If you’ve ever so much as turned on a television (even a an old-fashioned boob tube, with dials on it and rabbit ears), you remember Saturday Night Live, the homestead of so many of the greats of contemporary comedy—the iconic sketch show born back in 1975 that has been alive longer than most of the comedic actors […]

Music festivals are a dime a dozen nowadays, with nearly every podunk berg and deep niche music blog trying to attract aficionados to their questionable line-ups. And although comedy has played a small roll in some of these festivals — such as Bonnaroo, for instance — how come no one has organized a comedy-based festival? […]

In one of the funnier Saturday Night Live skits of late, longtime SNL staple Fred Armisen plays Ian Rubbish — fictional frontman of the punk band Ian Rubbish & the Bizzarros. It’s pretty clear from the History Of Punk skit that Armisen is a huge fan of the music, as his portrayal of a late […]

Our friends over at DROID BEHAVIOR are celebrating the 9th Anniversary of their landmark INTERFACE party, and it goes down tomorrow night (Saturday, December 17th). The DROID crew (Drumcell, Audio Injection & Raiz) invited the great Speedy J and Los Angeles DJ Silent Servant to join the festivities and turn it up to 11. Expect […]

Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels label has been making some waves these past twelve months. An uncompromising vision for the future of house and techno has the label breaking acts left, right and center, and infusing some serious fun into a musical blueprint that regularly leaves dancefloors bouncing till dawn. Full length album releases from Art […]

Glitch/8-bit/bass/breakcore/noise producer Baseck is hardly averse to giving away some stellar music, as he did with his Heavy Metal 8-Bit mixtape and Strawberry Muck: Remixes EP projects. This week, in anticipation of his upcoming show/birthday celebration “So Simple presents: Some More Dope Shit” this Saturday, August 13th (flyer after the Jump), the Los Angeles-based Baseck […]

In 2011 it’s easy to dismiss Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans as been-there-done-that monotony. Who wants to stare at a painting of an object you can buy for less than a dollar at Ralphs or the 99 Cent Store? I do, and we all should. Warhol’s iconic painting is actually thirty-two paintings side by side, […]

So there’s this “art” event called GLOW happening on the beach in Santa Monica this Saturday, but I went to GLOW two years ago when it started and the art all looked pretty damn corporate to me. So corporate that we ended up on the SM Pier drinking tequila gimlets on the rickety roller coaster (that combo […]