the  theme behind this multi-locale film festival titled the Rolling Roadshow, a nationwide tour of free outdoor 35mm screening experiences pairing some of America’s best films with the famous locations where they were shot or set. This year the theme is “We Are All Workers”, which ties into Levi’s brand recent marketing […]