So think of this as a “release party” of sorts for the Fall 2010, Actual Pain collection called Mystery Faith. Tees, Tanks, Crews, Hats… all that Satanic goodness you’ve come to expect and love from Actual Pain is alive and well in the newest collection. As with all Actual Pain collection, we have a limited stock and the brand has a pretty die-hard fan base. This shit will not stick around for too long in-store. You can expect an online drop sometime later this week.

And while the graphics are amazing and evil as always you should really take a look through the Mystery Faith lookbook which is pretty awesome in it’s own right! Keep scrolling to the right to see the entire thing.

And the icing on the cake is that King Dude, AKA T.J. Cowgill who is “Actual Pain” will be doing a very special in-store performance later this evening at our shop. T.J. strips down to his voice and acoustic guitar and channels some dark and haunting neo-folk with a heavy focus on knowledge and faith. Luciferian light and spirituality beyond the confines of a strict monotheistic reasoning are just some of the heady topics.

The show will run from 7-8pm and we ask that you arrive on time as space is limited. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to rsvp@mishkanyc.com. Please note that entry will work on a first come first served basis via the RSVP list. We also welcome you to take pictures, shoot video and/or record the show for your blogs/sites. We simply ask that you inform one of our employees that you will be doing such before hand.

Head here for more details. We look forward to seeing you and hail the black triangle!

Monday August 30th, 7pm-8pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

This Australian magazine I never heard of put my pally, Ryan Keely, on the cover along with her pally, Justine Joli. The photos were taken by everyone’s favorite smutster, Ellen Stagg.

Ellen looks and is named like a tall, beautiful elf.  She is so blonde and tall and light skinned and has a totally slammin’ elf bod.  Also she is good at things. Ellen, let’s go on a date.

This dude showed up with Starter sneakers. I didn’t even know these things existed.

The Vidiot found this awesome pin with ice cream on it on the way to the party. I haven’t been served a heaping mound of ice cream in a dish like that in years.

“What’s that?  You like my ice cream button?  Tee hee hee!” The Vidiot has the personality of a Japanese tween girl.

Dita Von Teese was there serving drinks. I never forgave her for breaking Marilyn Manson’s heart.

This hot piece of chicken was there showing off her love of worms. There’s a movie in this, I think.  ”Must Love Worms.”

These guys. I like these guys.

This guy, I like him too. It’s Benjamin Marra, maker of so many good comics including Gangsta Rap Posse and Night Business. He also did the album art for Lil B recently and some other rap album covers. Dude rules and is not a pussy, which is refreshing in the comics world.

It was cool to find out that he was also in this magazine. He’s getting hit up by every rapper to do the art for their damn mixtapes. If you want Marra to do your art then you have to be prepared to pay.

Ryan’s got a huge fucking tongue. She’s like Gene Simmons but way creepier.

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On Monday, August 30th Disaro records and Chronic Youth will be presenting an intimate performance by Seattle’s King Dude at our shop. King Dude is the solo Apocalyptic Folk project from T.J. Cowgill. Cowgill  is a former member of Teen Cthulu but is probably best known as the vocalist for Pacific Northwest Black Metal behemoths, Book of Black Earth along with being the mastermind behind clothing line Actual Pain.

With his newest creative outlet Cowgill strips down to his voice and acoustic guitar and channels some dark and haunting neo-folk with a heavy focus on knowledge and faith. Luciferian light and spirituality beyond the confines of a strict monotheistic reasoning are just some of the heady topics.

Cowgill describes King Dude by saying “My music is the music of the world, of nature, of the devil, of love and destruction. I think it speaks to everyone equally no matter who they are because the light bringer is in us all, awake or waiting to be awakened.” Truly dark and beautiful compositions that fans of bands like Death In June, Sol Invictus and Current 93 will instantly fall in love with.

King Dude’s past releases include a limited cassette entitled My Beloved Ghost on Bathetic Records. A 7″ entitled “The Black Triangle” on Clan Destine Records and his just released debut CD-R for Disaro entitled Tonight’s Special Death.

The show will run from 7-8pm and we ask that you arrive on time as space is limited. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to rsvp@mishkanyc.com. Please note that entry will work on a first come first served basis via the RSVP list. We also welcome you to take pictures, shoot video and/or record the show for your blogs/sites. We simply ask that you inform one of our employees that you will be doing such before hand.

We look forward to seeing you and hail the black triangle!

Monday August 30th, 7pm-8pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

I wanted to share some images with you of Justine Joli and Ryan Keely together to encourage you to join us this Friday, August 27th from 7-10pm at the Acclaim Magazine signing.

These images make me want to squeeze the both of them real, real hard whenever I see them because they are such beautiful, fun and lovely ladies.  Head after the break for two more sexy shots. See ya Friday.

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Acclaim Magazine is a lifestyle publication based out of Melbourne Australia. It’s 21st issue focuses on “Friends”, no not the 90′s sitcom but rather the magazines extended family of talented artists, musicians, photographers and brands. Мишка is proud to be a part of their extended family and as such will be celebrating the issues release in style at the our 350 Broadway shop on August 27th.

For the event Acclaim has produced a limited number of issue #21 featuring Ellen Stagg’s photo of Ryan Keely and Justine Joli frolicking in the sun, both wearing our Playhouse Painters Caps. Ellen and the girls will also be in attendance to sign these limited edition copies that day and there will of course be free refrshmnets and good tunes on the speaker.

