The Red Bulletin April 2015 - US

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BEYOND THE ORDINARY

LIVE FREE AND RIDE

WOMEN WE LOVE

From small to the big screen, a tribute

Rocky Mountain Rob is the world’s top uphill sledder

MIND TRICKS

NIAGARA HAUL

Behind an ice-climber’s ascent

Inside the brains of the world’s top acrobatic pilots

STEVE AOKI’S

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His reach extends beyond a DJ booth and a successful label, and into a neon future

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South Africa’s brightest social entrepreneurs

ALL-ROUND ACTION HERO WILL GADD IS A LIVING LEGEND IN THE TRUEST SENSE.

LIN K IN PA R K On their new album and Tw itte r madness NEYMAR JUNIOR, Brazilian Football Star

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28 RELENTLESS

A child of privilege, Steve Aoki had to prove himself through hard work—and harder partying.

DYLAN DON (COVER), RAMONA ROSALES (COVER), ERIK VOAKE, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES

MUSIC MEN

This month, both Steve Aoki and Aaron Bruno will be releasing albums. For Aoki, the Neon Future II release date will be one of around 10 things he’s got going on that day.

For Bruno, AWOLNATION’s second album will be the culmination of three years of soul searching (page 56). Two different pathways to a similar goal, but it’s the all-in commitment both of them share that caught our attention.

We followed Aoki for a few exhausting days in Vegas and L.A. to bring you our cover story (page 28). We also dispatched photographer D.H. Stewart to backcountry Idaho, where he rode his first snowmobile, uphill at the crack of dawn with champion sledder Rocky Mountain Rob (page 50). He’s still in one piece. Mostly. Enjoy the issue.

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“Be the wind at his back, not the spit in his face.”

SOFIA VERGARA, PAGE 19

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AT A GLANCE

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GALLERY 12 AMAZING IMAGES of the month

BULLEVARD

FROZEN FALLS

FEATURES 28 Steve Aoki

56

What can’t this DJ/label head/artist do?

36 Will Gadd

Power climber vs. powerful Niagara Falls

46 Mara Rooney

The girl with the dragon tattoo is back

48 New Beat Fund

Touring’s no picnic, but it’s a blast

AWOLNATION

Second chances are rare. Third? Unheard of. Frontman Aaron Bruno is trying not to squander his stupid good luck.

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50 Tough Sledding

TRAVEL

56 Awolnation

Flying the French way in old Marseilles: No wings, no springs—flyboarding’s your new watersport obsession.

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RED BULL AIR RACE 2015

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Can Aaron Bruno bounce back—again?

62 Red Bull Air Race

Buckle up, we’re in for a wild ride

ACTION!

83 Lighter, faster . . . turnier. Piloting these tiny gremlins requires nerves of steel.

Meet the men who have them.

Drifting with pro-mobiler Rob Kincaid

WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUN

South African star ultramarathoner Ryan Sandes offers his tips to help you go the distance.

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TRAVEL Flyboard away in Marseille PRO TOOLS Kiteboarding gear MY CITY Gettin’ in Tunis WATCHES Timepieces that run light MUSIC Noel Gallagher’s fave songs ENTER NOW Wings for Life World Run GAMES Build a bike and Ride ENTERTAINMENT Mad man bids adieu BUYER’S GUIDE 2015’s coolest cars SAVE THE DATE Stuff to do this month MAGIC MOMENT Ultimate windsurfing

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19 TV LADIES WE LOVE

Whip-smart, super sexy dames we dig

For Will Gadd, ice was only half the battle in his bid to climb Niagara.

CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE

“Think surfing on the North Shore with Kelly Slater, having never been on a surfboard before.”

Photographer David Harry Stewart’s Snowmobiling 101 course took place at the crack of dawn with champion uphill sledder Rob Kincaid.

Don and Aoki at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, California.

CHRIS PALMER

STEVE APPLEFORD

DAVID HARRY STEWART

After sending him to Hawaii to profile eSports athlete Jimmy Ho, we kept Palmer close to home in California this time around, tapping him for our interview with AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno.

“The thing that really impressed me about Bruno was how self-aware he was about his career and the fickle nature of the music industry. He’s not operating in a vacuum,” says Palmer.

“That self-awareness is the key to his evolution as an artist.” See what came after “Sail” on page 56.

We asked music journalist Appleford, whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and GQ, to accompany Steve Aoki as he shuttled between L.A. and Las Vegas (page 28). It was a feat: “You need to be prepared to keep up as he bounces from his hotel suite to the DJ booth, where he leads a party of nonstop motion, throwing cakes at fans and firing off geysers of fog and champagne, before winding down at the 21 table in the MGM Grand’s highrollers section.”

The photographer, who last shot our Roland Sands cover in November, had never driven a snowmobile before in his life. But to capture champion uphill sledder Rob Kincaid in the Idaho backcountry, that’s what it would take. So he showed up before dawn and did his first ride uphill. In the dark. For 45 minutes, up to 11,000 feet. “Think surfing with Kelly Slater on the North Shore, having never been on a surfboard,” he says. “It was f*cking terrifying.” Strap on for the ride on page 50.

IN FOCUS

Shoot of the month

by Dylan Don Fashion photographer Dylan Don is used to animating models for his shoots, but Steve Aoki needed no prompting.

“I can tell you that we lost a great ninja in Steve,” says the Munich-born photographer. “I think it was his true calling to be a ninja. He is very energetic and has great moves.”

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“I spend all my holidays in the garage.” hondaproracing.com Photo: Sebas Romero

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“When I was a boy, I was fascinated by anything that flew,” says Norwegian high flyer Jokke Sommer. He started a career as a motocross rider, but it became clear to him he was destined for the sky. He sold his bikes and is now one of the world’s most proficient wingsuit pilots, pictured here cruising the thermals over the Bahrain International Circuit ahead of a World Endurance Championship race. Sommer proved his proficiency by landing on the starting line. jokkesommer.com Photo: Dan Vojtech

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LE S ARC S , FR AN C E

POW WOW To battle deep snowdrifts on a steep mountain face and live to tell the tale, you’ve got to be more at home on two skis than your feet. It helps if you come from a country where snowsports are second nature, like Swiss skier Laurent De Martin (pictured), or his compatriot Nico Vuignier. The latter won Red Bull Linecatcher, Europe’s largest freeski backcountry contest. It was an event even such snow-skilled pros would remember, judging from his victory tweet: “What a sick day.” redbull.com/linecatcher Photo: Sebastian Marko

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T H I S M O N T H : S M A L L- S C R E E N Q U E E N S

N E M O W

of TV GHTEST THE BRI E BEST AND TH

SOFIA VERGARA

FUNNY = MONEY The Modern Family star is head and shoulders above everyone on TV. In the movies, men earn more than women and there are few parts for females over 40. But over in TV land, the highest earner of all is 42-year-old Sofia Vergara.

Last year the Colombian actress became an American citizen and, according to Forbes magazine, earned $37 million from her role as Gloria in Modern Family, her endorsements and her business dealings. When she’s not a sitcom wife to an older husband, she’s busy at Latin World Entertainment, the company she co-founded in 1998, which dabbles in everything from websites to film production. It pays to multitask.

LAUGHING TO THE BANK We like women who bring the funny.

COMEDY SOFIA VERGARA Modern Family 9.8m viewers

$37m KALEY CUOCO The Big Bang Theory 15.76m viewers

$11m COBIE SMULDERS How I Met Your Mother 8.3m viewers

$10m Total: $58m 33.86m viewers DRAMA MARISKA HARGITAY Law & Order: SVU 10m viewers

$13m JULIANNA MARGULIES The Good Wife 10.8m viewers

$10m ELLEN POMPEO Grey’s Anatomy 8.4m viewers

$10m GETTY IMAGES

Total: $33m 29.2m viewers

“I thank God for what he has given me.”

SOFIA VERGARA

VERDICT: Laughter is the best medicine (and helps you get on the Forbes list of top women earners).

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BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

BLIND DATE

WHO’S YOUR LEADING LADY? Three mystery TV heroines from very different shows, only one choice for your future happiness together.

INDUSTRY:

Justice

RESIDES:

Chicago

STYLE:

These women would like more time for a relationship, but they have important work to do. Have you got what it takes to make them set aside a weekly date night for you? Answers on page 22.

“Let me be your open fridge.”

Workplace chic CHILDREN:

My family and the law

You need to like children.

Because I have two of them

YOUR INCOME:

WORKOUT:

I’M LOOKING FOR: A man as my equal

I LOVE:

Irrelevant. I pay my way

Lifting files

INDUSTRY:

Sur vival

RESIDES:

No fixed abode

STYLE:

WHAT WON’T WORK AT ALL: “IDIOTS who pay for sex and get caught.”

“Tougher than the rest?

Then you’re the one.”

Militar y

I’M LOOKING FOR: An active man

I LOVE: Guns

YOUR INCOME:

I couldn’t care less

CHILDREN:

Get in the way of things

WORKOUT:

Running—away from zombies

INDUSTRY:

Crisis management RESIDES:

Washington, D.C. STYLE:

WHAT WON’T WORK AT ALL: “BUMS. I’ve broken up with them for, like, ever.”

“If you want me, earn me!”

Trendsetter I’M LOOKING FOR: Someone relaxed

I LOVE:

Things to be classified

YOUR INCOME:

Scandalously high

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CHILDREN:

Good for the image, therefore welcome WORKOUT:

Park bench presses

WHAT WON’T WORK AT ALL: “LIARS. I hate it when men don’t own up to their mistakes.”

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In Star Trek, Kirk and Uhura shared one of the first interracial kisses on TV.

BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

WILD GIRL OF YOUR DREAMS

NO GOODY TWO-SHOES Women men are afraid of, but love regardless.

What a refreshing change: TV power girls who do away with female-lead clichés. Women want to be them, men (foolishly) think they can tame them: win-win.

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION

SEX ON SCREEN From a peck on the cheek to orgies and orgasms: Everything you wanted to know about TV sex.

1947 – 1950 Mary Kay and Johnny The first American TV sitcom.

They were a couple in real life, which is why they were allowed to share a bed. And have a child.

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1966 – 1969 Star Trek The first scripted interracial kiss on U.S. TV didn’t occur until 1968, when Lieutenant Uhura locked lips with Captain Kirk.

1993 – 2005

1976 – 1981

NYPD Blue Viewers tuned into the police series on the promise of nudity and ended up staying for the great drama.

Charlie’s Angels They were trailblazers for today’s Victoria’s Secret crowd and permissive by the standards of the day.

1997 – 2003

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1964 – 1972 Bewitched Samantha the witch enchanted husband Darrin and helped end the prudish era when TV married couples slept in separate beds.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lesbian sorceresses cast a spell on the audience: Willow and Tara shattered a teen TV taboo.

2013 – Masters of Sex The first serious sex studies were in the 1940s and 1950s— Mary Kay and Johnny’s era. Now there’s a TV series about it.

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1998 – 2004 Sex and the City Men and women alike learned all there was to know about dating, promiscuity, safer sex and, to a lesser extent, shoes.

2011 – Game of Thrones Serious action within five minutes of episode 1, and consistent debauchery throughout its four seasons.

TATIANA MASLANY In Orphan Black she plays a clone looking for the secret of her background. No holds barred in the search.

1999 – 2000 Queer as Folk The British series began with the most graphic gay sex scene in TV history.

A U.S. remake followed.

2007 – 2012 Gossip Girl There’d rarely been a threesome in a TV series before. And certainly not involving teenagers. Gasp!

EVA GREEN Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful: Scarily enticing as a conduit to the dark side, wrestling with her inner demon.

TAYLOR SCHILLING Piper Chapman in Orange Is the New Black proves that, even in a tough prison, almost-good guys can win.

CAN TALK If I don’t drink, I become more feminine.

Game of Thrones: Lord of the Rings meets 9 1/2 Weeks

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BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

MAKING IT BIG ON THE SMALL SCREEN

KAINRATH

THE SEASONS OF LIFE

THE DETECTIVE

Once upon a time, three rookie actresses secured star parts in big TV series. One of them continues to have a strong small-screen career. The other two . . .

W h a t e v e r h a p p e n e d t o …?

GILLIAN ANDERSON From The X-Files to Hannibal and The Fall: Agent Scully still shines on as an enigmatic star in the TV firmament.

The prime suspect

ANDREA ELSON Lynn Tanner’s family had a hairy alien named Alf turn up on their doorstep. Now she’s giving yoga classes in California.

The culprit

Your Leading Lady Is . . . (Answers from page 20.)

JULIANNA MARGULIES As lawyer Alicia Florrick in The Good Wife, she grapples with an almost ex-husband who’s about as charming as the penal code.

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CHRISTIAN SERRATOS A tomboy full of hidden talents, Rosita Espinosa from The Walking Dead makes sure that the zombies are kept on a diet for as long as possible.

KERRY WASHINGTON She loves it when you have a problem, which is why we love Olivia Pope, the ever-busy troubleshooter from Scandal.

