A visual history of Shepard Fairey’s May Day Mural Beef

New York graffiti writers don’t seem to like Obey Giant. The evolution and decay of Shepard Fairey’s May Day mural may be more interesting than the actual piece itself.

Photo credit by frame: 1,2,3,4,5,6.

Pharoahe Monch at Summerstage 2010

Pharoahe Monch, one of our favorite lyricists, is playing a free show at Queensbridge Park on Wednesday 07/21 as part of Summerstage 2010. You may remember him from his stint with Prince Po as Organized Konfusion or his 1999 hit Simon Says.  

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Black City Teaser Video

After watching Spain win the (very scoreless) World Cup final, we ran over to catch Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof play Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures at Jelly NYC’s first Pool Party of the year.  Lines were short, the food got better (Roberta’s and Meat Hook!) and we couldn’t ask for a better combo to play the classic Joy Division album.  Xiu Xiu’s haunted vocals blended perfectly with Deerhoof’s guitars. The perfect start to the Summer concert season.

Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof at Jelly NYC Pool Party July 11, 2010 Photo Set

Terrence Parker’s rocking the telephone like it ain’t no thang.

PS1 MoMA: Warm Up 2010

PS1 has published the full calendar of events for this summer’s Warm Up 2010, a Saturday party that starts on July 3rd and goes through September 4th. We’ve highlighted some of our favorites; no complaints here except for the French electro in September.

July 17th: Air France, Ratatat (DJ Set), ARP (live)

July 24th: JD Samson, MEN, Kalup Linzy and the Sweet, Sampled, and LeftOva, DJ /rupture, and surprise guests!

August 7th: Gavin Russom, Alden Tyrell (live), The Crystal Ark, Special Disco Version feat. James Murphy & Pat Mahoney

August 14th: ?uestlove, These Are Powers, Treasure Fingers Kingdom

September 4th: Holy Ghost! (live), House of House, DJ Mehdi, Plus Special Guests TBA

Vice & Intel’s Creators Project Party NYC

Photos by Dave Surgan / Obscene NYC

Vice pulled off another huge event with a well curated line up of musicians and art exhibits. Interpol, M.I.A and Die Antwoord’s ridiculous tattoos were our highlights of the evening.

Full photo set of Vice & Intel’s Creators Project Party on Flickr

Tame Impala at Glasslands

Photos by Dave Surgan / Obscene NYC

Tame Impala tore through a 50 minute set of their infectious psych rock at Glasslands last night to finish their string of NYC dates. They were surprisingly young and we were impressed with their tight set with a few extended jams.  They can easily fill a larger venue and we imagine we’re not going to be able to see them in such an intimate venue for a while.

Full photo set of Tame Impala at Glasslands on Flickr

Tame Impala created a trippy site for their new (awesome) album Innerspeaker.  The site lets you remix your own version of the album art.

They played Coco66 and Pianos earlier this week, Glasslands tonight.  All shows sold out, you might be able to get into Glasslands with a Northside Festival badge.

The Rapture recommends you see The Electric Mayhem tonight at Union Pool. That is all.