The foghorns and whistles have all gone silent with Carnival coming to an end. Its been an amazing two days despite the sporadic heavy rain and winds. In true London fashion, the weather didn’t stop close to a million people from doing what they needed to do – which is party hard in the Grove.

Three shades of electronic-music hipster came together this past Sunday, August 29, at the Hollywood Bowl, thanks to a superstar lineup of the Chemical Brothers, Chromeo and Yacht.

Jack Spade and K-Swiss have announced a collaboration surrounding the first reprinting of Take Ivy, a book of photography featuring shots of sharply-dressed bourgeoisie during the 1960s.

The Glitch Mob’s innovative head-nod side has come back with a vengeance in their new mixtape, a genius companion piece that redefines Drink The Sea’s moodscapes brilliantly. It does so by pairing the album’s instrumentals and beats with a cappella vocals and grooves from the likes of Lil Wayne, M.I.A., Nas, Jay-Z, Daft Punk, Dr. Dre, Mobb Deep, Freddie Gibbs, Young Jeezy, Busta Rhymes and more.

If another person asks me if I’m going to Carnival this weekend, I’m going to have to inflict some actual bodily harm. Everyone goes to Carnival. Isn’t that why the crowds are so big every year?

There’s no disputing that Ricky Powell was there at the golden age of hip-hop – he’s got the photos to prove it, tons of them, and a few stories to tell as well. In the early 90s he earned himself a cable access show called Rappin’ With The Rickster. VHS recordings of the shows have been restored to DVD for this newly released Rappin’ With the Rickster DVD courtesy of NY connoisseurs, Five Day Weekend.

The thrill of seeing The National play in the sunshine on a loading dock with just thirty-forty Silverlake hipsters in attendance was a hard-to-believe moment… But now there’s proof!

Honestly, there isn’t enough room to list Brian Eno’s great contributions to music, art, design, politics, technology and conceptual thinking. The man just doesn’t stop: he’s signed a new record deal with always-forward electronic label Warp Records, with a full-length release planned for November, entitled Small Craft On A Milk Sea.

Bike shops have been cropping up all over London– almost in inverse proportion to petrol (aka gas) stations which all but disappeared from the city center in the past few years. The sign that the bike phenomenon is well and truly part of the zeitgeist is when you start seeing non-bike activities catering exclusively (or sorta exclusively) to the pedal-phile.

Last week was a busy one for Steven Ellison, who’s been discovering that London Town knows how to put on a good party (or three). As if that wasn’t enough, Warp have announced a new Flying Lotus EP – Pattern+Grid World – out in October. Mesmerizing artwork from Theo Ellsworth accompanies the release.

“Detroit Lives” is about, as Knoxville puts it himself as we see him drive around Motown in a mighty classic muscle car, an attempt to “see what’s goin’ on other than all the bad stuff you here in the news.”

The largest graffiti festival hits the walls of Islington, London this weekend featuring Europe’s top artists. Coined as the “International Wall Street Meeting,” MOS will showcase aersol styles from France, Greece, Germany, Spain and across the UK along with fresh live music.

The most played track this summer has got to be James Blake’s “CMYK.” Having been released only a few months back, it seems the blogosphere world can’t get it out of their system and neither can we. The track is masterstroke and described as this year’s Hyph Mngo.

Since the mid-90s, when the Hardkiss clan was particularly prodigious in terms of hype and musical output, the glow of that eclectic west coast tribal thing has dulled. However, the hardcore shall prevail, especially the talented and Scott Hardkiss has shown his ability to survive any permutation of electronic music. He made the jump to New York a while ago, but his ethos remains decidedly left coast and on his last God Within full-length it shows. He has also shown his continued relevance by enjoining a bevvy of remixers…

New York’s D&D Studio is the partial home of Biggie’s Ready to Die, Nas’ Illmatic, and most consistently the output DJ Premier and Guru, who made it their center of operations for the bulk of the 90s. A genuine hunk of that rap s**t.

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson has truly put his fingerprint on the most adventurous, meaningful sounds: the meta-talented composer, arranger, and instrumentalist has worked with everyone from John Cale to Rihanna, Outkast to Flying Lotus, Dr. Dre to Mulatu Astatke.

The romance of Sunday league football is the subject of Reality Football by photographer, Alan Powdrill. A real labor of love, it has taken him three years to complete. The images are a reminder that the Beautiful Game isn’t about 7-figure salaries, it’s about grit and determination and that unexplainable buzz you get from kicking a football about, and getting covered in mud.

Like all relationships, it’s important to tend to the one you have with running and approach it with vigor. That is to say, if things are starting to fall flat… spice it up! Here are a few suggestions and things I have tried or heard about that help keep things interesting out on the road.

It’s been a good year for Funkineven, aka Steve Julien, who is really one of the nicest dudes around town, has a crazy knowledge of music and earlier this year came with the discordant street jam ‘Soul Glow’ feat. Fatima. But just when you think you’ve worked out what he’s all about, he goes an drops an Acid record full of TB303 basslines and some funny ass mantra.

For those in Los Angeles County who many not be able to trek towards the beach without hitting the freeway and are not within arm’s reach of a National Forest, there is always urban trail running along the Los Angeles River and my most recent discovery, Rio Hondo, an tributary of the Los Angeles River.