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The Wonder Years star is an author of math books for girls. It’s like Winnie Cooper come to life.

DIETMAR KAINRATH

DANICA M C KELLAR

BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

ODD COUPLES OF COMEDY

HOW ON EARTH DOES S(HE) DO IT? Leading ladies with below-average love interests. A how-to guide for getting in pole position with the women of prime time.

Her character

The girl

“There’s been a major development in the world of TV programs. The best scriptwriters are now writing for TV.” SOFIE GRÅBØL, star of THE KILLING and FORTITUDE, on why TV is so good (and so full of hype) these days

How she scores *

JESSICA “JESS” DAY from New Girl is a teacher with man trouble and no plan for the future. The most chaotic flatmate since Phoebe from Friends.

Her best quote

“Can we please just sleep with each other now?”

Your rival and how to beat him NICK. After a steamy season two, the roommate is firmly back in the friend zone.

All clear.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL

JAKE JOHNSON

MAX BLACK of 2 Broke Girls is the sitcom world’s curviest curveball of a waitress: She is both strong and fragile.

“You’re not a lousy mother. I know lousy mothers.

I came out of one.”

JOHNNY. Barkeep and artist. Fickle.

Never stays with her. Show her what loyalty is.

KAT DENNINGS

NICK ZANO

“I’m a vegetaria­n , except for fish, and the occasional steak.

Literal girl-next-door PENNY in The Big Bang Theory is the anomaly in the geek-life experiment of her nerdy neighbors.

I love steak!”

LEONARD. Highly intelligent but awkward Ph.D. Take her to a Bill Nye lecture.

JOHNNY GALECKI

GLORIA PRITCHETT, power housewife and mother with unusual parenting methods, is the beating heart of Moder­n Family.

“You’re his family now.

You be the wind in his back and not the spit in his face.”

JAY. Cynical husband with high sugar daddy content. Help her in the kitchen. And go to church.

SOFIA VERGARA

ED O’NEILL

“He just wants to have sex. Kidding. It’s just a little hand stuff.

Kidding again. Ted’s more of a boob man.”

ROBIN SCHERBATSKY from How I Met Your Mother was a TV presenter from Canada. She loves ice hockey, guns, Scotch and weird Canadian jokes.

TED MOSBY. Architect and love of her life. Brush up on your antiAmerican, proCanuck humor.

JOSH RADNOR

COBIE SMULDERS

LESLIE KNOPE, deputy director of the department in Parks and Recreation.

An ambitious politico who might be VP of the USA.

“Ben, your heart is in the right place.

Your heart and your butt.”

ADAM SCOTT

AMY POEHLER * SYMBOLS

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BEN WYATT. Accountant and congressman?

Make it all about Clinton/Knope 2016.

Sexiness

Party girl

Bitch alert

Buddy potential

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BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

WOMEN OF SPACE

INTERSTELLAR Is there a scientific reason that many aliens in TV sci-fi are attractive humanoid females?

If there is life on other planets, then the scriptwriters of TV space operas think it’s smokin’ hot. It could be the optimism of a human race stuck on a disappearing, choking Earth made flesh, or it could be that the writers’ rooms of these shows are predominantly dudes with lifelong Leia complexes.

NUMBER SIX Tricia Helfer, the Cylon destroyer of worlds and hearts in Battlestar Galactica

SEVEN OF NINE Jeri Ryan played a sci-fi siren in 102 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager

PA’U ZOTOH ZHAAN Virginia Hey’s Farscape character is part plant.

She grows on you after a while

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STAHMA TARR Jaime Murray is the dangerously clever and cunning star of Defiance

BULLEVARD WOMEN OF TV

LONG MAY THEY REIGN

GOD SAVE THE TV QUEENS

These regal beauties rule screens and hearts. Pick a card to learn what your selection of sexy sovereign says about you.

POWER

POWER

POWER

POWER

Queen of Dragons

Queen of Queens

The White Queen

Queen of Scotland

SUMMON A DRAGON! Gives you 5 extra attack points. But do not be afraid if you make her yours!

BE QUICK-WITTED! Gives you 2 extra attack points. But beware, her kisses will silence.

COOK UP A SCHEME! -2 lives for all your opponents.

But don’t always make the same mistakes.

TOLERANCE BONUS! Upgrade your forces with any heroine! Victory will be yours.

ATTACK

LIFE

EMILIA CLARKE Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons in HBO’s Game of Thrones: You like playing with fire. But you long for security.

ATTACK

LIFE

LEAH REMINI Carrie Heffernan, Doug’s wife in the sitcom King of Queens: Act like you’re in charge but understand that she’s pulling the strings.

ATTACK

LIFE

REBECCA FERGUSON Queen Elizabeth in the BBC series The White Queen: You’re into cold women.

And women you can save. You’re better off saving yourself.

ATTACK

LIFE

ADELAIDE KANE Mary, Queen of Scots in the CW’s costume drama Reign: You love the night and have an eye for the plain.

Keep up the good work!

The Hospital of Dreams

Hi, I’m Dr. Elliot Reid, bedside manner and bedroom roleplay specialist.

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TOM MACKINGER

Deep breaths, please.

Meredith Grey, MD, anatomy specialist.

A worst-case scenario becomes the best-case scenario: You regain consciousness in a hospital and these are the professionals assigned to your care.

Stick a picture of yourself here and get well soon.

Dr. Addison Montgomery. Your pulse seems to be getting faster…

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Trust me, I’m a doctor. Dr. Zoe Hart.

Named so because I break them.

You may call me Thirteen.

There is nothing unlucky about me.

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Steve Aoki’s hyperactive DJ sets and relentless schedule are the stuff of legend.

But it’s in the tireless grind of brand building that he most separates himself. Sleepdeprived days with the modern DJ-preneur.

WORDS: STEVE APPLEFORD PHOTOGRAPHY: PORTRAITS BY DYLAN DON; REPORTAGE BY ERIK VOAKE

In his apartment in Las Vegas, Aoki gets some thoughts from his pet bulldog, Coco, while working on his upcoming album, Neon Future, Vol. II.

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THE TAO OF STEVE

“IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS NO PLAN. NOW WHEN I LOOK AT BUSINESS I LOOK AT IT AS ‘WHERE’S THE PLAN? WHERE’S THE FUTURE?’ ” Aoki started his record label, Dim Mak, in 1996, while still in college. In 2014, it celebrated its 500th release.

Aoki’s travel schedule is relentless—he spends more than 300 days on the road.

“He’s a sponge,” says Bryan Linares, marketing director at Dim Mak. “He’s traveling so much, and I think it’s the A&R in him.

He’s always on the cusp of the next thing.”

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O ne a.m. is fast approaching at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and Steve Aoki is bent over a laptop in his luxury hotel suite, scrolling through 160 tracks in preparation for a full set of noisy beats and the night’s coming tsunami of champagne, CO2 fog and vanilla frosting.

“I want to play all this shit tonight!” he says excitedly, jumping to his feet and pumping his fists amid an entourage of friends and crew waiting to bounce over to the hotel’s nightclub, Hakkasan. “I’m amped! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!”

He’s dressed for action, in a longsleeve shirt, baby-blue jeans and bright blue high-tops. In a moment, two extralarge security men in suits will escort Aoki on his long walk to the DJ booth through the hotel’s casino, past the penny slots and thousand-dollar machines, the high rollers and the pastry shop.

Hakkasan is home to superstar DJs like Calvin Harris and Tiësto (whose names are on the MGM exterior on signs as big as the club itself) and is a great gig by any measure. But Aoki’s ongoing residency at the venue since April 2013 represents only a small part of his appeal.

Molded both by the irreverence of the L.A. punk scene and the experience of creating the still-influential Dim Mak Records label, Aoki is an anomaly on the high-gloss global DJ circuit. He is, like a handful of the others, a superlative entertainer. But in the way he controls his brand and mines the zeitgeist for the next 32

creative and business opportunity, he’s managed to provide himself a road map for longevity in a fickle industry.

And in the last few months, Aoki’s put the finishing touches on his new concept album, Neon Future, Vol. II. The album features colliding beats and textures of the moment in genre-busting collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo.

Onstage inside Hakkasan, Aoki unfurls a seamless storm of accelerating EDM beats mixed with bits of ’90s rock from Nirvana and Oasis, and his own “Born to Get Wild” collaboration with will.i.am. The dance floor shakes hard beneath the modern Chinois-chic décor and light fixtures shaped like Aoki’s bearded face.

One fan lunges toward the DJ booth, lifting a phone with a hopeful neon scrawl on his screen: “I love U ... A selfie?”

But Aoki isn’t about to stop now for a picture. Too many fans are yelling the same thing in his direction: “Cake me!

Cake me!”

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THE CHAOS OF THOSE LIVE PUNK SHOWS AND THE WAY LEAD SINGERS BROKE DOWN THE BARRIER WITH THE AUDIENCE WOULD STICK WITH HIM.

Inspired by his love of Bruce Lee and martial arts movies, Aoki named his label Dim Mak (the probably fictitious “touch of death” technique). Dim Mak has a clothing line, but Aoki’s boxing cape for the photo shoot was designed by the Japaneseinspired, London-based fashion label Kokon To Zai.

Behind him in the booth are six white cakes fresh from the bakery. In the last few years they’ve become his trademark.

The Dim Mak name is written out in blue frosting on each, but with one problem: The baker misspelled it as “Dim Mack,” and now Aoki’s road manager is carefully wiping off every errant C. Branding is business, after all. But no one’s going to notice or care when these heaping loaves are hurled into the crowd.

Aoki sees one dude in the swirl begging for it, sitting on the shoulders of a buddy. He’s obliged with fluffy white dessert tossed right in his face, and for a moment the guy’s entire head is encased in a perfect helmet of sugary white. His reaction is pure ecstasy, and he doesn’t wipe it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The last decade has been very good to the men behind the decks. Electronic dance music has elevated the likes of Harris, David Guetta and Aoki to global brands, with relentless touring schedules and sizable bank accounts. In 2014, Aoki for the first time cracked the top five of Forbes’ list of highest-earning DJs, banking $23 million, according to the magazine. But the requirements of sustained success stretch beyond a killer live show. And that’s where Aoki sets himself apart. “My entertainment is essentially my business,” he says. “It organically overlaps.”

The 37-year-old’s career began with an obvious role model. Father Rocky Aoki was the founder of the hugely successful Benihana chain of theatrical teppanyaki restaurants. A master at marketing, he branded everything he did, including the hot-air balloon he used to become the first person to cross the Pacific in one. He loved boats, fast cars and Warhol paintings but never spoiled his children.

An Asian teenager in the privileged white enclave of Newport Beach, Aoki threw himself into L.A.’s straight-edge punk scene. He was a member of a series of hardcore bands. Money was no object, because there wasn’t any. He’d roll into town to play a gig to 30 people before crashing on a basement floor. The chaos of those live shows and the way lead singers would wade into the crowd, breaking down the barrier between band and audience, stuck with him.

Aoki was 19 when he launched Dim Mak out of his apartment while still a student at UC Santa Barbara. He and three friends each chipped in a couple of hundred dollars. Rocky Aoki contributed zero. “He wanted me to learn the hard way,” says the son.

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THE LAST DECADE HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO DJS. DANCE MUSIC HAS ELEVATED THEM TO GLOBAL BRANDS WITH MILLIONS IN THE BANK. The younger sought to prove himself despite his father. “His dad was a patriarchal father who ran a steak joint,” says longtime manager Matt Colon. “Steve studied feminism, was a vegan and started a communist party in Santa Barbara.”

One of his first acts was The Kills, now an internationally acclaimed indie rock duo. He then broke British band Bloc Party in the U.S. His taste-making credentials took shape, and his Dim Mak Tuesdays events in Hollywood were a must. “His parties were the spot to send cool bands to break them,” says Colon, then a marketing director at BPM magazine.

It was at these parties that Aoki stumbled into becoming a DJ, jokingly calling himself “Kid Millionaire” even while driving an old Isuzu Rodeo. He’d play the celebrity and fashionista scene, mixing obscure electronic music with Britney Spears. The blend defined his nuanced record label.

“I grew up listening to punk, and Steve was the same way,” says Bryan Linares, who started at Dim Mak eight years ago as an intern and is now in charge of marketing and branding. “But now you go to Coachella and you see Jay-Z watching The xx from the side stage. That’s the future. And we want a kid to be able to find whatever he wants to in our world.”

Aoki saw rival labels, some bigger than his, fade along with the genres they specialized in. Just since 2008, he’s taken his label through phases of EDM, dubstep, drum ’n’ bass and electro and thrived; in 2014 it celebrated its 500th release.

He stumbled into DJing while hosting his sought-after Dim Mak Tuesdays parties in Hollywood, where cool bands got their break.

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e makes a policy of hiring people who are willing to spend time on culture’s front lines. But Aoki’s own insatiable curiosity (and 300 days a year on the road) sets the tone. “He’s a sponge,” says Linares. “He’s traveling so much, and I think it’s just the A&R in him. He’s always on the cusp of the next thing.”

