The weird white woman singularity is here, and her name is Boyfriend. This is where the line between Lena Dunham, a younger Chloe Sevingy and the likes of Lil Debbie blurs. Boyfriend is a rapper based in Los Angeles who sports tortoise-shell, horn-rimmed glasses; thrift store outfits, and seems like your typical hipster; but really Boyfriend aims to promote sexuality and eroticism. Geek in the streets, freak in the sheets…with some rapping sprinkled on top.

Her newest video, “Swanky” features some Salvation Army exclusive costumes and verses that drop references to Gone With The Wind, Million Dollar Baby, and the Clintons, because ladies with horn-rimmed glasses reference things like Gone With The Wind. What’s unexpected is the very wavy beat that sounds a lil like a Clams Casino beat sculpted from a Luscious Jackson song or maybe a Purity Ring song, if they cheered up a bit. The existence of Boyfriend sort of proves that Kitty Pryde is the Eminem of rapping white women, who don’t look like strippers. Most likely not a song that’ll be burning up the charts, but if you know a sex positive, all natural foods, social justice loving feminist that’s in the market for rap music that doesn’t bolster the patriarchy; this is her summer jam. Countdown til this song finds it way into an episode of Girls begins, now.

This Thursday is another Retard Strength. It’ll be good. I’m DJing with No Bra, Lauren Dillard from Creep, Alanna Nualla from Moon, and Aaron Pfenning from Chairlift. Here’s the Facebook event page.

Here are photos from the last one. It started out as a thrash show and ended up as a rap party.

Thursday July 19th, 2012, 9PM
The Flat
308 Hooper
Brooklyn, NY

Hello All, it’s me, Nick Gazin. I’m hosting a thing tonight at the Flat. It’s a rockin’, rollin’ party. I’ll be DJing as always but so will my celebrity pals. First up is my pal Andy Animal from the Stalkers. He is a giant biker ass looking motherfucker and he is an amazingly good DJ and girls show up to hang out with him. Then there’s Ian St. Pe from the Black Lips. He’s a famous ass guy who is cute and is in one of my favorite modern rock and roll bands. I am so insanely psyched that he’s going to DJ with me. Then there’s Thomas Morton from Vice Magazine and Vice’s TV shows. Finally I’ll be joined by Karen Vasquez from Habibi. And maybe her boyfriend Conor also. It should be a fucking hoot and a half.

It’s all going down tonight and it starts at 9pm. It’s free and we have a free vodka bar until 10:30pm. We go til closing and it’s at the Flat. The Flat’s at 308 Hooper at South 5th Street in Brooklyn. Here are some photos from last week’s party which was a wild rappy hootenanny with musical performances by Lakutis, Dark Sister, Chippy Nonstop and two-thirds of Children of the Night. There was also DJing by Nasty Nigel from COTN as well as Dap and Himanshu from Das Racist. It was cray-zay.

That’s me in the center of the first picture there sandwiched by Ryan from Dais Records and King Dude. Every Thursday I’ve been  hosting and DJing a party called Retard Strength at The Flat where a rotating bunch of my friends and I DJ up some music. I’ve been posting up the flyers here but haven’t been sharing the photos I’ve been taking because of been busy. Anyway, here are those.

And that’s what it’s like.

I went and saw Death play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last week. I got there in the middle of Cerebral Ballzy’s set and Honor made combo-face at me.

This guy got realllllly close to me in the pit.

The circle pit was pretty decent.

Then Honor got up on a post and people took pictures of him.

I met this guy named Skunk who had tattooed this drawing I’d done for Ballzy on his arm. He was like,”Oh, I thought the Black Flag artist drew this.” I think a lot of people assume that even though Raymond Pettibon and I don’t really draw all that similarly once you get past the part where we both use black lines.

This is the main dude of Death. For a band playing songs they’d recorded in the seventies they were pretty tight.

There were a ton of attractive folks hanging around.

I like this guy.

Girls with attitude.

Why do all these women hate me?

This lady was hosting. Her butt was insaaaaaane. I wanted to bite on it.

Pile up.

Honor hugged people goodbye.

This little lady is Luna. She was friends with a girl with a GG Allin patch on her pants which is always a sign of good dukedom. They mentioned they were in a band called Poppin’. I asked,”Like your lipgloss?” and they answered,”No, like our pussies!” Can’t get them out of my mind.

It was getting late so this guy hitched a ride back to Jamaica. Anyway, it was all a good time. Go see Death if you get the chance. Nick Gazin out!

I don’t know about you but I always felt museums attracted a particular class of “babe.” Not counting just the generic midwetsern tourists of course. Museum babes tend to be cute and aloof, stylish and usually nerdy in all in a good way.

Xavier Aaronson agrees which is why he started Babes at the Museum, a site dedicated to documenting, well, babes at the museum.

