2011 may have been a quiet year for Maya Arulpragasam, but the world pop star M.I.A. is looking to rebound in 2012 and make up for her 3rd album, /\/\ /\ Y /\, which was critically panned by many but beloved here at LIAS headquarters. Her first move is to release a single lifted from the […]

Christmas may have passed, but you can still gift yourself a present that’ll last throughout 2012. The taxi-style DQM Dashboard Girls 2012 Calendar features an adhesive on the back, which allows you to place it on your dashboard like a traditional cabby calender — or stick them up anywhere, for that matter (as long as […]

So GLOBE has a new throwback skateboard or something. I think it’s called “Bantam”, and they put together this genius Z-Boys-era tinged video to let y’all know. And it’s like a real deck with lifetime guarantees and something or other… wait, are you still reading this?! What’s wrong with you man?! Just play the damn […]

Wow — who would’ve thunk it? Already the 50th volume in our beloved and illustrious Because We Love You Series, and who better to knock it out than homegrown Los Angeles photographer Estevan Oriol. We’ve shown some of Oriol’s work before, including when we interviewed him for the coffee table book counterpart to this aptly titled […]

Australia’s Bleeding Knees Club play simple, no frills, direct-to-the-gut pop punk. We heard their track “Teenage Girls” — a straightforward 2-minute ditty about chicks, gum, smoking weed out of an apple pipe and the perfect age for nubile love — and were hooked. So we interviewed them. Their debut EP Virginity dropped last month on […]

Is there anything more that needs to be said beyond the title? I mean, if the devil is in the details then the divine is in the profoundly simple. Case in point: photographer Ben Watts takes a bunch of naked models, throws some superfluous biking accessories on them, and has them ride around on some […]

Street artist INSA, known for his illustrations of ample bossomed and bottomed ladies, has released images from his ongoing public installation art project aptly titled Girls On Bikes. The idea couldn’t be more simple: he photographs voluptuous, scantily clad women riding around on bikes in front of his murals. Pretty basic, right? Well not really, […]

As we posted last week the Sunset Strip Music Festival went down this past Saturday, and as expected the festival was a true spectacle — both with the bands performing, and the festival goers who went to celebrate the mighty Sunset Strip… including the armies of aging, drunk and bottle bleached groupies who descended into […]