Creepiest Scene EVR.

Dust La Rock latest show “Joking Victim” opened up last week out in LA and for those who couldn’t make it here’s a little snibit of the event. The new exhibit promises to be a intimate, stark exploration into the themes of pain versus pleasure, free will versus destiny, fetishism, the occult and mortality. Last we saw Rock he was holding a show inspired by Psychic TV’s Genesis which was quite the hit over at 350 Broadway.

This time out we suggest you make your way down to HVW8 Gallery and see it for yourself. The exhibit will remain open until May 8th which gives you plenty of time to grab your friends (which we assume you have) and see an ever promising exhibit. It even looks like cute girls show up to these things so maybe you’re more enticed to go. Whatever motivates you to check out gnarly art be sure you jump on it.

All pics are courtesy of our own Matt Draper.

You’re at a monster truck rally. You’re seeing an incredible spectacle of Buicks being demolished by USA 1. Then you see Grave Digger jumping twelve DeLoreans then landing on its two back wheels. You’re thinking “that was awesome! it can’t get any better than this.” Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a gigantic metal T-Rex appears. It’s larger than all the enormous monster trucks you had seen all evening. It eats monster trucks, is made out of old car parts and shoots flames out of its nostrils. That monster-truck eating metal T-Rex? That’s Mako Records.

Mako Records is an electronic music label based out of Moscow, Russia, run by prime minister of crunching bass, The Proxy. After international success with releases on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings and the now classic rave anthem “Raven,” Proxy gathered his resources to launch Mako Records in his native city to build a home for all of the incredible, then-unheard epic club music from Russia.

Like Proxy himself, each Mako artist is unique, bold and confident. While The Mould brings his own brand of driving, tension building electro house, Saint Rider‘s take on dubstep brings punishing sub bass and climbing rave builds to another level. Somehow influences of dubstep, industrial, electro house and even disco live under the same roof. Disco duo Noise Invaders is not afraid to bring the retro vibe, as they deliver lush and out of control melodies into the mix. The title track off their latest release “Time” sounds as if Giorgio Moroder produced E=MC2 while driving 120 mph on Rainbow Road from Mario Kart.

Meanwhile The W‘s “Victim” featuring Yunus is as polished and paranoid as Pretty Hate Machine era Nine Inch Nails. “Victim” has razor sharp, piercing synths combined with dark, Rza-esque piano chords and some fat disco slap bass for good measure. Last but not least, we can’t forget the single that initially drew me to Mako: Happyboxx‘s “Destroy It.” The minimal, anxious bassline feels like an approaching two-story bulldozer. The constantly rising and tense strings compliment the unmatched power of its trash-compactor drums.

Detroit has techno, London has dubstep, Chicago has juke, and now Moscow has Mako. Expect an array of epic and relentless bangers this year from Russia with love. If you’re looking for a variety of next level, sound-system smashers programmed to make you and an army of Exoskeletons from T2 dance, look now further than Moscow’s best kept secret weapon.

This is Press Start! Welcome one, welcome all. How are you on this fair weekend? I hope you’ve escaped the drudgery momentarily. Tapped out of the 9-5 machinations of our wonderful grindo-culture, for a couple of days. Sip some suds and check out the five things that I dug in gaming this week, and as usual share your own.

This week we have fucking Best Buy wanting to ruin your shopping experience, the Wii 2′s specs dribbling down your chin, a pastor bribing sinners with Nintendos, and more.

Let’s party.

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#1: Best Buy Promises To Ruin Your Gaming Experience
I like shopping for shopping for video games at Best Buy. While I admittedly do most of my video game acquiring whilst sitting in sweaty, dank midnight release lines, whenever I go to Best Buy it’s a welcome change of pace.

Why?

Motherfuckers at Gamestop are miserable. All up in my grill, wanting to know if I want to reserve anything. If I want to buy a fucking disc protection warranty. If I want to buy  a strategy guide when the entire universe of the internet can provide the sort of tips and tricks I need.

You don’t get this shit at Best Buy. Or at least you didn’t.

This week it was revealed that Best Buy wants to add all sorts of happy horseshit to their gaming section. They want to add desks and shit where “specialists” will sit and “help us” with our trade-ins, and offer us “exclusive digital content.”

Oh fuck me. Best Buy, be the one place who stays the fuck out of our way. I don’t want to reserve anything unless I say so, and I certainly don’t want to have a warranty on a disc shoved down my throat.

Best Buy: Making Amazon look like a better, and better option.

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#2: Church Bribes People With 3DS And Other Electronics
Here’s an inventive way to get people to go to church on Sunday. Nothing can get people to abandon reason and science in favor of mystic Zombie Walkers better than materialism. I mean, I’ll be fucking goddamned (there’s a pun in there somewhere) if we don’t worship anything like we do our products.  At least one church has finally realized that our lawn and our cars are our only God.

Meet  pastor Eric Dykstra and The Crossing Church. They’re offering $8,000 in electronics as a bribe to drive asses into seats on Sunday. That’s right, if you attend, you’re entered into a fucking lottery to snag a Nintendo 3DS and other bullshit. Praise the lord! Dykstra breaks it down:

“It’s awkward to say ‘hey come to my church.’ It just feels weird and you don’t want to twist somebody’s arm so to kind of alleviate some of that weirdness what we’ve done is said hey if you bring your friend to church they might potentially win a 3D television, a 3DS or a 3D movie ticket package.”

