New Netflix Doc looks At The Health of NFL Players As They Go Inside The Mind Of Aaron Hernandez The much-anticipated docu-series on NFL’s Aaron Hernandez finally premiered on Netfli… Read More

PRODUCER SHARES NEW VIDEO PRIOR TO NEW ALBUM R.Y.C & KICKS OFF OF GLOBAL HEADLINE TOUR THIS MONTH Boundary-pushing and genre-blurring British producer Alex Crossan, who goes by the sta… Read More

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Everything you need to know about the biggest playlist curators on Spotify, Apple Music, and more. Article by Rutger Ansley Rosenborg of Chartmetric Curators are the sometimes mysteri… Read More

An ancient visual art moves into the future. Ink painting has a very long tradition in Asia. In China, for example, the ink was used in art and calligraphy, for over 2 millennia. However… Read More

In the second part of our posts surrounding the book, Sneakers x Culture: Collab, we spoke with author, Elizabeth Semmelhack. This is D3 The Concrete, bringing you fashion from the stre… Read More

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Our Picks for Best Sneaker Releases of 2019 During 2019 we saw a transition of dad-inspired sneaker to the off-road hiking-inspired sneaker. We see this as a relief. We were getting a littl… Read More

Our Picks for Best Albums of 2019 2019 was a politically charged, at times somber, year. Music that debuted this year reflected that, especially from our youth like Billie Eilish, Dave, and… Read More

Our Picks For Best TV Shows of 2019 We watched a lot of fucking television this year so you do not have to waste precious time watching crap. Some of the best shows this year ended and ende… Read More

Our Yearly “Treat Yourself Holiday Gift Guide.” While creating this year’s list, we kept going back to some of our favorites gift ideas from years past. So, in addition to… Read More

Another conversation with another dope artist. We talk about Shantell’s collabs, Kendrick Lamar, and BPMs. This is D3 the Concrete, bringing you fashion from the streets! If you hav… Read More

PRESCRIPTION FOR MODERN LIFE The painter Valentina Brostean explains her work as a sort of “prescription for modern life.” I could not have put it better myself- her work is a f… Read More

The Festivals Third Year Caters To The Latin Music Communities Complexities, Not Oversimplifies Them Tropicalia Music and Taco Festival held its third annual event this year on November 9… Read More

Born from the green trees and open air of the Emerald City, Nick Wold formed DREAMERS band in a Brooklyn rehearsal space, and the result is what you would imagine if you put Seattle grunge… Read More

An interview with the California native informs us of his origins,  his connection to sneaker brand, Puma, and cultural awareness. Writer’s note: I’m the new guy here at H… Read More

ANTOINE DILIGENT’S CONTEMPLATIVE NEW SINGLE “CHISSÀ PERCHÉ” DELIVERS TIMELESS SOUND The latest single to be released from LA-based psychedelic rocker Antoine… Read More

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“TORUS” BY HANDIEDAN Dutch artist, Handiedan, combines digital elements with hand cut materials in order to create beautifully intricate collages. Each collage is framed in an o… Read More

A Promised Day of Music, Tacos & Community Tropicalia Music & Taco Festival returns this year with a lineup that was all too quickly heard around the music world. In only its third… Read More

The Mexican-American Artist Shares His First Full Spanish Track Since his 2018 introduction with his first EP Stereo, Omar Apollo has made a name for himself in the music scene with his own… Read More

It’s called giving the shirt off one’s back, not charging $200 for it.  Last week I wrote, “Has Kanye West Transitioned Into A White Evangelical Pastor?”… Read More

NOT EVEN JESUS CAN HELP KANYE Word broke out earlier today that Kanye West allegedly has been talking to Evangelical, televangelist Joel Osteen. Osteen, who is the senior pastor at Lakewoo… Read More

Is it a pair of binoculars? Is it a robot? Either way, it is certainly a metaphor. (Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash) MUSIC AI IS REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY Chartmetric&rs&hellip…Read More

The festival is winding down but the music is not. Here are 5 things we took away from the last day of Desert Daze Music Festival: Shintaro Sakamoto was forced to cancel his set due to the… Read More