“In the beginning, there was no plan,” adds Aoki. “Now when I look at business, I look at it as: Where’s the plan? Where’s the future?”

The new album is a testament to Aoki’s knack for progression. Neon Future, Vol. I, released last fall, was the ultimate party plan. In Vol. II Aoki adds ballads and some tears. “Home We’ll Go” mingles bright electronics with the acoustic shadings of Canadian rock band Walk off the Earth, as if Mumford & Sons stepped into a bar with Daft Punk to jam. “The difference is the emotional value of this album is a bit darker,” says Aoki. “I wanted to get people into the Neon Future party and make them happy. Once they’re in, they’re ready for everything.”

A few days after the Las Vegas set, Aoki is in L.A. for a full day of meetings. In 24 hours he’ll be on a jet to a couple of weekend gigs in India. “Sometimes I really am zombified,” Aoki admits.

In the Beverly Hills offices of his management company, Aoki meets with organizers of the music-meets-actionsports Air + Style event, hosted by snowboarder Shaun White. They’ve proposed putting Aoki’s booth at the very top of the event’s 160-foot-high ramp at the Rose Bowl. The DJ leans forward on the table, staring silently at the blueprint. He walks out to the balcony, about 50 feet above Wilshire Boulevard. The ramp would be more than three times this height.

The idea of caking people in the audience came from a slow-motion video of exploding cakes produced for Dim Mak artist Autoerotique in 2011.

“160 feet?” Aoki says. “They won’t be able to see me at all.” An enthusiastic snowboarder and BASE-jumper, Aoki may be a proven thrill seeker, but the stage has its own demands. He’ll need more than TV cameras to feed his performance.

It’s now late afternoon and the fatigue is beginning to take its toll. His shoes are off and his eyelids are beginning to droop. He begins to curl up in a corner of the office couch. In a little while, an Uber driver will come take him away. Then work on II will continue.

But back on the stage that Saturday night at Hakkasan, real-world demands are still a ways off. For all his success as a brand builder and label head, it’s in the booth where he is the most free. Saturday night on the Vegas Strip, there is nothing about strapping on a pair of CO2 guns to fire off geysers of fog that can be eclipsed by a spreadsheet.

He leaps to the front of the stage and sends fans crowd-surfing in inflatable rafts. He uncorks champagne bottles, spraying the front rows. It’s the kind of showmanship that alarms EDM critics, who like their DJs to stand behind the decks and look cool. Aoki is unapologetic.

At the end of his three-hour set, the crowd has thinned to some early morning survivors with the stamina of steel. He shares that kind of commitment to the moment. “You want to go to sleep?!” he taunts happily.

“I love those people,” he says afterward of the last dancers standing. “I do it for them.”

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White snow, red tape: Gadd climbs Niagara Falls after months of planning, negotiations and logistics.

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CLIMBETH On the frozen mist of Niagara Falls, WILL GADD’s feat of derring-do captured the world. Behind the scenes on the champion ice climber’s journey through bureaucracy and falling ice to the very top.

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First ascent: An especially cold winter created the perfect conditions for Will Gadd to become the first person to climb Niagara Falls.

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ne last thing before we head out,” Will Gadd says to the nearly 40-strong team of climbing riggers, photographers, EMTs, cops and New York State Park officials assembled in the staging area a few hundred yards from the precipice of Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls. “Quarter time. Take it slow.

Nobody gets hurt.

Quarter. Time.”

And with that, world champion ice climber Gadd strides out into the bitterly cold, gray morning. At full speed.

Despite his admonition, Gadd does nothing at quarter time. The 48-year-old Canadian has abounding energy and difficulty containing it. Clad in thin Arc’teryx climbing clothes, scuffed blue helmet and a harness festooned with countless carabiners, screws, picks and pitons, he tends to be heard before he is seen. The tools of his trade make the jingly-jangly sound of a skiff bobbing listlessly in a lagoon. But that would imply an aimless drift about him, and there is nothing aimless about Gadd. His life depends on order, control and planning.

Today, his plan is to become the first man to ascend Niagara Falls. He is preceded by barrel riders, tightrope walkers, the suicidal and the just plain unlucky. But they’ve all traveled the falls in other directions. No one has ever tried going up.

But then Gadd has always set his own course.

He’s been winning competitions since the ’90s. If it can be climbed, he’s done it, from the vanishing glaciers of Kilimanjaro to abandoned Swedish mining caves 500 feet below the Earth’s crust.

He’s also a champion paraglider who has set two separate world distance records and was the first to fly across the U.S. and the Canadian Rockies. No wonder he was recently named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.

So it’s no surprise when last winter’s polar vortexes froze the long johns off Americans and their beloved waterfall that the idea to climb it crystallized along with the Niagara ice. “My friend and I thought about doing this, but I decided that, because it was illegal, I didn’t need that on my rap sheet of life,” Gadd admits. So when Red Bull approached with the same idea a short time later, it was a no-brainer, and the plan was set in motion. “Sometimes,” Gadd says with a laugh, “doing the right thing pays off.”

To be clear, the entire waterfall does not freeze.

After all, an endless tsunami of 681,750 gallons per second drains out of the Great Lakes, down the Niagara hatch at Horseshoe Falls, where he’ll climb.

But under the right conditions, the mist that rises from that torrent does freeze on the rock faces framing the 165-foot-high falls. It’s called spray ice.

It forms in thin layers like an onion and is wickedly unstable, unwilling to hold ice screws and sometimes calves off in chunks hundreds of pounds at a pop.

It’s a disorderly jumble. Will Gadd, father of two kids ages 4 and 7 and hoping to continue in that job, is not a fan of disorder or jumbles. Especially when he’s hanging by his ice tools above the roiling cauldron of water. “If I fell in,” he says, “I’d go under the ice and be dead.”

That might be a pleasant alternative to being splayed on a spire of ice like a martini olive on a toothpick. But climbing spray ice is something he pioneered, discovering and refining techniques and helping to develop specialized tools to tackle it. Still, the pressure is considerable. “We have a very narrow window,” Gadd says. “We have to get it done or it’s not happening. A lot of people are watching. If I

GADD IS NOT A FAN OF DISORDER, ESPECIALLY WHEN HANGING BY HIS ICE TOOLS OVER THE ROILING CAULDRON. “IF I FELL IN, I’D GO UNDER THE ICE AND BE DEAD.”

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Safety first: In advance of his ascent, Gadd checks his gear before rappeling down the wall to clear loose, potentially hazardous ice. Below, Gadd confers with Mark Synott about the position of camera crews while photographers Christian Pondella and David Pearson stake out spots at the cliff’s edge.

break my ankle climbing in the Rockies, no one would care. If I break my ankle here and have to be rescued, that likely goes global.”

scending Niagara Falls was a moment—“about as big and cool as it gets,” says Gadd—that almost didn’t happen. When first pitched to red-tape-wielding officials, they flatly said no.

“I believe it was ‘Hell no,’ ” Major David Page recalls with a wry grin as he watches the day’s events unfold. The 30-year New York State Parks Police vet had managed the crush of thousands of spectators who gathered for Nik Wallenda’s 2012 televised tightrope traverse, and he wasn’t eager for another go. But things change.

Team Gadd re-approached with a more comprehensive plan, one that would assure environmental sensitivity (“There won’t be a trace I was ever here,” he says); include training in ice climbing for the park’s search and rescue team; and promote awareness of the winter beauty of the tourist attraction, which is all but devoid of visitors this time of year. The help of a few New York State Assembly members and the governor’s office didn’t hurt. (Note to anyone considering their own such project: Don’t. But if you must, be sure to pack along consultants like ex military special ops guys who talk the law-enforcement talk and production-company vets who know how to pull a permit.) Gadd, in typical fashion, conducted every step of the way.

“Climbing is what I love,” he says. “When I tie into the rope and I start climbing, I love it. But the rest of this stuff—it’s my job.”

It’s January 27. After months of planning, ascension day has arrived. A large camera jib has been carried to the cliff’s edge by the safety-roped crew. Gadd’s longtime lensman Christian Pondella has set anchors, roped in and leaned way out over the abyss with his camera in hand. More photographers are positioned

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“THE ICE STARTED TO SOUND HOLLOW. I DIDN’T LIKE IT. MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THAT THE WHOLE SECTION BREAKS OFF. I HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHERE I AM IS WELL BONDED TO THE ROCK.”

Risky business: Spray ice is like a frozen cloud, says Gadd, who pioneered many of the techniques used to climb it.

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Tackling Niagara Falls was something of a holy grail for world champion climber Gadd. Below, he gets a congratulatory hug from climbing partner Sarah Hueniken.

NIAGARA NUMBERS

681,750 GALLONS

Amount of water pouring over Horseshoe Falls every second.

165 FEET

HE REACHES HIS ICE TOOL INTO THE TORRENT AND GETS A HYPOTHERMIAINDUCING SHOT OF WATER DOWN HIS SLEEVE. “IT’S NIAGARA FALLS—YOU’VE GOTTA TOUCH IT!”

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Height of the waterfall; Gadd’s actual climb is slightly shorter due to accumulated snow and ice at the base.

4,000 TRUCKS

Equivalent weight— in 18-wheelers—of the water passing over the falls each minute.

1,804 FEET

Distance Nik Wallenda walked across a high wire stretched over Niagara Falls in 2012.

63 YEARS The age of Annie Edson Taylor when she went over the falls in a barrel in 1901.

Yes, really. She lived.

at the base and across the river in Canada. Gadd’s climbing partner, Sarah Hueniken, has suited up to belay, i.e. feed out rope during the ascent—and quickly stop feeding it in the event of a fall.

“You do what you can to stack the deck in your favor,” Gadd explains. “And even with all that, things are still gonna get western occasionally.”

“He’s all about safety, and he won’t hesitate to call it,” says Bryan Smith, a videographer who has documented several of Gadd’s adventures. “If it doesn’t feel right, he’ll pull the plug.”

Just after 11 a.m., Gadd begins, and it’s then that the awesome scope of the task sinks in. He is utterly dwarfed, a red-jacketed speck among otherworldly ice formations and swirling spray that freezes on contact with his clothes and face.

At first, progress is quick, as if he’s trying to outrun the cold. But he often stops to study his line.

A 10- or 12-foot vertical advance is followed by a crazy-legged traverse to one side or the other, followed by another advance, ice chunks raining throughout. Eventually he reaches an ice cave, where Hueniken will second up to and belay from.

Gadd then finds a shelf that he can step onto and actually get behind the rushing water. He straddles a section of ice beneath which water races—a bit of Niagara Falls roaring between his boots. He reaches his ice tool into the torrent and it delivers an unexpected shot of water down his sleeve that would later induce hypothermia, but it’s worth it. “You’ve gotta touch it,” he says. “It’s Niagara Falls!”

Gadd pushes on, tackling a massive column, only to retreat as he nears the top and work his way back down. “It started to sound hollow,” he would later say. “I didn’t like it. My biggest concern is that a whole section breaks off. I have to make sure that where I am is well bonded to the rock.”

At the bottom of the column, he traverses to his right and begins a new line up. Cramponed boots slam the ice in search of a solid toehold. Arms reach high to plant ice tools, and Gadd swings between them like a chimp between branches.

Finally, 60 minutes later, he nears the crest. You can’t help but wonder if he’s got the strength to pull himself up and over. But this is Will Gadd, the man who does one-armed pull-ups. Standing at last on horizontal ground, he raises his arms triumphantly.

His reaction is reverential, the magnitude of the feat washing over him like water over the falls.

hat night at his hotel lobby bar, the climber unwinds with a tumbler of Knob Creek, no ice.

He sports a wide grin and an ever-present twinkle in his blue eyes. He is relieved, thankful, appreciative of his team and tells them so repeatedly as they, in turn, exchange back slaps and hand shakes. “Niagara Falls is pretty much a holy grail for me,” he says reflectively. “As falls go, it’s off everybody’s map, because they’re never gonna get permission . . .” As he trails off, you can almost hear the whir of his internal GPS searching for far-flung coordinates.

“I mean . . . what do you do after this?”

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ROONEY MARA

“Kissing a woman is like kissing a man” She kicked ass, and her career, into the big leagues as the young woman with mythical-beast ink (and more body art besides). She’s stayed full-on ever since.

In the early years of her acting career— bit parts in movies, Law & Order and ER—Rooney Mara was finishing her psychology degree in New York, where she was born and raised. In December 2011, a year after she graduated, came her breakthrough, starring as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A month later, her turn as the goth hacker won her a best actress Oscar nomination. The 29-year-old has since starred in Side Effects, directed by Steven Soderbergh, played the woman divorcing Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze’s Her and shared screen time with Martin Sheen in Trash.

This year, she has several films coming out, including Carol, with Cate Blanchett, and Pan, alongside Hugh Jackman. the red bulletin: You gained a lot of attention playing Lisbeth in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not least because you were shown naked, covered in crazy tattoos and with several piercings, including your nipple. rooney mara: To be precise, only six of the piercings were real. The rest were the work of the makeup department.

