If you haven’t heard Thundercat’s 2013 opus album Apocalypse, press play, it’s an “unskippable” listen. Virtuoso bassist and singer songwriter Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat just relaesed a double video for “Evangelion” and “We’ll Die” off Apocalypse. The video was directed by legendary photographer B+. He also shot the album cover art and has apparently been hanging out with the Brainfeeder crew in the studio while they crank out ill crafted gems one after another. The video shows a daper dressed Thundercat walking around …
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This is an ill time lapse of street artist INTI painting a gynormous mural in Puerto Rico. Peep the bullets in the corner laying in front of a blood red heart. The nun’s bottom hand near the gun’s handle is tattooed with currency symbols: Japanese yen, American dollar and Euro. Shorty’s international, an intelligent hoodlum. Her prayer beads are jalapeno. She gotta a hot hand, gambling her life for c.r.e.a.m. So fresh. Tost films, a small production company in Puerto …
In Colin M. Day’s second installment of “Building Detroit,” he interviews various artists and surveys a bankrupt city that was once a thriving metropolis and hopes to be again. There’s a lot of beautiful pans of the local Detroit street art and graffiti. Bay Area artist Monica Canilao shows off “The Treasure Nest,” a entire house that she transformed (using only recycled parts) into an instillation. Another featured artists is DABLS, founder of The African Bead Museum. He tells the story of …
Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys just scored No No: A Documentary, a documentary about Doc Ellis, a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher that supposedly threw a no-hitter in 1970…while on acid. The trailer is cool, but it’s too long as if to tell his whole story, giving lesser reason to watch the entire film. Except, the devil’s in the details. Ad-Rock is steady expanding into film. According to The Wrap, he might be in director Noah Baumbach’s next flick …
In the post World War II era, Germany and Japan had to go through major reconstruction while getting their economy back on it’s feet. Life after WWII was the backdrop for the birth of amazing arts, and musical movements. Out of these movements we get a German band like Kraftwerk, and in Japan we get Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). In this particular piece we travel back in history, and then speed ahead into the future, to discover Yellow Magic Orchestra’s legacy …
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