Author: Jesse Ship

15th Annual Powerball

15th Annual Powerball

A lackluster, art lacking, rained out, 15th Powerball anniversary doesn’t mean it should fall short of a few trainwrecks and babely motor cycle wipe outs. Feast your pretty eyes.  

Mutahdi Drum Festival & Cherry Beach Promise Event

Mutahdi Drum Festival & Cherry Beach Promise Event

Sunday funday in the parks with the Mutahdi Drum Fest, now at Woodbine (no longer in Queens Park) with the Capoeristas to T-DOT Batú and  and a happy hoopin’ good time at Cherry Beach.

TRENTEMØLLER PENS ‘ABSTRACT SOUND CLASH’ SOUNDTRACK TO 15TH CENTURY PAINTING – AOL Spinner

TRENTEMØLLER PENS ‘ABSTRACT SOUND CLASH’ SOUNDTRACK TO 15TH CENTURY PAINTING – AOL Spinner

Danish electronic DJ/producer Trentemøller is currently working on a soundtrack to an apocalyptic painting hanging in the Danish National Gallery. The 15th century piece of unknown Spanish origin depicts a scene from the book of Revelations where the angels of God follow Lucifer, rather than the archangel Read more

JOHN DIGWEED’S NEW MIX WILL HAVE YOU ‘MASHING YOUR HEAD INTO THE GROUND’ – AOL Spinner

JOHN DIGWEED’S NEW MIX WILL HAVE YOU ‘MASHING YOUR HEAD INTO THE GROUND’ – AOL Spinner

After more than two decades as a DJ and 12 years as the label manager of Bedrock Records, it can said that John Digweed is a constant over-achiever. He’s persistently pushing himself, and crowds, with his signature progressive house and techno sound, which you can check out Read more

NIN + DFA = WTF? – The Hand That Feeds remixes

NIN + DFA = WTF? – The Hand That Feeds remixes

In anticipation of the new NIN album ‘Hesitation Marks’, I did some digging around for new tracks and instead came across this obscurity from 2008.  It makes me feel like there might have been a time when Trent Reznor and James Murphy hit it off Read more

Sensation Global Party Map!

Sensation Global Party Map!

  The task was to highlight some of the world’s biggest parties and compare them to the insanity that was Bud Light Sensation in Toronto. While Sensation may have been just one night, what we have below is timeless! Click to expand.

James Perse Boutique – Yorkville “Launch”

James Perse Boutique – Yorkville “Launch”

James Perse has been steadily building his brand of ultra-comfortable LA-styled pima cotton chic basics across North America since 2003, but his presence is fairly new in Canada.  I was at the Toronto store “launch” last month. I say “launch” because it has actually been Read more

OH NOES! Toxic Belly Bugs!! – From the Spambox

OH NOES! Toxic Belly Bugs!! – From the Spambox

      If you get this email in your spam/inbox, you would be most wise to NOT click on it, but luckily for weirdos like me who live for the bizarre underbellies of the internet, the contents of the mail were a harmless .jpg. Read more

Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

If you were looking for vitamin rich vegetables at the Phoenix when the Bloody Beet Roots rolled through town, then you had come to the wrong place. If you had a hankering for big, bloody, over the top beats, however, then this was indeed the Read more

Natasha Kudashkina “DOTS” show @ Cabal

Natasha Kudashkina “DOTS” show @ Cabal

  Natasha Kudashkina is an award winning visonary artist/body painter/tattoo artist and doer of many things! Check out some shots from last Friday night’s art show. In 2011 she placed second at the North American Body Painting Awards in Dallas, Texas (yes this exists!) In Read more