From: Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star – 1998 – Rawkus Records

posted by: Harold Johns III

Yeasayer has marked the release of their latest single “O.N.E.” with a new video directed by Radical Friend, aka Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian, the duo behind the mind-melting video for “Ambling Alp.” The setting is a post-apocalyptic future world that may lack societal constraints like traffic laws but still has radio stations, a banging dance club that homeless people can’t get into, choreographed dancers and what appears to be a glass microphone. The trippy game board you see the main characters messing with is supposed to represent the “psychological warfare in which these otherworldly club kids engage.”  So basically it’s what LA would be like if civilization were to crumble in the not so distant future.

Download “O.N.E.” here (right click + save as)

posted by: Harold Johns III

Claudio Ethos, a Brazilian graffiti artist, was commissioned to paint a large mural inside Casa Das Caldeiras in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project was funded by the non-governmental organization EXPERIMENTA.

The film features 30 hours of footage time lapsed into 15 minutes which was played during the opening for the mural.

Filmed, written and edited: Jared Levy
Producer: Nathalie Stahelin
Additional help: Lucas Do Prado Coelho

See more of Ethos’ work here

posted by: Brent Carter

From The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (originally released in 1966, reissued by Sunspots in 2003).

“Featuring the yelping vocals and visionary, occasionally demented lyrics of Roky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevators were one of the original acid rock bands. Formed in Texas in the mid-’60s, the Elevators started as a garage rock outfit, scoring their one and only modest national hit with ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me.’ While Erickson’s loopy persona and Tommy Hall’s odd ‘jug’ percussion were the band’s most distinguishing features, several members of the group’s original lineup contributed strong material to their albums. Although these inconsistent efforts sometimes wander off into a cloudy haze, they also include sturdy folk-rock tunes and driving psychedelic rockers. Trips to San Francisco established the group as an up-and-coming underground favorite, but Erickson’s problems with drugs and the police led to the singer’s commission to a state mental hospital in the late ’60s, an ordeal from which he has never fully recovered.” (source: All Music Guide)

posted by: Harold Johns III

Meet Thomas Burso, aka Epic Beard Man, aka Tom Slick, aka Vietnam Tom, the 67 year old, self-proclaimed “motherfucker” who recently became an internet sensation after a YouTube video of his fist fight with a fellow bus passenger went viral on February 16. The video has since received more than 3.7 million views and is still causing heated, sometimes racially charged debates to break out all over the web. And since his display of old man strength, Burso has inspired video game parodies, various YouTube video responses, an Epic Beard Man Facebook fan page, a twitter account, t-shirts, several photo mashups and most recently a two part documentary about Burso himself.  So much has already been said of Epic Beard Man, the only thing left to do is let the videos and links speak for themselves.

This is the video that got it all started.

• Watch Lyanna Washignton, the woman who captured the fight on camera, in an interview with CBS5 explaining how it all went down from her perspective here
• Read what Micheal, the man who was beaten by EBM, had to say about the incident here
• Watch EBM’s description of the what happened here
• Watch bonus footage of EBM after he exited the bus here
• Watch a Mortal Kombat parody of the fight here

Part one of the I am a Motherfucker documentary about EBM:

• Watch EBM get tasered at the Oakland A’s game like he described in part one of the documentary here

Part two

posted by: Harold Johns III