Wild Nothing is the musical vehicle of Blacksburg, Virginia’s Jack Tatum, and it’s justifiably finding its way to music lovers through their debut album Gemini, which was released May 25th on Captured Tracks. The band’s sound has been described as “dreamy, carefree synth-pop songs that linger with an inexplicable sense of regret”, jumpstarted with a […]

We’ve been kind of hyped up on Free Energy for awhile now, enough so we interviewed them back in December before their album dropped. Well their debut Stuck On Nothing is finally out, and it was well worth the wait — shouldn’t surprise, given it was produced by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and released on […]

Sort of similar to that awesome ABC3D pop-up book, except instead of infant stimulation Popville aims straight for stimulating adult occipital lobes. Created by Anouck Boisrobert, Louis Rigaud and Joy Sorman, the Sim City-like book has some heady framework aspirations:”The city as a living body that is born, develops and differentiate its buildings and functions: […]

You know how when your shirts get a little old or well-worn the collars start to droop like wilted broccoli? These Power Stays by Würkin aim to fix that, but unlike most traditional stays they use the power of magnetics to accomplish their sartorial goals. The high-tech alloy stays are made with the same material […]

If you missed the dynamic duo combination of Phil Frost and Barry McGee three months ago at the Prism gallery, don’t fret my ravenous street art loving friends! Phil Frost is opening up his solo show tonight, Saturday, April 24th, at the Known Gallery from 8-11p. The show is titled Pale Writer and I suspect […]

Available on the Where the Wild Things Are Blu-Ray and DVD — which comes out today  — is a special feature, a completely unreleased 23-minute adaptation of another of Wild Things author Maurice Sendak’s books, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Starring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forrest Whitaker, the short was directed by Maciek Szczerbowski and […]

It seems inevitable. Instead of concentrating on the ‘Right Here-Right Now’ creative landscape, the art matrix get swallowed by Board votes, a pedestrian public and the antiquation of large institutions in general. Although MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) boasts the largest Post-World War II collection of modern art, the “C” still stands for Contemporary and […]

Shawn Foree grew up in the desert shrubs outside of Tucson, Arizona in a Baha’i hippie commune, which is really weird given the incredibly synthetic textures of his music. Maybe that’s where he got the name of his band, Digital Leather — a literal conflation of a most organic material with the most intangible, artificial […]