This weekend includes an incredibly diverse set of activities. From hanging out and waiting for the rapture to dancing and car shows, you’ll be able to spend your last waking hours on earth getting some serious party on. If the shit doesn’t totally hit the fan come Saturday, you’ll even…
Earlier this year, a report surfaced detailing current BitTorrent usage, with porn being the number one most torrented media and music sinking to a miserable 2.9 percent. Now, Sandvine company has detailed the biggest data hogs of the past year, and Netflix’s streaming is on the top. When is the…
SORP Films wants to share a story with you, but they need your help. You see, they’ve got this great tale of a mutated nurse looking for revenge, but they’re a little short on funds, so they’ve turned to Kickstarter for a little help. If you’re wary of donating to…
When we think of monthly electronic music series, we tend to assume they’ll follow a very specific theme throughout their existence. That’s not exactly the case with 187 Ultra, the new musical series being curated by Sole and Pictureplane at the hi-dive — although you could argue that eclecticism is…
A quick glance at A Knight’s Quest would probably make you think this is another old-school RPG clone, but trust us when we say that it’s not. It’s actually a pleasantly absurd, bizarre little game filled with so much oddball humor that, even if you don’t get all the pop…
When it comes to metaphors and posters, we like things that are easy to understand and relatively simple. That said, we’re not sure exactly how we’re supposed to feel about this image of a seemingly diseased heart and lungs, but it’s so damn fitting for Roger Green’s style of Americana-melancholia…
Some people probably think escapism is a bad thing, but if we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that sometimes you need to get as far away from reality as possible. Case in point: All the picks this week are somehow related to the idea that you don’t have to…
When we last caught up with the folks at ZetaKaye, they were in the process of gathering songs for a compilation album they were putting together. This week the free comp has arrived, and it’s filled to the brim with 22 tracks from local musicians. It’s being offered for download…
There is no denying Warren Haynes knows how to shred. Rolling Stone named him one the 25 greatest guitarists of all time, and he has played with the Allman Brothers, David Allan Coe, the Dead and his own band, Gov’t Mule. His most recent album, Man in Motion, is his…
If you stop and think about it, a rock guitarist doesn’t need more than three strings on his guitar, and a drummer doesn’t need more than three drums and three cymbals. Case in point: JEFF the Brotherhood, a band whose entire purpose is to strip down rock music to its…
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens has kept busy over the past few years playing his part in George and Caplin and Wentworth Kersey, which both released records last year. Somewhere in between, he’s found the time to write and record not just one solo album, but two (due out on July 13)…
It’s been raining all week, which means everyone out there is probably getting a little antsy to get out into the world after holing up at home and ordering pizza. It also happens to be Friday the 13th, which, for anyone with a superstitious streak, means staying in for the…
Grab the Guinness Book of World Records, because we’ve got a ridiculous tale to tell. Earlier this week, a man in Australia purchased a Led Zeppelin T-shirt for $10,000, making it the largest sum anyone has paid for a vintage band shirt. That doesn’t mean there aren’t shirts that are…
The Library of Congress has just turned on its new streaming audio service, which includes a large piece of the national archives totaling around 10,000 titles. The joint venture of Sony and the Library of Congress gives users access to many Sony-controlled recordings that have long been out of circulation…
In their book, One Nation Under Sex, Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach are looking for high profile sex scandals that the history books might have missed. That might sound like a book filled with hearsay and smut, but the purpose isn’t so much to bring down our nation’s leaders, but…
It takes just three skills to be an air-guitar master: technical merit, stage presence and airness. That last one is a bit of a mystery to both the audience and the judges, but for participants in the U.S. Air Guitar Regional Championships, it’s the one thing that will set them…
In the introduction to their new book, One Nation Under Sex, authors Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach outline their mission pretty explicitly: “We are not out to dish gossip; we want to add a new dimension to American history.” That dimension, not surprisingly, is the sexual history of our leaders,…
Last weekend was Ludum Dare 20, a competition that tasks game designers with making a game over the course of the weekend. There were over 300 entries and plenty of those were worth mentioning, but one of our favorites was p.i.g., a curious little game that takes the idea of…
Generally speaking, we’re not fans of photos on fliers. Not because we hate reality or looking at things in the real world or anything, but fliers made from photographs nearly always look like crap, because nobody bothers to spend the money on a good print. Of course, we’re proven wrong…
You might not have heard of the Colombia-based Bomba Estéreo, but chances are you’ve heard of a few of its collaborators, who in recent years have included DJ Rupture, Ben Frost and Brian Eno. The group’s new album, the Ponte Bomb EP, is essentially Colombia’s answer to the freaked-out electro…
Lucinda Williams has always been about reinvention. Starting in the country-blues space, she eventually moved on to something more rootsy, then rocking. Her newest album, Blessed, is a culmination of all of that, but where her songs were once about the ways the past has already fallen apart, this record…
Now that summer is nearly here, it means we need to prep ourselves for hot days, big blockbusters and vacations. That means the best picks for this week come in the form of comic book origin stories to prep you for all the big movies, and two — yes, two…
