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lupe & rhymefest: chicago’s got next

There must be something in the water they pump through those Chicago pipelines. Sure, MC JUICE (no product placement there; that’s really what he calls himself) might have put Chi-town on the map in the early Nineties with his mic-killing freestyles, and Common and Twista have been representing the city’s cutting edge hip hop aesthetic […]

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fluffy animals can kill you

I’ve just stumbled upon an excellent site by artist Luke Chueh, who came up with the idea for these decidedly edgy yet cute little critters. Subversive misappropriation of children’s icons is almost old hat (remember the Happy Tree Friends?) but Chueh’s takes on the subject matter is a lot, lot darker. Check out his massive […]

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what the…?! pt. 5

There goes the neighbourhood. Li Wei is a Beijing-based artist who specialises in shock performance and visual art. Born into a farmer’s family in a Chinese village, he travelled to Beijing to explore his artistic ideas, and has now had exhibitions in Milan and Madrid. His signature Mirror series has him walking around with a […]

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a continuous lapse in judgment, pt. 4

Everyone knows by now that the new Transformers movie is coming out next July 7th. Some people know that Michael Bay (of The Island, Con Air and *egads* The Rock infamy) is directing it. Few people know what the movie will turn out looking like. We can only pray. Well, how’s this for more than […]

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a hip hop summit with brains, yeah?

Look, forget what you heard about the Power Summit, that annual hip hop industry elbow-rubber which maps out the course of mainstream rap music and hip hop culture for each year. That’s kid’s stuff, a staged professional wrestling event in comparison to the National Hip Hop Political Convention. Organized in part by Jeff Chang, co-founder […]

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the wooster collective

Pretty heady stuff, this site has. Having been around for a little over 5 years, the Wooster Collective is an online repository of urban art – graffiti, installations, videos, Banksy-style pranks – from all across the globe. The New York couple who started the collective weren’t artististically inclined until… but wait. i’m not going to […]

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El-P will sleep when you’re dead

Some of you might be familiar with Definitive Jux Records, New York City’s avante garde, music snob hip hop label whose roster of artists would probably burn to a crisp and just die if they were ever thrown into a Daddy Yankee video. (Probably.) The label has been responsible for anarchy-inducing underground classics from artists […]

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a continuous lapse in judgment, pt. 3

Far be it from me to diss a brave new push for innovation, but Dave’s Gourmet Adjustable Heat Hot Sauce looks a little bit suspect to us. Fiddle around with the dial on the bottleneck, and control the spicyness of the sauce by regulating how much hot and mild sauce gets poured. It’s terribly complicated. […]

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the best magazine covers of the last 40 years

Sure, we here at JUICE take a lot of pride in our cover designs (tirelessly crafted with tender loving care month after month by our resident vector vigilante Davis Kam), but we admit that some other mags have neat fronts too. The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) compiled 40 of the best covers of […]

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they’re coming! they’re coming!

30GB of storage! Wireless connectivity! Download songs straight into your digital player! Immediate area networking and song sharing! And the chance to finally walk up to an Apple-using friend and go “Hah!” The Microsoft Zunes are almost here!