Based on the image of a ‘Moon on the bough’, the Scene #01 illumination lamp symbolizes a set of ink-and-wash paintings that one might see as a scene through a window. Created by South Korean design studio Monocomplex, the lamp is essentially what it looks like to see the moon through trees, a quite simple […]

Atlanta duo FKI team up with Mad Decent roster stalwarts Heroes & Villains and Mayhem, as well as founder Diplo, to produce the 16-track dubstep-wobbled hip hop mixtape Transformers N The Hood. Collaborators and guests include T.I., Planet 9, Iggy Azalea, Travis Porter, DJ Spinz, Mike Fresh and more. Stream Transformers N The Hood mixtape below […]

South Africa’s Die Antwoord released their new album today, TEN$ION, and open it up with a video for the track “I Fink U Freeky”. Directed by Die Antoord frontman Ninja, the vid highlights Yo-Landi Vi$$er, DJ Hi-Tek and Ninja himself existing in a most ghetto-tastic black & white world brimming with fellow freaks. After signing […]

There are few, if any, labels that can match the roster of the immaculately curated Ninja Tune Records. One of the newer names in the label’s their stellar bullpen (which includes heavyweights like Cold Cut, DJ Food, Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser, et al) is Philadelphia’s own Starkey (ak PJ Geissinger), who brings his […]

British artist Damien Hirst is known to stir controversy, ever since the days of slicing up cows and sticking them in formaldehyde. Then of course came his notorious For the Love of God piece, an ancient human skull embedded with 8,601 diamonds, including a big pink one worth more than $8 million. That skull ended […]

In 1969, when TAG Heuer first introduced its “Monaco” design on the wrist of Steve McQueen in the movie Le Mans, the chronograph made headlines. Four decades later, the Swiss watchmaker is making a unique, one-off version to auction off in benefit of Duchenne muscular dystrophy research. The Mikrograph features the fastest chronograph movement on […]

Six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 conservation priority sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas are set to be decimated, all in the name of energy. That amounts to roughly 6,000 hectares or 60 square kilometers of land. That’s bigger than the Vatican City, Monaco and Bermuda combined. The Chileans have fought against […]

When we first introduced Toro y Moi a couple years back (read our To Whom It May Concern interview HERE) we knew kid had talent. We pretty much thought his Causers of This debut album was the shit, and then he went on to record the even more ambitious Underneath the Pine (Car Park Records), […]