This just past NYC Toy Fair, Kidrobot let the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles climb back up out of the sewers and onto display shelves. Like the toxic ooze that made these turtles into the sword wielding assassins that they are, so comes a glow-in-the-dark series of Ooze Action toys. But these are modeled after the famed […]

Australia’s Bleeding Knees Club play simple, no frills, direct-to-the-gut pop punk. We heard their track “Teenage Girls” — a straightforward 2-minute ditty about chicks, gum, smoking weed out of an apple pipe and the perfect age for nubile love — and were hooked. So we interviewed them. Their debut EP Virginity dropped last month on […]

Today is time for a confessional for the Madman. First of all, I know I’m gonna lose a lot of my indie cred when I say this but I don’t care — much to the frustration of the Imaginary Girlfriend, I have to admit, I kind of love Katy Perry. Perhaps it was that Elmo […]

The film Hanna centers around a teenage assassin played by Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones), who has been trained in the killing arts by her father (Eric Bana), an an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland. Apparently her father sends her on a mission and the poop hits the proverbial fan… all set to […]

When you combine two creative powerhouses like Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze you basically can’t go wrong. And such is the case with the video for the title track off Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album. Directed by Mr. Jonze, the clip was shot in Austin and is a poignant  6-minute mini exploration into the shittiest era […]

Have you ever looked at teh price of turntables and caused a bit of fluttering in your heart? You don’t even need to get as crazy as the DaVinci Audio Lab one, I’m just talking about even intro-level turntables. Well Teenage Engineering has come up with a very cool project to counter the extravagant expense. […]