If there’s one thing we can all agree upon about the impending apocalypse, it’s that after the nuclear dust has settled we will surely settle all disputes in vicious automobile races/battles. It’s the only logical conclusion. We will also have awesome outfits mostly made of plastic, but that’s beside the point. If you find yourself in one of these hyperviolent internal-combustion free for alls, there’s no better car for you than the custom Мишка x Scion iQ. This thing has got whip appeal.

Designed by Lamour Supreme as part of Scion’s Art Car project, this one of a kind Scion iQ not only features classic Мишка colors in its paint job, but also a hood ornament that will put any pussy ass Jaguar or Mercedes triangle of lameness to shame. Imagine cruising through the desert wastes and seeing that vicious Death Adder bearing down on you like seafoam lucifer. Damn, I can’t wait for the reckoning. Also, shouts to Tittsworth and Flinch for the pics.

Tonight’s Retard Strength is going to be good and I wouldn’t try to put one over on you. It’s starting off with three bands playing, starting at 8:30 sharp. First there’s Monozid from Germany. Then there’s the Bootblacks playing their premiere show.

Finally there’s YOU. After they’re done around 10pm I’ll be DJing up some rocking’ rollin’ songs with J.R. from Jailbait and Jonathan Toubin from being a famous guy that people love. Also there’s free vodka drinks from 9pm to 10pm so come early for some low cal booze. Here are some photos from last week’s thing.

Thursday May 24th, 2012, 8PM
The Flat
308 Hooper
Brooklyn, NY

Though the newest dose just dropped, starting back in the beginning of 2011 the writer of VGJunk started a series of posts devoted to imagining an alternate world where licensed game don’t suck. Actually there are a couple of licensed games that are good. Goldeneye. T2: Judgment Day. Chronicles of Riddick (actually much better than the movie in a weird twist). Blade Runner. But for the most part you get dung like E.T. for Atari or that Superman game on N64 (I have to assume the developers of that were purely trolling).

But what if all the cool movies a game studio wouldn’t touch with a ten-pixel pole somehow poofed into existence? Well, then we’d have something like the awesomeness you see above you. People have been making fake game screens for a while now, and as independent game development/modding gets easier and easier, I sometimes wonder when some of these might actually get made. I vote for Videodrome first pleez. Check out a bunch more here, here, and here.

Мишка Summer 2012 Lookbook Shot by Chris Brennan

Never fear, the Мишка Summer 2012 Lookbook is here! We’ve been doing a fair bit of previewing, from the looks at individual items to the teaser video that Brandon Tauszik put together last week, but it’s all been leading up to this. If I could force your computer to play “One Shining Moment” right now I would: we’re on that culmination swag today.

Continuing the trend of the last few Lookbooks, for Summer 2012 we picked a specific location and included local musicians doing their thing in and around the city they love, dressed to the nines in brand new Мишка. This year, the Bay Area was the destination, and Zachg was our guide. Bloglin Contributor, rapper, and serious hip-hop head, Zachg put together a who’s who of San Francisco and Oakland rap artists, packing the Lookbook with 9 great subjects. Photographer Chris Brennan came in and made everyone look positively awesome, galavanting around the beautiful bay in a bevy of Summery outfits, all of which can be yours today. From Мишка veterans Main Attrakionz to new friends like master twerker Chippy Nonstop, Antwon and Bad Slorp, and production duo Friendzone, the Lookbook has it all.

Whether you’re getting blazed at the scenic view with The Jealous Guys, crate digging with Anticon founding member Jel, skating with collective the Ontask Family, lounging out with Quelle Chris, or partying up with Trill Team 6, you can rest assured you’ll look great in something from Мишка Summer 12. Best of all: the whole thing is available right now!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

Hey Everybody, I do a weekly party and it’s called Retard Strength and if you’re not an asshole I invite you to come on down. Each week I DJ with friends of mine who are almost all in popular bands. This week I’m joined by Alix Brown for the third week in a row. She was in the Angry Angles with Jay Reatard, Golden Triangle, and she’s currently in Bosco Delrey. Then there’s Will Berman who’s also in Bosco Delrey but is also in MGMT.

Then there’s J.R. from Jailbait and the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. Finally there’s Thomas Morton from Vice who you will be seeing/have seen on Vice’s shows for MTV and HBO. And there’s me too, who you may or may not know about. Here are ten photos from last week’s party when the DJs were Me, DIIV, Cassie Ramone, Mikey Hodges and Thomas Morton. Honor Titus from Cerebral Ballzy also showed up which was fun.

