(Source: hydramag.com, via winblog)

DIASPORA SOUND SYSTEM

jonathan gold. writer of ramen and rap, among other things that make LA amazing. 

losbangeles:

NWA hitting the cover of LA Weekly, 1989.

(source: LA Weekly)

(via egotripland)

OUT OF THE PAINCAVE 

Wrote something on El-P’s new record. Some choice interview cuts in the mix too, namely, El-P introduces his idea of paincave—that unfortunate experience in which smoking too much weed turns on you. That was supposed to be the title of the second Company Flow album that never was.   

Jacques Boiffard, “Big Toe” (Gros Orteil, 1930 Documents)

Corns on the feet differ from headaches and toothaches by their baseness, and they are only laughable because of an ignominy explicable by the mud in which feet are found. Since by its physical attitude the human race distances itself as much as it can from terrestrial mud — whereas a spasmodic laugh carries joy to its summit each time its purest flight lands man’s own arrogance spread-eagle in the mud — one can imagine that a toe, always or less damaged and humiliated, is pcyhologically analogous to the brutal fall of man—in other words, to death. 

Keith Haring and the Rhythms of Painting

Yamagata Tweakster. The Korean John Maus. And more.