Fair enough, fair enough. Motherfuckers have to be ingenuitive to get people back into the altars. Makes a road trip to Minnesota almost worth it.

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#3:  Sega Attempts To Break Our Heart Again With New Sonic Game
Sonic Generations, welcome to the fucking world! In celebration of Sonic’s 20^th Anniversary, Sega has announced yet another crack at the Sonic franchise. Man, Sonic’s 20 years-old. What’s more staggering than that is that there hasn’t been a fucking console Sonic game worth playing for more than half of that. I’m throwing the fucking chips down, Sonic Adventure was the last excellent title for our hedgehog. If you think that game wasn’t excellent, I may even grant you that.

Here comes Sonic Generations though, and it’s a bit of a unique spin. They’re offering classic levels such as Green Hill Zone, but with a twist. You can play through the levels either as classic Sonic, or with a viewpoint that echoes the more modern approach.

Fuck. The modern. Approach.

The ability to whiz through Green Hill zone with sexified graphics just may be enough for me to rock this title. However, more than likely, the game is going to drop, it’s going to get reviews that shitcan it, and I’m going to bemoan the lack of a quality Sonic on my plate.

Sonic 4? Fuck that game. Come on Sonic Team, get this goddamn shit done.

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What’s good, everybody? When I’m not writing obtuse album reviews involving various Norm MacDonald references for Мишка, I work over at Dubspot here in New York editing videos and blasting mid 90′s house on Fridays.

I’m their most recent contributor to their podcast series and my mix dropped today. Check it out! It’s a collection of hype and smooth tunes with a bunch of sub bass. There’s tons of originals from myself, some friends and exclusive tracks that won’t be coming out until later in the year.

Dubspot Podcast 15 – Rx by Dubspot

Canada’s beloved hardcore band Fucked Up weren’t invited to this years Coachella but it didn’t stop them from putting on a show not too far away from the ever popular music festival while debuting new material from their upcoming album David Comes to Life. Our buddy Matt Draper was there to snap some shots that we figured we’d share as there are no videos floating around on the interwebs.

The band’s new album is set to be an incredibly ambitious rock opera. Weird right? No weirder than the band releasing a fake compilation called David’s Town as a companion piece to the album last week for Record store day. It features Fucked Up backing up a variety of singers across 11 tracks aping late 70s and 80s English punk and post-punk. David Comes to Life comes out on Matador records on June 7th

Calling all bass heads! Calling all bass heads! Baltimore, are you ready for some seeeeerious bass for your face!? This one will go down in the archives as one of the wildest parties ever! Our hometown crew, the almighty Trouble & Bass, will be invading the city of Baltimore with a little help from PDX Baltimore. Label honchos Drop the Lime and The Captain will be bringing NYC’s own Heavy Bass way of life to the infamous club Sonar. And that’s not all! They’ll be accompanied by bass soldier Flinch and spaceman for hire, Udachi.

Here’s a little pregame mix from the man they call Udachi! This was prepared about a month ago in order to get the troops ready at SXSW and WMC for a sonic attack! Udachi has been working on some new tripped out tunes lately, which mark the start of Party Like Us records’ second year. Fat kicks and driving synths bring it all together tied in a bow by a new logo from the one and only AC Bananas! Go forth and mosh!

Saturday April 23rd, 8pm-???
Sonar
407 East Saratoga
Baltimore, MD
18+ | $15

Deathraiser – Violent Aggression (2011) [Xtreem] // Grade: B

Got 27 minutes to spare on your Friday afternoon? Check out the new album by Brazilian thrash metalers Deathraiser. It’s super quick, straight forward thrash free of overdone riffs and high production that seems to be the standard nowadays in the thrash scene. Don’t expect too many surprises though, Violent Aggression is just what you’d expect based on the album art. But that’s what Brazil does so well, straight-forward, no gimmick thrash!

Each of the nine songs hover around 3 minutes and will supply plenty of fuel for you and your bros to shred the gnar and stomp around in circle pits. “Violent Aggression” and “Annihilation of Masses” both build momentum and blast through with 6 minutes of high-octane output. “Terminal Disease” starts with a cheesy flatline before the snare takes over.

The saving grace of Violent Aggression is “Enslaved by Cross” and it offers a segue into “Command to Kill”. The next track “Killing the World”, is politically-charged that addresses terrorism with a political sound clip before it blasts into three minutes of non-stop thrash. The last three tracks, “Oppression Till Death”, “Lethal Disaster” and “Thrash or be Thrashed” close out Violent Aggression. If you’re a fan of Brazilian thrash and like your music pretty straight forward with no surprises, pick this up!

Last Friday we were pleased to host the opening of another fantastic art exhibition in our 350 Broadway store. Alexander Binder, who’s work has been featured on our clothing before, is presenting his collection entitled Necromusica for the next 6 weeks. This German photographer is a master of occult imagery, and has a deft hand for capturing the dark, mystic side of nature. His images are simultaneously beautiful and haunting.

Necromusica is a collection of his works that have also been used as album covers, or for other music related projects. Binder is a diehard fan of doom, goth, drone, and pretty much anything dark. His love of music has led him into various visual collaborations with various artists and labels. Now, you too can get your hands on some of his pictures. The work from Necromusica is now available for purchase in our online store along with a special T-Shirt. Put a little evil on your wall. Buy a print.