Metavore's Quick Hits / Slow Jams

Summer's over! Let's recap the last 5 weeks; Conventions, Taylor Swifting, Gangnam Style, Quick-Picks all nestled into a mixtape celebrating our favorite hits from sunny 2012. Lose the sunglasses, kid. It ain't sunny no-more. 

Quick Hits / Slow Jams. Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com, recorded for the SECOND time this week with Benedict and Ian in the same country/room. In Our QUICK HITS Section: - The Evolution of Snoop-- From Dogg to Lion - Golden Boy Michael Phelps and His Green Past And In Our SLOW JAM Section: - We Explore Danny Boyle's Olympic Opening Ceremony - We Speak to Ex-Eagle Scout Shepherd Laughlin Apropo His Renouncing His BSA Membership. QUICK PICKS: - We pick our favorite pop-culture gems for the week.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams.  Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com, recorded for the first time this week with Benedict and Ian in the same country/room. In Our QUICK HITS Section: 01:14 - Penn State leaves a void in the college football landscape 09:44 - Nas releases the greates album of the 90's And In Our SLOW JAM Section: 21:20 - Professor Paul F. Campos of U.C. Boulder Law on the shootings in Aurora and his article on Salon.com 34:02 - Violence in the movies QUICK PICKS: 46:42 - We pick our favorite pop-culture gems for the week.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams  Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unveiled METAVORE.com In our special Bastille-Day Edition QUICK HITS section: - Frank Ocean Goes Against The Tide  - The Future of Education is Something Like Phoenix Online - Daniel Tosh's Imfamous Rape Joke Sounds Familiar. And in our SLOW JAM section: - Now Katy Perry is just somebody that we used to know.

This week Ian takes a Quick-Trip to McCarren Park to speak with SAJA-Nominated Journalist Maria Abi-Habib, Afghanistan Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She speaks about Afghani Culture, being embeded with the Marines and riding planes with competitive choir groups.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From the soon-to-be unvield METAVORE.COM In our special Canada Day Edition QUICK HITS section: - Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen loose the cute and throw off the gloves. - Anderson Cooper is gay. No shit. - Aaron Sorkin tries his hand with a behind-the-scenes Cable News Rom/Com with disastrous results. And in our SLOW JAM section: - With some help from Sam Sommers we try to figure out if Lena Dunham handed herself the problematic Nora Ephron torch.

Quick Hits / Slow Jams Your Weekly NSFW Pop Culture Podcast From METAVORE. In our very first Quick Trip Edition-- Benedict, Russell and Nick take a road trip from Oxford to Birmingham to witness the very last performace of Jay-Z and Kanye's "Watch The Throne" Tour.  Along the way they remember concerts past, ponder the future, talk house music, interview a handfull of subjects to the throne (some willing, some unsure), and go home in a daze-- Slow Jamming everthing they just witnessed. Once back in Birmingham, the boys put their heads together and Quick Pick their pop-culture favorites of the week.

In this special Father's-Day Edition of Quick Hits / Slow Jams, Gwyneth finds a word more gag-inducing than GOOP, Seacrest brings the Tiny Screen to the Small Screen and JETPACKS. That is all. (--with a little more). Then in our SLOW JAM section we ask our fathers about the music their youth-- on and off the dance floor.

In this week's Birthday Edition of Quick Hits / Slow Jams from Metavore, we discuss the unholy marriage of Taco Bell and Doritos. We speak the universal language (or at least font) of Nokia Pure. And we pick sides in the Nicki Minaj-Hot 97 beef. Then in a double Slow Jam, Ian walks us through the 90s soundscape of todays music scene. And we sift through the afterbirth to make sense of Prometheus (nb: contains many spoilers).  Special thanks this week to Doug Walters for his invaluable production help. 

In this week's Diamond Jubilee Edition of Quick Hits / Slow Jams from Metavore, we discuss what all the noise in Montréal is about. We examine our feelings towards HBO's "GIRLS". And we cover our ears for the EuroVision 2012 Song Contest. Lastly we tune-in, turn-on and freak-out in this weeks Slow Jam about Timewave Zero and the impending singularity.

In this week's Memorial Day installment of Metavore's Quick Hits / Slow Jams: We discuss Baz Luhrmann's Less-Than-Great Gatsby trailer. We explore the changing nature of celebrity deaths. And we are slightly disturbed by London's Brand Exclusion Zones. Then we're joined by Shawn Fowley, music industry lackey and Diplo enthusiast, to slow jam how much we appreciate Diplo's new sounds. Follow us on facebook.com/MetavoreBlog or on twitter @MetavoreBlog.

In this week's installment of Metavore's Quick Hits / Slow Jams, we overcome some technical problems to tell yout that: You couldn't pay us to go see the Avengers. Our other president is black, and he has feelings about gay marriage too. Ian learns how to read. And we slow jam on gifs, with help from Laura Bernstein, Metavore's Design Chief/Design Editor.

This week in our Qucik Hits Section: Benedict has a terrible confession about MCA. Kitty Pryde is from the internet We’re on the fence about the N-word Iggy Azalea’s fashion SSENSE   And in this week’s Slow Jam: The New Aesthetic—And why it looks so awfully familiar.