It was a wet and wild weekend at Governors Ball 2013. Tropical Storm Andrea put a damper on the festivities, but fun in the mud was had by all. Relive the [hazy] memories by having a glimpse below and pressing [...]

Getting ready for Governors Ball this weekend? Whether you need pregame music, or can’t make it and want to be there in spirit, here’s our 2013 mixtape to get the summer vibes going. Be sure to check in with The [...]

Judson Harmon, founder and designer of ØDD, has recently teamed up with the independent footwear company Praxis to produce limited edition unisex, leather skate sneaker/combat boots. In celebration of this collaboration Judson commissioned acclaimed artist Jason Akira Somma to produced [...]

Down into the cavernous Chez Andre within The Standard East Village, deep red lights flooded a room usually reserved for rowdy behavior. This early evening, however, was more tame than the venue appeared, adorned with its vibrant graffiti and leather [...]

Cat Power didn’t exactly go out on a creative limb for her latest video, “Manhattan,” but one need not go far to capture the magic of this borough. For anyone that can appreciate the beauty in the anonymity and solace [...]

Name: Kiki Occupation: Photographer Seen: 7th Avenue, NYC WILD Wish: For my Persian cat to live forever.

After months of cleaning, New Yorkers have begun to rebuild their Sandy-devastated neighborhoods. It’s a triumphant step in rehabilitation for those who have been scraping ocean detritus from their basements since October—and for those who weren’t so lucky. The challenge, [...]

Nolan Bellavance’s designs have been garnering a lot of hype since he won the MADE for Peroni Young Designer award back in September, granting him $25,000 to create his collection and a spot at Milk Studios during fashion week to [...]

Moving from one place to another you take certain bits of comfort with you. For sculptor Derek Weisberg, the move from Oakland, California to Brooklyn, New York was all about retaining the thread of street culture from one city to [...]

Name: Claudia Occupation: Creative Director Seen: Wooster St., Brooklyn WILD Wish: To go to Thailand.

Name: Lauren Occupation: Singer Seen: Mercer St., Manhattan, NY WILD Wish: For peace.

In the beginning of December, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a public call for ideas to reinvent the handful of phone booths throughout New York City. A mere fifteen years ago the city boasted 35,000 of these landlines spread across town. [...]

Stand Up For Fashion, or STUFF, is a new organization founded by model, journalist, activist, and UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Yomi Abiola, as an effort to harness all of the influence, resources, and energy of the fashion industry and [...]

It has been a few years since the brightly received debut album of the refreshingly percussive Local Natives. They emerged in a rather special freshmen class that included the likes of Florence + the Machine, The xx, Edward Sharpe & [...]

Considering this documentary’s title, the reveal in its last 10 minutes should come as less of a shock. How to Survive a Plague, masterfully directed by journalist-come-filmmaker David France, is a deeply affecting piece of storytelling. The film tells the [...]

Alex Ridha, better known by his stage name Boys Noize, is taking the world by storm. And just in time. Electronic dance music has seen a stateside resurgence, sweeping across the nation and making international superstars out of innovators of [...]

LCD Soundsystem have always been more than a band. In fact, the Band wasn’t a band at all to begin with — that was to come. And today the Band has, well, disbanded; but LCD’s place in the New York [...]

In a leap for any burgeoning music project, Live Footage have released their debut video: a mosaic of New York City that yields insights into the interconnected lives of its inhabitants. The NYC-based collaboration of cellist Topu Iyo and percussionist [...]

“I felt like I was asleep for years,” reminisced Jayson Kramer of the Chicago-based quartet, California Wives. Abruptly abandoning his path to medical school, the to-be lead of a what we will call for lack of a better term an indie [...]

Photographer Mo Gelber captures a deviant couple being arrested for tagging the streets of New York City. Following her release, the girl pictured, Alexis Creque, told the NY Daily News: “I was just the look-out. We had a crazy romance [...]

Who: Patrick McGuinn Where: New York City What: Indie filmmaker, musician and avid bike rider. Also, the son of legendary Byrds lead singer Roger McGuinn Photo by Frank Franca What’s on your mind today? Sunny Weather — I do love it. [...]

Red Hot, an advocacy group that “fights AIDS through popular culture,” is using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to produce another in a line of great compilation albums. In 2009, the organization released the critically-acclaimed album, Dark Was the Night, which [...]

(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) A woman takes a moment of prayer at the Sikh Cultural Society of Queens, New York. With the gunman shot dead, it remains unclear if the mass shooting at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a [...]

Churner and Churner’s Wooster Enterprises, 1976-78 is some mix of a historical art exhibition and a paper goods boutique set up in a previous generation of downtown New York City. It is a small monument to the tremendous undertaking of [...]

“When you start a band do you imagine how it will end?” asks Chuck Klosterman to James Murphy. The simple answer is no. In the LCD Soundsystem documentary, “Shut Up and Play the Hits,” chronicling the band’s final 48 hours, [...]

Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave. The American Dream. These are ideas that are committed to heart as a kid growing up in the States, and tossed around with patriotic impunity — treacherous it is to dissent [...]

