It’s always like Christmas when The Magician shares another of his treasured musical gems with the world. For the 22nd edition of his Magic Tape series, Stephen Fasano shares more of his sexy time disco for y’all to keep those fingers tapping at work (or studying, or practicing the flute, or race car driving or […]

Bizarre blends and mash-ups created out of Stephen Ives’ mind, Strange Toy Remixes are fantastical, creative and some border on grotesque. From the reinvention of the face Mr. Potato Head into Saddam Hussein to the epic comic rewriting of the story of Pooh Bear to Ives’ own line of Lego prostitutes, Ives’ inversion of cultural […]

Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]

I don’t know how this slipped through our greasy, lecherous fingers, but somehow it did. Oh well, at least we were here to catch our own folly. The brothers Dewaele, the mad sampling geniuses behind Soulwax and 2ManyDJs — who many credit with the proliferation of the mash-up — are back with another of their […]

It’s hard justifying not posting everything The Magician puts out when his mixtapes are so damn irresistible. Sure we posted  Magic Tape Five, then Magic Tape Twelve, and of course the BEAN mixtape, but yesterday The Magician put out his Magic Tape Sixteen and I see no reason to not share it with the people. […]

So you’re a Joy Division fan. You own Control, you’ve listened to Unknown Pleasures a gajillion times, and you’ve plastered your bedroom walls with Ian Curtis bus poster art. You think you’ve heard the whole story of love lost, brilliant talent squandered and tragic suicide. Well you haven’t. Filmmaker Grant Gee directs the succinctly named Joy […]

Anthrax acolyte, resident New York hooligan and Official Editor of All Things Metal, the nefarious Matt Hanrahan gives us the low down on Van Halen’s other exiled singer’s bio… As anyone who knows me knows, I am a die-hard fan of the Mighty Van Halen. I have seen the band live with Roth and Hagar […]

Last winter we brought you The Magician’s Magic Tape Five mixtape, and then a little while later his BEAN mixtape he did in collaboration with oki-ni. Well we’ve obviously missed a couple (or more) mixtapes in the interim, because this week Stephen Fasano — he of ex-Aeroplane fame — is now up to his Magic […]