It’s pretty clear who the target market is for this here particular pillow. I’m not gonna say you have to be a full-on pothead to enjoy this “Giant Stash” Pillowcase, but I’m sure it helps. And who doesn’t have an adorable stoner in their lives? You know, maybe they have a pot leaf tattooed on […]

Poliça is the Minneapolis-based duo comprised of singer/songwriter Channy Leanagh and producer Ryan Olson, who had previously collaborated in the synth-pop supergroup GAYNGS (check out our Q&A with Channy here). Their debut album Give You The Ghost carries an R&B and electro-pop fused sound and was released this past February. They’ve already put out several […]

Give You the Ghost is the debut album by Minneapolis-based band Poliça, which formed June 2011 and released their first two songs, “Wandering Star” and “Lay Your Cards Out”, shortly thereafter (see our “Wandering Star” Video post here). Having taken part in GAYNGS, the synth-disco-pop super group, producer Ryan Olsen and singer/songwriter Channy Leanagh teamed up […]

After receiving praise for their debut album, Give You the Ghost, Minneapolis electronica band Poliça — fronted by vocalist Channy Leanagh and producer Ryan Olson — has been crafting their image as a band wisely, and carefully. As far as their music videos go, they ensure that images and ideas, no matter how risque or controversial, are […]

DARKSIDE is the moniker of the collaboration between Chilean/American techno producer Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. The duo’s first eponymous EP came out last fall on Jaar’s own Clown & Sunset label, and are prepping for a longplay album coming soon. To keep eager fans sated, Clown & Sunset Aesthetics released a new video for […]

Rizzoli — publishers of the M.I.A. Collage Book — have teamed up with retailer extraordinaire Opening Ceremony to celebrate the boutique’s ten year anniversary by publishing a large format hardcover book to be released on September 4th: “[The book] includes original photography by Terry Richardson, ‘zine inserts by Chloë Sevigny and Spike Jonze, and memories […]

If you grew up in the 1980’s you probably wished Steven Spielberg were a family friend. Sure the man helmed such Hollywood classics as Jaws, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, etc, but it was his work crafting unbearably lovable characters in E.T. and Gremlins that made kids go bonkers. Aaah, Gremlins — who […]

Who doesn’t like a good surf movie, especially when it combines a healthy dose of the culture of the areas surfed? Isolated is such a film, and maybe more. Executive Produced Ryan Phillippe (he of MacGruber and Way Of the Gun fame) and Geoff Clark, and produced by Matt Meyerson, Isolated tracks a handful of […]