One of the best things about living in So Cal is the weather. Rarely is it anything other than sunny and 70. Or sunny and hot. It’s pretty much some form of sunny all year long. Perpetually great weather doesn’t really seem like something to bitch about. Unless you’re into fall / winter fashion. I’m […]

RQM, the liquid-tipped Brooklyn-via-Berlin MC (currently residing in Barcelona) has released his newest EP, Miss Pacman, on Shir Khan’s Exploited label. If you’re a fan of Berlin’s Future Bass sound (a la Jahcoozi, Stereotyp, The Tape, Al-Haca, Modeselektor, Chris Deluca vs Phon.o, etc), then you’ve heard RQM on numerous tracks. If you’re not, then peep […]

You know we like to make fun of Hipsters as much as anyone else in the world, but that’s only cos, well, they’re just so damn ez to make fun of. Plus, if we’re completely honest we may fear that maybe we’re Hipsters too. How do we know? Cos we think this is pretty much […]

Wow. If you wanna know what makes the Madman get in a foamy-mouthed tizzy, then go no further and peep this track from Jamaica’s Terry Lynn. This couldn’t be more custom-made for me if Terry came with a bottle of Chopin tucked under each arm. We’ll have to wait till October for the album, but […]

This Thursday (July 24) Vapors Magazine is hosting a special in-store performance with LIAS fave Dizzee Rascal and Baltimore DJ Aaron LaCrate at Turntable Lab in Los Angeles (424 N. Fairfax) as a pre-partee to Dizzee’s Echo Plex show that night. Although the event is early (5pm to 7pm) there will be a proper happy […]

Lace up your Converse and get ready to rumble. Like rumble for reals. American Apparel gear for as little as a buck a pop? Apparently, yes. Sounds like shit is gonna get crazy. Last year when they did this they had (according to their website) about 4,000 people roll though taking home almost 200,000 garments. […]

Los Angeles based The Quiet Life latest and greatest. Perfect back to school fashion

We have Christopher Nolan (and to an increasing extent, his younger brother Jonathan) to thank for a few ass-kickingly sublime cinematic stories of the last decade. Reverse storytelling placing the audience into the same frame of mind as a truth-seeking amnesiac (Memento). Pursuit of greatness in a dog-eat-dog world, not to mention David Bowie in […]