With a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting under his belt, you can't really say that Jason Hackenwerth took the usual artist-route after graduating. While others try to create this one piece more...
While the majority of collage artists still love to use the aging hipster’s back catalogue - B-movies, psychedelic imagery, obscure underground material - as their main source of inspiration to more...
Posted by lenny on March 17, 2010 at 03:45 PM | 1 Comment
You might have heard about it somewhere on the ungraspable Interwebs, but after holding a copy of Dallas Clayton’s “An Awesome Book” in our furry hands, we immediately knew that we more...
Mike Blabac is one of the preeminent skateboard photographers of his generation. He was born in 1973 in Steubenville, Ohio, and spent his youth in Lansing, Michigan. He first started skating when he more...
2009’s almost over, so what can a keen and dedicated ear-expect from yet another LA band? More of that No Age/Abe Vigoda/Mika Miko sort of thing? More lo-fi lessons from the DIY gutter? One more...
Burial. Radiohead. Animal Collective. Banjo Or Freakout. Fool's Gold. Just a handful of accidental consent-artists whose innovative approach to music, even though you can't really compare them to more...
Every year just before Christmas the UK music media goes into that much of a frenzy about what next year’s band to be, album to listen to and trend to follow will be, that sometimes they forget more...
Having released their debut All Hour Cymbals during the 'all eyes on Brooklyn' high-time in 2007 via We Are Free might have worked in their favour in terms of being in the right place at the right more...
No names, no photos, just a vague address. Almost from nowhere Cleveland based Cloud Nothings thundered into earshot with a tremendously weighty song titled Hey Cool Kid, a bitter(sweet) high school more...
Posted by chris on February 05, 2010 at 01:28 PM | 1 Comment
It's all about aesthetic and sensory pleasure. Felix’s Machines are music making sculptures. They were constructed in his bedroom and exist to facilitate music by translating rhythmic audio more...
Not many people can claim to have had a friend shoot them at close range with a .22 rifle (“Shoot,” 1971). Even fewer can say that they spent five whole days in a locker (“Five Day more...
Posted by marok on November 19, 2009 at 07:24 PM | 15 Comments
The cumulative cycle touring experience of these 10 skateboarders was precisely none and yet they embraced it whole heartedly. A few did some light training, most did nothing. more...
Posted by jan on November 17, 2009 at 04:41 PM | 1 Comment
Following the Brazilian launch of the two-seater car in April of this year, smart provided local artists with an unconventional platform: the smart Urban Stage. The platform combines a gallery, more...
Odaiba, Tokyo. Between July 11 until August 31 in 2009 a life size Gundam appeared in Japan's capital. Launched in the late 70's, 1979 to be exact, Gundam was one of the first international more...
Bright swirling colors, intricately interwoven lines morphing into sleek harmonious forms – the mesmerizing kaleidoscopic images of Rochester, New York-based talent Andy Gilmore have a more...
Tom sachs is widely known for his do-it-yourself version of Pop appropriation, having built representations of everything from a functioning McDonald's restaurant to a full-scale Apollo lunar module more...
Amanda Blank’s frankness is the very antithesis to your ordinary artist biography or release information sheet: whereas usually it takes but 1-3 paragraphs and/or blurbs into any given text to more...
Immortal folklore and living legends about outlaws, hobos, desperados, stuff that oscillates between myth and mystery – that’s normally the kind of raw meat suited to get our fantasy more...
Saying that Erik Mark Sandberg’s work feels like pop culture squeezed through the sieve of the computer generation, just because he pursued a degree in 3D animation when he was still living in more...
In Zeno’s Paradox, also known as “the tale of Achilles and the Tortoise,” the land turtle holds the number one position at all times because Mr. A., eternally damn close on the more...
While the 90s proved that fantastic music was being made in small town America, the major media centres of New York and Los Angeles are back with a bang in the 00s. LA in particular got its groove more...
Posted by chris on August 18, 2009 at 06:45 PM | 3 Comments
What’s wrong with doing things in a big way? Why not create a high-brow, yet fun and self-aggrandising, shit-can-happen-when-you-party naked musical universe that would be the highlight of more...
Here comes the new urban regeneration. Blog-darlings with a much welcome background (yes, they recorded their self-titled debut at the Smell), jaw-dropping live-performances and a raging musical more...
The times of being a regular fixture on the ‘ones to watch’ lists are long gone for Sydney raised and now LA residing artist Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie, his visual monopoly on society more...
Modeselektor plus Apparat equals Moderat, but actually it’s not that simple since Berlin’s premium address for visuals, also known as Pfadfinderei, is an active part of this collaboration more...
Berlin residing Michael Najjar can be easily considered as one of the most important visual artists of our time, riding the tides of relevance and maintaining an air of vision and spirit in more...
Viral marketing hadn't been invented, people didn't understand the narrative, the topic was too hot to handle, or they were punished with the same release date as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and the Dark more...
We love documentaries and so should you.