Not every actress would have been happy to be seen like that.

I thought, “When else will I have an excuse to get my nipple pierced?” But between the tattoos and the piercings, I didn’t feel naked. It was like I had some sort of costume on.

Have you kept the nipple piercing?

That I can’t answer.

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Maybe the answer will be revealed when you play Lisbeth again in the remaining two movies in the Millennium trilogy.

There is a script, and it’s fantastic. But they’re not scheduled to make them anytime soon, as far as I know, and that’s disappointing.

You’re known for being reserved in your personal life, but in your roles you’re unafraid to give your all.

That’s why I enjoy doing this job. I have been exposed in films, physically and

“Between the tattoos and the piercings, it was like I had a costume on.” psychologically, but I was playing a character, so I didn’t feel exposed as myself.

Not even doing love scenes in Side Effects with Catherine Zeta-Jones or Carol with Cate Blanchett?

They are like any other romantic scenes.

It does not feel different from kissing a man in front of the camera. I don’t find anything strange about it or embarrassing or funny. But some of the people on set probably thought so. There’s just a level of maturity some people don’t have.

Is there anything about your job that you don’t like?

The fact that you don’t have enough time.

Last year I was filming for six months straight, first Pan, then Carol. Then I had to work my way back into real life and re-establish contact with my friends and family. As well as paying the bills, of course, and repairing the leak in the ceiling in my apartment, that sort of thing.

You didn’t pay your bills for six months?

The bills were paid. But I hadn’t checked my mail. There were whole piles waiting to be gone through.

But you don’t always relax in your free time. Last winter you went to South Sudan, a country whose civil war has claimed over 10,000 lives.

I was there as an ambassador for Oxfam; I didn’t go by myself as a private individual.

I only did it because the situation was safe.

Anyone who’s seen you playing Lisbeth Salander would expect that you know how to look after yourself. The fight scenes were formidable.

Lisbeth was scrappy, not trained; she fights from the gut. But last year I shot the Peter Pan prequel Pan, where my character was supposed to be a skilled warrior and everything had to be very precise and perfect. So yes, now I would be prepared [laughs].

Aren’t you afraid of anything?

Well, I took a lot of antibiotics when I was a child, which left me with a very weak immune system. Antibiotics don’t work for me any longer. So God forbid if someday there is a horrible flu.

Pan opens worldwide on July 24. warnerbros.com/pan THE RED BULLETIN

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Words: Rüdiger Sturm

Football family Mara descends from NFL aristocracy: Her maternal ancestors were founders of the Pittsburgh Steelers, while her paternal ancestors founded the New York Giants.

I’m the girl with the tagging drattoo Mara got drunk before her audition for Lisbeth Salander.

Sibling rivalry Her elder sister Kate is also an actress. Kevin Spacey bumped her off in House of Cards.

NEW BEAT FUND

California Souls Arrested, rained on and booed off stage. Life on tour is no picnic, say the inventors of G-punk, but it’s the best.

Words: Florian Obkircher Photography: Dustin Downing

After 20 gigs in 26 days, there are 11 more to go in the next 14. New Beat Fund’s tour last year supporting rap-rock duo Aer was relentless, but we caught them after they’d made a pit stop in L.A. The guys don’t look like they’ve been on the road.

They’re just four dudes in their mid-20s, cracking jokes and looking at the women passing by. “Being on tour is great, but I love California,” says singer Jeff Laliberte with a massive grin. “I think we are more understood here than most places.” He speaks from experience: For most of the past year-and-a-half, the group has been out playing live, tirelessly promoting their 2013 breakthrough EP, CoiNz ($), a breezy cocktail of jingle-jangle guitars, playful electronics and laid-back melodies.

Despite the mileage, they were able to record their as-yet-unnamed debut album, due for release this spring. the red bulletin: Last year you toured with Blink-182. How was it? jeff laliberte: Our first show was in New Jersey. The place was packed and we were shitting our pants. We walked out and everybody just booed us. They didn’t want an opening act. michael johnson: They’d never heard our music and they didn’t give a shit. But by the end of our performance, the crowd warmed up. The shows with Blink-182 were tough because they are such a huge band, so it is a fight for attention. jl: We’d read about the Red Hot Chili Peppers being booed when they opened for the Rolling Stones. I saw the Foo Fighters open for the Chili Peppers and they got booed. You read about it, and then you are like, “It is happening to us!” mj: You grow a thick skin along the way.

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We are used to turning people who don’t even know us into believers.

You are constantly touring: How do you avoid cabin fever? mj: We look forward to getting to each city and playing a killer show. Part of the process is dealing with each other.

Dealing with each other’s farts. We get high off each other’s farts. jl: We are in a routine of traveling, but every day is completely different, so it’s cool. New people, new experiences. mj: Even brutal experiences, like the tour van breaking down in the middle of Iowa

“You read about opening bands being booed, then you are like, ‘It’s happening to us!’ ” when it is winter and trying to figure out how to get to the gig. It’s all stuff that is so gnarly that it is kind of enjoyable.”

They’re the things you remember, right? shelby archer: Exactly! Like when we were arrested in Nebraska five years ago.

Why did you get arrested? sa: Possession of things and one wrong turn. Hippies from California made one wrong turn. Let’s say we were easy targets. jl: We were treated like a drug cartel. sa: We spent the night in a cell. At the time we were really stoned and paranoid; it was the worst thing ever.

But retrospectively it’s hilarious.

You describe your style as G-punk.

What does that mean?

jl: It has a lot to do with growing up in California. We were exposed to G-funk from Dr. Dre and the West Coast Gangster thing on one hand and to punk rock bands such as Blink-182, Green Day, AFI and Rancid on the other. mj: Our music is the middle ground of everything we grew up with. We call it G-punk ghost-rock.

Bands still move to Los Angeles to become famous. What’s it like already being here when starting out? jl: Growing up here we just understand it a bit more, and maybe the whole L.A. thing seems weird to us, just because it was given to us. It probably still has its advantages to be here. You can run into a lot more people who can help you out than you can in, let’s say, Kansas. sa: Wherever you are, you need to build the fan base first and everything else comes after. In L.A., that’s harder because everyone is jaded and they don’t really care because there are so many talented people. But if you go to Kansas … I don’t know why we’re talking about Kansas. mj: Yeah, what’s up with Kansas? We’ve never even played Kansas.

If the album was a pizza, which toppings would it have? jl: It would probably be a works package with everything you could think of as a topping and cooked to perfection.

That almost makes sense, given that the record’s stylistic mix ranges from reggae to punk to hip-hop. But isn’t a simple margherita the best sometimes? jl: If you just want to enjoy the dough, then listen to The xx. If you want a bunch of good stuff on top and you want to be full after, then you should listen to us. newbeatfund.com THE RED BULLETIN

The lineup Michael Johnson, drums Jeff Laliberte, vocals, guitar Shelby Archer, guitar Paul Laliberte, bass Discography Title TBD (album, 2015) CoiNz ($) (EP, 2013) L.A. decade The members are childhood friends from Los Angeles and have played in various bands in various combinations for the last 10 years. Two years ago, they started New Beat Fund, the first time all four were in the same band, just “to try something different.�

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KING IN THE HARD-RIDING, HIGH-OCTANE WORLD OF HILL-CLIMB SNOWMOBILING, ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROB IS KING. THE BACKCOUNTRY VALUES AND DAREDEVIL DRIVE OF THE TOUGHEST MAN ON A SLED. WORDS: GORDY MEGROZ PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID HARRY STEWART

Rob Kincaid’s basement is littered with dead animals.

Sixty stuffed heads of deer, caribou and even a zebra hang on the walls. In one corner of the room is a full-sized diorama of a rocky ledge, on which there’s a taxidermied black bear and three bighorn sheep.

“I shot that Dall sheep in the Denali wilderness in Alaska and it took me 27 hours to haul it back to my camp,” he says of the snow-white animal. “I don’t want to sound like a prick, but if I was a professional hunter, I’d be one of the best in the world.”

Kincaid’s not a professional hunter, however; he’s a pro snowmobiler. He is best known for competing in hill-climb events, races in which snowmobilers race up mountains and between gates, and he has won two world championships. And for his backcountry snowmobile videos—clips of him barreling through three feet of snow and catching 100 feet of air off of cornices that he shoots for one of his sponsors, Motorfist, and plasters all over social media. While those feats are enough to win you a decent following, it’s truly Kincaid’s mountain-man persona—that of the hunter, trapper and farmer— that endears him to his fans, all of whom refer to him as “Rocky Mountain Rob.” On Instagram, where Kincaid has more than 6,000 followers, you can find photos of him launching his snowmobile through powder fields next to images of him posing with 50

Rob Kincaid cruises the backcountry near his home in Idaho.

an elk he just shot. And though he sports a neatly groomed beard, he’s comfortable in camouflage and pronounces creek as “crick.” “I’m just a redneck,” he says with great pride. Or, in the parlance of the sport, a “sledneck.” And to plenty of slednecks, Kincaid is their king.

At 42, Kincaid is also the elder statesman of a sport dominated by 20-somethings. “I didn’t really start racing full time until five years ago,” says Kincaid. “But I think that’s good. I have the same passion as the young guys but I also have a bit more maturity and experience. It’s not just how fast you are, it’s also about reading the snow and knowing how to be smooth.”

As the king moves around his 5,300-square-foot log cabin in Victor, Idaho—which has a garden, greenhouse, horses, chickens, turkeys, pigs and three freezers full of game meat—he hobbles with a limp.

A few weeks ago, he’d been riding near home, hit a cornice and gotten his foot stuck in the snowmobile’s running board. He pitched forward and chipped bones and tore ligaments in his ankle. Just a few days later, he was at the start line of an X Games qualifying event in Telluride, Colorado, where he managed to secure a spot in the annual winter showdown in Aspen in late January.

“I had to do it,” he says with a grin. “It’s the X Games.”

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or most of us, snowmobiling is a recreational sport (a once-a-winter opportunity to putt around open meadows and take in the wildlife during a family ski vacation). But for thousands of people, snowmobile racing is bigtime, high-octane competition. It began in the late ’70s with guys, mostly in the Rocky Mountains, getting together and racing each other up local ski hills and has evolved into fully sponsored events that draw crowds as big as 20,000 people. The largest and most respected racing circuit is the Rocky Mountain States HillClimb Association, which holds races throughout Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho.

At last year’s world championship, held annually at Snow King Resort in Wyoming, 150 competitors participated and the winner took home $10,000.

But the only exposure most Americans have to snowmobile racing is the X Games, which has broadcast races and aerial events (in which riders do tricks off jumps) on ESPN since 1998. Kincaid knows that a good finish in a race there can expand his growing brand. But qualifying for the X Games means his excursions into the Teton Mountain backcountry, which surrounds his home, are on hold for a while.

Kincaid walks through Victor’s back roads on the way to the garage that houses his snowmobiles. He was born in Sturgis, Michigan, but his family moved

Kincaid didn’t start racing full time until his mid-30s. But he’s dominated a sport of 20-somethings ever since.

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to Idaho when he was 3. “We were poor,” says Kincaid. “My father made us work hard. I had to ride my bike around the valley and move sprinkler pipe and pour concrete. I didn’t have summer vacation.

He taught me that nothing comes easy, and I’m sure that it’s helped me become a better athlete.”

Kincaid grew up playing basketball but his true love was the outdoors. At 3 he was already trapping animals and chasing grouse and rabbits around with his BB gun. By the ’90s, Kincaid became enamored of backcountry skiing, a sport that was growing in popularity in the mountains surrounding nearby Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “Like everything else I do, it was pretty extreme,” he says. “We’d hike into the backcountry and build jumps on top of cliffs and do backflips off them.”

But Kincaid’s backcountry focus changed when, in 1995, he purchased his first snowmobile. “I’d always wanted one,” he says. “I just never had the money.”

Within a year he was racing, usually placing in the top five. “But I never won,” he says. It wasn’t until

“LIKE EVERYTHING I DO, IT WAS PRETTY EXTREME. WE’D HIKE INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY AND BUILD JUMPS ON TOP OF CLIFFS AND DO BACKFLIPS.”

2010, when Kincaid says he had an epiphany, that he began claiming victories. “I have two kids and I’m teaching them to give 100 percent,” he says. “I felt like I needed to do that with snowmobiling to set that example—be all in or all out. It’s hard. Now I ride 20 miles a day on a practice track.”

For his efforts, Kincaid takes home a couple thousand dollars for wins and about $50,000 in sponsorships. It’s still not enough to give up the drywall business that he started in 2009, but he does manage to spend several hours snowmobiling every day. “I have great employees,” he says.

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e arrive at the garage and Kincaid shows me his sled, a 300-horsepower green and black machine specially built by his sponsor, Arctic Cat. “There are only two of these in the world,” he says. “It’s comparable to a Formula One car.”

