We’ve already mentioned the fact that this Sunday’s Summerstage is gonna be one of the summer’s biggest jump-offs as Santogold, Diplo, A-Trak and more take the stage in New York’s Central Park. However, now the place to be after you manage to get drunk & sweaty is Santo’s Party House at 100 Lafayette St! Everything you need to know about the afterparty is on the flyer above, and check the flyer below for any and all information pertaining to the Summerstage event. foolish!
You definitely don’t wanna miss this event, and to sweeten the deal (as if free music wasn’t enough) we’re giving out free shirts at the show!
For those who were fascinated with the firstCocaine Cowboys, here is the second installment entitledCocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ with the Godmother. This second documentary focuses more on the infamous Griselda Blanco, aka the female Scarface. In the first Cocaine Cowboys, it gets into how she came to notoriety and how she single handedly terrorized the streets of Miami and monopolized the drug game. Anyhow, this new doc tells another side of the story from the angle of Charles Cosby, a run of the mill crack dealer who became Blanco’s lover and rose to the ranks of multi-millionaire and big time drug dealer. Peep the trailers below. Heavy shit.
So Tha Carter III “officially” released today (even though I doubt any of you that cared hadn’t already heard it) but rather than going into an in-depth review, I’d rather invite our readers to share their thoughts in the comments. Personally, I think it’s good and pretty much what I expected to hear from Wayne. Despite his limitless catalog of material and overall ridiculous level of hype, he’s yet to release what I consider a timeless & classic album. However, his lyrical creativity and effortless ability is paralleled by very few. Whether it’s a lack of overall focus or perhaps the desire to appease mainstream audiences with a generous dose of easily digestible club tracks, there is something about every Carter album that has plagued them from being on par with an album like Reasonable Doubt or Ready to Die.
I promised not to go into an in-depth review, but after spending the last few days discussing this album to mixed reviews amongst friends, I thought I’d see what some of our readers had to say. Besides, I couldn’t let this killer showcase of my photoshop skills go to waste.
The Richard Kern shirts have landed along with a surprise Pop-Up exclusive straight out of Philly, our 4th collaboration with our friends over at Mad Decent. Both shirts are in limited runs so if you snooze you lose.
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L Train to Bedford
As promised from our front-page, here are some images from RezeonoMikon, a new zine from Rezeon Scum! Straight from Japan via hell and now available now at our Pop-Up Shop!
Packaging!
Front cover
Interior spread
Another interior spreading the disease!
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Viceland.com has an amazing article on the oral history of Williamsburg’s long gone but never forgotten den of snortitude… Kokie’s! Seriously do yourself a favor and read it, haha!
This sparked Mr. Malta and myself to reminisce on just how sketchy and bombed out Williamsburg once was! I remember my mother looking at me with this look of “Are you fucking crazy?” when I mentioned I was going there at some point during high school to watch my friend’s band record. Even as early as 2000-2001 it was pretty sketchy to start venturing south Grand street, oh how times have changed.
My last post about Squirt TV got me thinking about another Public Access show I used to watch semi-frequently. Over in Brooklyn we have BCAT (Brooklyn Cable Access Television) which for the most part plays host to either ridiculous religious sermons or any number of live from a Brownsville, Bed Stuy or East New York apt here’s some hip hop videos and interviews with the latest unknown mix-tape Mobb Deep wannabees! But every so often there are a few gems, which in this case had a long run.
Madame Chao Presents was video mash ups before there really was the great TV Caranage or the equally great System D-128. These things were epileptic seizures over a heavy industrial noise soundtrack with heavy doses of Kung Fu, The Simpsons and Horror. I spent many a Saturday night intoxicated either zoned out on these or running away from them in fear.
Unfortunately YouTube doesn’t really have many clips.. and the ones they do have are only like 30 seconds long. These videos used to go on and on and on and on , but you can check out the Madame Chao website for more clips. Unfortunately the site is quite needlessly complicated in trying to watch some clips. But you can also head over to this Myspace account to find out how you can order some older and newer compilations of the videos on DVD (with hopefully better quality than the YouTube clip above). You can also find an older interview with Madame Chao here.
I’m pretty sure Madame Chao tours around nowadays preforming these video mixes live at parties, so if yo happen to see the name pop up on a flyer go get baked and check it out!
P.S. the only other BCAT show I remember was some softcore porn show called Boriqua Barbie which had a plump Puerto Rican girl in see-through negligee playing with Barbie and Ken dolls and later posing in her projects hallway to music. Good times!
