When you’re offered five minutes with one of your heroes, you jump on it with vigor like Kool Aid-geeked grade schoolers on a trampoline. Or at least, you should. Such is the case with one Mike Diamond, aka Mike D, the high-pitched smooth talker in the archetypal Beastie Boys. In this humble man’s opinion, if […]

Have you heard Hanni El Khatib? The first generation half Palestinian/half Filipino is just bad ass, angrily riffing out a cunning execution of classic American blues, garage, punk and doo-wop into a post-rock n’ roll frenzy. Just hit play on his “Come Alive” video below and you’ll know instantly if you’ll like his music — […]

You may not know the name Crystal Rocked, but you’d recognize their products by the copious crystal bedazzling and gold plating they apply on all sorts of goods. The company has worked with a slew of brands including Tom Ford and Dolce & Gabbana in the design and production of decked out luxury products for […]

The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment…(read vol I,  vol II, vol III, vol IV, vol V,  vol VI, vol VII, vol. VIIIvol IX, vol X,  vol XI, vol XII,  vol XIII, vol XIV, vol XV and vol XVI) Hi readers. Well, this new post was going to be a light-hearted, hilarious book report on Snooki’s glorious novel A Shore Thing since, yes, I read it. […]

The new video from UNKLE features Nick Cave, and it follows very rich people doing very bad things. Directed by Tom Haines, the “Money And Run” video is the lead single off UNKLE’s new EP, Only The Lonely. “It has a sort of Clockwork Orange-esque feeling about it,” UNKLE’s James Lavelle tells Mashable. “It follows […]

Tom Ford releases a new pair of sunglasses for his Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The eyewear consists of a classic round shaped frame with Tom Ford branding on the lens and at the tip of the ear stem in gold. More subtle gold detailing can be found at the hinges. Pick them up for about $454 […]

I’m just gonna say it: Noah & the Whale’s debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, is one of my favorite albums of the decade. No shame, no caveats, no qualifiers. Not only is it an emotionally candid album (sometimes painfully so), with some of singer/songwriter Charlie Fink’s most personal lyrics, but it is […]

We’ve featured Tom Brady’s wifey once before on our beloved Because We Love You series, but seeing as this is the hallowed 30th volume we figured what the heck, let’s bring back a classic. In this editorial for V #70, last year’s Spring Issue, Gisele poses for famed photographer Hedi Slimane for the first time […]