Operation Baby Drop

Kudos to Mark Jenkins for making some of the most charmingly interesting street art I've seen in ages. With masterful craftsmanship, he's populated the streets of New York and D.C. with life-size babies made from nothing but tape. Jenkins fittingly calls the project Storker, the name he's also assigned to the race of clear creatures. They can be found climbing city streetlights, signs, billboards and …

Swindle #3 On Stands

From the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey, the third issue of Swindle is out now, featuring Space Invader on the cover. Inside, look out for a piece on Caroline Hwang's angsty embroidered art, a history of spray paint, and the world's first (and only?) all-female AC/DC cover band AC/Dshe. Like the first two editions, the quarterly publication is intended to be more permanent than the average magazine …

Scale the Black Mountain

When I was in Montreal last month doing a story on the city’s music scene, a few people told me to check out Black Mountain, a west coast Canadian band that was doing great things. So when their self-titled CD showed up this week I tore into it and instantly liked what I heard. In what I could only describe as psychedelic metal, Black Mountain’s …