Kincaid hops on and blasts toward an open field where his mechanic, Jason Nethercott, is sitting in a

Rocky Mountain Rob has 60 taxidermied animals, all of them shot by him, in his 5,300-square-foot log cabin in Victor, Idaho: “I don’t want to sound like a prick, but if I was a professional hunter, I’d be one of the best in the world.”

bulldozer, plowing snow into jumps and banked turns. Kincaid has a lot of support from hometown fans, and a local farmer allowed him to create this quarter-mile course in his field to help Kincaid train for the X Games.

He drops the throttle and tears 20 feet over a jump, landing short on the backside of it, then throws on the breaks before a big turn. He then makes his way over to Nethercott. “I can’t quite clear the jump,” Kincaid says to him. “That’s kinda the idea,” Nethercott responds. “X Games will be tough, and we need to get you out of your comfort zone.”

Kincaid agrees and goes around for another spin, this time easily clearing the jump and tearing through the banked turn.

According to Nethercott, who’s worked with Kincaid since 2005, he’s riding better than he ever has in his career. A lot of that is thanks to his strict fitness regimen—Kincaid is a serious CrossFitter and will log 100 miles of single track a week on his mountain bike in the summer—but credit also goes to Dave McClure, Kincaid’s Arctic Cat teammate.

“They push each other to be better,” says Nethercott.

“Everything is a competition between them—from eating a sandwich to pumping gas.”

But the two are also inseparable friends. McClure met Kincaid in 2008, and Kincaid invited him on a backcountry excursion. “We’d been out all day and it was getting dark,” McClure recalls. “I was freezing and couldn’t see anything, and Rob says, ‘Don’t go too far left or you’ll go over cliffs. And don’t go too far right or you’ll hit trees.’ It was an adrenaline rush and we’ve been riding together ever since.”

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t the X Games, McClure is one of the first to hear about Kincaid’s crash. It had happened during a training run when another competitor flew off a jump and landed on Kincaid’s back. “I was panicked,” says McClure. “I was like, can my buddy walk? Is he conscious?”

Kincaid was banged up but that’s nothing new.

And in typical fashion, he was still at the start line for the race—which also didn’t go well. During the first lap, Kincaid was thrown from his sled and hit by another rider, caught in the skis of that competitor’s snowmobile and dragged 50 feet.

But Kincaid’s misfortune at the X Games might actually help grow his fan base. “Snowmobilers like their heroes to be tough,” says McClure. “The best thing about Rob is that he shakes off the crashes and just keeps going.”

“I’m the crusty old redneck who got run over and kept going,” adds Kincaid. “I’m like the Clint Eastwood of the sport.”

And like Eastwood, it seems nothing can stop Kincaid. Just a few days after returning from the X Games, Kincaid posted a picture to his Instagram account. The photo is of Kincaid, helmeted and goggled and giving a thumbs-up as he gazes into the backcountry. “So great to be back home and out rippin’ in the backyard!” he writes. “We sure could use a big dumping. Think a storm’s on the way.”

Big air and taxidermy: @RMR103 on Instagram

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TH E S EC R E T OF HIS SUCCESS His platinum song laced major commercials, his debut album was a bona fide success, and his band sold out tours. But that was three years ago. AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno on exceeding expectations the second time around.

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aron Bruno folds his slight frame onto the far end of a pea-green ’70s-inspired sofa in a small studio in Los Angeles. His eyes are pools of glacier blue. They gleam as he stares forward and recounts a life.

He’s walked a well-worn path: struggling musician, label malcontent, stage wrecker. Yet the collected gaffes of a frustrated, wayward wanderer have been exceedingly transformative.

Bruno has emerged as an artist who, after a grueling search, has finally found his voice. But the strings connected to multi-platinum success are tied to the weight of overbearing expectation.

“My biggest fear is letting people down,” says Bruno. “This is the first time we’ve had a ton of passionate fans, a culture and a scene. How the f*ck am I going to follow up a six-time platinum song?”

Bruno and his band AWOLNATION rocketed into popular culture’s fickle field of vision thanks to his strains on the sleeper hit “Sail” from 2011’s Megalithic Symphony. It both solidified Bruno as a singular songwriter and ignited a fury of smash-and-grab imitators.

“It was just another song,” says Bruno, 36. “I didn’t think twice about it. I can’t explain why people connected with it, but it was something that hadn’t been heard before.”

Despite financial rewards and complete creative freedom—the twin holy grails of the music industry—he finds little comfort in past triumphs.

Maybe that’s because Bruno has lost everything. Twice. The wiser version of the man on the couch has gone to great lengths to ensure this will not be a trilogy.

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sophomore album, Run, Bruno is all at once carefully managing expectations, hedging bets and refusing to make the same mistakes.

Comfort is a luxury he can do without.

Bruno grew up with it, on the “safe and boring” tree-lined streets of Westlake Village, a sleepy, cookie-cutter suburban enclave 30 minutes north of Los Angeles.

His father, Jim, a financial planner, and mother, Diane, an elementary school teacher, inspired his early interest in music. His father’s collection of funk cassette tapes, from James Brown to Herbie Hancock, balanced out the ’80s pop hits from his mother’s car radio.

When he was 11, his brother’s vinyl collection was his eye-opening gateway to rap. “In terms of vibe,” he remembers, “my first punk rock experience was actually rap music.”

He became interested in both cultural and artistic diversity but his other love was surfing. His father would take him to surf spots from Malibu up the coast to Santa Barbara. When he finally caught his first wave it became a lifetime obsession: “I spent all my time surfing to escape the banality of Westlake.”

Soon he discovered the straight-edge punk scene in Los Angeles, which heavily shaped both his views on life and the sound of his new band Insurgence. But in those half dozen early years music was still just an unprofitable, clunky hobby.

“Any minute my dad was going to pull me aside and ask me what I was going to

“ I SURFED T O E S C AP E BANALITY.”

“My biggest fear is letting people down,” says the man behind megahit “Sail.”

“How the f*ck am I going to follow up a six-time platinum song?”

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“A N Y M O M E N T, MY DAD WAS GOI N G TO PU LL M E ASIDE AND A S K W H AT I W A S D O I N G .” do with my life,” says Bruno. “My parents were definitely disappointed. I’m sure they were terrified.”

To allay their fears he enrolled in Moorpark Community College and took music theory but dropped out after two classes. Surfing interested him, theory didn’t. He grew tired of hardcore (“I could hide behind a scream but I wanted to sing”) and formed Home Town Hero to satisfy his need to create something more viable. The post-grunge band’s six-song demo got them a legit manager and their first record deal at Maverick.

But Bruno constantly feuded with the label, and the band’s vexing sense of selfentitlement quickly wore thin. Clinging to their punk rock roots, they trashed a stage at the House of Blues in New Orleans in front of music industry tastemakers and were dropped by the label.

“From that moment on my career went down, down, down,” says Bruno.

“Looking back it was evident we got a record deal way too early.”

He re-invented himself once again— this time with the sing-songy Under the Influence of Giants.

But he became frustrated by his inability to gain traction in the music industry—his difficult rep stalked him like a shadow—and began to implode. After clawing their way back through the club scene the band was picked up by Island Def Jam but had little success. A radio station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the only one in the country to play their first single. They were dropped again.

For the first time he realized he might not become the man he set out to be. His reputation was in tatters. He had no money and no other plan.

“I was 30,” he says. “And what did I have? Nothing.”

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But he did, in fact, have something.

Despite his failures he was still wildly talented—he played the guitar, piano, drums and synthesizers and had a penchant for weighty lyrics. He would let go of the fear and create what he wanted to hear. If he could put together a band and play small shows “where everybody sings along,” that would be success.

A producer was interested in the strange sounds he was putting together on his own and offered to help develop

them. He also gave him a job writing songs for aspiring pop stars so he could have some money in his pocket.

Bruno wrote and recorded “Sail” in two hours, in one take. Engineer Kenny Carkeet felt it needed a redo because of some distortion.

“Who cares?” replied Bruno. “No one’s gonna care about this song anyway.”

So they left it as is. It would become the second-longest-charting song in Billboard Hot 100 history.

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and an amalgam of vocal styles that manage to feel incredibly accessible. That accessibility has been the thread of his appeal, even if you’re not quite sure what you’re accessing. But the album transcends in a way he hasn’t before.

“Run,” the album’s title track, is a smothering, lo-fi, hip-hop-infused slow roll that feels like the musical impetus to an uprising.

“Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” is a communal concert experience waiting to happen thanks to its uptempo, chantworthy lyrics yet at the same time a personal referendum on individuality and disdain for music industry imitators.

But the gem is “Windows”—a soaring, head-nod-inducing affirmation that life’s most desired answers may forever be beyond our grasp. It’s a visceral trip that flirts with hopelessness but evolves satisfyingly into an ode to self-realization.

“But I’m aware/And I don’t care,” Bruno triumphantly bellows.

It’s his finest hour as an artist—

“TH IS WAS TH E FI RST TI M E I WAS A B L E T O S AY W H AT I F E LT A N D N O T F E E L A S H A M E D O F I T.”

On the new album, Bruno is at his very best blending tones, hypnotic beats and a mix of vocal styles that still feel incredibly accessible. And the album transcends in a way he hasn’t before.

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“This was the first time,” he says, “that I was able to say what I felt and not be ashamed of it.”

In 2014, Bruno spent four months in a barn just north of Santa Barbara with little Internet access to record the muchanticipated follow-up to that breakout first album.

Run is a kaleidoscope of feeling and sound. Bruno, who played all the instruments, is at his very best blending tones, hypnotic beats, personal anguish

unencumbered and unbound yet compellingly vulnerable.

“I’ve grown as a songwriter,” he says, “but it remains to be seen if everybody else feels the same way.”

So there is Bruno sitting on the retro chicness of the green couch, sipping a hot tea. It has been quite the journey. He has arrived at this particular moment very much intact, albeit a little battered, but that was supposed to happen.

The Bruno before you is pragmatic and thoughtful. Friends say loyalty is a defining quality. He tried the rock-star thing but found himself a better fit. He refrains from lavish purchases. His dad does his taxes. Mom still worries. Middle school friends are still surf buddies. He drive his 2008 Prius that’s pushing 150K miles. There’s still Westlake in him. And you’d be let down if there wasn’t. But comfort be damned.

For Aaron Bruno, there are still chapters left to write.

Run is available at redbullrecords.com

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The Red Bull Air Race returns in 2015 for another year of globetrotting and high-stakes acrobatic flying. The race planes are lighter, faster and more agile than a Formula One car—which in turn demands incredible precision and meticulous mental preparation from their pilots. A perspective from inside the cockpit.

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Flight path: Matthias Dolderer prepares for a run through the course at the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship stop in Las Vegas.

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Hot stuff: Double world champion Paul Bonhomme leaves a smoke trail across Putrajaya Lake, Malaysia.

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ehind the airplane.’ This is not a phrase any pilot wants to hear. It refers to a situation of less than full control, reacting to events rather than premeditating them. It’s the point where you stop flying the plane and the plane starts flying you. It’s something all pilots try to avoid, but particularly those in the high-speed world of air racing, where the clearest mind has the advantage.

Red Bull Air Race pilots spend hours visualizing their course. Some sit staring into space, simply picturing the air gates; others physically construct a scale model of the course in their hangars, walking through it over and over again. The latter has brought a new phrase into the sport: the can dance. In the can dance, cans of Red Bull are arranged to represent airgate pylons. They’re placed precisely on 64

the airplane hangar floor and the pilots weave in and out, sometimes with eyes closed, looking for all the world like men performing a ritual dance in praise of . . . who knows what?

The dance changes with every round of the championship: The core components of the course remain the same, but the layout evolves to suit the geography, so every race requires a new set of rehearsals.

The intent is the same, though: to mentally prepare the pilot to perform maneuvers at racing speeds and racing G-forces. Combined with training laps, it’s designed to confine qualifying and

race runs to muscle memory, divorced from the ticking of the stopwatch and pressures of competition. The best of the best are the ones who can most clearly visualize their lap. Like F1 racer Ayrton Senna or NBA star Anthony Davis, in their groove, the elite of the Red Bull Air Race simply look like they have more time to make their moves. They are, in effect, ahead of the airplane.

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THE START GATE “THERE’S A LOT TO DO: RPM, CAMERA,

AIR VENTS, SMOKE … YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO YOUR PLANE AS WELL.” Paul Bonhomme

THIS IS WHAT COUNTS THE PERFECT LAP BEGINS BEFORE IT BEGINS. The run to the first gate is a pilot’s final chance to visualize his run, but it’s also a busy time with lots to do, not least of which is ensuring he stays under the 200-knot (230 mph) maximum start-line speed. More than one pilot has ended his race participation before it even

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got going, simply by going too fast through the start gate.

