Benjamin Shapiro

Benjamin Shapiro

  • My Friend Is Wearing Abercrombie & Fitch for an Entire Year

    Back in high school, I avoided Abercrombie & Fitch like botulism, because everyone I hated (or at least was forced to tolerate) was dressed tip to tail in this stuff. So when my friend, the artist Amanda Schmidt, told me that she was rocking 'Cromb for...

  • Watch Japanther's Kaleidoscopic New Video for "Stolen Flowers"

    Japanther just sent us their new video for "Stolen Flowers," a song that sounds a lot like the other scuzzy pop-punk coming out of Brooklyn loft parties right now (this means that it is inherently good).

  • Nivek Ogre Is Totally Doomed

    Nivek Ogre (né Kevin Graham Ogilvie) is best known as the guttural screech that is synonymous with Skinny Puppy, who arguably invented electro-industrial in the early 80s. I recently spoke with Ogre about such joyful matters as the Fukushima meltdown...

  • R.I.P. Ed Koch (1924-2013)

    Former NYC mayor Ed Koch, the guy who literally hauled New York's ass out of the gutter in the mid-70s and once recommended using wild wolves to combat graffiti, died this morning at 2 AM of congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old.

  • Reasons Why It's Impossible to Get Laid on Tour

    I've toured for a good portion of my life, and it may be surprising for all your horndogs to hear that—wait for it—I've actually never seen a single band member meet someone at a show and do the deed that night.

  • I Talked to RZA About How to Forge the Greatest Weapon Ever

    RZA's new movie comes out today, so I called him up and talked to him. I got so excited that I broke my favorite pen.