Desert Daze continued the good vibrations on the sands of Moreno Beach in Lake Perris throughout the weekend. These are some of our highlights on Saturday. Photo by Jeanette DiazWhen Devo s… Read More

Desert Daze 2019 Memorable Moments Desert Daze kicked off its 2019 edition under warm sunny skies of Moreno Beach in Lake Perris. These are some of the highlights we saw on Friday. // Jess… Read More

Here Are The Artists We’re Betting On This Weekend Desert Daze Music Festival‘s crowning glory has always been its commitment to a carefully curated lineup that accentuates the… Read More

A Weekend in the Southern Californian Desert With the Best in Experimental Genres Across the Globe Desert Daze Music Festival returns for its 8th year running to Moreno Beach at Lake Perris… Read More

Labrinth composes a score that perfectly captures the anxieties of Generation Z Since HBO’s Euphoria came to an end, I’ve had the same verse stuck in my head, “Still don… Read More

Ian Francis Art Exhibit | “The Call of the Void” Colorful, wispy, and dreamlike are three words that only begin to describe Ian Francis’ new solo-exhibition, “The Ca… Read More

CUCO Live At The Mod Club The crowd at the Virgin MOD Club started lining up from what seemed like early on in the afternoon on September 25th– a warm fall day that was perfect to see… Read More

Featured Photo: The Kardashians Miller Mobley/E! Entertainment Your instinct is to hate on this article upfront — don’t How do you feel about the Kardashians? From seeming… Read More

PVRIS LIVE AT MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG An hour before doors, and thee hours before PVRIS leader Lynn Gunn is to take the stage, the faithful diehards are lined up around the corner, outsi… Read More

Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Brad. “There are a lot of white people living in poverty in this country, Brad.” Yes, there are. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family F… Read More

What we can learn from HBO’s Euphoria Over the past few weeks, I have asked anyone I have come in contact with if they have watched HBO’s Euphoria. Nine out of ten times, the p… Read More

Photo by Mickael Gresset on Unsplash I grew up with the evangelical Christian worldview that pornography was bad all of the damn time. No exceptions. But as I grew up and cra… Read More

Facebook Censorship of History, We’re All Fucked. Three years ago I read a Tom Junod Esquire article about a photo that has haunted me since in September 2001: The Falling Man. This… Read More

DISPLAY OF GRANDEUR AND ELEGANCE Savannah Colleen, with her geometric vision and confident line work, blends patterns and influences to create a genre of tattooing entirely her own. Her sen… Read More

A Challenge to Stop Overthinking and Let Go There’s an assignment in my course, Sketchbook to Style Boot Camp, that sometimes trips people up. Students often get stuck on this as… Read More

CardiB, Beyonce are just like us: feeling Queen of Summer, Lizzo “The fact that Lizzo a couple months ago felt underestimated and now she has a #1!!!!BITCH! take that! take that !&rdq&helli…Read More

Del Rey breaks up with Kanye, aka The American Dream “It seems we living the American dream,” Kanye West raps in his 2004 track, All Falls Down. Seven year’s later L… Read More

Exploring millennials and “early onset nostalgia”, and discussing how brands are clamoring for the nostalgic pie. If you are under 36 years old: and you recall the launch of the… Read More

Taylor Swift supports the Equality Act, that’s not political. Ten years after Taylor Swift got the microphone taken away from her at the 2009 VMAs by Kanye West, Swift took that micr… Read More

Our favorite 2019 Fall Sneakers (so far) There are two big trends we are seeing in sneakers for fall 2019. Off-Road mountain trainers as streetwear and the continuation of retro nostalgia… Read More

Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Three Days Grace Tour 2019 You would think that after 20+ years of recording and touring that hard rock bands would fade out of the spotlight but for some reas… Read More

Yes, Trump is inadvertently burning the Amazon. Did you know that fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest at one of the fastest paces in years? According to the National Institute for… Read More

GORGEOUSLY ORNATE Matt “Skinny” Bagwell is a tattoo artist working at Made to Last Tattoo in North Carolina. Matt adeptly covers a broad range of tattoo styles, and particularly… Read More

