Event: Everfresh / Open Studio / Sunday 09.05.2013
For the first time ever the Melbourne based street art crew Everfresh open their studio up to the public. This will be your chance to meet the artists behind the works you have seen on the streets of Melbourne and your chance to purchase works directly from the artists.
Featured artists include: Fred Fowler, Meggs, Makatron, Tom Civil, Tooth, Rone, Mayonaise, Stabs, Wonderlust and many more.
You need to register for this event here
Watch: Sisa – Cocaine of the poor
VICE investigates Greece’s infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of economic collapse in part (1/2)
In part 2, we see how the police, fascists, anarchists, dealers and drug users are all fighting for local supremacy.
Disclosure Debut Album release 31st of May
The young UK producer siblings, Guy and Howard Lawrence, are aged 18 and 21 respectively and have made serious waves since putting up a track on Myspace a couple of years ago. Breaking out of the club and dance charts with last year’s single ‘Latch’, the Lawrence bros proved it wasn’t a fluke with lead single ‘White Noise (ft. AlunaGeorge)’, which entered the UK singles chart at #2 on release and has remained a Top 15 single for the consecutive 10 weeks since its release.
Testament to their consistency, Disclosure’s
The international story on Disclosure is on fire with the duo fresh from a massive US tour including performances at Coachella, Bowery Ballroom with TNGHT and Julio Bashmore, and their upcoming UK tour all but sold-out.
Check out the following remixes and video, which have been filtering out over the past couple of weeks
Ai Weiwei / Music Video “Dumbass”
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has released a foul-mouthed heavy rock song, Dumbass, with a video parodying his months in police detention. Weiwei is known for his controversial art projects and as a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called “tofu-skin schools”. So this music video is no surprise in the long line of political activism meeting arts culture check the video out above.
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