If you listen to electronic music (which of course you do), you’re inundated with DJ mixes on a daily basis. Predictably, quantity outnumbers quality. This is doubly frustrating for DJs, most of whom think/know they can do better.

With that in mind, our friends Bass Fueled Mischief, AEG Live, and Nicky Digital are throwing down the gauntlet with the GOT WOMP? DJ Comp 2011 contest. This is your chance to show off your party starting, dancefloor melting DJ skills.

What’s at stake? The first place winner gets, among other things, an opening set at Metropolis at the Highline Ballroom, an Ableton Live course (courtesy Dubspot), some fresh Mishka gear, and tickets to see dubstep maestros Zed’s Dead and Mt Eden at Best Buy Theatre. Second place isn’t too shabby, either, and you’ll take home a Mishka hat & tee set, along with some tickets. Winning mixes will be featured on Nicky Digital.

All entries must be received by 11pm (est) September 18th. For full rules and regs, head over to the entry form. Now get to work, and show us what you’ve got.

For those who still don’t know, XLR8R magazine has been the authority in forward thinking electronic music for the past 18 years! Back when we had to hit the newsstands to stay up on shit. While they still put out a great print magazine they’ve also moved onto the digital age keeping your BPMs synced with what’s going on in the worlds of electronic music.

But in addition to bringing you the coolest of cool with music content, they run weekly giveaway contests. This week it’s our turn to offer up some cool points to their readers and our followers. Second place will receive a $75 gift certificate to our online shop while first place will walk away with a $75 gift certificate and our skatedeck featuring Playboy’s Cybergirl Kristen Pyles. I’m sure you all remember Kristen from Ellen Stagg‘s steamy Fall 2010 shoot, right?

All you need to do is head over to Xlr8r and sign up before it’s too late and you’ll be entered into the raffle. Be sure to also check the box and sign up to our mailing list if you already aren’t.

In case you are holding out the $30 you could spend on the ever awesome Ellen Stagg 2011 Calendar on something else, our friends at mashKULTURE are giving you the chance to win one for free. All they ask is that you upload a picture (on their Facebook page) that fits with their running weekly theme titled Monday’s Moff.

Try to keep away from the full blown nudity as it will be immediately taken down. Share your favorite model, pornstar, or whoever you think will get more “likes” than your competition. You have until February 28th to submit your photos (multiple entries are OK). The winner will be the following Monday’s Moff as well as the recipient of the calendar. Head over here to cast your vote and remember to keep it smart, keep it safe and keep it sexy.

Every single day our inboxes and @replies get bombarded with someone saying “Yo check out/post this video cuz we’re wearing Мишка” or “We name check you in this song” or “Yo, we’re big fans, put out our mixtape and send us free gear.” We, really appreciate how passionate you guys are and the fact that so many of our fans are talented and strong musical aspirations since in case you haven’t noticed, music is a big part of our brand’s identity. Now unfortunately we just can’t post most of what you guys send us for a variety of reasons, but we listen and look and are appreciative.

But you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to hold a “Make a Мишка Song Contest.” and you know what will probably happen? Now that we’re holding an official contest NO ONE will bother to enter! Ha!

So the rules are simple… write a song that’s about us. You can make a video for it, or not… up to you, but it has to be about us in general or some aspect of the brand (eg. Cyco Simon, Keep Watch Eyeball, The Toilet Cobra Being a Dirty Hipster, I Hate Badman Shark, etc, etc). We don’t care if it’s Hip Hop, Electro, Dubstep, Punk, Black Metal, Grindcore or Polka… IT JUST HAS TO BE ABOUT US, ENTIRELY ABOUT US.

You have until Friday, November 12th to submit your song to bloglin@mishkanyc.com with “Мишка Song Contest” in your subject line. We’ll then finalize it to three finalists (post them up) and choose a winner. Anyone can enter, be you a kid in your bedroom with a pro-tools set up or a band signed to major label, pushing 10 whips and summer homes in the French Riviera. The winner will receive $300 in online credit, with the other two finalists getting $75 in credit each and of course some bragging rights and shine on your music! Plus you know how we do… this may (or may not) be your way into having us talk about you regularly on the Bloglin like you’re Crookers, Das Racist or Blessure Grave or some shit. You never know…

P.S. For those of you who still can’t pronounce our name correctly it’s “meeshka” not “mihshka.” Might be the difference between winning and losing!

Every single day our inboxes and @replies get bombarded with someone saying “Yo check out/post this video cuz we’re wearing Мишка” or “We name check you in this song” or “Yo, we’re big fans, put out our mixtape and send us free gear.” We, really appreciate how passionate you guys are and the fact that so many of our fans are talented and strong musical aspirations since in case you haven’t noticed, music is a big part of our brand’s identity. Now unfortunately we just can’t post most of what you guys send us for a variety of reasons, but we listen and look and are appreciative.

But you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to hold a “Make a Мишка Song Contest.” and you know what will probably happen? Now that we’re holding an official contest NO ONE will bother to enter! Ha!

So the rules are simple… write a song that’s about us. You can make a video for it, or not… up to you, but it has to be about us in general or some aspect of the brand (eg. Cyco Simon, Keep Watch Eyeball, The Toilet Cobra Being a Dirty Hipster, I Hate Badman Shark, etc, etc). We don’t care if it’s Hip Hop, Electro, Dubstep, Punk, Black Metal, Grindcore or Polka… IT JUST HAS TO BE ABOUT US, ENTIRELY ABOUT US.