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We have watched a lot of Television over the past 20-years so you don’t have to. Here is our list of the best TV shows to premiere since the turn of the century, January 1st, 2000. NOT… Read More

The Benefit Concert Will Take Place August 18th at Central Park SummerStage Solidarity for Sanctuary and City Parks Foundation have teamed up to bring the 3rd Selena for Sanctuary benefit… Read More

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Exploring the phenomenon that is streetwear, and why luxury fashion is copping its style. Streetwear has existed for decades. Shawn Stussy who created surf culture brand Stüssy&n&helli…Read More

Featured photo by Vale Zmeykov on Unsplash Taking back time from your own schedule. We’re not too different from one another, you and I. We both want the same things &mdash&helli…Read More

THE RETURN IF MOODYMAN Featured Photo: Richard Johnson Detroit House musician Moodymann returned from the depths of his absence for five years to introduce the world to his oddly enticing… Read More

Image by Ialo Hernandez via Unsplash In recent years, Instagram has become the art collectors’ favorite tool for sourcing and buying art. According to Hiscox Online Art Trad… Read More

SPIRITUAL AND VISUAL Californian Takahiro Kitamura carries the torch of Japanese style tattooing with a steady hand, paying homage to both his own culture and the growing popularity of irez… Read More

When I first heard that Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) was going on tour with blink-182 and Neck Deep, I was a bit surprised. I didn’t expect a punk rock show to mix very w… Read More

Photo by gustavo centurion on Unsplash Use the idea machine technique and make sure you both consume and create I’m prolific. I write a new blog post either every day… Read More

Last week a group of my friends and I were in Denver for Indie folk-rock band, The Head and The Heart with Hippo Campus at the amazing Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Red Rocks is an open-air amphit… Read More

Young the Giant and Fitz and the Tantrums both delivered stellar performances on their co-headlining tour this past Tuesday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. The outdoor show was the 21st da… Read More

CREATIVE EXPRESSION How Our Weaknesses Can Lead Us to Our Strengths I was a pretty shy and quiet kid. My older sister was talkative and outspoken, and I was happy to let her take the le… Read More

Bogotá, Colombia…one of the seven Latin American cities sparking hits around the world (Photo by Delaney Turner) 658 million people are growing their part of global music ind… Read More

Aries Rhysing‘s work is a mythological exploration of twenty-first century tattoo art and the connective tissue between flesh and mind. His designs are dense, calculated, and inf… Read More

Aziz Ansari wants to be better in Right Now, shouldn’t we embrace him? Earlier this week, Netflix premiered Aziz Ansari’s new comedy special, Right Now. Ansari wasted no time t… Read More

Southeast Asia awaits…what music will they hear from you next? (Photo by Florian Wehde) A Pop-Loving Region Might Spark Your Next Global Hit Trigger Cities Mini-Series: [Part 1… Read More

Photo by Flavio Gasperini on Unsplash How unsupervised machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can identify artists’ genre neighbors Similarity and D… Read More

CAN ROCKSTAR ENERGY DISRUPT FESTIVAL REPLACE VANS WARPED TOUR? Although the peak of these musical genres has passed, Emo, Screamo, Post Hardcore, Metalcore etc., has continued to showcase a… Read More

LIFE CHANGING GOOD HABITS Featured photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash Creativity is not a skill reserved for artists exclusively. Everybody needs to use creativity to solve probl… Read More

Rick Ross hosts the Rick Ross and Mr. Brainwash “Rather You Than Me” Album Listening Experience on March 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) OVER A DECAD… Read More

A PERFECT COLLABORATION OF THE HIP-HOP WORLD After a spree of retweets and word-to-mouth marketing, the three-year hiatus for the duo’s 2016 spectacular album is over. Bandana&nb&helli…Read More

THE RETURN OF THE LONDON POLICE The London Police, which consists of two talented artists, Chaz Barrisson and Bob Gibson, has been contributing to the street art movement and creating pop c… Read More

A TRUE CELEBRATION OF MUSIC, ART & LIFE The countdown had finally reached zero and everyone began to race to The Woodlands in Dover, Delaware for Firefly Music Festival. One of the most… Read More

