Art isn’t just for galleries anymore. Mountain Dew’s Green Label Art campaign has been creating limited edition works of art on bottles and cans since 2007, and last week in Boston, the company announced that this year they’re adding something new.
The soft drink maker, owned by PepsiCo, has been an active supporter of extreme sports, skateboarding in particular. It sponsors star athletes and festivals including their own namesake festival, The Dew Tour, which combines a concert and a skateboarding competition which travel to cities around the country. The Dew Tour made its way to Boston’s TD Garden June 25, where Mountain Dew’s signature professional skateboarder, Paul “P-Rod” Rodriguez, competed and made a special announcement.
In a recent interview, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said that "it's simply a matter of time - months rather than years - before the music business establishment completely folds." And when it does, he said, "it will be no great loss to the world." It is this seemingly bleak view of the music industry that motivates small Do-It-Yourself record labels like Boston-based F Nice Records.
The upstate New York music festival Mountain Jam isn’t exactly Woodstock — but it’s getting close.
Just a few miles away from the location of Woodstock, the quintessential music festival, Mountain Jam carried an eerily similar vibe from June 4 to 6. Now in its sixth year, the music festival made leaps and bounds with its jam-band heavy, hipster-friendly lineup. And while the festival doesn’t have the name recognition of some of its contemporaries, it's still a major draw, and many made the trip to attend the three-day event.
Twitter is a great way for celebrities and companies to keep in touch with the public. Unfortunately for them, impostor satirists and parodists think so too. Armed with a sense of humor and Twitter accounts that resemble their real counterparts’, these online carnival mirrors distort the original message in a hilariously inappropriate fashion.
By Andrew Judd, News Correspondent
You probably haven’t heard of Hannah Georgas. I don’t say that to give off the “indier-than-thou” vibe of musical superiority but because she’s a veritable phantom of a musician. Her debut record, This is Good, was released...
By Paul Marx, News Staff
To listen to Flying Lotus (or FlyLo, depending on your level of familiarity) is to get an idea of perpetual motion. Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus’s third full-length album, is the artist's most innovative work yet. Released May 3 under Warp Records,...
By Anna Marden, News Correspondent
Attention coffee addicts: There is a new place in the neighborhood to get your fix. Pavement Coffeehouse, at 1096 Boylston St., specializes in high-end, hand-dripped, made-to-order espressos, coffees and teas.
Pavement is the evolved...
Coming off a successful first entry in a comic film franchise, "Iron Man 2" had high expectations to live up to. So high, perhaps, that the film folds a bit under the pressure. While it delivers a sickly sweet flick reminiscent of the first, the movie fails to leave the same long-lasting impression as its predecessor.
“Concert” seems somewhat an insufficient word for what Icelandic post-rock singer Jónsi offered ticket holders at the House of Blues May 5. It was, to say the least, an experience, riveting not only to the ears but also to the eyes and, (dare I say it?) the very soul. Jónsi (pronounced Yon-see), whose real name is Jónsi Thór Birgisson, is perhaps better known as the lead singer of the band Sigur Rós. However, the band has recently announced that it would go on an indefinite hiatus.
By Andrew Judd, Correspondent
Kaki King's fifth studio album, Junior, was released April 13 under Rounder Record. It is her first full-length album since her 2008 effort, Dreaming of Revenge, and bears little resemblance to it. King has made her living as a personable...
by Emily Cassel, News Correspondent
Comedian Russell Brand made the character Aldous Snow’s ridiculous wardrobe and overtly sexual lyrics famous in 2008’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” This June, Brand is reviving Snow and pairing up with Jonah Hill for “Get Him to...
Nowadays, personal spotlighting is all the rage. Spurred by social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Internet users of all demographics take questions like “What’s happening?” and “What’s on your mind?” quite literally and to the next level, with some sharing the more explicit elements of their lives through numerous status and photo updates. 
