13 Dec
Kieran Hebden's 120-minute mixtape of ambient aural pleasures

It’s Tuesday, the holiday parties are in full swing, and chances are you’re gonna get boozy a couple times this week. Who’s really thinking about work anyways? We know you’re really spending most of your time shopping online for friends, family and self, so why not slip on the headphones and do it with some […]


21 Oct
Italian car manufacturer combines the best of 2 worlds

Italian automobile company Vygor has officially debuted the Opera, a hybrid of a Gran Turismo with an SUV. The Vygor allegedly combines the thrill of driving a GT with the practicality and safety associated with a raised four-wheel drive. Along with the use of a new tubular chassis made of high-strength steel, double-triangle individual wheel suspension […]


11 Oct
Album sneak preview + French duo's first NYC set in 2 years

If you can’t wait until October 25th to hear the new Justice album Audio, Video, Disco (on Ed Banger/Because/Elektra/Vice) the French electro duo are offering a jam-packed 4-minute minimix to keep all the fiends sated. At least temporarily. The second album by Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé is said to deviate from their hard […]


8 Sep
450 color album illustrations from the legendary comic artist

The work of legendary comic book artist/lech Robert Crumb has been gathered in numerous graphic novels and books, but this is the first hardcover compiling the hundreds of record covers he’s illustrated over his career. His first album cover was for Janis Joplin’s Cheap Thrills in 1968 when Crumb was just a youngin’ living in Haight […]


13 Jul
BRABUS 800 E V12 Cabriolet lifts Mercedes Benz to new heights

BRABUS, the largest independent tuner of Mercedes Benz vehicles, has just unveiled their 800 E V12 Cabriolet — now the fastest and most powerful four-seat droptop in the world. Stuffing the tuner’s signature biturbo twelve-cylinder high-capacity engine into a standard open-top Mercedes E-Class, BRABUS has unleashed a convertible monster ready to tear up asphalt the […]


18 May
Limited edition homage to classic Matra Bagheera model

Last month we brought you Super Motor Company Scooters, a new retro-styled scooter manufacturer founded by Dutch cousins fueled with a passion for speed and love for old motorcycles.  Our standards were quite high since we had just come from testing the mx650 reviewed here. Now Super Motor has teamed up with Parisian boutique extraordinaire […]


21 Mar
Finally, a way to really settle a Bride War

If you ever thought the female obsession with engagement rings went too far, then you probably will think that designer Kate Bauman could use a talking to. The 4-finger ring (or should I say “rings”) is made from sterling silver and cubic zirconium, and unlike your fingers, each of the hoops are the same size. […]


4 Jan
Four generations of a secret Kentucky recipe

While the Old Rip Van Winkle 23-Year Old Decantur was the bourbon that got our heart pumping last year, one shouldn’t sleep (pardon the pun) on the expression that put the famed distillery on the map. Started in the late 19th Century by Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle, the Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery now […]