hip hop

Hunting The Streets For Sharks With Hammers

(Mar 25, 2010) Vancouver has this tendency to spawn awesome in the most unlikely places.  So when I came across Sharks and Hammers on a stroll ...

I Like It When You Call Me Big Poppa

(Mar 02, 2010) I was excited to see the movie Notorious, a biography about Biggie Smalls, even before I remembered how much I love the music! Thi...

The Social Club

(Feb 25, 2010) If you asked me the question “what’s happening tonight?”, I would immediately check the website of the Social ...

The Dark and Hilarious Corners Of The Twitter Nation

(Jan 25, 2010) First it was Friendster, then it was blogging, then it was Myspace, then Facebook, now Twitter. I don’t know about you, but ...

We don’t speak Swedish, we speak hip hop

(Jan 20, 2010) Adam Tensta A quick snapshot of Sweden’s hip hop scene which at the moment, Stockholm seems to be leading the way in the Nor...

The mighty Luchadors of Vancouver Fashion

(Jan 04, 2010) Robson and Burrard is like the Shibuya Crossing or Oxford Circus of Vancouver, the recognizable hub of a bustling downtown core, ...

Ghosts on Tape brings the tropical-booty-crunk

(Dec 29, 2009) I can’t understand how this guy is not more famous yet. Ghosts on Tape is a one-man dance jam powerhouse from San Francisco ...

Nostalgia for someplace, sometime else

(Dec 09, 2009) Drunk white people everywhere love anthemic odes to New York — even those of us on the West Coast sick of hearing that every...

Wrap Me in Your Noise

(Nov 02, 2009) It’s entering rainy season in San Francisco, and all I want to do is wrap myself in a sweater, drink hot toddies, and let wa...

Dirty baleariс dances still run the show

(Sep 25, 2009) After a series of fanzine hipster parties (always named in mysteriously bizarre way like “Kolya, ty ne s toy zhivesh’ – lite...

Miami is the next Seattle

(Sep 22, 2009) I am happy to say that locally, there is some truly fantastic shit going on.  I’ve said it before that Miami is the next Seattl...