Yellow Bird Project (YBP) is a company that collaborates with indie bands to raise money for various charities. Each band designs a t-shirt and designates [...]

Instagram announced on their blog today that the company has been sold to Facebook. As CEO Kevin Systrom states: It’s because of our dedicated and [...]

Legendary punk bassist Mike Watt (of Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Unknown Instructors) will be releasing a photographic memoir on May 1, 2012 entitled Mike Watt: [...]

After eight years and an unfortunately failed attempt to raise funding, Washington DC-based “Pancake Mountain” will cease production. The independent children’s show is the brainchild [...]

On March 4, 2012, street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal will guest star on “The Simpsons.” The episode, titled “Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart” — which [...]

Thanks to a poor decision made by some clueless HarperCollins publishing exec, the horrifying artwork in the children’s book Scary Stories to Tell in the [...]

Paul M. Davis has announced the debut of his new podcast Radio Free Ruin, a radical talk show about tech, culture, comedy, and politics. The weekly [...]

By now, you’ve likely heard that GoDaddy voiced early support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the free-speech trampling bill that will be voted on [...]

Hardcore punk zine Define the Meaning has announced that they are shutting down after a six-year run. The New Jersey-based zine has been run by [...]

From US rock band The Dandy Warhols‘ frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor comes a work of historical fiction set in Berlin 1977 during a period of political [...]

BUST magazine has announced the 7th Annual BUST Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair Holiday 2011 The event will run for two days in SoHo, and [...]

In honor of its upcoming 20th anniversary, “Yo! MTV Raps” will return to television on Sunday, December 4th on MTV2. The retrospective will air after the [...]

Filmmaker Kaleo LaBelle’s documentary Beyond This Place will be screening for one night only in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles. The screenings will be [...]

I teach high school students, and when Steve Jobs passed away last week, all of them were devastated. “Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are like, [...]

The New York City Food Film Festival is back! The festival will be a four-day event with an impressive array of short films, local restaurants, [...]