Babes At The Museum celebrates the love for camouflaged looks and discreet flair that navigate through the world’s most exquisite museums. Literal and conceptual, BATM is street fashion with a twist and some amusing parameters to work within (ie. hours of operation, sober settings, photophobic guards…)

Why? Art boosts beauty and beauties are drawn to art.  Problem is, too many babes at museums fail to be properly noticed when the art exhibition becomes the main attraction. This blog aims to feature those babes that show up not always come dressed to impress, let alone, be photographed.

It kind of reminds me of Nick Gazin’s creepy Photos of Girls blog which my girlfriend appears too often on :/ Anyway, add the site to your bookmarks for some daily eye candy and be sure to hit up the BATM that will take place at Glasslands Gallery on Thursday, November 3rd featuring Zambri, Brahms, Hooray For Earth, and Autre Ne Veut.

T&B in 3D and soon in smell-o-vision!

Make any room into a party with your T&B 5 year wallpaper!

Happy Bassday!

Healeymade’s Count Duckula, be very afraid!

The Overthrow predicts alot of bass in your future!

oh hey sexy Bushmills lady, you makin’ me thirsty!

Kudos to the T&B gang for putting together a multi-faceted multimedia art show to celebrate 5 years of blood sweat and tears. Congrats as well to all the artists for their interpretation of the iconic T&B logo. The crew went over and above creating limited edition watches, tarot cards, toys, charms and prints which you will find for sale for the next 6 weeks at 350 Broadway and on our online shop.

Luckily we did not have to mop the floor with any bodies due to the gracious allotment of Bushmills on premise and everyone had fun to the tunes of the special T&B 5 year megamix spanning from old school grime to their most recent label hits and remixes. For more coverage of the night check out the gallery over at HiFi Cartel.

Are you the coolest kid in you high school’s graduating class? Do you ever find yourself wondering which college or university will really get you? Well, those consummate tastemakers over at the Huffington Post have come through in clutch once again, as they’ve just issued their annual list of The Most Hipster Colleges in the country. If you checked out the list back in 2010, you may be surprised to find that there have been some major shake-up’s in the line-up this time around.

2011 finds Iowa’s Grinnell College breaking into the starting hip rotation, as it apparently has taken on an aire of “pre-cool (or maybe post-cool) irony, like mom jeans, giant teddy bear sweaters and aviator glasses.” Obviously, this list was complied with its tongue placed firmly in its cheek, but it still made me gag a couple of times. At any rate, these college’s inclusion on the Huffington Post’s list should send up a red flag, signaling schools that you should perhaps skip sending an application to. The mere face that Grinnell is even included on this thing, immediately excludes it from any conversation dealing with genuinely hip colleges. The only New York school to make the list was The Parsons New School of Design. Take that RISD!

Next year, I plan on starting up a college of my very own, in hopes that it will someday make the cut of this pretigious list. I envision our mascot being a pet rock with googley eyes glued onto it, and our quad taking the shape of  Albert Hammond Jr’s afro. Of course, the dining hall will exclusively serve hummus.  I’m currently taking suggestions concerning what the school’s fight song should be, but I’m tentatively leaning toward a tune done by the Pitchfork BNM’d group Sleigh Bells.

Is your school on the list? Your thoughts?

The Deepsession crew is at it again. What better way to close down the season than with a Chromeo DJ set! The Canadian movers and shakers have decided to pop their Italian performace cherry, as they embark to Europe to for this extravaganza! If you happen to find yourself in the business of feeling good, then Chromeo’s latest LP,Business Casual, will provide the perfect soundtrack for some blissed-out summer days, as well as a fair amount of wild nights. Check out this video for “Night By Night”, and I think you’ll know what I’m talking about.

We recently posted about the crew’s new imprint, Deepsession Records, and how they’ve been busy lining up a variety of killer releases. It seems that all their acts share a common love for outer space, and of course, a knack for bumping tunes that will move your body until the sun comes up. Next out of the gate is a release from newcomer Ayarcana, who will be presenting us with a series of futuristic bass sounds and disco-influenced grooves that are just bound to satiate our funkiest desires. Here is his Deepsession Radio #28 session, click play and get ready to blast off!

Sunday July 10th, 10pm
PURE CLUB
Viale della Civiltà del Lavoro 78
Roma, Italy
8€ to Enter

Check it out. I was interviewed by these Floridians for Neon Forest. You can read it on over here. We chatted about, oh, everything. Who am I really? Am I the guy you think you know? Am I the guy in this interview? You’ll never know and the harder you try to guess the more I will slip away. I am a mysterious goon with a buncha layers, like an angry onion. Try to get to know me!

The interview’s okay, just their attempt to help move this limited run of shirts I drew for them. Only Twenty-four were printed though.

Buy the T-shirt over here.