Regino Gonzales | Juxtaposition of Flora and Fauna The artist known as RG intertwines Japanese and American style tattooing, taking traditional characteristics and marrying them in the twen… Read More

Vampire Weekend | Sailboat Flags, Green Frogs & Large Spinning Globe Vampire Weekend is back and kicked off the summer solstice weekend with fans this past Friday in Raleigh, North Car… Read More

   TITUS ANDRONICUS | DEEP, TWISTING & CATCHY ANTHEMS The person behind the rock operatic genius that is known to patrons of intelligent loud music as Titus Andronicus, Patric… Read More

Rock En Español Legends Take on STAPLES Center Walking towards STAPLES Center, there were groups of people including couples, families, rockeros of all ages ready to see the Latin R… Read More

DATA SCIENCE ACCURACY Can an algorithm predict hit songs? Let’s explore how we can successfully build a hit song classifier using only audio features, as described in my publicatio… Read More

FRENCH KISSING JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE At 12, I wanted to fit in just like everyone else My parents decorated our attic with hanging strands of glow-in-the-dark beads. I used them to sepa… Read More

ARTISTS TO WATCH AT FIREFLY 2019 The time is upon us where the highly anticipated Firefly Music Festival will be kicking off this Friday! A star-studded line up is coming to take over Dover… Read More

TIEKS DESIGNER SHOES Maybe a little bit of luxury does a body good. Last week, I spent some time at a park, chatting with a friend while our three daughters played. Now that it&rsquo&helli…Read More

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE CREATES COMPELLING STORIES Perennial Seattle indie rock favorites Death Cab For Cutie brought their now tenured rock show to Forest Hills Stadium on Saturday night, to c… Read More

Latin Alternative Legends are Bringing Their Summer Tour to Los Angeles Two of the most popular rock en español bands from the 80s and 90s are touring together — nine years af… Read More

Will these 20 Best Albums of 2019 (so far) hold up? Believe it or not we are six months into the 2019. That is six months closer to the end of the decade. Six months closer to the 2020… Read More

YONAKA BAND BRINGS AN ARENA ROCK QUALITY SHOW TO ROUGH TRADE From the English seaside of Brighton comes Yonaka, who made their United States debut in the country’s barometer of cool… Read More

KIM KARDASHIAN IS POSITIVELY CHANGING ACTIVISM A former criminal justice attorney defends the oft-dismissed reality star’s new career path A phrase I’d like to retire forever… Read More

The art world is one of the most frustrating marketplaces imaginable. For artists, gallerists, curators, and collectors. Inflated values, nonsensical hero worship, what sells versus what do… Read More

Featured Photo by Nicolas LB on Unsplash A detailed breakdown of how to instantly compare artists’ general performance by utilizing Chartmetric’s data warehouse The… Read More

So-Cal Rockers Drop Sophomore Record with LA Release Party; Announce Upcoming Europe and US Tour Hailing from Southern California, Brandon Blaine (Vocals), Michael Perez (Bass), Luke… Read More

CHICANO HERITAGE It is clear that culture runs deep within Chuco Moreno’s style of tattooing. While some artists may pride themselves on being “renaissance men”, and boast… Read More

TIE DYE SHIRTS ARE BACK Tie dye shirts are definitely back for 2019 and streetwear brands have embraced the style with open arms, and not just for shirts. Some looks pay homage to the class… Read More

Even When You’re Feeling Grumpy Artists are primarily thought of as makers. And yes, of course we make stuff. But we are also thinkers and feelers. We think. And we feel. Deepl… Read More

Suns out, legs out, show off those Summer 2019 Sneakers Over the past couple years we have published our favorite sneakers for summer. 2017 was about delicate, soft-hued colors. It was also… Read More

PHONOGRAPH OBSESSION I am an information junkie, so when I become obsessed on a topic or hobby, I sweep through the internet, diving into a deep underground world to find what I need t… Read More

Mexico City’s voracious appetite for music streaming leads a pack of “trigger cities” sparking hits all over the globe. (Photo by Filip Gielda) Streaming Popular… Read More