PAUL BONHOMME IS THE RED BULL AIR RACE WORLD CHAMPION OF 2009 AND 2010. When the series returned in 2014, Bonhomme picked up two victories and finished the championship in third position, which is approximately two places lower than anything he’d be satisfied with. Flying is the Bonhomme family business, though Paul entered at the very bottom, sweeping the floors at his local airfield before progressing to aerobatics, flight instruction and finally civil aviation, rising to become a 747 captain for British Airways.

Bonhomme can frequently be found flying vintage World War II fighter aircraft or appearing with Steve Jones as one half of the Matadors formation aerobatic display team.

THE CHICANE “TO GET THROUGH ACCURATELY YOU NEED TO BE PRECISE WITHOUT THINKING. YOU ALWAYS NEED TO BE AHEAD OF THE GAME.” Nigel Lamb

THIS IS WHAT COUNTS THE CHICANE SEQUENCE OF THREE EQUALLY SPACED PYLONS PROVIDES A TOUGH CHALLENGE as pilots flick from knife-edge to knife-edge, all the time trying to maintain a level altitude. “When you watch newcomers in the chicane, they struggle,” says Nigel Lamb. “You’re making rapid control inputs, and a tiny

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overuse or underuse of the rudder and the airplane tends to climb. The corridor of air we’re flying through is very small: a little bit too low and you get disqualified; a little bit too high and you get a penalty. You need to be incredibly precise without thinking about it. You always need to be ahead of the game.”

NIGEL LAMB IS THE REIGNING CHAMPION. HE LEARNED HIS CRAFT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, flying for the Rhodesian Air Force before making the long trip north to England to take up professional aerobatics.

Aerobatics suited Lamb perfectly, as his eight consecutive British National Unlimited Aerobatic Championship titles attest. One of Red Bull Air Race’s more innovative pilots, Lamb has a relentless enthusiasm for developing his plane and his skill set. His hard work paid off last year with a maiden victory in Malaysia and his first world championship.

THIS IS WHAT COUNTS IN THE WORLD OF AEROBATICS THIS WOULD BE A HALF CUBAN EIGHT, but this is racing, where speed rather than grace is the order of the day and a stopwatch, not a judging panel, is the ultimate arbiter of success or failure. The vertical turning maneuver sees pilots pass through a gate in level flight before pulling up sharply, going over the top—being careful not to exceed the 10G maximum loading—rolling the aircraft and returning to level flight traveling in the opposite direction.

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“The highest Gs come at highest speed when you are going around a corner,” says Matthias Dolderer.

“It doesn’t matter to us if that corner is horizontal or vertical, but the most Gs we get are in the vertical turning maneuver.”

THE VERTICAL TURNING MANEUVER “WE LEARN HOW TO HANDLE G-FORCES; OUR BODIES TALK TO US AND WE LEARN HOW TO LISTEN.”

MATTHIAS DOLDERER IS ANOTHER RED BULL AIR RACE PILOT BORN INTO AVIATION. His parents ran a flight school and private airfield in Tannheim, Germany, and young Matthias is reputed to have first flown at just 3 years old. Forty years later, he’s piloted more than 150 types of aircraft and won German championships in aerobatics and flying ultralights. Today, along with his sister, he runs the family business, the fame of which has spread through the Tannkosh air show and fly-in event. In 2014, Matthias picked up momentum as the year went on, the high point coming in October with a podium finish in Las Vegas.

Matthias Dolderer

NICOLAS IVANOFF IS THE RED BULL AIR RACE PILOT IMPOSSIBLE TO RULE OUT. When he’s on his game, the mercurial Corsican is a match for anyone and, piloting his distinctive orange Edge 540, can make winning look easy. The only question is why he doesn’t do so more often.

Ivanoff got his debut Red Bull Air Race victory in 2009, winning a thrilling encounter over San Diego harbor. When the air race returned in 2014, a poor opening half of the season ruled him out of the running in the championship, but he came back with a bang in the second half of the year, finishing on the podium at Ascot and taking wins in Fort Worth and at the Red Bull Ring.

THIS IS WHAT COUNTS FLYING LEVEL THROUGH AIR GATES doesn’t present the spectator with the thrill of jinking through the chicane or throwing the plane high into a graceful vertical turn, but it’s what wins and loses air races. The pylons are 80 feet high and have a flat inner surface to present pilots with a perfect rectangle, through which the plane must pass in level flight. The slightest touch of a wing tip will bring down a pylon and incur a time penalty.

“It’s like on the road: Some cars are fast on the motorway, others are better for tight, twisty roads

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through the mountains,” says Nicolas Ivanoff. “We need the equivalent of the car for the tight, twisty roads. We need a great deal of precision in the way we fly, because you really don’t want to meet a pylon!”

THE AIR GATES “WE NEED A GREAT DEAL OF PRECISION. YOU DON’T WANT TO MEET A PYLON!” Nicolas Ivanoff

HANNES ARCH IS AUSTRIA’S MR. ADRENALINE. The 2008 Red Bull Air Race champion is an aerobatic and stunt pilot, flies helicopters and hang gliders and is an expert paraglider, mountaineer and BASE-jumper. He claims to be happiest when he can get away from it all, be that up in the air or out in the wild.

Arch came into the Red Bull Air Race after working as the championship’s race director.

After a 2007 rookie season in which he “watched and learned,” Arch swiftly rose into the elite category and has been a regular race winner ever since. The 2014 season saw him take victory in Croatia and Poland to finish the championship in second place for the third time in a row.

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THE FINISH GATE “AIR RACING IS LIKE DOWNHILL SKIING: IT’S ABOUT FINDING THE RIGHT LINE.” Hannes Arch

THIS IS WHAT COUNTS PILOTS ASSEMBLE THEIR LAP SECTION BY SECTION, balancing risk and reward.

There will be occasions when caution is thrown to the wind, but for the most part, the priority is to get to the final gate and put a clean run on the board.

“I want to take it calm, smooth and gentle, and still be fast and precise,” says Hannes Arch. “To fly through those pylons relies entirely on feeling: It should feel like two wings attached to my body. Extracting the last knot of speed at the expense of poor handling isn’t the way to go. Air racing is like

downhill skiing (and like any good Austrian, I love skiing). It’s about finding the right line, not going too wide, not making sharp edges, just smooth, energy-conserving lines.”

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ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE: NO STRESS “You need to keep your legs straight, your eyes on the horizon, and the most important thing is to relax,” says Jordan Wayment. “When you tense up you lose your balance. Stand like you’re waiting in a line.

Then before you know it you’ll be in the air.”

The only way is up: Jets counteract gravity pulling you down.

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“Be familiar with the water,” says Rigaud, “be natural. It’s an instinctive sport. If you’re completely comfortable with the water, you’ll be able to concentrate on flyboarding.”

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In 2015 we’re still a long way from traveling around on Thunderball-esque jet packs. But until that day comes, flyboarding is the next best thing. Strap onto the board, fire up a 260 hp personal watercraft with a hose attached to it and a powerful stream of water propels you 50 feet into the air. “Being on a flyboard is the closest I’ll ever get to being Iron Man,” says Frenchman Franky Zapata, the Jet Ski champion who invented the flyboard in 2011. “It’s like having the power to fly—you move around so intuitively.”

Zapata is based in Marseille, but flyboarding has expanded to more than 2,000 centers around the world. And its barrier of entry isn’t too high.

Once a rider has mastered the basics, the sky’s the limit when it comes to tricks. The jumps and aerobatics you can do in any other board sport are all possible, with one big difference: “There’s no gravity pulling you back down,” says Jordan Wayment, 26, a Utah native who mentors young adults. “You can go up in the air and stay there. The sensation of being propelled by jets of water is pretty special.”

Extreme-sports enthusiast and photographer Francois Rigaud discovered the sport online and loved it so much he now runs Atlantic Flyboard in Florida. “When I saw a clip I knew I had to try it,” Atlantic Flyboard he says. “It is the jet pack 750 West Sunrise Blvd. of today. It’s new and it’s a Fort Lauderdale, FL atlanticflyboard.com real rush.”

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Kajiya, 28, is number three in the freestyle kiteboarding world rankings.

“My performance is closely bound with my Mystic Diva signature harness. Literally,” says Brazilian freestyle kiteboarder Bruna Kajiya. “The waist harness is what keeps me attached to the kite, and it’s been specifically designed for the female body. In our sport, you can go up to 26 feet in

the air, so it’s really important to have freedom of movement when you execute a jump. And it’s crucial that the line doesn’t come undone during extreme maneuvers when you’re in the middle of pulling off particularly complex tricks.” mysticboarding.com

SMOOTH OPERATOR The edges of the harness are soft, double-thick neoprene that won’t leave pressure marks even when worn for hours.

SHARE THE BURDEN The woven, fourpart fastener spreads the load equally around the waist harness.

LOOK SHARP You can quickly sever the line with this pull-out double-edged cutter.

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Side fasteners on the harness are protected so they don’t accidentally come undone.

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SKINCEUTICALS “I’ve tried countless different sun creams in the 11 years I’ve been competing. SkinCeuticals SPF 30 stays on the skin even if you’ve been in the water for hours.”

AIRUSH DIAMOND BK “This board was designed specifically for female kiteboarders. It’s 133cm long with a softer flex and lighter core made of poplar and balsa wood.

It responds quickly and glides easily.”

DIVA RASHVEST “Sun cream isn’t enough when the sun is beating down in the afternoon, so I wear this Mystic Lycra top with an SPF of 50+.”

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This trip through the desert involves three days of barrelling over sand dunes in four-wheel-drive off-road vehicles. www.camp-mars.com

their skills here during the day before revelers dance the night away by the beach to great house tunes. Order a caipirinha— Blanko has the best in the city.”

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T UNIS ALL THE TOP ATTRACTIONS OF AFRICA’S NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY, ACCORDING TO ONE IN-THE-KNOW LOCAL. “Tunis is a city of contrasts: You can sip mint tea and watch the world go by from one of the traditional cafés in the Old Town, you can play golf surrounded by palm trees by the lake, or you can up the ante and join the kitesurfers on the beach,” says Riadh Mnif, a local tourism expert who organizes adventuresports excursions at Camp Mars, a small tented desert village in the Sahara. “The architecture here is breathtaking—the Medina of Tunis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the colossal Al-Zaytuna mosque is a must-see. By day you should wander around the Old Town’s maze of narrow alleyways, with its souks and food stalls, before heading over to the waterfront for dinner. After that there are cool bars and the nightclub up the road at La Marsa, where you can party the night away.” tunisiadirect.net

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1 À TABLE 15 rue El Moez “The three guys who run this place are very passionate about the fine food they sell. They’re always happy to give you recipe ideas, and you won’t find better olive oil anywhere else in Tunis.”

4 FONDOUK EL ATTARINE Médina 1006 “The atmosphere inside this old-world arcade is incredible.

You’ll find the unique works of expert jewelers, rug- and hat-makers, potters and high-end fashion designers.

Don’t forget to haggle.”

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Les Berges du Lac 2 “This boutique stocks crossover clothing inspired by modern pieces and retro North African styles. A lot of people thought the Tunisian look died out years ago, but it’s big right now.”

3 BLANKO KITESURF CLUB La Marsa “Tunisia’s top kitesurfers hone

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5 L’AGORA 5 avenue Taieb Mhiri, Marsa “This tip is for the culture vultures. At L’Agora you can either go to young local musicians’ gigs or see works by up-and-coming artists. There’s also a cinema showing Tunisian films with English subtitles.”

Head out to Kelibia, Bizerte or Hammamet and dive down to check out the remains of German and British warships sunk in the Second World War. divescover.com

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Souk it and sightsee

An expedition across the Sahara Desert with a difference.

You and a flight instructor soar to dizzying heights with a motorized paraglider.

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WATCHES

HIGH CA R B

TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Phantom New for 2015. The Monaco first appeared in 1969.

Steve McQueen wore one in Le Mans in 1971 and a modern classic was born.

PLATINUM AND TITANIUM ARE OUT: WATCHES’ HOT TREND IS CARBON

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AGAINST ALL RESISTANCE You can’t consider lightweight design in the modern era without thinking of carbon fiber.

Airplanes, race cars and sports equipment all utilize this light, extremely durable yet chemically stable material.

Cutting edge

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TAG HEUER THE NEW MONACO V4 PHANTOM IS A GROUNDBREAKING TIMEPIECE BOTH INSIDE AND OUT.

WATCH LIKE NO OTHER

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t only requires one billionth of one horsepower to keep a typical clockwork watch movement going.

When TAG Heuer elected to reduce that further, the venerable watchmaker took a page out of the carmaker’s book and devised an automatic movement that replaced energy-wasting cog drive chains with markedly more efficient drive belts.

