In 2012, while going through the belongings of his parents Johnny Cash and June Carter, John Carter Cash found a stash of master tapes from a long lost non-released album titled Out Among the Stars. The album was originally recorded for his longtime label Columbia, but because Cash’s popularity had declined so dramatically in the 1980s the […]

Perhaps to feed Japan’s seemingly insatiable hunger for all-black G550 SUVs, Mercedes-Benz has announced the production of a vehicle they’ve dubbed the “Night Edition”. Only 100 of these blacked-out versions of the G550 will be built and sold exclusively in Land of the Rising Sun later this spring. The “Night Edition” gleams with an obsidian black exterior […]

For children of the 1980s, the arcade holds a unique and holy place in our hearts. Oh how many countless hours I spent at New England Grand Prix (RIP), endlessly pumping quarters into Dragon’s Lair, Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, Super Sprint, Cyberball, Crystal Castles, Smash TV, Punch Out, et al like crackheads in the dark, inhaling […]

LIAS readers should be no stranger to The Morrison Hotel Galleries in NYC as we have covered several of their finer events and gallery openings over the years — such as the Lynn Goldsmith Circle of Friends Exhibit, Jim Marshall/Johnny Cash’s Pocket Cash, and Catch the Beat: Roots of Punk & Hip Hop. What’s got us […]

Just Tell That You Want Me is the new Fleetwood Mac tribute album featuring a handful of our favorite indie bands including Best Coast, Washed Out, The New Pornographers, Tame Impala, The Kills, Lykke Li, MGMT and more, and is now up to stream via SoundCloud. When covering a band so iconic and influential, and […]

Noted New York rapper/esteemed loudmouth Azealia Banks finally drops her much anticipated Fantasea mixtape this morning, and the Twitterverse is alight! Marking in 19 track strong, Fantasea opens up strongly with a cover of Prodigy’s classic “Out Of Space”, just one of three covers on the mix, and also includes a slew of previously leaked […]

Oakland stream-of-consciousness lyricist Lil B drops a 20-track mixtape to commemorate his upcoming sold out lecture at New York University tomorrow. As is easily apparent via the title and cover, Lil B — aka the Based God — paid homage to Jay-Z with The Basedprint 2, and had this to say about the project: “DOWNLOAD […]

Miike Snow return with the second video from their Happy To You album (out March 27 on Downtown Records/Universal Records). If you have no idea what the hell “The Wave” is about (don’t blame you), it’s the second part in a narrative series of videos started out with “Paddling Out”. Let’s see where the weird […]