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xrocksthespot™ is proud to announce Broox Pulford as the Loops t-shirt contest winner!!! The votes were extremely close 10 votes for #1 and 11 votes for #2. So, instead of printing two shirts we'll be creating buttons of the dream-catcher design done by Ryan Jensen. You can also see all of the wonderful submissions that Sara got to judge below. Thank you to all of you who participated.

This is what change is all about. It comes with no gimmicks, no need for aesthetically pleasing campaign branding, this is what it's all about right here. This is what the United States really needs right now.

New chops from Hella's Zach Hill. The music video animation is by Katelyn Reeves and was edited by Mike Rafter for the song "Hindsight is Nowhere" which is on Zach Hill's debut solo album Astrological Straights. The album was released August 12th, 2008, I highly recommend it. Astrological Straights features artists such as Les Claypool, Chino Moreno, !!!/LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope, both of the guys from No Age, Stern, the Flying Luttenbacher's Jonathon Hicshke, the Advantage's Robbie Moncrief, some of the other Hella guys, etc.


GIVE IT A LISTEN!

Nevada City, California's sBach, the solo project from Hella guitarist Spencer Seim, has posted three tracks to his MySpace page, as well as premiered his new video for the song "Track 02" on Pitchfork.tv. The album was released August 19th, via Suicide Squeeze.


sBach is all set to hit the road this fall with These Arms Are Snakes.


Hope you all enjoy. :)

NOTE: Alternate location per DNC.

Flier Design: Ryan Scholtes
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Temporary bike racks designed by the musician and biking enthusiast David Byrne.

The nine racks — in shiny red, black and silver — are intended to promote bicycling, which has been a main emphasis of the current transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan. That emphasis includes Summer Streets, the program to close off a 6.9-mile north-south route for six hours on three consecutive Saturdays (this Saturday is the last day); the Cityracks program, which provides free sidewalk racks for short-term bike parking; and a design competition for newer, sleeker racks.

Not only was Mr. Byrne, of Talking Heads, a judge in that competition, but he also decided to submit his own designs (outside of that competition).

“It was important to me that these new racks be the same thickness and material as the existing racks—to help identify them as practical bike racks and not just modern art,” Mr. Byrne said. “The locations about as perfect as one could imagine — Wall Street for the dollar sign and Bergdorf’s for the giant high heel!”

Eight of the new racks were installed in Manhattan, with the other in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

“By bringing attractive yet functional sculptures to our streets, we are elevating the profile of cycling, and we believe that more and more people will begin to think about cycling as a mode of transportation, and not just a mode of recreation,” Ms. Sadik-Khan said in a statement. “Regular bike riders have an eagle eye for our current bike racks but these nine installations will capture the attention of all New Yorkers.”

The super sweet guys at Cypher 13 have made some updates to their site. Go check that shit out yo!