In 2004, TAG’s technicians struggled with technical problems making the first prototype of the Monaco V4 watch. So they enlisted Guy Sémon, a physicist and former jet pilot, who used computer analysis to assess about 2,500 variables in the watch’s performance. His work led to a reduction in the watch’s hair-thin drive belts from 13 to five. (Sémon is now GM of the company.) Further developments inside that Monaco V4 included microball bearings made of zirconium. Since then, TAG Heuer has had significantly more efficient transmission levels than those found in watches with conventional movements. In 2015, the all-new V4 Phantom’s innovative innards are matched outwardly by a cutting-edge carbon case. It’s a beautiful thing. tagheuer.com

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Barrels and flywheels reminiscent of a car engine. Left: Innovator Guy Sémon

TAG Heuer uses molded carbon fiber plates for the brand-new V4 Phantom’s innovative case.

And the variation in the finish on each watch means that every one is aesthetically individual.

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The V4’s inner workings: Drive-belt energy transfer is state-of-the-art in car engines, but TAG Heuer is the only watchmaker deploying the technology.

Working with carbon requires great care and expense. Tools wear out after making 10 watch cases and only 85 percent of watches made are approved for sale. Hence a high price tag.

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MUSIC

M O B I LE MUSIC Oasis were the high priests of Britpop in the 1990s: Their concerts filled stadiums, they sold 50 million albums and their singles stayed in the British charts for a total of 765 weeks. Yet, in spite of their success, the Manchester band split in 2009 because the strife between Noel and his vocalist brother Liam had become unbearable. Noel’s been solo ever since. Chasing Yesterday is the 47-year-old’s second solo album. It contains 10 new songs that combine Gallagher’s ingenious, Beatlesesque song-writing skills with new sounds, such as a clarinet and a washboard. Here he tells us which songs have made a mark on his life.

Ray “ Davies is my hero” PLAYLIST FIVE TRACKS THAT INSPIRED NOEL GALLAGHER TO WRITE THE MUSIC THAT MADE OASIS ROCK ’N’ ROLL STARS.

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1 The Kinks

2 The Beatles

3 Sex Pistols

“All my recent songs are inspired by the art of Ray Davies’ storytelling.

He’s the master, the unsung hero of the 1960s. In my opinion he should have a knighthood by now. He should be called Sir Ray Davies. I love Pete Townsend, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but Davies is probably a little bit better than all of them.”

“The Beatles recorded so many great songs that it’s almost impossible to choose just one.

Hey Jude isn’t even my favorite, but it had a big influence on me as a songwriter in my Oasis period. I can’t bear to listen to it anymore as I’ve played it to death. But I still think it’s one of the greatest songs ever made.”

“If it wasn’t for the Sex Pistols, would any of us be here? They might be the single most important band of all time, because they re-ignited the youth culture that had been murdered by the hippies. My favorite song of theirs is ‘Pretty Vacant.’ The guitar riff is amazing. Their album Never Mind the Bollocks is the first record I bought.”

4 The Smiths

5 Rhythim Is Rhythim

“The Smiths gave me so much. Not that I’ve been influenced

by Morrissey’s vocals or songwriting, or Johnny Marr’s guitar playing—you couldn’t be, because both of them are so fantastic. You can’t develop that. At the minute I’m really into a song called ‘Nowhere Fast’ off Meat Is Murder. It has amazing energy and an amazing rock ’n’ roll vibe.”

“The last song is totally electronic, because that’s a side to my influences most people know very little about.

This brilliant track came out in 1987 and was produced by Derrick May, one of the pioneers of the Detroit techno movement. If you listen carefully, you’ll realize it inspired the song ‘AKA ...

What a Life!’ on my first solo album.”

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Nowhere Fast

Hey Jude

Strings Of Life

You don’t touch a theremin synthesizer to play it, and the same goes for the app that’s based on it.

The closer your hand gets to the camera lens, the higher the note.

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SMULE OCARINA To tease the sounds out of this flute simulator, just blow into your mobile’s microphone and play the tune using the four virtual finger holes on the touchscreen.

C H A R G I N G A H EA D HELPFUL HEADPHONES

¯ Z P2 PHA These are the first headphones with a built-in charger. The extra juice means you can crank up the volume and charge your smartphone while you’re listening to music.

To compensate for the extra battery weight, the Phaz P2 is made out of lightweight carbon fiber. phazmusic.com

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REAL DRUM This app lets those who drum their fingers record tracks using a 13-piece on-screen drum kit. There are 60 tutorials to help you improve your dexterity.

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Frontman: Noel Gallagher of High Flying Birds.

THE APPS THAT TURN YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO AN INSTRUMENT

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WINGS FOR LIFE Ryan Sandes is set to compete in the Wings for Life World Run in South Africa.

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Go the distance R YAN SANDES SOUTH AFRICA’S STAR TRAIL RUNNER IS THE KIND OF GUY WHO RUNS 26 MILES AS A WARM-UP. HERE, HE TALKS ABOUT HOW TO GET FARTHER IN MAY’S WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUN.

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Train on the course.

“If possible, it’s good to run on the actual course before the event. You have a mental advantage when you know what to expect. Some parts of the course will suit you; others won’t. This way you know what’s coming.”

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Get your rest right. “If your body needs an extra day to recover from a long run, let it. Try to sleep as much as possible in the weeks leading up to the big event. Massages and eating healthy will also help you get over particularly hard training sessions.”

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Have a plan. “Don’t just train at random distances—set yourself goals. At what point do I want to be able to run this fast or that far? On one hand, it’s good for keeping you motivated; on the other, it helps you keep tabs on your progress. It’s very important to be consistent.”

Eat right. “It’s very important not to surprise your stomach during a run. You should be used to, and able to digest, anything you consume before and during a race. Drinking watered-down Red Bull works very well for me. Then, later on, I take on electrolytes.”

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Do dress rehearsals.

“Train in the clothes and shoes you’ll use for the Wings for Life World Run. Running shoes you’ve never worn before are a recipe for disaster. And you should know what body parts you’ll need to tape or lubricate to avoid pain.”

Shift down a gear.

“The hardest thing for me is to reduce intensity and distance by 60 percent for the two or three weeks leading up to the race. But the body needs the break to completely relax, refill all the tanks and fully recover from any minor injuries you’ve been carrying.”

The starting pistol for the 2015 Wings for Life World Run will be fired simultaneously in 35 locations in 33 countries on May 3, 2015. Who will hold the catcher car at bay the longest? All the info you need to take part is at wingsforlifeworldrun.com

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Have a Plan A, B and C. “Think of three race strategies: the first for if everything goes incredibly well, the second for a bad day at the office and the third for if everything goes according to plan. Set mile times for each. Don’t be afraid to switch from Plan A to Plan B or C if need be. The worst and most common mistake is to set off without a plan.”

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Warm up. “Let your body know before the start that it’s all about to kick off. Fifteen minutes of gentle jogging will make your muscles warm and supple.

Wait as long as you can to take your tracksuit off so that you don’t cool down.”

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Stay strong. “Shit happens. You can’t afford to let unforeseen circumstances during the race increase your heart rate in the slightest. The truth of ultramarathons is that the person who copes best with the lows wins.”

RUNNING M ATES RYAN SANDES RACKS UP THOUSANDS OF MILES WITH THIS GEAR

OAKLEY RADARLOCK “These glasses are always a perfect fit thanks to interchangeable nose pads. The lenses filter out UV rays and adapt to light conditions.” oakley.com

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Have fun. “Running is fun. You should try to bear that in mind, even when the going gets tough.”

Ryan Sandes, 33, is one of the world’s top extreme runners.

In 2010, the South African became the first man to win all 4 Deserts ultramarathons, each of which is a 155-trek through the Atacama, Gobi and Sahara deserts and Antarctica.

GOPRO HERO4 “This action cam is just 2 inches wide, weighs 3 oz and is a loyal companion when I run crosscountry. The 4K resolution makes for great videos.” gopro.com

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GAMES

Wheelie good: New bike-racing game Ride.

ACTION TIM E LOCK AND LOAD FOR THESE FULL-ON EPICS

BLOODBORNE Exclusive to PS4, a dark and dirty adventure through an incredible Gothic city populated by beasts that were once people. Out worldwide on March 20. playstation.com

Cycle of excellence R IDE CAN THIS TWO-WHEELED EXTRAVAGANZA BE THE GRAN TURISMO OF BIKES? With over 100 real-life bikes re-created in great detail, Ride boasts the most motorcycles per pixel of any authentic racing game in 2015. Racers choose machines from the world’s leading manufacturers, customize the look and spec as much as they wish, then challenge up to 11 other racers online, or 15 other computer-controlled bikes, in various modes of play.

Italy isn’t known for its video games (but is in the DNA of video game icons; see right), yet Ride developer Milestone, based in Milan, has been making officially licensed racing games for Superbikes, MotoGP, the Motocross World Championships and the World Rally Championship since 1999. There is pedigree here. To make Ride, Milestone has collaborated with Ducati, Yamaha, KTM, Honda, Triumph, MV Agusta, Aprilia and Energica to create the most realistic collection of bikes ever seen in a video game.

The action takes place on seven grand-prix-inspired tracks, two city circuits, five open-road rides and a sort of test track that has been devised to push skills to the absolute limit. There are the usual types of competition found in racing games— series, one-offs, time trials—but also a drag-racing mode and an endurance mode. Everything looks amazing, and hands-on previews suggest it will play that way, too. Out March 20 on Xbox One and 360, PlayStation 3 and Ready. Set. Go! Available 4, Steam and Windows. on multiple platforms.

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MARIO IS BACK: WITH FRIENDS, AND YOU AS CREATOR

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Mario Party

MARIO VS. DONKEY KONG: TIPPING STARS & MARIO PARTY 10 It’s fitting for the 30th anniversary of the appearance of Super Mario Brothers that there are three new games featuring the little Italian plumber.

Two are out in March: the puzzle game Mario vs.

Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars for Wii U and 3DS, and the multiplayer mayhem of Mario Party 10 for Wii U.

The first-personshooter series switches from military to municipal for a crime epic of cops ’n’ robbers.

Out March 17 on Xbox, PS and PC. battlefield.com

DARK SOULS II

Mario Maker

MARIO MAKER Due soon on Wii U is Mario Maker, which is something truly new. You build your own Mario levels with all the classic elements, then play them and share them online. It’s incredibly good fun. nintendo.com

Last year’s superb one-man mission into an undead world, retooled, with boosted visuals and gameplay, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and PC. Out April 3. darksoulsii.com

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Q & A

JOHN SLATTERY

GONE BEFORE THEIR TIME

John Slattery has spent eight years stealing scenes as wisecracking ad man Roger Sterling on TV’s Mad Men. But all good things must come to an end—the series closes out beginning this month. We asked Slattery about saying goodbye and what’s next.

Paul Walker’s tragic death in November 2013 put the future of the Fast & Furious franchise in doubt.

But Furious 7 opens April 3, featuring Walker’s final screen appearance. Here are other stars we lost too soon, immortalized forever in film.

Words: Geoff Berkshire

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Heath Ledger DIED: Jan. 22, 2008 POSTHUMOUS ROLE: The Dark Knight (2008)

James Dean

“ I’m sure there was pressure in the writers room, but I didn’t feel it.” pressure on us to deliver as much as Matt felt pressure, whether it was self-created or from the outside, to end it in a certain way. People talk about the ending of The Sopranos, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H ... I’m sure there was pressure in the writers room. But I didn’t feel it. I don’t know if the other actors did. We were all going through ups and downs.

We’ve heard the cast is really close. What’s it like knowing you won’t have an

excuse to gather anymore?

That’s the hardest part, not being able to hang out.

We’d play cards, people who weren’t working would drop by the set, we’d go to dinner. We established strong friendships, which will remain, but some of us live farther away now.

Later this year we’ll see you in Marvel’s Ant-Man. What can you tell us about that?

I play the same guy I played in Iron Man 2. It’s funny, really smart. It’ll be really entertaining with Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas. I’m looking forward to it—to seeing it.

Mad Men returns April 5. amctv.com/shows/mad-men

DIED: Sept. 30, 1955 POSTHUMOUS ROLES: Rebel Without a Cause (1955); Giant (1956)

Aaliyah DIED: Aug. 25, 2001 POSTHUMOUS ROLE: Queen of the Damned (2002)

Brandon Lee DIED: March 31, 1993 POSTHUMOUS ROLE: The Crow (1994)

Bruce Lee DIED: July 20, 1973 POSTHUMOUS ROLE: Enter the Dragon (1973)

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the red bulletin: You wrapped Mad Men last year.

Have you moved on? john slattery: I’ve gone through the end of shooting, which was sad. We all split up, but with the knowledge that [the show] would come back.

At first I thought breaking up the season in two halves was to make money and stretch the thing out as long as possible, which may be the case, but I’m glad it happened now. We get to reunite and see everybody. And the show gets to be seen. I think these final episodes are really good.

What’s the feeling of the final season? Is it satisfying, open-ended, ambiguous?

It’s ending and Matt Weiner knows what that’s like because he was on The Sopranos when it ended.

When a show gets that much attention the ending is pretty well scrutinized. He had an idea for an ending for a while, and I think he pulled it off really well. We’ve been with these characters for a long time, and they all end in a pretty satisfying way.

Was there pressure to make sure the ending wouldn’t “ruin” the show?

