From the deranged minds of the South African art/bass/rap group Die Antwoord comes their latest album Donker Mag, out June 3 (pre-order it now on iTunes or Amazon). The first single from the album, “Pitbull Terrier”, was just released today — and as usual you can expect a healthy dose of absurdity, NSFW violence and overt sexuality. Not sure […]

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is, in a single word, brutal. Unflinchingly, gorily, misanthropically, even gleefully brutal, to a point that a couple scenes were so ruthless they will churn your guts. Now I survived Irreversible, so that’s saying a lot. This observation is neither a complaint nor praise, but rather a (obvious?) comment on a […]

Gang and criminal subcultures are always fascinating, especially when the criminal culture comes from Russia — home to the second highest prison population per capita in the world (naturally, USA is #1! #1! #1!). We previously covered the first Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia awhile back, and unsurprisingly it has remained one of our most popular […]

Dutch artist Jasper de Beijer navigates hyperreality with his newest series Marabunta. Initially inspired by the Mexican drug trade, de Beijer spent time researching in Mexico where he gained insight into the contrast between what it’s like to be there and what it’s like to just read about the violence, compounded with ideas concerning how the media plays […]

Chuck Norris jokes aside, this might be the most inventive writing pad we’ve seen since Moleskine’s suede-lined Folio Digital collection. The black Armed Notebooks from Megawing feature three distinctive designs, each with its own way of transforming symbols of violence into tools of creativity. Featuring a 3-dimensional embossed cover of either a hand grenade, revolver […]

Couple weeks back we launched our new artist featured series Rock (Poster Art) Gods! with Dan Stiles, and now we continue with another top illustrator in his field Casey Burns. You might recognize the above poster for Sonic Youth, or one of his many excellently sexy/implicitly malevolent posters for Spoon — most of which feature […]

Wow, if the quality of any Conan movie is based on how much blood is shed, then the new re-boot of Conan the Barbarian certainly looks like it has a chance. Everyone was a bit iffy on the decision to cast Jason Momoa as Conan — Arnie’s are big shoes to fill — but after […]

Swedish House Mafia may be the current lords of mainstream dance music, but we certainly dig this video interpretation of their dancefloor anthem “Save the World”. How can you hate on a video where they make an army of pooches the heroes of the day? Directed by Jon Watts, the video was inspired by the […]