The Tinbot
Your iPod is a vital organ. It contains the music and video essential to your everyday existence and sits comfortably in the palm of your hand or wherever you keep it. While your other vital organs are protected by at…
Continue Reading →Wax Poetics Books x Powerhouse Books
For more years than you can count on one hand, heads have been turning the pages of the Wax Poetics music magazine to read about lost heroes and found classics in hip-hop, funk, soul and jazz written by the most…
Continue Reading →Zapping x Cansei de Ser Sexy
Sooner or later, as time has told, many graphic designers and street artists make the bounce to designing apparel. With rock stars, the two creative outlets aren't always yin and yang "” like, imagine the potential disaster of Iggy Pop…
Continue Reading →Friends With You x Zune Arts: Tickle Party
When we last caught wind of the whereabouts of the FriendsWith You gang, they were having their characters fashioned into Mimobots conveniently available by Valentine's Day. However, now that the magical day is upon us, the Miami-based Art Collective has…
Continue Reading →Radiohead: In Rainbows Remixed
Great music inspires great re-interpretations and much like Danger Mouse's critically-acclaimed mix of Hova's songs was the last one that stands out in my mind. Heralded by many as the album of the year, Radiohead's "In Rainbows" has been out…
Continue Reading →The Bird and the Bee: One Too Many Hearts
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the indie-pop duo of Inara George and Gerg Kurstin, aka The Bird and the Bee, have released a digital-only EP titled "One Too Many Hearts." George's voice on the each of the four tracks…
Continue Reading →Justin Nozuka: Holly
Japanese-American by birth, Canadian by upbringing, Justin Nozuka has a raspiness and deepness to his voice that you would not expect to hear just by looking at him. His style blends elements of acoustic, folk, blues, and pop. I can't…
Continue Reading →Rodrigo Braga
As a designer moonlighting as an electronic music DJ for various nightclubs around Sao Paulo, Rodrigo Braga has the talent to marry the two better than anyone else I've come across -- regardless of the cliche that combination would normally…
Continue Reading →Miguel Migs: Those Things Remixed
I should have realized how popular Miguel Migs was when I got a number of responses to a giveaway on my company's mailing list; his latest CD is a collaborative effort by artists who worked hard to create unique interpretations…
Continue Reading →Anthology Recordings
A super-duper music geek friend just linked me to Anthology Recordings, the first digital reissue label which, within 5 minutes, already had me tuned in to rarities I never knew even existed. Fabulous '60s Thai go-go girl band? Check. Compelling,…
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