This is Mike De Leon with his girlfriend hanging out in the corner.

This is DIIV during their DJ set. Check out all that shit they’re using.

I rode this thing down the hill. It was awesome.

Ben Pier showed up in his khaki colored 1964 Valiant and he let me and that girl in the green shirt ride around with him which was awesome.

Honor Titus and pal.

This girl flashed me when I played Mazzy Star.

Look at how cute this lady is.

Here’s Cassie Ramone DJing with some guy.

Dave Tassy from Night Manager smoked a cigarette with his belly button.

Cool Kids Club For Thirty Year Olds. 

Thursday May 17th, 2012, 9PM
The Flat
308 Hooper St
New York, NY

I’m sure this has been floating around the internet for a while now. There’s no way something this good could remain hidden (although there was that woman who customized her Barbie & Ken dolls with accurata genitalia and pubic hair. Still wish I had bought one of those actually…). Jim Lego is a Quebecois portrait photographer/nightmare creator who has blessed the world wide web with some of the strangest photography I’ve seen in a long, long time.

At first I was like “holy shit, I can’t believe people payed for this” but then very quickly changed my tone to “holy shit, I would pay so much for this.” I graduate from college this Friday. Jim Lego, if you’re still out there, please, please come document this occasion. Y’know, I never really understood what people were talking about when they said photographs could steal part of your soul. Until now. Check out the site for more. So much more.

Booty Call Records has been throwing these crazy looking parties in Paris at the Nouveau Casino recently. Though blogging has allowed me to purchase things like suits made from the finest beluga caviar and diamond backing boards for each of my comic books, I still don’t have a G6 to take me to Europe for dancing. Life is cruel.

Nevertheless, I can still enjoy it through videos like this, where you can see performance bits from artists like Feadz, DJ Booty Clap (a not so secret alias for L-Vis 1990, Kaptain Cadillac, and more. Looks like great music, cool space, and a ton of cute girls. Basically something you would never, ever wanna go to.

Keith Morris, one of hardcore’s true forces through stints in Black Flag, Circle Jerks and now OFF!, is 56 and is still fucking pissed. As evident with OFF!’s 2010 EP collection as their powerful debut, Morris can still lead a band to war and continuing the battle (with pretty much most of society), the quintet released their first official longplayer this week on the Vice label.

The band celebrated with a record release show this past Tuesday at the historic West Hollywood venue, The Whiskey a Go Go, with fellow punks FIDLAR and Spider Fever supporting and I, your trusty shooter The Holloweyed, was there.  Here’s our thoughts on OFF!’s latest, S/T affair, and check out more photos after the jump!

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Hey Everybody, Retard Strength, my foolishly named Thursday night party at the Flat  is coming around again this week. This is the seventh one and this time DJing with me are m’pals Thomas Morton from Vice, Cassie Ramone from the Babies and Vivian Girls, DIIV (formerly Dive) and Mikey Hodges from Pop Zeus.

It starts at 10pm at the Flat at 308 Hooper. It’ll be a real good time. Here are ten photos from last week’s party when I DJed with Alix Brown, Will Berman and Melissa Scaduto. It was going okay and then Bradford Cox, Cassie Ramone, Thomas Morton and Ben from MGMT showed up and DJed too. People were dancing all over and just having a good old time.

Anyway, that’s what it is like.

Though soul thieves would seem to be a pretty obvious career progression for us, you’ll notice that Stolen Souls is actually something far better than us rending you from your eternal mortality without your consent. It’s a fantastically gorgeous photography show coming to 350 Broadway this Friday. In fact, it’s a group photo show, the very first one we’ve ever hosted. Since our last Royce Bannon curated show, While You Were Sleeping, did so well, we decided to let him take the reins again for Stolen Souls.

Putting together his list of 13 artists, Royce focused on finding creators “who are skilled at capturing their subjects at just the right moment, without using parlor tricks and manipulation like Photoshop.” The title of the show, of course, refers to the old idea that the camera lens can seize the soul of its subjects. Pretty metal. From Don Morris to Last Witness, Russell King to Jazzmine Beaulieu, and 9 others, the walls of 350 Broadway will be chock full of images beautiful, bizarre, and everything in between. See you there, and hit the jump to check out the full list of artists.

Friday May 18th, 2012, 7-10PM
Мишка NYC
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

J/M/Z to Marcy
L to Lorimer
G to Broadway

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