Inspired by the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” provides an intimate look into the musician’s tumultuous life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad and find out what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting at the baggage claim for hours on end.  It’s ultimately the memorable experiences with friends that make life on the road rewarding, or at the very least interesting.  This week it’s the band, Vulture Whale who divulge in their favorite restaurants and the homogenization of American culture. →

There’s not much information you can find on the London School of Economics. The Metal Postcard label Myspace doesn’t help out much in the way of biographies, but what’s even more confounding is this video for “Cock Sucker,” a dark, brooding dubstep track that samples The Rolling Stones’ “Cocksucker Blues” and Primal Scream. The video is apparently slowed-down footage of the Stones in eighties New York. →

Chile Estyle (Curated by Pablo Aravena)
Carmichael Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Opening 12/10/09

For the first time in North America, Chile Estyle will showcase work from several of Chile’s finest contemporary urban muralists, including Cekis, Inti, Horate, La Robot de Madera, and the duos Aislap and Agotok. From the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in the early 90s until now, Chilean street art has literally exploded into a highly developed style →

The Bloggomist: Design in the Blood
Design Opinion

If there’s anything that makes my blood boil, it is frivolity under the guise of good design. In my last post, I briefly mentioned the vacuousness of famous product designers such as Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid – they are certainly among my favorite to take shots at because they have the ability to design whatever they want and push it into the market with no questions asked. This is almost every designer’s dream; no focus groups, no restrictions, and no hard-sell to get a product onto the shelves. →

Family Industries Grand Opening Party
Los Angeles, CA
12/19/09

If you haven’t heard yet, Filter’s favorite screen printers, Family Industries, is having their grand opening party. Be there and come join the event, which will feature live screen printing, photobooth by Family Industries and Conor Collins, performances from The Diamond Light and The Singers, food by the Grill ‘Em All Truck, DJ set from Pants off, an art and photo gallery featuring MESCK, Darius twin, Miriam Dafford, →

Mark Ronson, Theophilus London, and Jamie Burke & Dan Black add their voices to bring a little more song and cheer to the climate justice campaign at the NY show. Tbe show was put together in hopes of giving one final push to publicize the importance of achieving a global Climate Change deal that is effective. The concert is in aid of Kofi Annan’s ‘Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign which was created by Havas Worldwide for the Global Humanitarian Forum. The campaign and its partners have done their job by →

Inspired by the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” provides an intimate look into the musician’s tumultuous life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad and find out what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting at the baggage claim for hours on end.  It’s ultimately the memorable experiences with friends that make life on the road rewarding, or at the very least interesting.  This week it’s Elizabeth & the Catapult who schlepped around a helpenstill and endured creepy truck stops during their last tour. →

The Bloggomist: Acorn & Oak Tree
Fashion Opinion

Those who know me well know that for the past couple months I’ve been plagued by a relentless obsession. I want anything and everything Navajo printed. Exactly how and when this happened, I’m not sure, but the combination of hard geometry and flashy desert colors has me daydreaming of dusty, remote ranches to come. →

“Como Soy” – from Las Chingonsismas

Ceci Bastida Live
East Side Luv- Los Angeles, CA
12/10/09

Ceci Bastida was born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. At the age of 15, she joined Tijuana NO as a lead vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter and became one of the first women to rise in the ranks of Latin rock. One of Mexico’s most important ska-punk bands of the 1990s, Tijuana NO performed together for 12 years and recorded three albums. →

Video Series #6
Show Cave- Eagle Rock, CA
12/12/09

Spread Eagle is also the inaugural event at Show Cave’s new location in the beautiful Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Spread Eagle is the next chapter in Show Cave’s ongoing video series curated by Hazel Hill. →