Author: Jesse Ship

Мишка x Sprayground Lamour Supreme Backpack

Мишка x Sprayground Lamour Supreme Backpack

Yes, because you should be advertising the fact that you are a graffiti writer, as if paint covered hands and that shifty look in your eyes weren’t enough, hehehe.  Oh well, it is still a pretty sick retro-inspired bag and design by longtime Mischka collaborator Read more

JUSTICE JOCK JAMS: FRENCH DANCE DUO ARE MAKING UNLIKELY SPORTS ROCK

JUSTICE JOCK JAMS: FRENCH DANCE DUO ARE MAKING UNLIKELY SPORTS ROCK

Posted on AOL SPINNER Aug 10th 2012 5:00PM by Jesse Ship Justice, the French dance band made up of duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, will never be confused for jocks, avidly following events like the Olympic or the Euro Cup. But they have a Read more

PALLADIUM BOOTS  x BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB

PALLADIUM BOOTS x BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB

The two renowned streetwear labels (Palladium & Billionaire Boys Club) commissioned the design expertise of Japanese street artist and fashion kingpin, SK8THING, to create a new take on a classic camouflage print that will be available in both the Baggy roll down and Pampa Hi Read more

deadmau5 – album title goes here

deadmau5 – album title goes here

Ok, so I passed up a chance to meet, greet and interview the grammatically defiant mau5 at VELD last week because I was just a wee bit preoccupied with Justice  and HARDFest TO, but maybe I’ll have a second chance thanks to this great big Read more

J Devil: Jonathan Davis of Korn Tells EDM Audiences to ‘Go F— Themselves,’ Says They Love It

J Devil: Jonathan Davis of Korn Tells EDM Audiences to ‘Go F— Themselves,’ Says They Love It

  Posted on Aug 7th 2012 3:30PM by Jesse Ship  Hot on the steel-reinforced heels of his dubstep-influenced Path of Totality album,Jonathan Davis of Korn has ditched his black clad hordes for neon-slathered partiers with his current alter-ego, the cartoonish black-lensed, black-toothed, J Devil. EDM purists might see it as a case Read more

VELD – Day 2 – Bassnectar, Avicii, Nicky Romero

VELD – Day 2 – Bassnectar, Avicii, Nicky Romero

Veld seemed aptly named, as the sprawling Downsview park does somewhat resemble the type of vast South African fields of the festivals’ namesake.  It’s also the name of Deadmau5’s most recent single, and he just happened to be headlining the festival, so it made even Read more

HARDFest Feat. Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, Austra, M83 and MORE!

HARDFest Feat. Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, Austra, M83 and MORE!

I woke up Saturday noon to a simple one line email from my editor at Spinner, “Can you interview Justice at 330 pm?”  Obviously, the answer was yes, I would say yes even if I was in a quadriplegic full body cast. There was no Read more

Scion Sessions – Nosaj Thing, Doldrums, Jesse Futerman & More

Scion Sessions – Nosaj Thing, Doldrums, Jesse Futerman & More

The last time I saw Alphapup’s Nosaj Thing was about a year ago at a packed show at the Drake Underground.  You’d think that a free show would have even more packed-er results?  Oddly no, but good for us who had lots of comfortable dance Read more

Buraka Som Sistema Just Discover EDM Scene is Real: ‘I Thought it Was a Joke’

Buraka Som Sistema Just Discover EDM Scene is Real: ‘I Thought it Was a Joke’

  Posted on Aug 1st 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship Buraka Som Sistema thrive on a melting pot of cultures and sounds that emerged from Portugal’s colonialist domination of countries like Angola. Pulling rhythms from African and Latin music, you would never think that world music could Read more

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Scion’s automotive facilitation of cutting edge music culture gets its own week in Toronto, and will be kicking off with Mansion’s already well known Happy Endings party series at the dim sum restaurant by day, formerly known as the Bright Pearl Restaurant, that now actually goes Read more