Tag: Music
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. Today, we look at The Chakachas’ “Yo Soy Cubano,” a song that provided sample fodder for two wildly different tracks: Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” and “Magic Carpet Ride” […]
Balaclavas are the shit right now. From imprisoned Russian Pussy Riot activists to the catwalk to Spring Breakers and now, to this new music video for Diplo’s “Butter’s Theme” (ft. Gent & Jawns) directed by Reuben Dangoor. But mostly, from the imprisoned Russian Pussy Riot activists. Hey, I wouldn’t push the Pussy Riot connection if that commendable butt up there wasn’t decorated with […]
Sadly, it may be too late to have Sonic Youth play your birthday party but you still may have a chance with one of its leading members. The press release for the debut album by Thurston Moore’s new post-quasi-breakup band, Chelsea Light Moving, includes this interesting tidbit: “The band is ready to detonate any birthday […]
ESPO hooked up with Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s king of slacker rock and roll, for the cover of Wakin on a Pretty Daze, Vile’s latest album. The artist born Steve Powers created a giant mural in Kensington, Philly, in his sign-painting style, depicting specific images from the record’s lyrics. “I think Wakin on a Pretty Daze is perfect,” says Powers […]
Odd Future mastermind Tyler, the Creator announced his new album Wolf yesterday, for which he created and commissioned no less than three different covers–including one from pop surrealist painter Mark Ryden. The image manages to incorporate Ryden’s trademark kitschy, icky style seamlessly into the OF aesthetic, though I think I might prefer the super-close-up action shot. Wolf will be […]
Each Valentine’s Day since 2007, Hudson Mohawke (one half of TNGHT) has dropped a mix of slow jams for all your romantic needs. Despite the producer’s drastically heightened profile, 2013 was no different: behold the sixth edition of HudMo’s Slow Jams mix, complete with vintage silkiness from the likes of Todd Rundgren, Bobby Caldwell, and Nona […]
Designer Derrick Cruz created this appropriately creepy, minimal bust of Ian Curtis, which shows the late Joy Division singer emerging, face-only, from a 10-inch solid porcelain block. He’s also made perhaps the artsiest Kickstarter video of all time in hopes of getting the thing funded, which you can watch above. Cruz is no stranger to […]
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. This week, we’ll take a look at David McCallum’s “The Edge,” which spawned Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and Masta Ace’s “No Regrets.” “The Edge, “David McCallum (1967): […]
A group of researchers led by grad student/metalhead Jesse Silverberg took it upon themselves to analyze the physics of mosh pits, pulling videos from YouTube and using software designed to look at particle physics. What they found was astounding–that the statistical distribution of speeds of various moshers matched that of particles moving freely in a […]
Sure that’s technically the video for Remy Banks and Bodega Bamz’s infectious new single “GLDCHN,” but the real star of the show is a fictional character: Greg Wilcockson, the portly fellow above. The concept of the video is that Wilcockson is a rap addict, for whom hip-hop is what spinach is to Popeye: a shot to […]
