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Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics from his upcoming book, How To Read more
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAAAIIIIIIIINS! The Toronto Zombie Walk 2012 was a drizzly, misty affair with many sfx nerds bemoaning their melting spirit glue and corn syrup blood. But patches of dry gray with bits of sunshine came through later in the aft so the shambling dead Read more
A little bit of a shameless plug here. No, I’m not working directly with the Sapient, the artist, but I was hired to write the press release for his new album, SLUMP, thanks to GoLightly Media. It’s actually a really tight sounding record, so Read more
Forza Horizon picks up, in a way, where Forza 4 left off, at least graphically speaking. While previous iterations of the series have been simulator focused, Horizon is actually an arcade-styled game with the high end car collector in mind. You’ll get to race against Read more
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chahttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgt, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix of his own tunes and Read more
Established in 1857, Wiser’s is one of Canada’s oldest whiskeys but the Spiced Up blend is one of the newest kids on the block. I attended a Halloween-themed launch event earlier this week where we got to try the brew out in a number Read more
Photo: Sean Berrigan Posted on Oct 9th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship A lot has happened to Jeremy Rose a.k.a. Zodiac in the past couple of years. Barely 23, he was (arguably) robbed of some of his most valuable credits for his work with The Weeknd (snapped up by Drake) but Read more
What? Snoop Dogg and Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize?? I had a sneaky suspicion that the BNR label woudl be up to more celebrity endorsement-style collaborations after they dropped that “Burst” track with Peaches. I actually asked them if there would be more to come Read more
I’ve been meaning to interview Wolfgang Gartner for a while, so I went to see what he was made of this past Thanksgiving at the Guv/Kool Haus Complex. I’m pretty skeptical of this new wave of EDM djs as rock stars but I was actually Read more
I’ve been rocking my Palladium Baggy Lites for since the summer and so far they have been my good friends across Belgium, Amsterdam, Toronto, and a handful of summer music festivals like Digital Dreams and IDentity. When I ordered them, I was a bit Read more