Football may be America’s new national pastime, but the sport is quickly building momentum across the globe, and now the gridiron’s reach has extended all the way to Beijing. The newly founded China Arena Football League [CAFL] kicked off last week across six teams, all located in China, and featuring a mix of international players; each eight person…
“Here’s why I make movies. I don’t like lies.” – Oliver Stone Over the course of a career that now stretches nearly as long as J.F.K’s life span, Oliver Stone has been relentlessly driven to make movies with real world impact, and his latest venture, Snowden, is a story for our times. In many ways,…
King of Kings is one of the most recognized brands in the world of kickboxing thanks to the intensity and spontaneity of their fights. This Saturday, October 1, they’re returning to action with a full slate of bouts broadcast through the FightBox HD channel and streaming on BitTorrent Live.
Since exploding onto the national radar in 2010 as a co-writer for Eminem and Rihanna’s chart destroyer “The Way You Lie,” Skylar Grey has accumulated the kind of resume that puts her in elite music industry territory. GRAMMY appearances, collaborations with everyone from Nicki Minaj to Kid Cudi, Grey can lay claim to one of…
Speaking to Nick Barat is like speaking to the yourself you wish you were. The Fool’s Gold founder and modern renaissance man better known as Nick Catchdubs is almost impossibly awake and relaxed considering he’s just hours away from the label’s DAY OFF festival show in L.A. I’m developing a stress contact high just thinking about the massive undertaking…
At this point even Amish people living under rocks have heard of Drake. The Toronto deity has made the leap from famous rapper to famous musician to the kind of uber-celebrity even my grandmother knows about, and in the process Drake has place an unprecedentedly bright spotlight on Canadian artists.
From Chaos Before he was 8ky, the solo artist driven to change the world, before he was Sky Blu, the international party rock superstar, he was Skyler Austen Gordy, a a kid with Los Angeles’ vast horizons and melting pot of cultures streaming through his veins. It was Skyler who bounced around L.A. with his…
In the fourteen years since Moby released his first album, and in all the years before that when he was a punk kid who wore a Joy Division pins in his high school yearbook photo, he has been many things. He’s released twelve solo project that have spanned the sonic range from early electronic to acoustic ambience. He’s…
Two teams, both coming off season opening wins, both with quarterbacks who put up huge numbers in their previous outings, but after this Saturday only one team will remain unbeaten. Harvard began its defense of the Ivy League title last Saturday with a rout of Rhode Island, while for their part Brown leaned heavily…