You have until Friday, November 12th to submit your song to bloglin@mishkanyc.com with “Мишка Song Contest” in your subject line. We’ll then finalize it to three finalists (post them up) and choose a winner. Anyone can enter, be you a kid in your bedroom with a pro-tools set up or a band signed to major label, pushing 10 whips and summer homes in the French Riviera. The winner will receive $300 in online credit, with the other two finalists getting $75 in credit each and of course some bragging rights and shine on your music! Plus you know how we do… this may (or may not) be your way into having us talk about you regularly on the Bloglin like you’re Crookers, Das Racist or Blessure Grave or some shit. You never know…

P.S. For those of you who still can’t pronounce our name correctly it’s “meeshka” not “mihshka.” Might be the difference between winning and losing!

Today, SEEN will be taking part in a segment on G4′s Attack of the Show giving away the above pair of custom Jamesons to one lucky viewer. These shoes were custom painted by our own Lamour Supreme for Мишка, as part of the Etnies and SEEN sponsored sneaker auction for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Part of Lamour Supreme’s illustrious career included airbrushing T-shirts, jackets, jeans, whatever while working at the now defunct UNIQUE in the Village. We asked Lamour to take things back to his airbrushing days and really make the sort of shoe you’d be proud to wear (or win) at your neighborhood “feast.”

Man did Lamour ever go to town on these shoes!!! There’s a stoned Alf, Noid, Kool-Aid Man, a cracked out E.T., a drunk Smurf and even some Gremlins. Basically everything a juvenile delinquent circa 1988 would have asked him to paint on a tee. I think I smell a few “cease and desists” coming our way thanks to Lamour!

These are like the greatest 80′s pop-culture acid trip you’ve never had and are a one of one. If you want them make sure you’re watching today’s Attack of the Show on G4. For images of these bad boys head over to SEEN.

Calling all bedroom producers, DJs and musicians…Our friends at Mad Decent are starting a brand new, regularly occurring remix contest and are kicking things off by allowing you the chance to remix Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.”. All you have to do is go here and download all of the component parts and go to town with your remix! You guys don’t even need to have any proprietary software to participate! Aviary has been gracious enough to provide an online based version of their program to use in creating your remix.

The winners are determined by public voting only and voting is limited by IP address, so it’s up to you as the creator to promote your mix. There are Twitter, Facebook, and embeddable codes to help with reaching the public and getting people to hear your remix. Remixers can upload multiple mixes although any duplicates of the same remix will be removed.

Entries begin April 22nd, 2010 (2 weeks submission) and close May 14th, 2010 (after 1 week of voting). Winners will be announced shortly after and you can see a full list of the rules and prizes by clicking here.

TOTALLY4TEENS is the brain child of Derrick Beckles, the same video genius who brought you TV Carnage, and who has brought myself countless hours of video-watching-ecstasy, over and over and over again. Not too long ago, he was commissioned to develop a show for Adult Swim, along with some of the people behind Wonder Showzen and the Daily Show, and it’s finally about to see the light of day… but it may not last!

Adult Swim is pitting TOTALLY4TEENS up against Soul Quest Overdrive in a death match for which show gets to make it onto the station’s regular programming during its Big, Uber, Network Sampling (click here to vote) competition. The voting ends at midnight tonight so please, please, please do me a favor and and go to the site and vote for it and give me the gift of something new to constantly get blazed on my couch to. It’s losing pretty bad right now and I assure you, in the long haul, it’ll be the better show!

This isn’t just TOTALLY4TEENS but TOTALLY4STONERZ as well!

The world’s largest New Era cap belongs to us and lives at 350 Broadway. Perhaps you remember this Store Spotting with DJ School Boy (Seen above) when most of the world first caught glimpse of it?

“Some time ago, we approached New Era about producing this mammoth of hat. Why? Simply because we wanted to know if we could make the world’s largest New Era. It seemed to be the perfect opportunity to take our iconic Keep Watch logo to the next level.

And much to our delight, New Era obliged. We were then graced with a 16″ Keep Watch New Era. The first of its kind but definitely not the last. It then snowballed into four more giant hats because of how pleased we were the first one.

So as such, we’ve decided that if anyone is deserving of the biggest hat, it should be one of Mishka’s biggest fans.”

We’ve teamed up with High Snob to give away one of these giant Keep Watch New Eras….

Here’s how it works:

1. Join High Snobiety’s Facebook group. If you’re already a member then you’re good so far.

2. Post a photo of yourself wearing a Мишка New Era Cap on the Highsnobiety Facebook Wall (or post it direct to the Fan photos album here).

3. Get creative! The best photo (as chosen by us) will win the giant cap.

Just imagine the conversation piece this will be perched in prime real estate in your livingroom or bedroom. Use it as a fruit basket, a hamper, a butterfly catcher, for tomato soup or fuck it man…cut out some eye-holes in it and just wear it! You be you!!!

Apologies for our last post about a Rinse.FM competition but unfortunately Plastician was snowed in and was not able to get to the radio station. This time we’re on point and I will be co hosting alongside Nomad and Plastician, this monday night at 11pm (UK time, 6pm US) on Rinse.FM!

Tune in for a chance to win a mystery Mishka prize and get your fix of the newest in grime and dubstep served up by the best in the game! Check out last week’s podcast and warm up for this next one!