Update...

Here is the final cut of Drunken Monkee's "Go Bezerk" music video posted a few weeks earlier...

Weekend Jams: vol. 2

Kid Caui- "Day 'n' Night (crookers remix)"

Justice- "We are your Friends"

Coconut Records- "West Coast"

Hot Chip- "One Pure Thought"

Cross-Stitched Art

How about this brilliant little project? 20 embroideries of love text messages

Cultural Art

Joshua Callaghan is an L.A.-based artist who uses his education in cultural anthropology and the fine arts to create clever installations that serve as both art and a way to disguise undesirable city objects such as utility boxes. Check it out...






Like any self hating artist in the States, he is also a critique of American material culture. for his most recent exhibition at the bank gallery in LA, Callaghan pulled together found material to create abstract sculptures of graphs and charts mapping a variety of data. He uses both the found artifacts and the numbers to create a minimalist device by which to measure human behavior and culture. There are also some political undertones found in his work eluding to world population or world military spending.







(Right) Very Concerned, Somewhat concerned, Not at All Concerned, wood, paint, 4"x12"x50"
(Left)Military Spending by Nation, painted wood

Fuck Buttons

I've been in to this band for some time now and I have to say they are fucking sweet. Fuck Buttons is composed of Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung from Bristol England. Their music is like a tidal flow of sound. Gentle keyboard distortions, layered up and build into a gentle repetition, buffeted by waves of semi-comprehensible screamed vocals. There is something in this sound that reminds me of an impending apocalypse. Like they have turned the phrase "the calm before the storm" into a soundtrack. I have to say though, if the world was ending in a week, I think I would rage the entire week to these guys. This joyous noise can be heard on their latest album titled Street Horrrsing and has been described as a "... 50 minute melange of iridescent synths, psychedelic drone, distorted vocals and tribal rhythm."

Fuck Buttons- "Ribs Out"

Fuck Buttons- "Sweet Love for Planet Earth"

Check out Fuck buttons performing "Bright Tomorrow" in Juan's Basement featured on pitchforkTV

New Shit...

808's and Heartbreak is out on the shelves starting today...

Plus, if you missed it last night...

A special Christmas packaging of the album will be released on December 16 and will feature album artwork redone by KAWS... Im thinking about picking it up when this version comes around...Real talk...

Weekend Jams: vol. 1

DOM. Kennedy, Pacific Division & Carter- "Everybody Knows Us"

Dilated Peoples (Feat. The Alchemist)- Spit It Clearly (Club)

Kanye West- Flashing Lights (Diplo Remix)

Fly Fresh- Henok Achido

Coldplay (feat. Jay-Z)- "Lost"

Evidence (feat. U-N-I)- "Half Off"

Ludacris (feat. Jay Z & Nas)- "I Do It For Hip Hop"

I would like to welcome you to the Drunken Monkee wonder world

Who is Drunken Monkee? Why should I know him? Well his beats is crazy, his flow is crazy, his lyrics is crazy... shit, this emcee is crazy. Born and raised in Englewood and on the streets of Chicago, Drunken Monkee has made his mark in the indie rap game. This man represents yet another new and innovative tangent in the Chicago rap scene. Check it out...

What you are seeing above is the :57 rough cut of Drunken Monkee's "Go Bezerk" music video. The song for "Go Bezerk" is only 3 minutes long, but the final clip will be 7-8 minutes long (they're calling it a "mini-thriller"), and the concept is that Drunken and his gang of apes escape from Lincoln Park Zoo to terrorize the Windy City streets.Directed by Amir George.

Check out his live video for his song "Backshots"

Start your morning feeling good about life...

Hahaha

Kristen Schaal is way funny. Enjoy...