With mainstream movies becoming more and more bland and banal, this is the place to look (back) for the really good, mindblowing stuff. And since the more...
Posted by Erik on June 16, 2009 at 06:07 PM | 1 Comment
Asprilla lives in São Paulo, downtown. He lives with his wife and her daughter in a one-bedroom apartment rented from one of his bosses, a Chinese dealer for products made in China that more...
Damian Lazarus is best known for being one of the founders of the Crosstown Rebels label, a taste-defining A&R and a jet-setting DJ, who has helped to shape the sound of contemporary dance music. more...
Back in early 2004, they kicked our collective butts with a dope-ass rap band called Automato. Unfortunately, the NYC six-piece vanished from the scene as quickly as they stormed it, but now two of more...
St.Louis-born and Brooklyn-residing artist Edward del Rosario carefully places his protagonists in isolated scenarios where they have to face quirky yet psychologically challenging situations with more...
When we first introduced Telepathe back in summer 2007, Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes had merely dropped a few songs – well, tracks, really – on Social Registry. Describing more...
Unforgettable songs, unmistakable artwork, elaborate sentiments. Not the worst things one could state about the new album of a multi-instrumentalist who actually attended the School of the Museum of more...
Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 05:10 PM | 1 Comment
Back to Nature, face to face. Feel it, breathe it. Love for everything at all stages is what we can work on now, because the rest, money and its power, will soon loose its attraction. Because the more...
Scott Pommier was born in Elliot Lake Ontario sometime in the mid to late-mid-seventies. At age three he moved his family, older brother Andrew and parents Shirley and Eugene to Sudbury Ontario. It more...
Paterson, New Jersey. The place William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg wrote poems about. And the place – or more precisely: the area – Matt Leines first saw the light of day more...
Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 03:27 PM | 1 Comment
There is a certain sensitive touch with Jen Ray`s art works, but it’s not the sensitiveness that is brittle and tender. Within these extra fine lines and forms she puts on paper, there is an more...
Right on cue Conrad enters the room. He immediately lies down on one of the two beds. He looks a little tired too. You can tell his nose ain’t snotty. more...
Lodown had the chance to talk to the almost irritatingly grounded artist about his experiences with Hollywood, predators and Winnie the Pooh while he was in Berlin in an unfriendly January. more...
DJ Kaos is an integral part of the Berlin underground scene, producing a variety of twisted dance music for a number of years now. His first single was a collaboration with Ash Ra Temple’s more...
Posted by chris on April 01, 2009 at 04:56 PM | 1 Comment
On a Thursday Night in the middle of the concrete jungle, the lions come out to play. Already notorious for its garrison politics and lavish lawlessness, the Tivoli Gardens Community in West more...
Posted by chris on March 05, 2009 at 06:49 PM | 1 Comment
Even though Seoul, with all its inner city hills and precipitous streets, kind of resembles San Francisco in places, it never really emerged as the Asian equivalent to the Californian skateboard more...
Tom Penny is both a living legend in the modern skateboarding world, and a long time friend since we were both the size of small rats. He has survived the ups and downs that life throws at us all more...
Posted by chris on March 01, 2009 at 10:17 AM | 2 Comments
If the definition of a street artist doesn’t only involve the protagonist invading public spaces through his art but actually implies living on the streets, then Isoe’s portrait should more...
Higamos Hogamos is the brainchild of Londoners Toby Jenkins and Steve Webster, who have previously worked together as Fort Lauderdale and also gained recognition for their solo incarnations The Black more...
When Tom Herbert and Leo Taylor met Dave Okumu towards the end of 2006, all they intended to do was help a good friend out with his solo project, but a beautiful (as in ‘beautifully more...
KNOW1EDGE was founded back in 2004, by Indonesia-born, now Hong Kong- residing Julius Brian Siswojo with his wife, and partner in crime - Annie Lee Siswojo more...
Paul Pretzer, a young painter with a dark, Baltic soul was born and raised up until the age of six, in Estonia. The painter now resides in Dresden, where he enrolled at Dresden University of Visual more...
If you’ve ever been to San Diego Comic-Con you’ll undoubtedly remember the costumed fan-girls and boys. These wannabe superheroes dress up in tribute to their fictional idols and wander more...
Perth, Western Australia, has produced many inventive artists like Sleepy Jackson, The Silents and the Panda Band, all of them known for their neo-psychedelic harmonies and more...
California based artist Geoff Kern prefers cabin fever and loud heavy metal music to the limitations of art school. The self-called "mountain-man" has become indispensable by creating more...
It seems funny somehow to be sitting in front of a tipsy grown man who´s playing air-bass-guitar to his latest tunes, clinking his glass and then excitedly flipping through the pages of more...
A rectangular shaped vase, a piece of white paper, an ear dropper filled with black food colouring and a digital camera. Sounds rather simple, doesn´t it? more...
’It’s impossible, that’s sure... so let’s start working!’ On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit and his unlikely cadre of co-conspirators rigged a tightrope cable between more...
