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London's secret music venue and their livestream act

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With an invite-only door policy and super secret location,  Boiler Room  is London's most exclusive music venue. But elitism isn't the premise for its clandestine nature—in fact, anyone with an Internet connection can easily join in the fun. Using a simple webcam, the crew behind Boiler Room livestreams each set for the world to see free of charge, and each month more than a million viewers tune in to see performances by artists like James Blake, The xx, Roots Manuva, Neon Indian, Juan Maclean and more. We recently chilled out to the smooth sounds of Brooklyn's  How To Dress Well  before rocking out to revered musician  Matthew Dear , who brought down the house with an intense 40-minute DJ set. Keep an eye out for our interview with Dear, but for now you can get a little more insight into the underground music scene's most talked about livestream show by checking out our interview with assistant musical programmer and Boiler Room host Nic Tasker. How impor...

Vintage Ads Most Disturbing Household Products

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  All of the following ads are real and unaltered, so don't blame us. We weren't there when they were made, and in some cases the entire insane thought process that went into creating them has been lost to history. Maybe they made perfect sense at the time? Maybe. But it's really hard to see how even our parents and grandparents didn't get nightmares from ... #13. Three-Legged Dingo Boots vintageadbrowser.com The Message: Here are some boots that you should buy, because famous people wear them. Three of them. The Horror: Wait, what? Yes, amazingly, the fact that this ad stars a pre-murder O.J. Simpson is the second-creepiest thing about it. And you can squint and try to read the text all you want -- it makes no reference whatsoever to the fact that their spokesperson has three legs. There's no cute slogan like "Boots so comfortable, you'll wish you had another foot!" Nope. It's like some guy in the art department just said, "Eh, I don't li...