Category: Takeover
We all know the internet hates loves twerking, but just how much does the internet hate love twerking? To find out, we turned to Twitter. How many times has “twerk” been tweeted in the past month? Past week? Day? Hour? We present you with Twerking on Twitter, the infographic: There you go. According to social analytics […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. Between a new music streaming service and file format, a Stereogum list, a book, and a new-ish Crazy Horse album, Neil Young seems to be having a late-career moment. […]
Pablo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The World’s End (2013) Like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz but w/40-yo-ish exbestbros doing a pub crawl while fighting alien robots. British but I liked — got jokes & everything ｡CUZ ° SO ° FUNNY｡ Ah, the futility of recapturing comforting camaraderie and rebellion of youth in the face of decades of compounding cynicism and HOLY SHIT FUCKING ALIEN ROBOTS ARE COMING […]
Last week, ANIMAL videotaped artist Anthony Antonellis getting an RFID chip implanted into a fleshy part of his left hand — from the initial slice of the skin, to the stretching and pulling apart of the flesh, to the implantation to the… TA-DA!.. functionality. The RFID chip stores Anthony’s unique 1KB favicon gradient GIF and is readable by compatible mobile devices […]
Ambien or zolpidem is a prescription hypnotic of the imidazopyridine class. It is the chemical relative of Sonata (zaleplon), Imovane (zopiclone) and Lunesta (eszopiclone). Colloquially, these nonbenzodiazepine drugs are referred to as “Z-drugs” and are some of the most commonly prescribed “oh just go to bed already” drugs. The Z-drugs work their magic via potentiating […]
Late last night, during her glorious extended victory lap for the Most Important Twerk There Ever Was, the VMAs performance that had Fox News sadly shaking its pasty old head at “women’s liberation,” that drove legions of furiously typing bloggers to launch their thinkpieces into the aether, that prompted New York mag to call racist and MediaTakeout […]
“Kids love walking into a space knowing that no one’s looking at them or after them. They feel like it’s home. That’s when they start to have fun,” says Seva Granik, the laser-obsessed party boy behind Club Shade, a roving underground party that’s been the most recent toast of New York City’s demimonde. Granik, a […]
Samson, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist is courtesy of Heavenly Beat, aka erstwhile Beach Fossils bassist John Peña, and leans heavily on breakbeats and ’90s nostalgia. Hits from the middle of that decade, when radio-friendly “alternative […]
