Fake News/Real Vinyl
Life In A Bungalo just received an e-mail from the folks at the Daily Show with a look at the Dunny they customized for the upcoming Kid Robot Paintball event. The artists, William Joseph Dunn and Dave Blog, posted a photolog of the customizing process on his Flickr site. Proceeds from the show [...]
Confessions of a Customizer
Plaseebo Custom is a shop dedicated to creating unique, one of a kind collectable figures and designing original figures for limited soft vinyl production. We pestered lead designer Bob Conge to fill us in on what separates Plaseebo from the rest of the run-of-the-mill customizers.
An Interview with Tara McPherson
Call her the queen of poster pop, call her a lowbrow goddess, call her the female Frank Kozik–To outsider art fans Tara McPherson is a master (or is it mistress) of cartoon imagery and is single handedly making it cool to like sad girls with missing hearts and super-hot space cadets. Life in A Bungalo [...]
Who is Abe Lincoln, Jr?
For weeks toy fans were speculating what the super-secret chase figure would be in the latest set of Kid Robot’s widely popular Dunny series. In the past, Dunnys designed by kings of lowbrow like Kozik and Coop have spurred hundreds of vinyl art collectors to scurry to hunt down these hard to find chases.
Then the [...]
UPSO Interview: Why Mustachioed Men Are Cool
Prior to the release of Dunnys Series 2, there’s a good chance you never heard the name UPSO or Dustin Amery Hostetler, but you probably have seen his work. Designing portraits with digital media and a cartoony, yet life-like style, UPSO has received paydays from some major magazines, including Wired and Flaunt. And, thanks to [...]
Adam Wallacavage Interview
Best known for his outrageous photography, Adam Wallacavage has jumped off the deep end and invited art lovers into his undersea world of massive sea creatures. The artist has created a series of stunning chandeliers modeled after octopi and suspended high above the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Each piece is masterfully designed and completely different from [...]
(Circus) Punks Not Dead!
A little over two years ago, Paul Fresno and his partners in crime stormed the art toy world, resurrecting a staple of carnival culture—the knockdown doll—and offering it up to the rising stars of the lowbrow scene to modify it as they please. Art giants like Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman, and Frank Kozik joined [...]
Shan Michael Evans is Squidboy
If you want to get a major toy manufacturer to take notice of your work, you make a custom figure. If you want to blow the playing field away, you start by making an entire custom line of Dunnys and follow that with an endless flow of custom paintings and platform toys. Shan Michael Evans, [...]
Tombstone Brawlers Interview: Bringing the Doom and Gloom
It’s hard to visit the Garden State and not notice the Tombstone Brawler’s name plastered on almost every show flyer. The band has been rocking the East Coast for seven years with their brand of full-on rock n’ roll and creepy psychobilly lyrics. Life In A Bungalo caught the Tombstones at a recent NJ show. [...]
An Interview with motorbot
Yesterday, the artist known as motorbot posted a picture of this custom Kaws designed to look like Mickey Mouse. I’ve seen a ton of his work around the Web, including a fantastic ham-shaped Labbit, but this boggled my mine. It wasn’t that the work was shocking (though it is pretty awesome)–what made me ponder it [...]
Eagles of Death Metal Interview–Radio Bungalo #25
Playlist:
Eagles of Death Metal: “Bad Dream Mama”
Eagles of Death Metal: “Miss Alissa”
Eagles of Death Metal Interview with Jesse Hughes
Eagles of Death Metal: “Don’t Speak”
WWiii: “Take Off Your T-Shirt”
Osaka Popstar: “Blank Generation”
Between the Buried and Me: “Kickstart My Heart”
Be Your Own Pet: “Bicycle, Bicycle, You”
Time Again: “Broken Bodies”
Stars and Stripes: “Storm Over Europe”
Misfits: “Skulls”
The Clash: “Garageland”
To [...]
