It is a new day, a new year and time for new plans so to speak. I have been somewhat absent: overseas for a week and taking a few days off after the fact to recuperate, relax and reassess where things are and where things are going so far for the brand.No, this isn't a last minute attempt at coming out with a post to study and reminisce the year in hindsight by overlapping a look back with cliche and somewhat tired lists to tell you what the best styles/collaborations/songs/albums/achieve... Read Full Story

The Coolest Kids You KnowDecember 8, 2008, a Monday night in Carrboro, North Carolina, the Cat’s Cradle hosted one stop on the Green Label Sound tour. Brooklyn indie darlings Matt & Kim (whose show was, frankly, not really worth discussing), Durham rapper Juan Huevos, and Chi-town web-hyped hip hoppers the Cool Kids graced the stage, turning a bone-piercingly cold late autumn evening into an 800-person dance party in the middle of a little hippie town. Swank was privileged to be able to c... Read Full Story

Just to let you guys know, I will be heading out of the country on vacation for the upcoming week so I will be away from a computer, or will just not have enough internet access to keep up with the daily posts. Yes, I will be gone during Christmas.To Mom, Dad and Calvin: Have a merry Christmas! I love you guys... Please have safe travels. I hope to get back in one piece so you don't have to worry about me. But in the meanwhile, even though I will be gone, don't forget to laugh a lot a... Read Full Story

For those of you aspiring producers out there... The program used is Intua Beatmaker for the iPhone 3GTechnorati Tags: Music, Gadgets, Apps, iPhone, 3G, iPhone 3G, Intua Beatmaker Read Full Story

So I have sorta kinda held off from writing this post mainly because I am afraid of looking like an Incase/iPhone fanatic. However, between this being a seemingly unavoidable topic, and there generally being not too much to write about at this time of the year... What the hell!The details are pretty simple, the Incase x fragment design slider cases for the iPhone 3G have been announced. The cases available are two gloss cases as well as two matte plastic cases. Personally, I have been a fan o... Read Full Story

So if you don't know, or simply don't remember who Adele is, she is yet another form of living proof that pasty white British women can have some big ass voices. No, I'm not particularly familiar with the artist aside from what I have briefly seen of her on TV, but I have been interested in her artistic progression since her mainstream(ish) inception when she made it onto VH1.The Johnny Polygon - Melt My Heart (Remix) by her is quite impressive. She shows a lot of vocal range and ... Read Full Story

So if you remember correctly from way back when in like, July or August, I posted a picture of the Lanvin x Acne hightop that pretty much makes me want to drool. Despite the fact that the post said that the Lanvin x Acne collaboration would reach completion by the time November rolled around, things got fucked up and stuff rolled in late. But hey, better late than never right?The Acne x Lanvin collaboration is perhaps one of my favorite this year and I have been waiting a long time for it. Ye... Read Full Story

So it seems as if the consensus would say that I have been dropping N.A.S.A. stuff like crazy over the last few days and they would sure as hell be right. What can I say? For some reason I have been getting emails out the ass about the group lately and it looks as if I have a connect on the front lines that can get me the good stuff for that free.99 for all of you freeloaders. It's all good though, I love you guys.northamericasouthamerica's track called money has a damn good remix by ... Read Full Story

Ok, so the video is a little bit on the cheesy side... and perhaps this was intentional. But I want to point out a couple of things: this collaboration between MSTRKRFT and N.O.R.E. is perhaps the greatest testament to the cross pollination of genres. No, we aren't seeing electronic artist's sampling a verse from a hip hop song, and we aren't seeing hip hop producers sampling a score from an electro beat. But rather, what is produced for this track is quite a rarity: an ele... Read Full Story

Young Jeezy is one of those artists that may not necessarily be the absolute most talented in the Hip Hop game, but always produces music that is fun to listen to. Whether you love him or hate him, his southcore instrumentals deliver consistently even if one may argue that his lyricism is not always on par with the rest of the game.With regards to Jeezy, however, the spectacle in this case is his music video for his song "Who Dat?", a track that teeters the line between hard... Read Full Story