GET HYPE! Bear Hands bring their fiery pitch-perfect pairing of post-punk and indie rock, while Boy Crisis unleash their highly danceable electro-pop “that’s so brutally hip it hurts” to The Mercury Lounge for this strictly local edition of FRICTION. Brooklyn’s euphoric new wavers Blip Blip Bleep ready the dancefloor with shimmering pop hooks and throbbing [...]
I remember seeing Apes & Androids a single time before they played FRICTION at Sin-e in the summer of 2006. There wasn’t anything particularly over the top about my first A&A live experience, except that the band put on a solid and impressive set. I think the most out-of-the-ordinary thing about that Asterisk [...]
I saw something similar to this using CD artwork to create collages, but not nearly as much fun! The Prince one might be my fav for its ridiculousness, but it’s borderline NSFW. Besides, you can’t go wrong with Tiffany.
This is way too much fun. Sorry guys!
I came across this at Retro Thing. It’s hard to believe Dr. Pepper actually promoted this. The ad is from the 60s and I’m guessing it never caught on cause who wants a hot cup of sugared soda?! Anyone ever tried it?
I was finally able to make it up to the Highbridge Park Mountain Bike Trails this past weekend. In May of this year, the Parks Department teamed up with the NYC MTB Association and built the first-ever mountain bike trails in NYC, including a full dirt jump park.
The 6-miles of trails are [...]
These ironic t-shirt designs made me laugh. Almost so much so that I would actually wear one.
Also, I’m not a big fan of Busted Tees and I’m sure this is already on its way for mass Urban Outfitters’ production, but you can’t deny how good it is. I can see strangers coming up [...]
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American Gladiators is back! NBC announced the return of the late-80s, early 90s show. In fact, you can try out to be a gladiator this month. I loved watching this as a kid, but fear that the modern version won’t have the same cheese that made it so good. I mean, where [...]
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Visually gorgeous yet completely fucked-up, we’re all about this new video from Baltimore-based Animal Collective, ever since we learned that CU-friend and actor/singer/songwriter — Sarah Nischwitz — is featured throughout.
Nice grille, girl. Gotta give it up for the redheads before they all go extinct.
Animal Collective’s new album — Strawberry Jam — drops September 10th, [...]
Today was one of those days when I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed. Actually, everyday is like that, but today I had zero motivation. After repeated snooze button clicking, I dragged my ass out of bed and braved the rain like the rest of you.
Instead of “indulging in [...]
Thanks to everyone who made it out to FRICTION on Saturday night. It was a great night of live music thanks to solid and tight sets by Office, The Teeth, The Capitol Years, and Bell.
We’d like to thank all four bands for being a part of the show along with DJ Lauren Flax who [...]
GET HYPE!
While we don’t promote playing with lead coated toys, we do recommend coming out to The Mercury Lounge (check out their new site) tomorrow night for FRICTION featuring:
OFFICE11PM
THE TEETH10PM
THE CAPITOL YEARS9PM
BELL8PM
with DJ Sets by LAUREN FLAX
Doors @ 7:30PM
Chicago’s OFFICE has been blazing up the commercial specialty charts in recent weeks in preparation of the [...]
The music and actors are pretty cheesy, but this video is pretty f*ckin’ cool.
Yeah, I know, I know, three days late on this and in the blog world, three days might as well be three weeks. I actually just got back this morning around 3am and didn’t really have a chance to think about and reflect on what made this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival so much fun [...]
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