I like The Very Best. I like them because their music is infectiously happy and it helps me through the frigid New York winters (waaaahhh I hate you LA). Here’s Very Best’s frontman Esau Mwamwaya with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend doing “Warm Heart of Africa” and it looks like the two of them are having a blast poppin and lockin around the streets of NYC (is that canal street?). I smell a buddy-cop comedy in their future.
yep. De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising shoes. amazing.
hey, hipster swine, the only thing the eighties was good for was hip-hop, so remember that next time you’re getting all dressed up in your neon tights. De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising used to be something amazing and new, and even if it didn’t end up changing the world, it shure changed mine… it turns out that the release is a phat twenty years old now, so happy belated birthday and much respect. (man, i really miss sampling. way to ruin everything recording industry. you are the destroyers of all that is good.)
Animal Collective created a film… it will be featured at Sundance. Avey Tare says, “It’s kinda like a psychedelic film, it’s not like a narrative film or anything.” He explained. “There are more cohesive moments in it, but then there are some that are a little more abstract.” I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s gonna be weird.
Check out the artwork of Elizabeth Graeber. This sweet narwhal is just one of many gems.
Hey LA! Rolling Stone magazine is opening a nightclub/restaurant on Hollywood & Highland. Here’s what one of the magazine partner’s has to say: “We are both excited and determined to bring the spirit of the magazine to life – the edginess, the coolness, the classiness and the timelessness – in making this venue a place to see and be seen in.” …. Hmm, a nightclub attached to an outdoor mall is a place to be seen? Yeaah… I’m gonna go hang with the elite crowd at Dave & Buster’s.
Trailer for Brooklyn’s Finest, the new movie from Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day. It looks like a thug-life version of The Departed. Reasons why I post this:
- It features the return of Wesley “Dark Chocolate” Snipes
- I met Don Cheadle once and he was pretty cool
- I spotted Omar from The Wire in the background somewhere…
there hasn’t been this much buzz about a band since Crystal Castles (fuck Wavves, they don’t count). your next favorite band Cold Cave is hitting the West Coast tonight (tickets here) with a show at the Center For The Arts in Eagle Rock. it’s only ten bucks (eight in advance), and they’re giving away hand made mix tapes to the first hundred kids (yes, tapes are apparently cool again. god it just never stops does it hipster swine?) local heroes Abe Vigoda and Former Ghost are opening. tomorrow night they’re hitting the Casbah in San Diego (tickets here) if you feel like a road trip, and then they’re back in L.A. on Sunday at the Echo for Part Time Punks. Nite Jewel opens (tickets here). i’m guessing that all of the above will sell out, so get your tickets in advance, suckas. for reals.
Wow. Check out Beyonce’s kid sister, Solange Knowles, flexing her golden pipes to the Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness is the Move”… she kills it. On top of Dre’s “XXplosive” beat no less. Damn this family has some genes. I know next to nothing about Solange but I feel bad for her…standing in the shadow of BEYONCE. The shadow of her ass alone is enough to keep you in the dark forever. Throw in the fact that she’s one of the biggest stars on the planet and one half of the biggest power couple on the planet (B and Jay are Hollywood’s top earning couple according to ABC news)… those are some big shoes to fill.
EDIT:revoking “I feel bad for her” …she’s a multi-millionaire dimepiece what the fuck was a thinking?
This track will be the opener for the upcoming AnCo EP, Fall Be Kind, due out November 23rd. Starts off mellow and dreamy and turns into a folksy picnic dance around the 3:15 mark… standard Animal Collective vibe, obviously. Will you be listening to the new EP?
i’ve decided that i need to start making stuff that’s this cool instead of just talking about other people doing it. inspiring short animation from director Bruno B. Dicolla, who has a hipster swine-tastic little website here. speaking of hipster swine, he also made a fun little Wavves video for To The Dregs, which you can find after the jump.
hey hipster swine, this one is for you! Space 15 Twenty begins their Sunday flea market series this weekend. now you can buy clothes on the cheap(er) that look like they came from a thrift store, but you don’t actually have to deal with a gross-ass Goodwill store. plus, this is LA, so even the flea markets are overpriced, and that way you maintain your priveledged white kid cred.
there are live turntables, the event goes off from 11-4 on Cahuenga just above Sunset, and there will be another day in the series every third Sunday of the month. work it, LA, work it…
“But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.” – Wolf Larsen. From The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London. (yes, they are named after a novel, get over yourself).
If you want in on this night of great music and hipster fun, give us your best Jack London quote in the comments section below. First awesome quote wins. Annnnnndddd…. GO!
10 movies where the bad guys win. “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.” – Keyser Soze
Download the Marvin Gaye Mixtape. “I only got halfway through it before I was randomly humping people in the office. It might be difficult getting through this whole thing without a couple sexual harassment suits or babies to deal with.” – Thanks for the review HighDefinite.
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