Vintage Lagwagon Interview
Warning: This interview contains large amounts of senseless babbling and prattling. It was conducted with Jesse of Lagwagon, during their show on May 31, 1996, at Coney Island High. A good time was had by all.
Nekroman Interview-Radio Bungalo #19
Formed in 1989 by Danish submarine operator and tattooist Kim Nekroman, The Nekromantix survived at least two waves of psychobilly going on to release successful records on Epitaph’s Hellcat imprint. Commandeering a handmade coffin-shaped upright bass, Nekroman has written dozens of songs featuring the creatures of the night and tons and tons of ghouls.
An Interview With The Turbo A.C.’s
If kicking ass had a soundtrack it would feature more than a few songs by the Turbo A.C.’s. This band of NYC castoffs has created the perfect melding of rock and punk satisfying both the greaser and mohawker nestled deep within your rock ‘n’ roll soul. After stints on Blackout and Nitro Records, the trio [...]
The Horrors of Geoff Kresge
Over the course of 15 years, Geoff Kresge has switched from playing electric bass in AFI, to upright bass in Tiger Army, and now guitar in The Horrorpops, he stops short of calling himself a punk virtuoso, but his dexterity is second to none. “When I started playing as a kid, I started out as [...]
Boy Sets Fire Interview
Boy Sets fire incorporates an eclectic range of styles that dominate the last album. Was the sound something you set out to do, or is it created from the band’s different influences?
We’ve always done that since we first started, but I think it’s just matured over the years. It’s what I call musical schizophrenia. Ever [...]
Vendetta Red Interview
Vendetta Red is taking the rock world by storm, creating a whirlwind of press with their brand of screaming emo rock, infused with chaotic lyrics and song structure that switches from moody melody to roaring hardcore. Their video for “Shatterday†is on MTV, and their latest record Between The Never And The Now” is shredding [...]
Yellowcard Interview
Imagine walking into your high school cafeteria, and being told that you have to sit through a concert while you eat your sloppy joe and rubbery pizza. But instead of your high school choir or marching band walking into your lunchroom to bore you for an hour, it’s a national punk rock band.
The Raunch Hands: New York City’s Kings Of Sleeze
The Raunch Hands have been one of my favorite bands for quite some time. Their influences are many, and they proudly wear them on their collective sleeves, but they are still one of the most original bands in any sub genre of rock and roll. At the time the Raunch Hands were an active band [...]
Niagara Rises: The Story Of A C-Pop Queen
Punk rock and art don’t always go hand-in-hand, but Niagara’s past as singer for Destroy All Monsters helped mold her into one of today’s top Lowbrow artists. Ditching the mic for a brush, this queen of Detroit rock is taking over the pop art world. Life In A Bungalo got the rare opportunity to chat [...]
An Interview with an Action Park Employee
In 1996, someone had the bright idea to have the second annual Warped Tour at Action Park. For the price of admission ($46) music fans and amusement park aficionados got a day-pass to Action Park and access to the show (featuring Face To Face, CIV and Down By Law). While walking through the park it [...]
Mooney Suzuki Interview
Formed six years ago, the Mooney Suzuki has stirred up some noise in the neuvo garage rock scene with their over the top art rock shows and twang-driven rock tunes. The band’s two guitarists met in high school and soon formed the backbone of the band. According to drummer Augie Wilson, “They met through the [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot Interview
It’s been seven years since Sir Mix-A-Lot has graced the hip-hop world with his genre of comedy rap that spoofs as much as it attacks. But the original pimp of the nation has returned with a new album and a message to the ever-angry hip-hop community. “I don’t know where we got this thing that [...]
Kathie Olivas: Living With Misery Children
Kathie Olivas’ art is equal parts creepy and cute, balancing a line between the obscene and the beautiful. Much like her contemporaries Liz McGrath and Scott Radke, Olivas takes traditional imagery and twists it just enough to make the audience wonder whether the subject is a child, an alien, or a corpse.