A young girl plays in an open fire hydrant on a hot afternoon in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, July 1.   Photograph by Holly Dutton

Couples wait in line in to obtain marriage licenses, register a Domestic Partnership, have a civil Marriage Ceremony, or have a private religious or civil Marriage Ceremony elsewhere in the Marriage Bureau Offices of Brooklyn City Hall in downtown Brooklyn, [...]

Last week, the Drums brought their summertime sorrow to New York City’s Webster Hall on a night that matched the gloomier side of the band’s identity. The quintet brought their retro-prep style to their hometown at the beginning of a [...]

WILD favorites Lily and the Parlour tricks have had a fit of March madness. Just after releasing their clip for “The Poison Song,” these city kids hit the road down to Austin for the music pilgrimage that is SXSW. The band’s [...]

Who: Jenn Eve Eisner What she does: Fashion Stylist and Personal Shopper Where: New York City What’s on her mind today: I just found out that a good friend is pregnant. I’m fantasizing about all the baby gifts I’d like [...]

Of the endless amenities afforded to the burghal dwellers of New York City, green space is one that comes at a premium. Urban planners the world over are having to consider new paradigms of metropolitan environmental integration. Two entrepreneurial architects [...]

Who: Meleni Smith Where: New York City What she does: Spreads Love (singer/songwriter) What’s on her mind today: It’s Valentine’s day so love is on my mind:) What she is currently working on: I am working on creating videos for [...]

Ever wondered if there was an easier way to locate eco-friendly food and businesses, all with the touch of your fingertips? If the answer’s yes, OK Go’s Andy Ross and Eytan and The Embassy’s Eytan Oren has that covered. The [...]

Who: Lily Claire Where: New York City What: Musician What’s on her mind today: Sandwiches. What she is currently working on: Keeping my sanity, and a couple of new songs. What do you think there is too much of, and too [...]

This is a very special edition of Heavy Rotation, taking a look at the unforgettable experience that was globalFEST.  My first goal of the night was to keep track of how many new instruments I would be exposed to, needless [...]

This weekend, dynamic musicians from around the world converge in New York City’s East Village for the ninth annual globalFEST. Webster Hall’s three stages play host what is one of the most eclectic and influential world music showcases in the [...]

Combining dissonant guitar riffs with angelic vocal harmonies, Lily and The Parlour Tricks are the perfect combo of pretty and gritty. Channelling Tom Waits, the band has a mysterious depth that holds audiences transfixed throughout their salty and sweet set. [...]

Who: Lauren Moffatt What she does: Designer Where: Her NYC studio Photo of Lauren, daughter Stella, and Gertie the dog: The Glow Magazine What she’s currently working on: Reading Yahoo News when I should be working on our Fall 2012 [...]

Life is a journey, and Christopher Paul Stelling’s life has been a never-ending, tireless one. Before penning out tunes, he studied under a master guitar builder in Colorado, worked in a produce market in Boston, slept in a closet in [...]

There’s something fishy going on the camp of Cansei de Ser Sexy. A few days ago, it was revealed that band founder and main songwriter/producer Adriano Cintra had quit the Brazilian ensemble and that he didn’t give the group permission [...]

On November 1st, The HOLE will present the first comprehensive gallery exhibition in the United States by British artist Matthew Stone. The exhibition will focus on the intersections between ideas, photography and sculptures that define Matthew’s work. Along side his [...]

The CMJ Music Marathon is an aptly-titled festival in New York City spanning 5 days in more than 80 venues with dozens of panels and films, along with hundreds of music acts. The Marathon, put on by the College Music [...]

The WILD seeks to highlight up and coming artists, especially those with a social conscience. To give context to our present and future, it helps to understand our past. Harry Belafonte leveraged his signature music talents to fight for humanitarian [...]

As the third week of the Occupy Wall Street protest approaches, the media has started to take note and organized labor have extended their support. Despite these early achievements, an endgame remains nebulous. The privately owned, publicly occupied, Zuccotti Park [...]

Who: Malia Mills What she does: Honolulu born, New York city based, Swimwear designer Where she is: At her W38th street studio, NYC Photos by Britt Kubat What’s on her mind today: Looking forward to a late lunch with my [...]

Toro y Moi led a throwback dance party at Webster Hall in New York City earlier this week in support of their new EP Freaking Out. The pop melodies and electro vibes made one hard pressed not to bounce around [...]

As attention in recent years has shifted towards economic recovery, special interest groups from multinational energy corporations have worked quietly yet tirelessly to distort the climate change debate. Despite being the largest energy consumers and second worst polluters of the [...]

Pharrell’s new film, Tokyo Rising, premiered last night at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City.  The project was a creative marketing collaboration between Palladium boots and director Thalia Mavros.  The film takes Pharrell on a journey through the creative [...]

An old school UK graffiti artist has regained prominence in recent years due in part to a tit for tat tagging feud with the most famous street artist in the world. Robbo began as a London-based graffer with a style [...]