The Kills

Stripped down and dirty post-punk indie rock. If you haven’t heard of The Kills yet, head over to their Myspace and check em out!

Stripped down and dirty post-punk indie rock. If you haven’t heard of The Kills yet, head over to their Myspace and check em out!

If you are a fan of Daft Punk, check out Sébastien Tellier from France. He is good friends with the french electro duo and even had his album produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Really cool bike from Cannondale and G-Star. The colours, materials and textures combine to create an amazingly beautiful and functional urban bike.

Somewhere in the depths of British Columbia, Canada sits the shop of the new World Champion of Custom Bike Building. Unlike those Teutul fools, Roger Goldammer creates beautiful bikes which not only look gorgeous, they function as well.
Asher Roth is representing the burbs with his debut album The Greenhouse Effect Vol. 1 which is available for free. Is he just some great white hype? Hell no. Check out the video for The Roth Boys after the jump.

Check out this fresh track from Muse and Mike Skinner of The Streets.
Sounds a bit like a UK version of RATM.
Burton teamed up with Chuck Anderson of NoPattern to produce the Light Camo Feedback Bag for their 2009 collection. Make sure you check out their other collabo, the Light Camo Continuum Down Jacket.

Bike graphics have typically been very formulated, brand name, bike name and some flashy paint job to slap them over. But over the past few years bike companies have woken up to the fact that just like a snowboard, their bike frames are a great canvas for art. Norco has definitely been a major push behind this change, and these graphics from Devin Legget are a good example of that.

Exljbris is cooking up some quality well crafted free fonts. Museo comes in five weights (two of which are payed, but for only 17 bucks a pop!) and is available at MyFonts.
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