Vans Syndicate teams up with Tommy Guerrero for its latest collaboration. The minimal shoes strip everything down to a matte black colorway of Vans Old-Skool and Slip-On silhouettes, utilizing a perforated premium leather upper with subtle white contrast stitching for a little pop. A fittingly beautiful shoe for Guerrero — original member of Powell Peralta’s Bones […]
11
Jan
Beautifully muted black Old-Skool and Slip-On shoes
4
Jan
Sonic experimental pop via Montreal via Calgary
After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the […]
10
Dec
...while 1960s TV gameshow audience tries to comprehend
Pioneering experimental composer John Cage performs the genre-defining composition Water Walk on a game show in 1960. I can’t even imagine — is that why all the people are laughing, they can’t comprehend what Cage is doing? Of course, no one in 1960 had seen anything like this, so it’s understandable that they’d default to […]
8
Sep
The band formerly known as Pivot drop their sophomore album "Church With No Magic" on Warp Records
Australia’s PVT have just released their sophomore album Church With No Magic on the peerless Warp Records. Leftfield, dense with textured sounds and more than a bit deranged, the band formerly known as Pivot have a headlock on damaged techno, for lack of a better term. Amidst all that digital rubble, however, are beautiful layers […]
12
May
Ambient post-psychedelic instrumentals to get your weed on
The droning, looping wonderfulness that is Woodsman is what you hear while getting your teeth drilled under the heavy seditation of some analgesic, painkilling drug — only without the teeth-drilling part. Hailing from Denver, their ambient post-psychedelic instrumental missives sound more like sonic backdrops to a lost teenage trip than to a couple dudes banging […]
27
Oct
A symbolic link between the font and the artist’s reflections
Meet Vladimir Koncar, a visual artist, new media and graphic designer and art director from Zagreb, Croatia. Actually, I’d like to meet him too. I just came across his page on Behance. Gut tells me he’s a pretty fun guy. Or his completely introverted and lives vicariously through his experimental typography work. They sure are […]
