Whenever I visit a new city for the first time I’m always armed with my trusty Lonely Planet travel book. Come the second visit, having gotten all the classic sightseeing locations stricken off my must-see-in-my-lifetime list, I dump the guide books and make sure to Facebook people residing in that same city and get the […]

Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]

So you’re a Joy Division fan. You own Control, you’ve listened to Unknown Pleasures a gajillion times, and you’ve plastered your bedroom walls with Ian Curtis bus poster art. You think you’ve heard the whole story of love lost, brilliant talent squandered and tragic suicide. Well you haven’t. Filmmaker Grant Gee directs the succinctly named Joy […]

We don’t have any more rock stars. Sorry kids, thems the facts. Sure we have plenty of fame-reluctant indie bands floating around, talentless attention-starved pop stars clogging the airwaves, and more than enough material-obsessed rappers to fill the Mall of America, but we don’t have any Rock Stars. You know, guys like David Lee Roth […]

This reminds me of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones pulls the old switcheroo with the bag of sand, and first picks up that stone native talisman and holds it up all reverently, like he’s just found some sort of archaeological missing link. Well this is like that, except for […]

Chances are, if you picked up the July issue of Wallpaper, Peter Saville’s (Factory Records fame… you know, Joy Division and New Order) amazingly sexy “Erotic House” fashion editorial made an impression. The whole idea behind the shoot was to recreate the environment of Saville’s infamous flat in London. Apparently some pretty legendary shit went […]