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• August 19, 2008
  Playlist: Jen and Andy Guthrie of Band in Boston
  By Will Spitz

  

  Jen and Andy Guthrie of Band in Boston: “Five Local Songs We’d Love to Play in Rock Band”

  1_The Soft Drugs, “Let It Be”
  2_The Self Righteous Brothers, “Electric Boogaloo”
  3_Apollo Sunshine, “Brotherhood of Death”
  4_Viva Viva, “Valentine”
  5_Township, “Highway”

  Band in Boston curated a series of shows at P.A.’s Lounge that runs through this Saturday.

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• May 05, 2008
  Street art attack: the crafty side of street art
  By Will Spitz
  Street art is fascinating enough on it’s own but, given it’s ephemeral nature, the act of photographing it is essential. And sometimes a photograph of street art, when it’s from an interesting angle or incorporates experiments with color, light, and/or contrast, is a piece of art in itself. Annie Ridlon, of Moontree Studios in Jamaica Plain, writes on her Flickr page:
  
  

  

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• May 05, 2008
  MIA launches clothing line
  By Will Spitz
  
  WWD reports today that MIA, who's been the face of Marc Jacobs as of late (about that, she says in the article: "The whole time I was doing that campaign I was like, 'Does Marc Jacobs know who I am? He didn't let me into his parties and stuff six months before.'"), has started her own clothing line.
  

  

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• April 24, 2008
  Garfield Minus Garfield
  By Will Spitz
  And speaking of not detoxing, here's more shizzle from the Interwebs. Garfield Minus Garfield is exactly how it sounds: the lonely, depressing tale of John Arbuckle or, as the GMG mastermind puts it: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?" A sampling:
  
  

  

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• April 24, 2008
  Mental Detox Week
  By Will Spitz

  
  
  
  
  Happy Mental Detox week! Yeah, so Mental Detox week began on Monday and I have yet to actually turn anything off - or at least the things that AdBusters, who launched the original TV Turn-Off week (now renamed Mental Detox Week) back in 1994, want me to. AdBusters has changed the guidelines to be both more forgiving and more inclusive.
  
  
  
  

  

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• March 31, 2008
  The Stupidest Bike Lane
  By Will Spitz
  Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA road officials. The video:
  
  
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• March 27, 2008
  Photos: Caribou @ the Paradise
  By Will Spitz
  Caribou (aka, Dan Snaith, the self-taught, math pro, psychedlic-obsessed Canadian musician we interviewed recently) loves his light projections. Below, see photos from last night's Caribou show at the Dise. Snaith's self-created, kaleidoscopic light projections led to even trippier photos, and I increased the level of color-smashed artiness in Photoshop to make 'em extra far out for ya.

  

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• March 26, 2008
  Caribou talks math and Zombies
  By Will Spitz

  

  The Ontario-born, London-dwelling, math-whiz musician Dan Snaith has been kicking around the electronic music world since 2000, when he released an EP called People Eating Fruit, under the moniker Manitoba. Originally, music was a part-time gig, pursued on the side while Snaith taught and pursued a PhD in math.

  

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• March 21, 2008
  Daily street art: Noirboston and Roadsworth
  By Will Spitz
  Yes, I know, I should rename this whole street art series something like "Sporadic Street Art Updates," or "Sometimes daily street art." Let's just say I'm using the term loosely. This weekend I plan on visiting my favorite street art-related spot in town: the Wall in Central Square, so I can capture some photo updates of what's going there.

  

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• March 12, 2008
  MP3 of the Week: Aloud
  By Will Spitz
  
  
  DOWNLOAD: Aloud, "Fan the Fury" (mp3)
  
  It might not seem that much has changed between Aloud’s debut full-length, Leave Your Light On, and their sophomore album, Fan the Fury. The band still traffic in bluesy power pop, which still centers on the guy-girl lead vocals of childhood chums/collaborators Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa.
  
  
  
  

  

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