Hip hip hooray! 'Tis that time of year again: christmas trees, wreaths, family get togethers, snuggling up by the fireplace singing carols, oh, yes... and lots of gift giving! What better way to kick things off than with the wee ones!! http://www.los-list.com/blog/gift-guide-top-ten-treats-for-tots/feed/ 13 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:26:44 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8901

It's hard to imagine that cold weather season is upon us when it's a whopping 90º here in Los Angeles today. But, back home in New York (and in other corners of the world), autumn is on with winter at its heels. This killer montage by Bart Van Der Gaag entitled "Autumn by the Lake" has all the nose-biting and romantic feel of this time of year — plus some very white swans... http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/feed/ 6 http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:37:48 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8806

What a kick-ass and creepy new video from totally-not-Japanese band, The Japanese Popstars!! The trio — Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue — hail from Northern Ireland and have gathered a near-cultish following of fans in the few years since they began their musical collaboration. This latest video, for the track Lets Go off the Destroy EP, is illustrated by upcoming T-Shirt Tuesday-er... http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/feed/ 9 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:47:03 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8203

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We mentioned Lo's List's soft spot for podcasting gem Radiolab in our Complete Carry-On post from last year but the love just keeps growing for Jad and Robert. For those of you who aren't up-to-snuff with the program's format, the premise is as follows: each episode dissects — whether scientifically or philosophically — a topic, from Parasites to Parabolas, Mortality to Morality... http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/feed/ 160 http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-up-died-sound-at-zebulon/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-up-died-sound-at-zebulon/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 21:18:43 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=5708

Up Died Sound from left: Jonathan Leland (drums), Nicky Mao (guitar), and Tyler Nolan (guitar)

If you're kicking about Williamsburg tomorrow night & not sure about where the musicophiles are hiding out, your best bet is to swing over to Zebulon on Wythe just off of Metropolitan for a completely free musical lineup including one of our local favorites, Up Died Sound. Part pop, part psychedelic jam band, Up Died's free-spirited amble through their set is a pleasure to watch and hear. Mix that with the consistently top-notch ambiance of Zebulon, where you're sure to overhear conversations in a good half dozen languages at any given time, and you've got yourself a bona fide cultural excursion. In the meantime, take a listen to my favorite Up Died track: Emotion Sickness... http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-up-died-sound-at-zebulon/feed/ 6 http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-renaud-hallee/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-renaud-hallee/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:53:29 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=5559

I'm just loving Gravité, a visually breathtaking spin on beatboxing by Renaud Hallée (with the help of DP Simon Allard & PA Laurent-Dominic Chantal-Fortin). Ping pong balls, cutlery, glow sticks and sparklers — just goes to show that pretty much anything can be transformed into music!! Remember when you were a kid smashing the bejeezus out of the kitchen pots? Well, this seems to be the grownup rendition of that... Be sure to check out Renaud's other music-in-motion video Sonar as well!

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Argh! It's been so busy here at the EP studio lately ( & exciting: we have a new addition to the team — badass, go-getting, design sidekick Nicky). But, with all this busy-beeing, poor Lo's List has been getting the short end of the stick! So, while we keep trucking forth on these exciting new projects (rolling out this month!), we'll be throwing a bunch of haiku-ed posts into the mix!! http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-vanishing-point/feed/ 5 http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-delicious-design-league/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-delicious-design-league/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:47:27 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=4389

Billy Baumann and Jason Teegarden-Downs are the rocking graphic duo behind Delicious Design League – a Chicago firm dedicated to making superstar, cream-of-the-crop gig posters for music industry names big (Animal Collective, Lykke Li, Sonic Youth) and not-quite-as-big. All the silkscreens are available for purchase on their site at uber-reasonable prices ranging between 10 and 30ish greenbacks – quite the steal for limited edition, 18″ x 24″ slickscreens erm silkscreens! http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-delicious-design-league/feed/ 386 http://www.los-list.com/blog/fashion-scout-vanessa-bruno/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/fashion-scout-vanessa-bruno/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:59:45 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=4197

Vanessa Bruno's 2010 Spring / Summer Pret-a-Porter Collection

So, I'm not ashamed to say that, growing up, I had an overzealous obsession for pink. To this day, every time the color gets mentioned in a conversation with my father, he reminds me (in his persistent French accent) of my mini-me catch phrase: "PINK IS MY FAVORITE COLOR!!!" It hardly comes as a surprise when you consider the wall-to-wall magenta carpeting of my childhood bedroom... Stumbling upon Vanessa Bruno's Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear collection while doing some browser-window shopping at Style.com, I felt a happy pang of nostalgia - mixed with awe - as I flipped through the designer's runway show, spiked with some very classy pink ensembles. http://www.los-list.com/blog/fashion-scout-vanessa-bruno/feed/ 18 http://www.los-list.com/blog/shutterbug-at-vibromonk-with-the-heavy/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/shutterbug-at-vibromonk-with-the-heavy/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:12:32 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=3149

Photo Credit: Lo Martin

On January 13th the Iggy crew trekked out to Vibromonk Records in Bushwick, Brooklyn for another killer studio session of Iggy Music. UK indie rock & roll foursome The Heavy were impressively bushy-tailed for the 10am call-time: perhaps the sole perk of leftover transatlantic jetlag... Whatever qualms lead singer Kelvin Swaby might have had about the state of his voice were laid to rest as he belted out their first number: "Sixxxteen"... http://www.los-list.com/blog/shutterbug-at-vibromonk-with-the-heavy/feed/ 6