Category: Culture
It’s been years in the making, but Modest Mouse has finally confirmed its new album, Strangers to Ourselves, it’s first since 2007. Fans have likely heard some of the indie rock band’s new music at concerts, but the group just dropped the lead single, “Lampshades on Fire,” on The Current. Give it a listen below: […]
Earlier today, the NYPD arrested CUNY professor Eric Linsker on a litany of charges for allegedly assaulting two NYPD cops and generally causing havoc during a rogue protest on the Brooklyn Bridge after the Millions March ended. Listen to NYPD cops blatantly lie about an arrest of a woman in her own house in front […]
After Death Grips announced its break up back in July, everyone did post-mortem think pieces, praising the bands anarchistic ways or condemning perceived publicity stunts. So it’s easy to forget the chaotic noise-rap outfit still has a new album coming out. The music video for Inanimate Sensation dropped today and it’s just as fucked up and […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This weeks playlist comes to you from chilled-out catalogue of Hospitality. They’ve put together a […]
For one group of New York students, a peaceful show of solidarity with Eric Garner turned into an important act of civil disobedience after the Department of Education banned a march planned on Tuesday. DNAinfo reports that students and faculty at the East Side Community High School had organized a march during school hours, to […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Morehshin Allahyari discusses her web-based project Like Pearls. You can see more of her work here and read an interview with the artist here. October 6, 2013 Looking through my spam folder, I […]
Harlem’s own ASAP Ferg, the official Hood Pope, has dropped a new mixtape and is going on tour. Ferg will be representing the Harlem yin to YG’s Compton-born yang in an East/West super-show beginning on December 31st at Madison Square Garden. You can stream the new mix below or download it for permanent listening right here. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Porpentine about With Those We Love Alive, a text-based browser game about love, power and an alien empress. With Those We Love Alive opens on […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. This week’s playlist comes to us from Naveed Mir, leader of the dark psych-surf outfit The […]
On Monday evening, the MTA held public hearings in the Bronx and Manhattan on fare hike proposals (PDF doc), one of which would raise the $2.50 base fare to $2.75. The transit agency, which is currently sitting on a $34.4 billion mountain of debt, seems to be in the habit of raising fares nearly every […]