Put on your boner shorts and don’t miss out on this opportunity to be in the presence of beauty!

Friday August 27th, 7pm-10pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

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

This Wednesday, August 25th Killing Spree presents a night of enforced abortion, romance and bleeding ears. The show will be starting at 8pm with Waves, which is Damion Romero and John Wiese; John describes the project as the aural version of lying on the beach at night.

They will followed by the legendary Haters and R. Jencks, formerly of Crash Worship (whose sets usually feature more fog than every goth club combined). Check the video flashback below for Crash Worship’s “Ge Rouge” so you know what you’re getting into!

Headlining will be Dave Phillips from Zurich who is also the founder of Swiss Grindcore legends, Fear of God. Phillip’s latest work veers away from that brutal assault and into the the more experimental land of field recordings. Following Dave Phillips at 11pm the Killing Spree DJs will be taking over and trying to get all these frowning chin scratching boys laid by some hot goth chicks.

Wednesday August 25th 8pm
Two Headed Horse
1770 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
$5 Cover

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All you Bloglin readers know by now that Мишка & crew are coming to Los Angeles, again, to celebrate the release of the Fall 2010 line. We’ve got an awesome line-up featuring some great bands and DJs to help us rage like never before. You know shit’s gonna get wild when the least coast meets the best coast. So over the next few days I’ll be profiling the performing acts so you can get in the KNOW before you get to the SHOW.

In the meantime if you haven’t we urge you to RSVP in advance for the party! The one in February got packed quick and we had to close the list off eventually. I mean it’s only a measly $5 if you don’t RSVP, but still…

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Los Angeles’ own Acid Girls have had a rather interesting rise to fame… Back in 2006 Greg and Jamie decided to end Orange County’s dryspell by throwing some truly awesome dance parties. That then snowballed into a popular blog (called Acid Girls) and the duo eventually decided to take the reigns as DJs themselves. The next thing you know Acid Girls were the toast of the dance community!

While originally first recognized worldwide for their ability to turn a party out, Acid Girl’s have recently come into their own with widespread acclaim for their own productions and remixes. Don’t sleep on their debut 12-inch the Numbers Song released late last year by IHEARTCOMIX.

Acid Girls are probably the act I’m most excited to see. These dudes fucking rule. For the most part, Acid Girls have poppy tech-house kinda vybz, but they can also dig deep like no other. A few months ago I saw Greg (left) go back 2 back with LOL Boys in San Francisco and homeboyz played everything from 3ball to Lil Wayne, and it was all pretty amazing.

The next month I played in San Francisco with Jamie (right) and he got way deep with more 3ball, some Brenmar, and even some R ‘n’ B cuts. But when Greg and Jamie come together shit gets real mad, and hot So-Cal girls flock to the front of the stage. Bonerjamz!

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The Captain and Star Eyes are practically our resident DJs at this point. Seriously, we ask either or both of them to DJ almost every party we throw here in New York for a reason! And we’re happy to share their magic behind the turntables this Friday with Los Angeles.

Trouble & Bass are eternal members of the Мишка fam, holding their Klubhaus down only 1.8 miles from 350 Broadway. They rep a truly unique brand of bass music, born in the motherland (BK, NY). And despite of our closness personally and geographically, the crew is making some of the most serious dance music E-V-E-R.

Catch these two dropping a wide variety of bass-laden jamz, from Doctor P to Drake.

These guys can be ecclectic as fuck live so while I won’t even try and guess what The Captain and Star Eye’s set will consist of this Friday,  I can assure you it will have the Dancefloor of the The Echoplex close to caving in by the end of it. Check out the video above (courtesy of Glenjamn) of these two dropping a wide variety of bass-laden jamz, from Doctor P to Drake.

And finally opening the evening up is the dark duo of Sarah and Zane, collectively known as Killing Spree. You can expect some deep digging into the occult of Dark and Coldwave from these two.

Make sure you strike a pose and look your best for the evening as Caesar Sebastian floating around with his quick finger on the snap button; and don’t RSVP last minute! In the meantime please visit our Facebook event page for more info.

Friday August 20th, 8pm-2am
The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Ave
Los Angeles, CA
Free w/ RSVP | $5 at the Door

Мишка Presents The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea Part 2: The Mixtape

The Glitch Mob have long been a festival favorite, rocking crowds from Lollapalooza to Red Rocks and key slots at Coachella and Ultra rocking crowds with straight dancefloor burners a la their seminal Crush Mode mixtape (a favorite around the Мишка offices) chopping and screwing the best hip-hop acapellas with shattering, fuzzed out bass lines and head-nodding beats.

The trio graduated early this year to a heady catalog of original music with their recent debut album “Drink the Sea”, currently on an international tour, but haven’t left their roots far behind. On the Drink the Sea Part 2: The Mixtape , The Glitch Mob manage to marry the power of their live and studio personas as they present their new album mixed with some vocal gems from MCs like Nas, Jay Z, Wayne and divas such as M.I.A. and La Roux.

The Glitch Mob’s mixtapes are pass-along favorites, that have made fans of the group across the Atlantic and back, time and time again. Drink the Sea Part 2: The Mixtape will be no different. If you’re going into it expecting yet another party starter from the trio, you won’t be disappointed.

Don’t forget to catch the trio throughout the United States as they embark on the Summer leg of their Drink the Sea tour! If you need more Glitch in your life make sure you check out their profile on our Bloglin series, Serious Saturday.