Palladium Boots has a cool series called “Uneven Terrain” that explores some of the man-made odd-modern landscapes, that are simultaneously strange yet interesting from an anthropological standpoint. The scars of the industrial revolution to be navigated by today’s explorers. Recently, they went in search of oil underneath Los Angeles, which is already pretty “meta” if you live here.

Our friend Serkan’s Sunsplash Antalya debuted in Turkey this past week (3-10 May) and the roving Pure Evil was there to spread mayhem and joy and reports on how festivals can and dare we say should be :

Anyalya bloody brilliant !!!!! – Just got back from Yoga with Jamie Liddell…. dancing with Gilles P and chillin’ in the sun with Stomin’ Norman Jay MBE. AMAZING event and amazing hotel.. it sure knocked spots off a muddy tent in Glaso fo’ sho…

The mud at Mantua festival was fine and all–BLK JKS onstage in full wellingtons!!–but the band felt compelled to return to Ireland for a couple of proper shows to fully illustrate its sound, minus the fog and horizontal rainfall so thoroughly enjoyed at the Ireland festival debut a few weeks ago. Three weeks into this [...]

dateline 9 aug 08 – AMSTERDAM!
Planes, trains and automobiles—BLK JKS made it to Amsterdam late last night, effectively stepping out of the chauffeured Cadillac that squired them from the airport in Brussels (after 2 days of back and forth to Dublin) and on to what is arguably the finest stage in the Netherlands: Paradiso. [...]

AND so begins the KSPACE.TV diary as BLK JKS hit London inna fine style, arriving last night and making some rounds in Shoreditch today. After a brief meeting at the K-Space salon, the band spent the afternoon at a photo shoot (and impromptu basketball game) for a fashion story due out the fall–imagine south Africa’s [...]