I don’t think there was

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CARS2015 A LOOK AROUND THE GENEVA MOTOR SHOW SUGGESTS THIS WILL BE A GOOD YEAR FOR FOUR WHEELS. EXISTING DESIGNS HAVE BEEN REFINED, NEW GAPS EXPLOITED AND THE SHEER HIGH-OCTANE POTENTIAL OF IT ALL HAS SET HEARTS RACING. HERE ARE OUR CHOICES.

New take on a classic: The Ford GT has F1 steering and 600 hp.

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CARS SPECIAL

CITY

F I AT 500X 120 to 170 hp, front- or all-wheel drive, 14 feet long

NIPPY, NEAT AND ECONOMICAL: THESE ARE THE QUALITIES YOU’D EXPECT IN A DECENT URBAN OPTION. BUT THESE CARS CAN DO SO MUCH MORE.

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

It takes the attractive design of the Fiat 500 to the next level.

Perfect view, even when facing the steepest garage ramp.

Stylish urbanites who want to be ready for anything.

SUBARU WRX STI All-wheel drive, 305 hp, top speed of 159 mph

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Same powerful engine on an allnew and improved platform.

With increased torsional rigidity, it eats turns for breakfast.

Speed demon curve huggers who value traction over relaxin’.

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V O L K S WA G E N G O L F G T E

BEATS BY DRE You want to enjoy the time you spend getting from A to B, so a car’s interior is important— not least in an urban setting.

An unstoppable trend started in Japan’s big cities and is quickly conquering the world.

To complement in-vehicle infotainment and connectivity— linking your car and smartphone— speaker quality is rapidly increasing.

Sometimes the only antidote to the traffic jam you’re stuck in is being able to enjoy some stressabating tunes, and now it can be at the quality you’d have in your home. Beats by Dre has come up with a tailor-made sound system for the Fiat 500L, consisting of seven painstakingly tuned speakers that create sound as good as you’d hear while sitting on the sofa.

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A plug-in hybrid. Gas engine, 150 hp; electric engine, 102 hp

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Has all the qualities of the Golf, and a range of 31 miles on electric charge.

A top speed of 137 mph and fuel consumption of 42 mpg in the city.

As with any Volkswagen Golf, anyone and everyone.

JEEP RENEGADE Front- or all-wheel drive, 180 hp, 9-speed transmission

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Shares the Fiat 500X platform, so it’s a sport ute that’s Italian cute.

Roomy interior styling inspired by action sports gear.

Great Outdoors– lovin’ urbanites with as much gear as get-up-and-go.

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BMW 3 170 hp electric engine, 80-to 100-mile range

Toyota WEC driver: Alex Wurz

QUICK Q&A Why does everyone drive hybrids in the WEC [World Endurance Championship] and at Le Mans?

Because you’ve got to get by on a specific amount of energy and you can’t afford to do without the braking energy.

What does that mean?

If we didn’t have a hybrid engine, we wouldn’t manage a single lap in the given time.

The brakes wouldn’t cope.

Why is that?

The actual braking system is tiny. We mainly slow down with the hybrid system and make the most of every joule.

What’s on your wish list?

Six wheels or more! That way we could recover the braking energy even more efficiently.

CLEVER GOOD IDEAS COME IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS: SOME YOU RECOGNIZE STRAIGHT AWAY, OTHERS TAKE A LITTLE LONGER.

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W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

EV with range and an optional gaspowered motor to extend it.

BMW’s entry into electric is charging up the industry.

The eco-minded style-conscious (who can’t pop for a Tesla).

MINI COOPER S HARDTOP 4 DOOR Front-wheel drive, 192 hp, top speed 129 mph, 158 inches long

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

You can now climb into the back seat while maintaining your dignity.

Mini spirit combined with BMW tech and a practical layout.

Thanks to the two rear doors, young families will now have one too.

KIA SOUL 130 hp with optional 160 hp, diesel and hybrid, 130 to 200 hp

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Funky, hip-to-besquare exterior is offset by its refined interior.

Unexpected cabin features, like ventilated front seats, heated rears.

Budget-minded hipsters, cool van-hating soccer moms.

T OYO TA T S 0 4 0 H Y B R I D Carbon chassis, gas and electric motor, over 1,000 hp

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

It looks wild, drives even wilder and yet saves fuel.

Racing cars have never been so quick and yet so economical.

This model?

Racers. But we all reap the rewards of the technology.

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R A N G E ROV E R H Y B R I D Diesel hybrid, total power: 335 hp

TALL IS THE NEW BROAD: NOW THERE’S A HIGH-SEATER CAR FOR ALL TASTES, FROM EARTHY TO URBAN.

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

This iconic car is more socially acceptable as a hybrid.

Its unmistakeable appearance and true off-road capabilities.

Wealthy ski bums, ad execs, talent agents and their wives.

H O N D A C R -V Front- or four-wheel drive, gas, new 160 hp diesel engine

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

All the comfort of a passenger car but an elevated perspective.

Nine-speed auto gearbox reduces fuel consumption and emissions.

This is a truly international car with fans on all continents.

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J A G U A R F- PA C E All-wheel drive, 6- or 8-cylinder, diesel. Due in 2016

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Jaguar fans can finally get off-road (though nowhere too rough).

The F-Pace is the first SUV in the company’s illustrious history.

Euro-types for whom other highend SUVs are still too vulgar.

M A Z D A C X- 5 Front- or all-wheel drive, new 192 hp top-of-the-range gas engine

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W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Kodo design, SKYACTIV tech, driver-assistance system warnings.

All the strengths of the old model, with improved tech and better looks.

Lots of people: The CX-5 is a hit in the U.S. as well as Europe.

A WATERPROOF SOUND SYSTEM The Jeep Wrangler is one of the best off-roaders in the world. Not many cars can tame the legendary Rubicon Trail. The 25-mile part road, part off-road route through the Sierra Nevada in California is one of the toughest challenges that a car can conquer … or not, as the case may be. Water crossings are par for the course, in addition to all the rocks.

Alpine has now developed a waterproof hi-fi system for the Wrangler. It has 500W, eight speakers and a powerful subwoofer that booms out of the trunk—even if the worst does happen and it’s stuck underwater for three days.

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SUPERSPORT COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY IF YOU GET TO DRIVE ONE OF THESE IN A RACING GAME. YOU’RE EVEN LUCKIER IF YOU CAN AFFORD ONE IN REAL LIFE.

PORSCHE 911 CARRERA GTS Rear- or all-wheel drive, 430 hp, 0-60 mph in 3.8s

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

A wide rear, 20in. wheels and 30 hp extra keep this iconic car fresh.

Sportier than the regular Carrera and comfier than a GT3.

Someone who knows he’s just made his dream come true.

N I S S A N S K Y L I N E G T- R All-wheel drive, twin-turbo, 550 hp; the NISMO, 600 hp

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

They call it Godzilla: It should be feared and admired equally.

One of the world’s quickest cars and better-engineered than ever.

Anyone from Fast & Furious: top speed 195 mph; 0-60 mph in 2.8s

BMW 6ER COUPÉ Six or eight-cylinder, diesel or gas, from 313 to 450 hp

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Large touring coupe from the German school.

Quick but calm.

Classic straightsix engine.

No downsizing here.

Those people who value style over space.

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FORD GT Six-cylinder, 0-60 mph in 3.2s, top speed of 198 mph. Due in 2017

W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

W H AT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

WHO DRIVES IT?

Do we really have to tell you? Come on, just take a look at it.

Its predecessor was already an icon. Fifty years later it’s back.

Steve McQueen would have had a blue one, with orange stripes.

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W H AT ’ S G R E AT A B O U T I T

AUDI PILOTED DRIVING Quick Laps, No Driver In the future, self-driving cars will take control of acceleration, braking and steering, allowing us to relax as we glide through the traffic. Audi showed us what’s technically possible when they sent an A7 bombing its own way around the Hockenheim race circuit at full speed.

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ACTION!

SAVE THE DATE Thigh spy: Lady Gaga is among the headliners at Jazz Fest.

April 24-May 3

New Orleans Jazz Fest Started in 1970, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been doing the festival thing since long before Coachella was even a twinkle in its founding hipster’s eye. Like its namesake town, the party is let-your-hairdown fun at its finest: 70 booths serve crawfish beignets, alligator-sausage po’boys, jambalaya and muffuletas, and with 12 stages and tents presenting headliners like Elton John, The Who, Wilco, Ed Sheeran, Buddy Guy, Hozier, No Doubt, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, how much fun is that? nojazzfest.com

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April 4 & 6

NCAA Final Four For fans of college basketball, March goes roaring out like a lion, having witnessed 68 teams across the nation duke it out in a single-elimination tourney. From that carnage now emerge the Final Four, who will engage in a battle royale at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to determine the ultimate hoops champ. Last year, it was the Connecticut Huskies beating the Kentucky Wildcats. As of press time, this year’s match was still TBD, so you’ll just have to be there or in front of your TV. Just don’t miss it. ncaa.com/final-four

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April 4

tUnE-yArDs at Grand Central Its fitting that one of Miami’s hottest clubs is located in an old train station. After all, Grand Central, with its warehouse stylings and outdoor area, hosts the nonstop arrival of top live acts, pulling in from all over the country and beyond.

This month, it’s the difficult-to-type-but-easy-todig tUnE-yArDs. Perhaps you saw them recently on Conan. Well, now you can see them right before your very eyes and ears.

GRAND CENTRAL. 697 North Miami Ave., Miami, FL grandcentralmiami.com

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MUSIC

April 10-12

Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas If you saw On Any Sunday, you know just how thrilling— and terrifying—is the world of MotoGP: Bikes leaning at logic-defying angles, riders plying asphalt at more than 200 mph, their leather-clad bodies skimming so close to the track that a dollar bill would feel like a speed bump.

It all comes together at the state-of-the-art Circuit of the Americas speedway in Austin, Texas. Last year, world champ Marc Marquez took the checkered flag. Are you up for this year’s stomach-churning challenge? circuitoftheamericas.com/

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On the heels of a new album, AWOLNATION plays just one U.S. show, at the Pot of Gold Fest in Arizona, before touring Europe.

They won’t return ’til summer, so don’t miss it. awolnationmusic. com/tour

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MOVIES True Story is no joke, despite its comic leads: Jonah Hill is a disgraced reporter entangled in the case of accused killer James Franco, who’s using Hill’s identity.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC, GETTY IMAGES, HOLLY ANDRES, CHRISTIAN PONDELLA/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, BRIAN MONTALBO

April 10

Arctic Man Race Winters are long in Alaska, so can you blame folks if they need to blow off some steam by the end? They do it with one of the most physically challenging two-stage races anywhere. Just outside of Anchorage, skiers start at a summit elevation of 5,800 feet and scream down to the bottom of a narrow canyon where they meet up with a snowmobiling partner for a 2.25-mile, nearly 90 mph rope tow to the crest of another mountain, where they separate for a smokin’ 1,200-vertical-foot descent to the finish line.

Crazy? We said it was Alaska.

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Red Bull All Snow

Coachella Fest

Boston Marathon

How Weird Street Faire

Break out the sticks and boards, boyz and girlz. This is your chance to strut your best tweaks, plants, airs and throws. New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain is going railfree old school for this: Handdug half-pipes, side cuts and natural hips. Just like the “All Snow” name says. loonmtn.com

Just when the granddaddy of alternative festivals was in danger of becoming the, well, granddaddy of alternative festivals, organizers go and throw a cardigan-clad curveball by booking granddaddy headliners AC/DC and Steely Dan. And all is cool again in the world. coachella.com

Perhaps it’s no surprise, but the website for the 2015 Boston Marathon contains not a wit of reference to the tragic terror attack of 2013.

Which is how it should be: Not ignored or forgotten but vanquished. Let the courts sort the aftermath. Let the runners run. baa.org

How weird? Two words: San. Francisco. OK, a few more: Support Our Freaks and Weirdi Gras, to name past themes. Spacebiosis and Uranus, to dub a few dance stages. Less weird: artists, DJs and enough tie-dye to do any good raver proud. What to make of it? San. Francisco. howweird.org

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TV Netflix’s first of five forays into the live-action superhero genre, Marvel’s Daredevil stars Charlie Cox as titular hero/ blind lawyer Matt Murdock. Rosario Dawson and Vincent D’Onofrio also star. Let the binging begin! netflix.com

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The 2,600 inhabitants of a sleepy Scandinavian fishing village ran for cover earlier this year when Hurricane Egon battered the southwest coast of Sweden. But for local windsurfer Markus Rydberg, the resulting waves presented an opportunity that was too good to pass up. “I executed some of the most difficult tricks of my career,” says Rydberg, 24. “This picture shows me pulling off a tweaked pushloop.” markusrydberg.com

“ This was the jump of my life —thank you, Hurricane Egon.”

Swedish windsurfer Markus Rydberg made the most of the conditions.

DAVID HOLMQVIST

Traslovslage, Sweden January 11, 2015

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