A lotta love and and all hands on deck went into creating this toy likeness of the late James Yancey, known to most as J-Dilla, aka Jay Dee, aka Jay Donuts. Rest in peace, sir. Funded by the estate of Pay Jay Productions, this vinyl J-Dilla stands 7.5″ tall and is rocking the Stussy tee, a […]
26
Dec
Pay Jay x Sintex x P2PL x Stussy = tiny James Yancey
9
May
Serious Jibber-Jabber with CoCo & his old scribes team
OH my god, I just pooped my pants when I read the headline to this video. Do you have any idea how long I’ve wished to be a fly on the wall in The Simpsons writers room during its halcyon Conan O’Brien years? You know, when they were penning the monorail song, and sending Homer […]
2
Apr
What a party at James Franco's house is really like
We posted the First Look Trailer of the This Is The End film late last year, and now a new trailer for Machinima showing a little more of the plot has been released. While the cast of the film is pretty ridiculous, and the meta film-within-a-film pretext very postmodern for a typical football to the groin […]
15
Feb
Rodney Ascher's first feature about the scariest movie ever
What does a boiling tsunami of blood inside a corridor evoke in your mind? What if everything you think about what you know is wrong and is really just the plot of some rubiginous politico and his ploys for mass genocide? Enter Room 237, a documentary directed by Rodney Ascher about the mysteries behind the […]
2
Jan
American Gangster re-spun with classic artists from the 1970s
Esteemed hip-hop producer 9th Wonder takes Jay-Z’s 2007 album American Gangster and applies his unique touch — remixing in a bunch of musical inspiration from artists of the 1970s. As 9th Wonder produced tracks off the original album, it’s fitting that he gives it a new spin, adding in a list of great artists including […]
24
Oct
Los Angeles' DJ/producer shares the latest from the DB camp
Do you know where we’ll be this Friday night? Listen, if you have beef for any reason and want to find us to deliver some vengeance pain, just go to Avalon Hollywood where we’ll be getting sweaty and clinking glasses with the Dirtybird crew as label boss Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin (he of Ghettos & […]
2
Oct
A Q&A with Mexico's maestros of sinister house
You hear plenty about new DJ’s and producers coming out of the UK, Europe and right here on our own turf of the USA (not to mention the handful of producers representing our own City Of Angles), but what about our lovely neighbors down south? The male duo Climbers (Jay Blakk and Kiko Deal) is […]
8
Aug
Mexican producers drop second EP for LA's Culprit Records
Mexican duo Climbers (Jay Blakk and Kiko Deal) have just dropped their second EP in 3 months with Los Angeles label Culprit Records, a typically well-produced piece of dark ass shaking titled “2 Come Back”. In addition to the original mix the EP includes two remixes by Miguel Campbell and Fur Coat, and to promote […]
