The only bummer about 2004’s mashup masterpiece The Grey Album was the audio quality. Taking sliced up music from The Beatles’ peerless White Album and layering acapellas from Jay-Z’s legendary farewell (yeah right) LP The Black Album, Danger Mouse unknowingly crafted perhaps the best known oeuvre in the mashup genre. While Danger Mouse was at the time only […]
A new crowd-sourced video from Kry Wolf & Claude VonStroke for their infinitely danceable “Turbosteppa” track. The Dirtybird Records duo inspire a worldwide crew of motley dancers to break it down on top of the ever bouncy bassline of their collaboration, everyone from green men to tropical birds to bipedal dogs. Can’t get enough yourself? […]
Sam Adams singular Utopias beer is celebrating its already vaunted stature with a 10th Anniversary edition, and it has been dubbed the most expensive commercial beer in the world. Sure its $190 pricetag per 24-oz bottle seems steep, but its meticulous creation (and celestial alcohol content) makes it all worthwhile. With 29% alcohol, Utopias has […]
Late last year Confederate introduced their C3 X132 Hellcat Motorcycle — the lightest, fastest and cheapest streetbike Confederate has ever built. This August the Birmingham, Alabama builders headed to the Bonneville Salt Flats to test out their latest creation: a 132 cubic inch, 4.4L V-Twin infused Hellcat hellbent on securing a land speed record. And […]
Ever wanted the entire history of the record player — from “Berliner’s first gramophone, through the explosion of designs of the 1950s and the sleek UFO styling of the 1970s, to today’s high-performance superstars” — represented in one simple poster? Well gosh darn it, you’re in luck. The Visual Hi-Fi History of Turntables poster features landmark, […]
Diplo takes some time off of smoking weed and playing old records to lay down a solid two hour mix for his friends over at the BBC. The massive set features a litany of Diplo-endorsed players layered on top of a heaping roster of blog-beloved cutting edge artists: Danny Brown (get his mixtape HERE), Crookers, […]
Supreme notches another quality collaboration with their latest project, a tshirt capsule collection with famed record label Stax Records. The legendary Memphis, Tennessee-grown label was home to a litany of artists including Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Wilson Pickett and even comedians like Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. The main rival to Motown Records […]
If you want to know what Diplo would play if he got really baked and got on the turntables at your house, all buzzed out and lazy like, now you know. Wait hold up Wes, stop bogarting the decks — and where in hell did I leave that vaporizer…? Did anyone else realize just how […]