After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the […]
4
Jan
Sonic experimental pop via Montreal via Calgary
21
Jan
Hit play, fight through the muddle and pluck the genius
Yes, the quality is crap and half the microphones are blown, but if you have 20 minutes in your day then you have time for Mick Jones on TV Party. The cult landmark TV Party (re-released awhile back on DVD) was a free cable access show in New York City that ran from 1978 to […]
I do have a thing for cassette tapes. I did have a pretty big collection at one point. That was a long time ago, though, but the nostalgia is still around. I’m not 100% sure if I’d be down to hang a big cassette on my living room wall, but it could be fun in […]
20
Aug
A new generation of artists paying tribute to the legendary art, music, and scene of 1980’s New York City
If you’re in LA Friday, September 4, 2009 get your ass over to Meltdown Comics (7522 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood). Anytime someone brings up comic books and/or art related shops in this town, Meltdown is the place. They’ve been on top of the game for the last two decades. So yeah, the store itself is […]
