About a month ago the awesome Autre Ne Veut came to our 350 Broadway store and threw down a seriously awesome performance. His intense, harried style of R’n'B was perfect for the intimate setting of the store, an effect which was enhanced by the candlelit ambiance of it all. He played songs old and new, including some that haven’t even been released yet.

It’s a bummer that you all couldn’t make it. But don’t worry, Yr Friend Matthew Caron was there to film the whole shebang for you to watch. Remember, Vimeo is the next best thing to real life! I’m embedded a few of them above, and there’s even more goodness available here.

Forcefield Toggle Coat ($273.00)

Who doesn’t love a good toggle coat? Y’know what? Probably a good bit of people. But y’know who doesn’t love a GREAT toggle coat? No one. Not a soul on this earf (welcome to it). The sleekest and most rugged of our new Holiday Jackets, the Forcefield Toggle Coat is a force to be reckoned with. All weathers will be rebuffed. Coldness? Fuck outta here!

The hefty hood is faux-fur lined to keep your ears and general dome piece warm as all get out, but don’t think we forgot about the rest of the torso. There’s red flannel lining in there too. More than anything though, just the simple pleasure of stealing through the night, all black err’thing, a dark shadow drifting in and out of snowdrifts. This is your element. With the Forcefield Toggle Coat, that is.

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

Skulls Barcelona, which is, you guessed it, based in the Ukraine. That is not true.

Skulls Barcelona isn’t shy at all about the patterns and designs of their hats, so if you’re looking for a serious injection of color and whimsy into your all-black-everything jumpoff, then you’ve come to the right place. There’s the Cherries Hat, Sushi Hat, and Crabs Hat that you see about, and a bunch more in the online store. Go go go!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

Brand New Мишка Watches!

Swag your wrist out mighty fine with our brand new watches! We’ve got five, count ’em five new styles to help you up your accessories game. Hell, buy them all and just run them up your arm like a satanic time gauntlet.

If you want to keep it real clean, then take a look at the all white everything Keep Watch White. The Keep Watch eyeball is embossed on the face for a subtle effect. If you’re feeling a little more brash, then check out the ETD! Badge Watch in black, with a in your face Simon skull on the face and crossed bones on the wristband.

Last but not least, we have the Standard Issue metal watches featuring our tonal Keep Watch Face, but this time with black, silver, or gold case accents and a black band. They’re all available 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

Lemme guess: you’ve put your Christmas shopping off and now you’re wondering how to get everyone (including yourself) a great gift without compromising your schedule OR your wallet? I know, I know, pretty accurate. Don’t worry friends, because we have just the thing. The annual Мишка Holiday warehouse sale is happening next weekend, just catty-corner from our 350 Broadway store!

Featuring massive savings of up to 70% off, you’ll be able to pick up samples and stock from seasons past and recent (and maybe even future!). The sale is cash only, so bring out your greenbacks and paw through our bevy of swaggery stuff. We’ve got shirts, hats, jackets, accessories, and more. There will be different items everyday, who knows what you might find!

December 16th through the 17th
(Fri & Sat: 12-8pm, Sun: 12-6pm)
Мишка Warehouse Sale
359 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

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

Keep Watch New Era Fitted Cap ($47.00)

Dear Мишкаteers,

It’s with a heavy heart that I cede my position as Мишка’s copywriter to Whole Milk. For years you, my audience, have thrilled to my product descriptions in the online store, my press releases and Steady Peddlin’ column. Maybe I was starting to treat this company’s copy writing like some form of shitty therapy where I kept forcing myself to share more and more of my inner world than was probably appropriate when I should have just been writing about Мишка’s funky fresh new hats and shirts. This is my final Steady Peddlin’ column. After this I will peddle steadily no more forever.

I came to the office to receive my final paycheck a week ago and while I was there I got to meet the shitheel that they replaced me with. He stood up and turned around and it was like I was looking at a version of me I know longer got to be. He had a full head of hair, a mustache and a white jean jacket. His face was smooth and clean like a saxophone. I looked into his smug, employed eyes and thought,”You flashy son of a bitch. Why can’t I still be like you?” When I first came to Мишка five years ago my hairline was about a full inch closer to my eyebrows and I had a big dumb mustache. I dressed like a goof and girls liked me. As I shook my replacement’s smooth young hand and looked into his face I said “Hello” and “Good luck” when what I wanted to do was collapse to the floor and cry because I know that I’ll never be young again.

