Simian Mobile Disco: Caught In A Wave The song title really explains it all. Simian Mobile Disco’s latest track and music video, “Caught in a Wave,” ripples outward, ensnaring listeners and viewers. Here, the UK duo enlists the vocal talents of Hackney-based collective The Deep Throat Choir. In conjunction with the dance party visuals, it’s truly a work of splendor. The song will appear on …
741 California Ave in Venice Beach isn’t your average city corner. Here, Brooklyn art duo FAILE have installed, by hand, 16,000 custom tiles inspired by the city’s iconography. It stretches across the home of Rancho V‘s Rocco Gardner, occupying a facade roughly the size of three billboards. It’s the largest tile mural by FAILE thus far. Gardner had observed the area’s rapid changes and wanted …
With Palm Springs International Airport only a 40 minute drive away, it’s easy to place Rancho V on the map by way of that transportation hub. Unless, of course, you’ve heard of Pioneertown, CA. On Route 62 in the lush desert of the Yucca Valley, Pioneertown began in 1940s as an Old West motion-picture set, which actors actually lived in when not filming. Today, its …
