Cut Copy's "Let Me Show You," a first listen on vinyl
Here's one innovative way to release your new single: limited-edition personalized & numbered vinyl produced on-site at the 2013 Pitchfork Chicago Music Festival. The new single "Let Me Show You" by Australia's electronic group Cut Copy sounds, as The Fader's Jessica Robertson so aptly put is, like "a warm return to a tried-and-true retro daze." This easily sounds like it could be the intro music to some TV drama or movie circa 1982 - so releasing the single on vinyl borders on genius. via Fdr
Cut Copy's "Let Me Show You," a first listen on vinyl
A brief history of indoor skating in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKtrqf8qkQw "Really the motivation comes from dedication. Dedication to skateboarding, dedication to the scene. It always comes down to the people within the scene, specifically within New York that are willing to take the risks and just dedicate their time to go above and beyond to create these indoor spots that support our culture here." -Steve Rodriguez of 5Boro Skateboards
A brief history of indoor skating in NYC
A look at the work of Brooklyn's KC Burney
Brooklyn's KC Burney reaches down into the deep dark moist and mushy places of the collective human sub-conscience in producing his works. As one looks at at Burney's work and hears that he is "self-proclaimed necromancer" (according to some reports), you find yourself more and more wishing you could have a night to talk reality and the possibilities over a bowl of the devil's cabbage and the sacred fire. via Jux
A look at the work of Brooklyn's KC Burney
From the Basement | Andrea True Connection's More, More, More
In honor of The Sundance Channel's airing of the tremendous 2005 doc from Imagine Entertainment & HBO Documentary Films, Inside Deep Throat - a film which details the odd, groundbreaking and oftentimes tragic stories surrounding the 1972 film Deep Throat and it's beleaguered star Linda Lovelace - this month, we dig up out of the basement archives the ultimate 1970s porn soundtrack anthem: Andrea True Connection's unlikely billboard hit "More, More, More." Andrea True Connection, aka Andrea True, a well-known pornographic actress in her own right, recorded the song written by Gregg Diamond as the disco-porn-meld national anthem in 1976...
From the Basement | Andrea True Connection's More, More, More
Skateboarding Coast to Coast #1: NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah2R4Lforns This is the story of that epic trip across the USA. via
Skateboarding Coast to Coast #1: NYC
Super Mario Propaganda by Fernando Reza
Fernando Reza's dope series of four World War II-themed Super Mario Bros. propaganda posters prints. Through Death. Through Pain. Victory! via LS
Super Mario Propaganda by Fernando Reza
Weekend Retrospective | Meet Boba Fett, for the very first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yF5HFFcv8E Many have seen the early Ralph McQuarrie sketches of Boba Fett sporting an all-white helmet and armor design. What very few have ever had the opportunity to see is the original all-white Fett costume in action. A videotape was rolling to capture "proto Fett's" reveal to Lucas and company at the filmmaker's home on June 28, 1978. In the video we see sound designer Ben Burtt hosting the Boba Fett character design's unveiling. The character Boba Fett would be used later that year for the first time ever in Lucas' infamous Star Wars Holiday Special (if you haven't seen...
Weekend Retrospective | Meet Boba Fett, for the very first time
Reggie Watts covers Van Halen's "Panama"
"Jump back, what’s that sound? Oh, it’s just Reggie Watts covering Van Halen‘s 1984 cock rock anthem, Panama, in a crazy-ass golf sweater. Carry on. On the invitation of The Onion’s AV Club, the musical comedian procured an early demo from the band, and used it as the inspiration for this performance, an unrecognizable fugue of live looped vocals." It was a good try. via OC
Reggie Watts covers Van Halen's "Panama"
Jay Z's 99 Problems as illustrated by Ali Graham
Has anyone ever given any thought to what Jay Z's 99 problems are that he does have? Well Ali Graham has. Ali's tumblr blog is featuring a daily illustration detailing a new one of the Jigga Man's issues and they are serious. Just have a look at a few here. As we can clearly see, Ali certainly has his finger on the pulse. Hipster Jay Z does stick out like a Waldo in a South Beach discotheque. Jay Z's net worth of something in the realm of a gajizillion dollars (that's the number I believe I last heard) is certainly...
Jay Z's 99 Problems as illustrated by Ali Graham
Painting by Kim Shin Hye
South Korean artist Kim Shin Hye has taken the use of gold pigments and ink to new heights. Here we see just one example of the hypnotic work Hye has been producing which seems to almost be topographic surveys of our dreams on one level - and visionary studies of forms on another. Timeless and haunting, Kim Shin Hye work is certainly that of a next level artist. via JUX