...is a book that compiles some of the most prominent individuals and images of snowboarding recalling the past three decades. 450 pages thick and made up from two interconnected books, it more...
Particularly evident over the last few years, a lot of bands have been rediscovering North America’s sound of summery psychedelia that predominantly bloomed in the late 60s, and have combined it more...
Entrepreneur and legendary skateboarder, born and raised in Philadelphia. Stevie Williams grew up skating Love Park and stepped up the tech game. more...
Mostly known for the work with his own exclusive clothing brand Rebel8, the influential graffiti artist Mike Giant has become one of the most celebrated and versatile artists of his generation, more...
Over here in Germany we have this saying, a line we sometimes use when somewhat impressed: one might say this or that ist nicht von Pappe, which pretty much translates to “it is nothing to more...
A rainy day in Berlin, another fucked up summer? I am preparing dinner when all of a sudden there’s a phonecall from Kaos, Dj Kaos… what’s the name of the program? Yo! We have more...
I first got introduced to the Allah-Las through Nick Waterhouse. He just finished recording the “Some Place“ single for his very own Pres Records, which already was more than just a more...
This year marks the 41th year since the formation of Maryland-based doom rock/metal pioneers Pentagram, probably one of the best bands of the early seventies. For example, people such as Liam more...
Having been handpicked by tastemakers like Radiohead, Four Tet, Caribou and James Holden (to name a few) to open for their shows even though they had just two EPs and a heavily improvised (and more...
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda is best known for electronically enhanced and hi-tec appealing artworks. He puts his fingers on the gateway between sound, light, and visual effects working with large more...
One could state that it’s actually not the most breakneck move to express yourself behind the camera when you’ve already had a respectable career as a model and actor in front of the lens more...
It’s a safe bet to describe Newcastle-residing Tom French as an image-maker and not simply just as an artist since his work doesn’t only touch a huge variety of different topics and more...
Ben Nordberg is one of England’s up- and coming finest. Effortless sleek style with serious board control and of course like a proper englishmen, he likes his tea with milk. more...
21-year old Stefan Evan Niedermeyer aka SIREN is a half-German, half-Australian musician, who is a young man of many talents. Raised in Singapore, Niedermeyer’s life was initially all about more...
Berlin-based artists Folke Köbberling (b. 1969, Kassel) and Martin Kaltwasser (b. 1965, Münster) are two of the most important and inspiring creative minds we’ve come across in recent more...
Chris Johanson, born in San José, CA, is probably best known for being part of the Aaron Rose initiated “Beautiful Losers” artist circle and San Francisco’s Mission School art more...
“I worked a couple of full-time jobs when I was younger and it scared the shit out of
me. I decided then that I would work parttime shitty jobs, be wicked poor and try to
draw as much as more...
Weaving in and out of myriad states of consciousness, Axel Willner, better known by his stage name The Field, casts long spiraling lines into signature sonic dreamscapes of dually organic and more...
Chris Taylor’s nickname is “Terrible”, which is weird, given that he’s one of the nicest guys around. What is sort of annoying about him though, is that he’s terribly more...
There are things to fuck with and then there is the Wu-Tang. RZA is the leader and took over hip-hop like a thunderstorm with Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993. The raw martial arts movies more...
Guy Mariano wrote Skateboarding history. Enjoy the ride from “Ban This" to the classic "Video Days", the legendary "Mouse" part, his Comeback with "Fully more...
The days of leading men of the ilk of Brando, Eastwood, Mitchum, McQueen, Newman, Pacino and DeNiro in their prime, seem a long way away. They were men’s men who excelled in playing characters more...
The riots in Hackney happened nearby where I live. To me the incredibly sad thing about these riots is they felt totally meaningless. This wasn't a protest about a man who was shot by the police. This more...
In times where the kids treat music like fashion and blog-darlings rise and fall within a few hours only, the (success) story of New Jersey-founded but now Brooklyn-residing Real Estate feels almost more...
Ahull DJ Harvey shakedown cruise rides us out to storm with no sails and helm held to leeward. Starting from his early days as the graffiti bomber DJ of the Tonka Hi Fi crew, organiser of the famed more...
Four issues back, we officially introduced Ex Digable Planet Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler’s mysterious and simply out-there rap crew Shabazz Palaces with a short paragraph that more...
Magnum photographer Alec Soth brilliantly captures ostensive triviality and transforms it into something off-beat and haunting; something that has its own life as a new kind of American folklore. His more...
Dylan...what comes to mind...He is fairly quiet in person, style and class. An old soul and no mercy when it come to riding a skateboard. To put it in a nut shell: He is one on my favorite skaters of more...
Man, These Guys. Sort Of Insane. They Clearly Changed The Rap Game, Even Saved It Perhaps. They Like To Capitalize Every Single Word On Their Tumblr And Elsewhere. And They Like To Release Albums And more...
The idea of automating music and synthesizing sounds with musical machines is no acquisition of modern times. Engineers and inventors have been seeking for a solution for ages. Greek engineer more...
The most recent issues of Lodown proved that eerie, whimsical and psych-informed photography sure can be fun, but every now and then it’s necessary to deal with the real world. And Beijing more...
Earlier this year, our man Alex Foley was with Max Beinhofer, Mark Achmüller, Lennie Burmeister, Paco Elles and Marc Heine in Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia.
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Posted by Niklas on September 09, 2010 at 03:36 PM | 2 Comments
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 MIKAL 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...
Posted by MIKAL on March 12, 2010 at 04:30 PM | 1 Comment
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 | 27 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 YSL 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 YSL 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 YSL 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...
