Breaking News! The Puzzle Ball record has just been broken by our very own, Jeff Kyung!

You know the feeling when 4pm hits and your brain just doesn’t want to think anymore. When that happens here at Anti/Anti we make up absurd games to play. Sometimes it helps us to get back on track and get those creative juices flowing, other times we just get sucked into a vortex of inane competition, and before you know it we’ve wasted the day away.

James has set the record for fastest assembly of the puzzle ball. Can he be beat???? I guess we’ll wait and find out. 

When we first heard Phantogram’s music we all agreed it was begging to be mashed up with Biggie. So after a few days of splicing, and editing, we’ve achieved our fix. 

Funk Force Trauma was formed in 1976 by Gilbert “Gilgamesh” Pena and Eli “Cash-Berg” Bergawitz. While siphoning electricity from neighboring buildings to power the equipment they looted during the 77 blackout, they would cut school and make music. Berg’s disco/funk influenced beats with Gils lyrical storytelling created a funktastic combination that swept from Flatbush to Williamsburg, creating an instant cult following. Songs such as “I came to get the booty” and “So much Feugo” would be performed at high school jams and abandoned warehouse shows in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx.

Funk Force got their big break when Zulu Nation’s Africa Bambata happened upon one of their infamous Johnson Street basement shows. Funk Force was then signed to Africa Bamabata’s label where they released their 1986 hit “Funk my Bed” launching them to international stardom. Much to their die hard fans dismay Funk Force Trauma broke up a year after there first album dropped due to Gil’s struggle with obesity and Berg’s arrest for money laundering.

by Graydon Kolk

Best business card we’ve ever received.

Our good friend Esther Lee hooked us up with some sweet, never before seen (until now!) jackets from Dickies! Thanks Esther, your awesome, and we look forward to your next NYC visit! 

“Good… now I know where I can get wood when I’m in Chelsea.”

-James Amoros

Murder Machine Club is a Vancouver-based avant-garde, Industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art act “Mutual Sexual Tensions 1909, Act.II”. The band is made up of Peter York (bass guitar, violin, lead-vocals, vibraphone), Jess “Sega-Genesis” Tutti (found objects, synthesizer, guitar, precious metals), and Rick Atticus Rushakoff (drums, synthesizers, tapes, electronics). The members met while working as roadies for the Revolting Cocks & Ministry in the early nineties. Jess Tutti was once romantically linked to Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. Early on in the band’s career, Murder Machine Club’s violent & confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including mixing pornography with children’s cartoons, gave the group a notorious reputation in the United States and Europe. Murder Machine Club’s Asian leg of the “Always Love Your Children” Tour was cancelled do to extensive pressure from China’s Peoples Morality Council group. The band’s latest release, “Modern Man”, has been hailed by many industrial music critics as a ground breaking record, further advancing the genre.

I’m rolling over.