Moisturizing one’s face isn’t just for vain douchebags and creepy Patrick Batemen clones, it’s pretty much mandatory for all men who care about their appearance. And it’s not really something you want to be cheap with, as thick creams can clog your facial pores and do more harm than good. That’s why it’s key to [...]

Nicolas Stecher jumped in the Aston Martin DBS Volante Carbon Edition to find out why Mr. Bond loves his Astons so. With 510 horsepower and a 190 mph top speed growling forth from its 5.9-liter V-12, that should seem obvious. But despite — or perhaps, even because of — its many quirks, the car belongs [...]

The upcoming book Forever: The New Tattoo edited by R. Klanten and F. Schulze documents tattoos that are still breaking new ground in a culture where the artform has gone mainstream. Any walk through Silverlake or Brooklyn (nevermind Nashville, Austin, Portland, San Francisco, etc etc) will quickly dispel the myth of the tattoo as symbol of [...]

Everyone’s most polarizing white girl rapper is back with the second track off her upcoming debut album Somethin’ About Kreay. On “Go Hard (La La La)” Kreayshawn goes from dissing pseudo-Barbies who work at Arby’s to girls who work at Forever 21 — consider her the broke chick’s Rappin’ 4-Tay. Kreay stormed the gates with last [...]

It was just about a year ago we were sitting around patiently (and rather impatiently) waiting for the follow-up to Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, and the highly acclaimed Bon Iver, Bon Iver was clearly well worth the wait. The album easily made a slew of blogs’, magazines’ and assorted media’s Top Album of [...]

The Wu- Tang Clan’s the Genius — aka GZA — is reissuing the essential Liquid Swords album in a deluxe double box set. Between Wu’s legendary debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and the followup Forever, RZA helmed the first wave of Wu Tang solo albums, each a verifiable classic in its own right. But most [...]

Diplo drops the latest installment of the Mad Decent Blow Your Head mix series for the month of February, and fills the hour-long mix with plenty of party jams from the likes of Drop the Lime, Nero, Codes, Juicy J, Rusko and Nicki Minaj. Of course there’s plenty of Diplo and Mad Decent remixes thrown [...]

Alison Klayman, a documentarian whose stories have been featured on Current TV, AP Television and CBC, is the woman behind the newest documentary on Ai Weiwei — the famed Chinese contemporary artist and human rights activist (and man behind the impressive Forever Bicycles exhibit). In the film Never Sorry, viewers get a look at the [...]