Hey all! Hope you’ve recovered from the all the Holiday season nonsense. I myself have recently returned home after spending a week in San Francisco DJing some dates with my friend Lovefingers. We were lucky enough to play two great nights, one being on NYE to a jam packed house alongside Glass Candy. They definitely received a much warmer reception out there than they did this past summer at P.S.1. Thanks to everyone who hooked it up out on the West Coast. I’ll always have a place in my heart for SF.
Anyway, good to be back in New York grinding away. Tonite myself and Peter Leonard continue with our third installment of Stampede Radio on East Village Radio. Got plenty of new old records to share with you. Tune in, we play at the late nite hour from 12am-2am. Thanks!
We all liked to get ’spaced out’ once in a while, get a lil’ ‘cosmic’ - see ’stars’ or what not. So this is a top 10 list of my astronomy photos of 2007 while ’space traveling’ YA HEARD!
10. A Comet Bursting Forth
Apparently comets are very hard for the naked eye to see. I say this is probably what Belushi and Farley saw before they took a permanent dirt nap. Pretty innit?
9. Black Hole on Mars
If I was a rapper and battling someone on Freestyle Friday on 106 & Park or some shit, I would carry a picture of this and claim that my guns could blow a hole as massive as this black hole on Mars. Science Thugzzz
8. A Giant Red Star Named Mira
I dunno if this shit is giant or red even, but I do think that ‘mira’ means come over here in spanish or something? Raekwon says it in ‘Ice Cream’
7. The Lover’s Embrace of ARP 87
Reminds me of British people saying, “The Lover’s Embrace of HARP 87″ I picture popping a few valiums to feel like how this looks.
6. Lightning at Weikerscheim Observatory
Doesn’t this look like one of those motivational posters you got as a kid at the book fair or something?
5. A Meeting of the Moons
You know it’s a gangsta party when Jupiter’s moons meet up like the after-party is just gettin’ started. There be some dusty mirror’s, solar system groupies, ice sparklin’ from light years away, COSMIC BALLIN’
4. Dark Matter Makes an Appearance
2 words, CHUCK ANDERSON
3. Chaos in Vela
This image shows the devastation wrought when a star explodes. The Vela Supernova Remnant formed when a massive star 800 light years away blew up 11,000 years ago. That’s some ‘Holy Shit’ action, son. Believe that.
2. Stereo Eclipse
When I was in highschool, the older kids would tell us how if you did more than three grams of shrooms, you would go to ‘the gate’- and how going there would change your life forever. I picture this before entering the gate, the eye of psychedelia saying, “You fucking think you are so awesome don’t you? Real proud that you got to the gate, you braindead fuck up”
1. The Beautiful Face of IC 342
This picture is pretty rad, but really, the real number 1 for ALL of my lists for 2007 would be this:
Ever wonder what kind of shit we have to deal with here on the regular? From Ralphie to Ralphie’s dog to Arthur the Roofer to Ben the Landlord to the crackheads on the phone across the way it’s rarely a dull day here at the office.
What you see here is a “pile” that somehow appeared in our beautiful backyard. We have our suspicions where this came from, but we’ll leave it to your imagination. Surely this will be a source of inspiration for years to come. And just to keep things extra gully we have the unofficial “Maniac” Ginzou butcher knife cold kicking it with the rest of the pile.
It’s gonna be hard to cut that sirloin without that knife Ralphie boy, we don’t want your family to starve.
This past Saturday night I ventured out to the hypebeast/hoodlum/pimp-ridden 42nd st. theaters for a flick. I saw a movie that I knew nothing about because I let my girlfriend do the picking. Her pick was the movie Awake. It was damn good and Jessica Alba looks damn good in it too (Jessica Alba in a wet tank top!). Go see this fruckin’ movie cuz its fruckin’ dope.
You’ve been waiting for it and now it’s in. Holiday cut and sew is now in the Mishka Pop-Up and is shipping to other accounts around the globe. We have it first so come cop.
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Williamsburg, Brooklynnnn!!!!!
L to Bedford Ave.
J to Marcy Ave.
BQE to Metropolitan
HO HO HO!!!
If you’ve spent the last few weeks wishing the weather was nicer and dreading the upcoming months of cold, then kick back in your chair and delve into this incredible banquet of YouTube mindfuckery. Over 450 of these videos are floating around the YouTube archives, each a compilation of animated .gifs, sequenced in a semi-cohesive manner. I’m not trying to shower these videos with praise as if they’re the workings of a genius, BUT a few of these do border on idiot savant, haha. I’ve only began to scratch the surface (if I was unemployed it’d be a different story), so take some time out, waste a few brain cells and if you still want more, you know where to find ‘em.
