Nixon, the Encinitas, California-based clothing and accessories company now offers The Axe, a vintage, motorcycle-inspired watch. Featuring two hand-worked Horween leather band options, this durable and versatile watch gives you the option to wear the wide cuff option or simply remove the cuff to reveal a slim, classic leather band. Leather enthusiasts should be familiar […]

Toronto photographer Will Santillo and author/editor Dian Hanson collaborated on a collection of stories and photographs detailing the intimate, candid and often erotic thoughts of women and masturbation. For their 208-page hardcover La Petite Mort, Hanson interviewed 37 females who opened their doors to her — and their legs to Santillo — in an effort […]

Do you want to get your friends incredibly stoked, only to pull the rug out from under them to absolutely guarantee fists clenched at the sky? Give your next shipment to them a crappy surprise with Financial Padding — a package cushioning alternative to foam peanuts that look just like crumpled up paper banknotes. Besides being […]

A microphone with quality and function that takes you back to a time of smoke-filled speakeasies, fedoras, well groomed crooners and high balls of bourbon. The Meteor Mic is a USB microphone brought to you by the fine folks at Samson, featuring a retro design that emulates the large bulky mics music idols used to […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf breakdown Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. The film is out in limited release in the US on December 22nd. The Elf As I write this, there’s a little mantra running through my head: I WILL NOT BE SNARKY. I will not say that Sofia Coppola’s movies get made because her dad […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf were guests at last week’s AFI Fest and attended the Los Angeles premier of Black Swan. This is their collaborative review. Black Swan is out in the US on December 1st. The Elf: I’m a sucker for a dance movie. Ballet specifically. Whether it’s Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage (starring a […]

The Suzan are one of those bands that resist categorization like the Mujahideen resist foreign invaders. You start off with a quartet of punk-inspired Japanese girls, throw in some doo wop melodies, xylophone and tribal drums, and finish it off with surf guitar and a smattering of playful electronic lines — voila, The Suzan. The […]

UPDATE: We posted this a couple weeks back but are putting it back on top due to the just released Spike Jones-directed video below. I gotta say I’m not at all impressed with the video —neither lyrically nor visually. It looks like something Spike spit out between stabbing sessions of his Lebron James voodoo doll. […]