Strangely still under the radar, the Englishmen of Clinic drop Do It! today, which marks their fifth album in just over 10 years. Click through to see the video for “Free Not Free,” which, with the band sporting their signature surgical masks, inspired this post’s title. (more »)

Do remember, we are looking for some fly females to appear in upcoming issues of Mass Appeal so tell all your friends to come through this Saturday!!

“80’s babies” rejoice! No longer do you have to shop for fly vintage kicks with someone’s foot stank already embedded in them. L&D and Adidas just rolled out these little diddies that you can cop today, fresh out the box. Lemar and/or Dauley are really some geniuses though. Somehow these kicks match everything they’ve ever come out with.

After more than a decade, Bad Brains, as an entire outfit, released their first studio album of new material, Build a Nation, in the summer of last year. Anxious fans grabbed leaked songs off the band’s Myspace page, uploaded tracks to their iPods, and went to purchase the CD at huge record stores when it finally hit the shelves. The aforementioned modern day music rituals are a far cry from way the fans got a hold of the DIY-style cassette tape that served as Bad Brain’s first album back in the early ’80s. For those who miss the way hardcore kids got their music back when shit was real, Build a Nation has been released as a box set complete with the most “punk” of the music mediums, the 7”. Although the box set doesn’t include what every Bad Brains fan wants: previously unheard music or at least a recording of an insane rant by H.R., but it does come with irie red, yellow, and green vinyl in a box with a sick Lion of Judah on it.

To survive the drought caused by the Writers Guild strike last year, most television networks re-uped with reality shows. And it makes sense. You don’t need any clever scripting to get washed up celebrities to murder the tango. Now that the strike is over, however, if TV viewers weren’t already painfully inundated with altered and recorded reality, they will be soon. With audiences getting bored of reality TV, the next logical step in entertainment would be a walkthrough reality show. (more »)

Then dress like him.

This is what the last Mass Appeal party was all about. It’s going down again on April 10th. If you don’t want to miss out, get familiar.

Gucci is still doing him and well if I might add. Check out the new video for “3rd Qtr” directed, in accordance with the rest of Gucci’s life, by Hood Affairs. On a side note, I can’t possibly be the only one excited about that Gucci Mane/Yo Gotti mixtape!

In his continued quest to bring the cool back to city, our boy Scottie Brix put together a little something to liven up Tuesday nights. This Tuesday’s special guest is true-school aficionado Peter Rosenburg, but look for the kid Treats to hold down the jammy jams.

Throughout Mexico, riot police are out in full force in attempts to prevent attacks against emo-kids. That’s right emo-kids. Punks, metal-heads, and various other sub-cultural groups have sparked a recent wave of violence against the kinder and more sensitive music scene. In response to the recent carnage, on Wednesday, “emos,” clad in tight jeans and signature black hair and makeup, marched in a demonstration in Mexico City. On a brighter note, imagine the freaky “emo” version of Westside Story that come from this.