Blek le Rat at Subliminal Projects Gallery

"I fought the war and the war won..."

I heard this guy on Indie 103.1 the other day on Jonesy's Jukebox, guest starring with Shepard Fairey. Hailing from Paris, his first LA solo show will be at Fairey's gallery, Subliminal Projects, Saturday, April 5th, from 8-11pm. He's been on the scene way longer than most active stencil artists, pioneering the life-size stencil on the streets. He is also one of the first people to use stencils instead of bombing their name all over walls.

Written in the show's press release: "The concept for Art Is Not Peace But War is inspired by an article about graffiti written by Norman Mailer for The New York Times in 1972 read by le Rat during his first visit to New York. For le Rat, an artist is always in a constant fight to create. He views graffiti as the most democratic form of art and parlays this perspective into each of his works. 'Urban art is a powerful way to serve social causes and evoke reaction from the people, and if you have a message to give to the public, it is the best way to give it.'”

Check it out. I'll be there, and so will Blek le Rat.

Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W. Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
8:00-11:00pm

Radiohead Strips Stems for a Nude Remix

Click picture for details!

Radiohead cut up their song "Nude" for fans to remix and put the tracks on iTunes available to purchase. Each track is $0.99, or if you want the package with all the tracks that includes a GarageBand code, it's $5.94. Right now the Holy Fuck mix is leading, and in all honesty, it can be beat. I encourage someone to make a remix that'll blow that one away. The deadline for this is May 1st (does anybody know if there is a prize for this?)

More details at www.radioheadremix.com

Gibson owns your Guitar Hero Controller

Whoa! So it finally happened (over a week ago, actually). Gibson is now suing major game retailers for selling those Gibson-esque Guitar Hero controllers, after previously attempting to stop Activision Inc. from fabricating the controllers in the first place. If you haven't noticed, Guitar Hero has cranked the controller versions of many signature Gibson guitars including the Flying-V, the X-Plorer, and most notibly the Les Paul.

CNN Article

Polish your kicks, it's Spring Time!

I know it' s a day early but I'm taken up tomorrow, so Happy Spring all and thanks for reading!

Elation - Spring Fever (via zShare)

Scion Sampler Vol 21: IHEARTCOMIX Remixed

Speaking of Ocelot, the most recent of Scion's mixtapes is actually Franki Chan's evil bidding.  This mix is a collection of tracks from Chan's label, IHEARTCOMIX, which would include artists such as Ocelot, HEARTSREVOLUTION, Death Set and more.  It would definitely do you some good to check it out.

By the way, if anyone's lucky enough to be in Austin tonight there's a HUGE event by IHEARTCOMIX and Mad Decent with a line-up that would blow anyone's mind.

New Ocelot Mixtape

Looks like our pretty kitty friends, Ocelot, made this exxxclusive mix for No Love Lost Records, featuring a couple remixes of their recently released Lo Sforzo track plus a lot more hard thumpin' electro house goodness.

I especially like their mysterious "Untitled" track, and their remix of Razorlight's "America".  Amazing stuff.  Find a link to the mix and its full tracklist on their myspace.

Ocelotspace

A Korg MS-10 on your DS

Via Music Thing

I know. What the ef, right? Among the clutter of "meh" music games on portable consoles stands an application to be reckoned with. Modeled after the legendary Korg MS-10 synth, this "game" has a 6-track sequencer, two sound engines, Reason-style patching and the ability to play wirelessly with friends. It sounds like it would waste more of my time than tetris (maybe) and hell, it might just kick the crap out've that Chocopoolp thing for beat sketching on the go.

But hey, you tell me.

Unfortunately, this baby is one of them "Japan Only" games. Someone selling a Japanese DS?

*Update 03/19/08: Looks like the game WILL be available in other regions, w00t!