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.

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?

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.

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.

What makes the Vintage festival so unique is an absurdly long list of DJs and performers who have been invited to recreate key scenes from the annals of British musical history. Held between 13-15 August on the verdant Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, overlooking the sea, Vintage celebrates British design and creativity over five decades from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Its hard to believe that London is a bit short on great nightlife rooms, but we reckon that’s now all about to change thanks to the opening of a place called XOYO.

Okay, full disclaimer: summer 2010 will be the first time that the Mad Decent Block Party tours outside of Philly, but it looks to become an annual summer staple, an alternative to Lollapalooza, Warped Tour and so on for those that like their beats well done…

London’s most beloved art-house theatre, Curzon Soho is currently exhibiting The Gainsbourg Catalogue – a group illustration show paying homage to the film and musical works of this eccentric icon.

The Art of the Stompbox looks at the industrial and artistic development of pedals throughout the last century, with a special focus on the livingly designed and technologically precise pieces of art now being produced.

Spain’s Primavera Sound Festival has amassed an impressive lineup this year, one that I won’t be seeing, and neither will you (probably).

As Americans, should citizens be allowed to maintain their porn stashes—or is that, in fact, the province of the federal government?

Yo Gabba Gabba is doing something important for kids, and for entertainment in general: repping the oddballs.

The coming week bodes well for lovers of culture on both coasts. From Los Angeles to New York, art, music, and happenings combine in a series of events that both bend genres and break rules. The May 1st weekend proves particularly action-packed in Los Angeles, as far as categories blurring.

You’ve most likely noticed an increase in many things ‘awesome’ around here – granted, it’s probably a California symptom but hey there are in fact many shades of awesome-ness on the left coast of the US. The latest being ‘Awesome Challenge’ where ordinary people take on extra-ordinary tasks like um deciding to climb Cali’s highest summit Mt Whitney at 14 505 ft starting April 28th and besides the personal challenge of it all, it’s for a great cause in helping under resourced urban teens make it into the great wild outdoors and beyond.

Jai alai in the sky? Speed Racer in a plane? It will surely be the most expensive, least-watchable, and utterly dangerous sport in human history. It’s called the Rocket Racing League. It’s like plane races, except the planes are strapped with goddamn rocket boosters…

What makes Record Store Day—which takes place this year on April 17th—are the many special events and unique, ultra-collectible releases that bands and labels are doing in honor of the event.

This year’s WMC took place from March 23-27, and to get the skinny on how it really goes down behind the scenes, we asked Pat Pardy—one hald of our fave DJ/producer duo Evil Nine to give us an on-the-down-low diary of their time there.

Murs has been the face of West Coast independent hip-hop since he released his first single back in 1993. On April 3rd, he hosts the fifth edition of Paid Dues, the acclaimed one-day festival he founded to celebrate the best of independent rap past and present.

New York owns pizza. This is not debatable. America’s Babylon has a culture and pride around pizza unparalleled on spaceship Earth. It would be no stretch to say that where New York has pizza, Los Angeles has tacos. Tacos. Tacos.