Evil Monito Interviews the Big Cheese Himself
LA is in the grips of a cheese wave. The Foundry chef, Eric Greenspan’s, planned grilled cheese restaurant is on the ZagatBuzz list of most anticipated LA restaurants. Grilled cheese food trucks roam the city drawing huge lines and even the fast food chains are trying to get in on the action.

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The Voice Project premiered a new video of Steel Train covering La Roux’s  “Bulletproof” on Spin.com, the latest installment of the non-profit’s “cover chain” video series. →

Three Days in Paris by Philip Andelman
Milk Gallery – New  York, NY
5/21/10 to 5/29/10

The photos in the show recount a very intimate three days in Paris spent with two iconic bands from two generations of music who came together in this historic city by coincidence — The Dead Weather and The Beastie Boys. →

Brownswood Electric surveys the electronic landscape of 2010, representing musicians and producers featured in the radio playlists and DJ sets of Brownswood’s figurehead Gilles Peterson. The artists featured on the compilation render labels like “hip-hop” and “D&B” obsolete, creating inspiring and novel intersections. These are the sounds commemorated on Brownswood Electric. →

Sala Bikini – Barcelona, Spain
Live Review: 5/7/09
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An unusually wet night in Barcelona Spain, didn’t damper the anticipation and energy that was building up within the city’s music loving public. As Gil Scott Heron, often touted: “The Black Bob Dylan” and the venerable “Godfather of Hip hop,” was moments away from tickling out his 40-year career span on a vintage fender Rhodes. →

It’s hard to believe The Roots have been around for eight albums–soon to be nine once they release their full-length record How I Got Over on June 22. ?uestlove and Black Thought have been making soulful, intelligent music that doesn’t wear out its socially conscious lyricism and instrumentally backed jams. The Roots are also the only redeeming factor of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, for which they’ve been the backing band for some time now. →

The Local Boy
Fashion Spotlight

The gentlemen from Loden Dager are unassuming individuals.  Their dress, to be sure, is impeccable but even their attire carries a sense of relaxed confidence that matches the calm, friendly demeanor which is so wonderfully refreshing in an industry of megalomania.  So it’s no surprise that their line can be described as nothing less than a revelation–a close to perfect collection for a balmy 2010 spring summer and an offering for fall winter that will leave jaws on the floor.  On-the-floor. →

Rita Liefhebber is a nymph with her long, flowing, blond hair and wise -laughing eyes. Rita was the first stylist I assisted and it was from her, I got my intro into the dizzy tizzy, long hour-ed world of showrooms, photo shoots and returns.   Stylist turned fashion editor turned designer, she had her first joint design line with Mikhael Kale, Kale + Liefhebber.  After a stint in New York, she returned to Toronto, launching her own line and is onto her second collection for fall 2010 which she recently at New York Fashion Week. Rita Liefhebber spells effortless chic- understated, worn in elegance for the cool girl who wants to start investing in quality pieces that will outlast trends, yet still has an unnameable flair. →

Come one, come all. As Project Space continues its partnership with Arkitip issues, prints, and collaborations, they’ve decided to offer discounted pricing on selected Prints from the collection. Artists of these prints include Kevin Lyons, Andrew Schoultz, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Todd James, Todd St. John, Rostarr & Chris Lindig. The prints will be offered at discount pricing for only a limited time so if you’re looking to purchase, purchase soon.

Not everyone’s grandmother rolls out the words “It’s good to be bad and it’s bad to be good” to their young nephew, but in the life of Malcolm McLaren this couldn’t have been a better slice of advice.

Born in suburbs of a post world war two London and falling in and out of a series of Art School’s, the self-declared protégé of the 70’s avant-garde scene discovered a love for designing clothes. →