Our Selection of Kick-ass Soccer Ads for Brazil 2014
12 June 2014 — the official start of The Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil — is fast approaching and numerous ads are intensifying the countdown. Of course the main aim is to showcase the brand and its product, but some of these clips will have you on the edge of your seat ready for...
Richie Hawtin releases new Plastikman album EX, live at Sónar by Day, in a worldwide exclusive show
On 12 June the new Plastikman album EX will premier exclusively at Sónar Barcelona with a special adaptation for SónarVillage. And, the Sónar 2014 app to check up all you need to know about the line-up is available now. More info below! The exclusive show featuring the new Plastikman album EX is the eagerly anticipated...
Vagina activism | Shameless provocation or conceptual art?
Deborah de Robertis sits silently as museum-goers stop to contemplate the Luxembourg-based artist’s spread legs until a French police man arrests her for indecent exposure. On 29 May 2014, she walked into Paris’s famous Musée D’Orsay dressed in a gold sequin dress, and posed below the controversial 19th century painting titled ‘The Origin of the...
FIRST PEEK AT HBO DOCUMENTARY SERIES FOO FIGHTERS: SONIC HIGHWAYS
Viewers watching the 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony this weekend on HBO were treated to a surprise teaser preview of the new HBO series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. The sneak peek features an exclusive Dave Grohl mission statement accompanied by the first passage of music to be unveiled from the...
Inspiring Street Art That’ll Awaken Your Creative Senses!
Here’s some amazing street art we found on the net to stimulate your creative brain cells. These street artists have successfully combined real-life features to create a piece of art that ‘lives’ because it involves its surroundings and beholders.
#sonar2014 | Spain’s Most Prestigious Festival of Advanced Music & New Media Art Comes to Cape Town
Sónar — Spain’s most prestigious International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art — is about to kick off in Barcelona. Taking place from 12-13 June, 2014’s line-up promises to live up to its ‘first class reputation as a leading reference for international festivals.’ Massive Attack, Caribou, Woodkid, Lykke Li, MØ as well as...
CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014 OFFICIAL AFTERMATH VIDEO
In February 2014 The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival had us all dancing alongside the fabled City Hall within Cape Town’s most central district. It was an event to remember not only for its quality music, but mesmerizing visuals. Yet most importantly it proved that Cape Town is able to compete with the ever expanding...
Michael Jackson Is Back from the Dead!
Back from the dead and re-united with the living in the form of a hologram ghost, here comes a brand new faster-than-light performance by the late King of Pop. The computer-generated show to ‘Slave To The Rhythm’ — a new song off Jackson’s second post-humous album Xscape released on 13 May 2014 — was put...
Asia’s #01 Premiere Dance Music Festival | The Sunburn Season 7 Aftermovie is Here!
If you missed the Sunburn events in India last year, you should be preparing for 2014’s Sunburn calendar — or stop saying that you’re an EDM freak. Just kidding, you can actually check out what went down at Asia’s #01 Premiere Dance Music Festival with a million-strong Facebook following in the Sunburn Season 7 Aftermovie...
EL JIMADOR PRESENTS THE FIRST 100% AGAVE SURF CLASSIC – Postponed again!
el Jimador Tequila, in partnership with Zigzag and Mahala, will be hosting the very first Agave Surf Classic at Big Bay in Blouberg, Cape Town. The premium 100% agave tequila has teamed up with local artists Ian Armstrong, Jason Hayes and Stuart Moerdyk to produce five unique agave surfboards, which contestants will have the opportunity...
LGBT on the Rise: Conchita Wurst Wins Eurovision Song Contest
Although the Eurovision Song Contest has been accused of lack of humour and style in the past, it has nonetheless remained an important event in Europe since 1956. Brought to life to unite Europe after WW2, it has become one of the most-viewed shows in the world with an average annual audience of 125 million...
Humans in Full Body Rubber for Japanese Condom Advert
‘As the air is sucked out, I start feeling his temperature, his sweat,’ explains one of the female models who was ‘packed together’ with her partner for Condomania’s new condom advert shot by documentary photographer Hal. Although it aims to encourage safe sex and eternal devotion through advising ‘Preserve the love. Wear a condom,’ the...
Guitar Legend Dan Patlansky On His New Blues Record
Genius guitarist, acclaimed singer/songwriter and globally respected purveyor of the blues — that’s Dan Patlansky. He has opened for the legendary Bruce Springsteen, toured Europe with rapper/blues artist Everlast and now he’s off to tour his native environment with his new release Dear Silence Thieves (see below for tour dates!). Before starting his ‘Southern African...
