Spring Awakening begins tomorrow. Do you guys have your glowsticks ready? One of Chicago’s largest EDM festivals is set to greet the weekend early tomorrow afternoon, but before you groove to some beats, one final behind-the-scenes look has been released. The video shows the last-minute construction of the stages at Soldier Field that’ll hold all of...
Spring Breakers has to be one of the most divisive films of the year. While I personally liked the film‘s themes when I saw it at SXSW a few months ago, most audiences didn’t appreciate director Harmony Korine’s (Kids) attempt at capturing the hazy party atmosphere of a Florida-set spring break. Perhaps caving into the audience...
When it comes to rap videos, you pretty much know what you’re going to get: gold chains, luxury cars, stacks of money, and of course, the video vixens. That to me is the recipe for a majority of rap videos these days, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I myself like creative music videos that...
When Arnold Schwarzenegger famously said, “I’ll be back,” who would have known he’d return to the Terminator franchise 30 years after he uttered those words? The former Governator has recently confirmed he’ll be portraying a Terminator in the upcoming Terminator 5 sequel. This might break the film’s canon, given Schwarzenegger’s age and the believability for Skynet to...
Introducing The Konstruktor – The World’s First Build-It-Yourself 35mm SLR Camera from Lomography on Vimeo. If you want to get away from your phone and all the Instagram filters, I suggest you check out Lomography’s new toy camera. The Konstruktor is the first plastic 35mm SLR camera that you assemble yourself. The features include a...
What bugs me more than anything is seeing people using hashtags on Facebook. For those who don’t know, hashtag links, most commonly and visibly utilized on Twitter, are a series of metadata tags that grouped together common tweets, posts, etc. Again, for the non-tweeters out there, somebody could write a tweet about the Blackhawks, then add...
The team at GoWhere Hip Hop just premiered a hot summer track by Stadium Status, “Special,” with features by our homies ShowYouSuck and Chris LeSage with production by ElSchmitty. “Special” keeps it real with the ladies as they let these anonymous girls know that, sometimes, they’re not as special as they may think they are....
Yesterday, Myspace –who’s been scheming towards a full-on comeback–released a new commercial unveiling the remodeling of the site’s interference and concept to a national audience as it was played various times on TV yesterday. High-profile artists such as Pharrell, Mac Miller, Schoolboy Q, Ciara all made cameos, but the highlight for many was the appearance...
If your testosterone levels aren’t high, they’re about to increase exponentially after you watch this first trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire. Acting as a bookend prequel/sequel to Zack Snyder’s 300, Rise of an Empire follows Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton), an Athenian warrior, during The Battle of Artemisium. The film’s events will take place before, during, and after 300,...
In a future where an attempt to stop global warming resulted in an artificial Ice Age, the majority of life on Earth has died. The survivors are forced to live on a train, the titular Snowpiercer, that simply runs across the planet, driven by an engine that is always in perpetual-motion. Over the years since...
