Jay Z – D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)
Jay Z’s not messing around in the first single from Blueprint 3. Aside from snuffing out autotune, the videoclip sees him chauffeured around by Lyor Cohen, playing cards with Harvey Keitel and shooting hoops with LeBron James. Which is what you do when you’re Jay Z. Then you go home to Beyonce…
A friend of ours recently schlepped around Europe. While in the Czech Republic he stumbled across the HQ of William Morris – the infamous smoking company. They have a museum on-site dedicated to the awesomeness of smoking and a lot of vintage cigarette packets with INCREDIBLE graphic design. Hit the link to see our www.Lifelounge.com update and the full series of photos.
Thanks to John Citizen for the photos
Let’s celebrate Michael Jackon’s life via the miracle of Moonwalker on Sega’s Megadrive.
This was released back in 1990 and, for the time, was actually pretty decent. Doesn’t look so hot today but the dance moves at 1:57 are not to be scoffed at. Also, Bubbles the chimp makes a cameo.
Jeremy Jay – Breaking the Ice
We get sent a lot of albums at Team Evil HQ. Most of them are shit. Or really mediocre. And to be honest, it’s better to be really shit than mediocre… But that’s a whole separate article / issue.
The point is, we get sent a bunch of albums and sometimes, out of the blue, we get something really incredible that we’re not familiar with. Jeremy Jay’s Slow Dance is one of those albums. We reviewed it a while back and said it was incredible. If you haven’t heard it here’s a little sample. There’s no videoclip or anything, so you’ll just have to look at Jeremy for a bit. Or open another tab. Whatever, we’re not going to tell you how to live.
See that above? That’s a hand stitched Luke Skywalker inside a guttered Tauntaun. We’re a little hazy on the whole Star Wars ‘canon’ but we seem to recall Luke had to gut one of the animals and sleep inside it to survive frostbite in one of the movies – Empire Strikes back? Or maybe we just made that up?
If your brain is about to explode from indignation you’ll be interested to know there’s a thing on in the US called Stitch Wars. Basically, a bunch of people who can stitch have gotten together to make plush Star Wars plush figures. Oh, and you can buy them. Go here to spend money.
These are the new R+ sneakers from Rocawear. They’re kinda simple looking, and they seem to ‘borrow’ from a few other designs, but we don’t hate them. And God knows, we HATE A LOT OF THINGS.
If Jay Z can just rework an old MIA song and release a 30 second add for these we’d totally buy them.
Okay, we don’t know if it sucks or not, all we’ve seen is the preview (above). That said, the whole video is being streamed via the Nike SB website, so if it is dross you can always go watch some porn instead. Or get drunk and buy something useless on Ebay. Midget porn on Beta?
The Clipse (feat Kanye West) – Kinda Like a Big Deal
The Clipse are back with their third album, Till the Casket Drops. This is the first single and it’s ‘okay’ – not brilliant. They’ve got a lot of different producers in on this one (not just Neptunes) so we’re kinda looking forward to checking it out. Also, we never get tired of cocaine rap.
Okay, it’s not quite ready yet, but Team Evil 4.5 is almost here. It’s a totally different concept to the previous magazines and comes in a unique format. A limited run of 500 will initially be given out free of charge. Special limited edition versions will then be sold. We’re looking to follow-up with new editions every 8 weeks.
Oh, as for the format, that tape above is a clue… And no, it’s not going to be a cassette tape. Even we’re not that impractical.
