The Annual HARD Summer will take The Forum in Los Angeles by storm on Aug 8th, featuring: Underworld (Live), Crookers, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, A-Trak, Tiga, The Bloody Beetroots, Sebastian, Busy P, Amanda Blank, Steve Aoki, Sinden, Jack Beats, Rye Rye, Destructo, Skeet Skeet, Dan Oh, and 12th Planet.
The Helenbeck Gallery plays host to the largest exhibition of street art with “Whole in the Wall from 1970 – Now.” Featuring 15 artists, four photographers, and two sculptors, the show brings the work of artists Victor Ash, Banksy, Blade, Blek le Rat, Crash, Daze, Ikon, Jonone, Nunca, Plateus, Quik, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Sharp, Sozyone, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, Silvio Magaglio to the birthplace of street art, New York City.
“The street art movement was home grown in New York. It is real, it has meaning and it has credibility,” says gallerist Chantal Helenbeck in the press release.
The exhibit places the work alongside antique furniture and art to really bring out the contrast and the movement of street art from taboo …
As the phenomenal popularity of Deadmau5 continues to blow away those who thought dance music had returned to it’s underground roots, it is proven once again that nothing sells records (or tickets to the rave) like a good old fashioned mascot. URB considers the history of the electronic music mascot and what it can do to turn talented artist into icons.
If you study the “electro”/”techno”/”whatever you want to call it” scene lately, you’ll notice that some songs have been reaching new extermities of epicness. The bass is booming, the synth is pounding, and your head is probably spinning. But where should the line be drawn? When does it get to a point where it isn’t music anymore and is just all hype? Here are two recent examples that dry-hump the line between a song that you can crazily dance to and a song that should be played during the apocalypse. Both MSTRKRFT and BB amazingly find a way to keep us grooving to some of the most dramatic music they’ve produced. Bravo, bravo indeed.
LISTEN: Larry Tee Feat. Ghostface Kill: Carmen/I Love U (MSTRKRFT Edit) via ICTSOD
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