They say that when an airplane goes down that it’s not because one thing went wrong but because five things have gone wrong all at once. Besides having lost my career at Мишка I’ve been living in the shadow of my last romantic relationship that crumbled last month over an argument that seems silly now. I never knew a girl who played more games than this last one. She was never satisfied, just like Prince’s mother.  Every couple of weeks she’ll text me some bland pleasantry or insult. I think I’m expected to chase her. I was so glad to be rid of her for nine days and then on the tenth day I was overwhelmed with misery.

Ooh wee, I’m excited for this one. A few weeks from now, bizzaR&B artist Autre Ne Veut will be performing, for FREE, in our 350 Broadway Store. Autre Ne Veut has been a standout new musician of the past year or so, releasing two fantastic EP’s back to back. If you didn’t have the Body EP on repeat then you never heard the Body EP.

This intimate performance should be the perfect venue to be swept up in his lush aural dreamscapes, and get nice and luxurious with some fellow fans. Believe me when I say that 350 Broadway is the place to get up close and personal with some of your favorite musicians. Get there early though, because these things fill up quick.

Friday December 9th, 7pm-8pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

UK hardcore punk band, Gallowsset fire to the streets of Brooklyn and lit a bunch of shit on fire before stopping by our 350 Broadway Store to do a little bit of shopping. Perhaps you remember their 2008 single “Just Because You Sleep Next To Me Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe”? I wanted to put that as my quote in my high school senior year book. They wouldn’t let me.

You know, it’s very fitting that this is posting today, as Gallows just dropped a new EP! Today! That’s why it’s fitting. Death Is Birth is a collection of four songs, one of which, “Mondo Chaos“, is the band’s new single. And as is tradition with singles, there’s a sweet new video to go along with it, featuring motorcycles doing wheelies. Remember Heelys? Those were dope.

Fuck the world and start listening to Gallows. Or keep listening to Gallows.
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

Cross Check T-Shirt ($32.00)

I pretty much love everything that New York City has to offer. The food, the ladies, the jobs, the education (CUNY Hunter what up?), and even the never vanishing tourists. One thing I absolutely loathe? The New York Rangers. Founded as one the original hockey franchises in the early days of the NHL the team would go on to capture the Stanley Cup 3 times in the next 12 years.

What followed was 54 years of misery with nothing to really cheer about trophy wise before half of the Edmonton Oilers were traded to New York and would see the Rangers end their “curse” in 1994. Since then it’s been nothing but big money contracts to stars past or nearing the end of their prime. While some of the sports best such as Gretzky, Bure, and Jagr donned the Rangers sweater they have yet to lift the cup again.

Anyway, we here at Мишка are pretty heavy on taking sports logos and designs and Мишка’ing the life out of them. Holiday 2011 is no different. The Rangers have had the same uniform design (and we’ll admit that it’s a great one) way before any of us were born and it has been forever immortalized with the sport since the team really loves to live in the past and never really changes anything outside of free agent flops. Even MSG still sucks (that’s right).

For the shirt we’ve taken the team’s famous diagonal front sweater design and replaced “Rangers” with “Destroy,” and put “Мишка” o the nameplate above no. 78 and even flipped the vintage NHL logo to read “CCCP” (you know what this is right? you dang scenesters!) What’s extra neat is the material for the numbers and letters is the same you would find on a legit hockey shirt. The kind with varying high-density plastisol to mimic a real jersey’s meshing.

I actually had a hand in this since I had one of those legit hockey shirts with the same material to let MJ sample. I assume this means I get all 3 colorways free of charge seeing how I saved the day and what not. Right guys?! Speaking of colorways this shirt comes in the traditional Ranger blue, the away Ranger white and red on black (because I’m a Devils fan and cried upon seeing Мишка do such a thing).

So show your love for your favorite brand with your least favorite team and help Destroy the Rangers. Boom. Roasted. Or if you’re a fan root for them to Destroy I guess…

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

Get out your earplugs kids! We had Danny Terchin AKA Dannibal Corpse, drummer for Chicago deathcore band Oceano stop by our store. Isn’t it always the nicest looking guys who end up pummeling the skins in a death metal band, amirite?

In case you don’t know, Oceano’s music is heavy as fuck, thanks in no small part to Mr. Corpse here. Danny’s been known to rock Mishka in the past, and if that’s a Road To Ruin crewneck I see on him, looks like in the future as well. Oceano’s album Contagion is out now.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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