I’ll just let Thomas Traum describe this work, aptly titled Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines: “[This is] a typology of rap videos and an attempt to construct the most generic Rap and R&B video out of many. Musical genres are always heavily codified and rap seems to be one of the most extreme ones, each video has similar if […]

Reuben Negron paints hyper-realistic watercolors, each piece seeming like a film still capturing a moment of a story for eternity. Although much of the art is sexually charged, he claims his art explores the intricacies of the mundane…but if this is his world (eg bondage, girl-on-girl, auto arousal, implied infidelity, etc), and this is what […]

Although Frankie Rose is best known as one of the original founders of Vivian Girls, the sound of her new project, Frankie Rose and the Outs, has taken on a decidedly more shoegaze, slightly noisy direction. The Brooklyn stalwarts have taken their lo-fi garage sonics and penchant for rich melodies and upgraded the production, dousing […]

The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I,  vol II, vol III, vol IV and vol V) That’s right. I am living large. Like MTV Cribs large. Like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fancy. Like Oprah, if Oprah floated in Malibu pools sipping sangria. And I’ve probably never been so poor. […]

Our resident Perv-at-Arms, Piter De Vries , went to the E3 convention this week and this is what he brought back. We asked him to report on the latest games, trends, and technology brewing at the most important video game conference in the world, and his report consisted of this: 3 galleries of E3 2010 […]

Last week we previewed LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls” (then) upcoming video with a trailer, mostly because we were anxiously fiending for their set last Friday at Coachella. Well our faith was rewarded, and now we’re even more anxiously awaiting their upcoming This Is Happening LP (out May 18 on DFA) —let’s hope it’s not the […]

You usually don’t see a trailer for a music video, but when it’s for the first single from the heavily anticipated latest — and possibly last — album from LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (out May 18th on DFA), people demand immediate gratification. So here you go — both song and trailer below. I certainly […]

The line-up for this year’s Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle were announced today and it sounds like a dandy. It takes place July 24 & 25, and features: Sonic Youth, The Jesus Lizard, The Gossip, Deerhunter, Black Lips, Earth, The Thermals, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Moondoggies, Spinnerette, The Dutchess And The […]