San Francisco cinematographer Colin M Day filmed the ill work of graffiti artists Rime, Revok, Risk, Flying Fortress, Decolonize, Nychos and Pose in The Motor City. As a dedication, the said artists replicated the work of the recently deceased prolific graf writer Nekst (Sean Griffin). Interviews include Revok and Pose. Official description and video below. Like New York City in the 1970s, modern day Detroit is a paradise for street art. The miles of unused facades and ample loads of …
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Today, February 1st marks the 20th anniversary of Green Day’s third album Dookie, an important album of 90’s rock. Nirvana’s Bleach and Nevermind ushered in the end of hair metal and the rise of grunge. Dookie is the accessible 90s punk youth battle cry. With the release of Dookie on a major label, hardcore punks cried sellout at Green Day. They broke an unwritten code of underground music culture, making them outsiders to the outsiders. Maybe Green Day was trying to move away from preaching to …
Hieroglyphics and Souls of Mischief member A-Plus and producer Aagee recently released a new solo album, Molly’s Dirty Water. A-Plus and Aagee give us an interesting mix of Hip-Hop and electronic music, from A-Plus rhymes, R&B samples to glitch electro infused instrumental tracks. Molly’s Dirty Water is based on A-Plus’s experiences in SF Bay Area electronic dance scene, probably all the raves Del got the Hiero crew playing at back in the day. One can assume at face value Molly’s Dirty Water is …
At the East 180th Street station and train yard for the 2s and 5s in the Bronx, two trains were painted on January 23. According to Animal New York City, the first to break the story, it was the OTP crew from Barcelona. Taggers included “SEN, ORUS and SHADE (or SNADE? or SNAGE?).” The pieces were wild style, but the crew’s quality is definitely still developing. Supposedly OTP has made it a long tradition to hit up NYC, paint trains and take …
On James Rawson’s site, the last line of his artist statement reads, “So on we go, round and round on our big fat merry-go-round while James puts up the mirror to our pathetic world of consumption.” His paintings try to make commentary on a divided society fiending for escapism through postmodern pop culture. Sex, violence, death and greed are regurgitated vices for a hypnotized society suffering from a disabled vigilance. Rawson makes mixed media paper collages to act as sketch references …
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