Orange County ska group No Doubt just released their first new single in a decade, "Settle Down." We couldn't help but notice the cover of the record looks like dog shit. So we asked Dann Miller, a renowned graphic designer responsible for one of the year's best album covers, a few questions about ... More >>
Ever see a poster for a show, or even better, one of those gluttonous, $100-a-head food events, and think, man, is that ugly? Ever say to yourself, I could do better with some gnawed-up crayons and the back of an envelope? Now is your chance. Set to go down at Randall's Island in New York on Sept ... More >>
Be still, our twitching hearts. Walter White's signature ice cream flavor doesn't exist just yet. But the good news is that the Ben & Jerry's execs in Vermont have a full two and a half weeks before the season five premiere to make this candy-speckled creation a reality. We can dream, can't we?
Annoying Orange is one of the biggest successes of YouTube, as the series that started as a lying-in-bed revelation from creator Dane Boedigheimer eventually found 2.4 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion views online. The series follows its title character as he interacts with other food i ... More >>
According to the results of the first State of Food Blogging Survey, your friendly neighborhood food blogger can be described as "a married woman in her 30s or 40s living in the United States. While she is either a parent or perhaps on the way to being so, she is likely to be employed full time, par ... More >>
Drake and his sweater on Saturday Night LiveThe young rap billionaire Drake has a new album out this week. It's probably fantastic! But more important than any critical assessment of his music, it's another opportunity for Drake to assert his commitment to the bemusing art of wearing really a ... More >>
"I just want a photo and the word lost and the telephone number and when and where she was lost and her name. Not like a movie poster or anything stupid." So rang the immortally frustrated words of the Shannon, the secretary or assistant or generic office peon with the gall to approach graph ... More >>
Matt LogueEnd of the world, indeed.Here's a good way to save $400 on a helicopter tour of the exotic, breathtaking empty 405 freeway during this weekend's massive carpool-lane construction -- and observe the rest of L.A. in a similarly unnatural state of car-lessness, to boot. (Plus, with all ... More >>
BrownRammstein at The Forum Friday Night Rammstein star in their own porno. "Pussy" is probably the most NSFW music video of all time. If you somehow managed to miss it when it was first released, in short, Rammstein made a porn ... with the help of Photoshop anyway. We have it here. Wanna ... More >>
A racist vision of our president, straight out of the O.C.Updated after the jump: Davenport gives an exclusive interview to OC Weekly; plus, she reportedly receives death threats. President Obama is coming to Southern California this week. How did some of us welcome him? By depicting him as ... More >>
Please enjoy our terrible Photoshop work. The food truck business is booming... literally. (Yes, we sometimes borrow our ledes from TV voiceovers.) In "Food For Thought," tonight's episode of CSI: NY, "the team enters the competitive world of gourmet food trucks when one explodes at a SoHo f ... More >>
Halle-freaking-lujahUpdate: L.A. temps are expected to brush record highs today: Downtown, the number to beat is 90 degrees. Eat it up, after the jump! Welcome back, Los Angeles. We missed you. After as painful a winter as ever there was -- enough for Governor Jerry Brown to declare the Cal ... More >>
Fresno rap up-and-comer and local pot promoter (hey, bruh, keep the green in Grizzly City), Fashawn has just dropped a new mixtape/free album via XXL Magazine. You should cop it, if only to hear what a black Bart Simpson sounds like rapping. (We actually think Fash owes West Coast Sound some ... More >>
New York State Senator Bill PerkinsWe wish our senators were this nifty on PhotoshopRats. Bedbugs. Rats. Bedbugs. Rats. Bedbugs. Rats. Bedbugs. Rats. Vermin reports streaming out of New York City tend to get a little repetitive (with the exception of that one about the snake in a toilet), so ... More >>
Talk of the Sound​We received some sanctimonious feedback after the Weekly reported Thursday that the West Hollywood version of AOL's McJournalism news site Patch lifted someone's content wholesale and then failed to immediately apologize for it (the site later took the obituary in question down a ... More >>
These gorgeous Victorian-styled paintings of Star Wars characters--hello! Jabba the Hutt as a 19th century robber baron!--were done by 23-year-old Alameda resident Greg Peltz. Peltz is technical director at Pixar. I like that Civil War painting of Vader. Do you think Vader would have fought ... More >>
When we first saw this mash-up of Scott Pilgrim and The Venture Bros. floating around on Twitter, it made our day. The piece was created by Annie Wu, a Baltimore-based artist and recent graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, as part of a contest Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley held ... More >>
Stuff MagazineNot a Photoshop: The actual Liz PhairRemember Liz Phair? And Tom Jones? Sure you do--they're both adult artists with a sizable fanbase who still buy records and have the income to pay for concert tickets. They might not be making Bieber or Bublé moolah, but the right record ind ... More >>
File-sharing sites all over the interweb are abuzz with the alleged "leaked" version of Die Antwoord's hotly anticipated new album $o$. A couple of them feature disturbing pics purporting to be the real cover art for the album. What do you think? Proper leak or fanart Photoshop creativity? Option ... More >>
File-sharing sites all over the interweb are abuzz with the alleged "leaked" version of Die Antwoord's hotly anticipated new album $o$. A couple of them feature disturbing pics purporting to be the real cover art for the album. What do you think? Proper leak or fanart Photoshop creativity? Option ... More >>
Keeping it realist at the old boys club
For foodies, eating isn't simply a perfunctory way to fill a need but rather an experience to be enjoyed through all the senses. A well-done dish is more than taste and smell. It has to entice with its plating, textures, portions, colors. Which is why a well-taken food photograph plays an integral ... More >>
The Spanish prime minister's daughters dressed goth for their White House photo op last month. The photo went viral from the White House's Flickr photostream, and the world laughed. Spain has not yet declared war on the United States, but the Facebook page created in the girls' honor, "Las Hijas Got ... More >>
Meet the Musicians: Tobacco, Graveface, the Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut and (of course) Father Hummingbird.
Each week West Coast Sound gets thousands of emails from bands, publicists, labels, fans, writers, haters, and miscellaneous eager souls looking to spread the word about their band/label/mp3/myspace page/masterpiece. Many of these releases fit neatly into a catagory: Band has new album out. Band pla ... More >>
The singer hadn't seen original drummer Mac McNeilly for 12 years: "We hugged for, like, three minutes and just giggled."
TraderZedThe "Fuck This Cake" Team: From left, Oscar Rivero, Zack Ginies and Loly Diaz. If you're someone who routinely Googles "dessert" and "fonts" and "Helvetica," you may have seen photos of a "Fuck This Cake" cake floating around on the Internet. It turns out there were many cooks in the kit ... More >>
This flyer is just a thing of beauty. MJ's has been hopping lately. Thumping bass bleeds through the walls, and I catch glimpses of glistening shirtless man-flesh dancing on a tiny stage as I walk to Trader Joe's for bread and cat food like the 80 year-old lady that I am. Still, I thought it was j ... More >>
Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.
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