FEATURED: S/S Friends, Sean from Sam Champion's shorts line
We never used to wear shorts. Chalk it up to ill-advised teenage body-image issues, or a childhood listening to punk rock, but we just weren’t into rocking the Bermudas—until we moved to NYC that is, where summer is so hot, grimy, humid and disgusting that wearing jeans past Memorial Day makes for a sauna in your pants. We then realized that, actually, shorts are amazing, and now we have a little bit of a collection going on in our closet. Sean from RCRD LBL faves Sam Champion seems to feel the same way, as his clothing company S/S Friends offers affordable, basic, cool shorts that are super stylish and Made in America. If that wasn’t enough, you get an awesome 7” and zine with purchase if you choose the “Summer Kit”! So you can now bask in the sun and listen to some hot tunes (extra points if you have one of those Fisher Price record eaters from the ‘70s) in style. Check out the S/S Friends online store below, as well as our Sam Champion singles.
Download: Sam Champion - Your Party Was Yesterday?
Hause of Howe Photoshoot
Just found this video of Joe Pop Noir behind the scenes of The Fall/Holiday 2008 Hause of Howe photoshoot...
There's some good hair-flipping and motorcycle posing in there!
FEATURED: Chromeo fashion tips at the Fool's Gold RCRD LBL blog
Chromeo just filmed a segment for MySpace’s fashion show The Fit, where Dave 1 and P-Thug go through their favorite fashion tips for all your fans. On the menu: Odin NYC, Comme des Garçons wallets, and Air Jordans. Check out the Fool’s Gold RCRD LBL blog for the video, it’s pretty hilarious.
Chromeo at the Fool's Gold RCRD LBL blog
FEATURED: Dim Mak Collections
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As if releasing awesome records all the time wasn’t enough, the Dim Mak media empire also includes Dim Mak Collection, the label’s fashion line. They just released loads of limited T-shirts (collaborations with people like Dave 1 from Chromeo) for their Summer collection. Check out the awesome designs at the Dim Mak RCRD LBL blog!
Fashion: Kate Gibb Silk Screens With Stussy
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We here at SEEN were recently introduced to the work of silk screen artist Kate Gibb. However, once we took a deeper look at her work we realized that we've actually been enjoying it for a few years now on the covers of some pretty awesome albums. Her works have graced album covers for bands like; Chemical Brothers, Simian, Bob Marley and The Magic Numbers. Recently she got involved with fashion brand Stussy and they have just released a limited edition run of T-shirts that feature her work. Pretty stunning stuff and something we would be proud to sport. After the jump we've got a video about her and some more examples of her art. The video was produced by Adam Weissman at Stussy and it also features his music as the score (nice work dude). JUMP
DOWNLOAD: Health- The Problem Is (Thrust Lab Remix)
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Put on your Blu-blockers and play it all day. Frenetic waves of synthesized blistered rays- perfect whether you are kicking ass on X-box, cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway, or the world is burning down around you and you are scrambling to seek cover (with headphones on). The LA noise rock foursome gave us another remix and it is spicy, apocolyptic and energy-infused.
Health's SXSW Schedule:
FRIDAY 14TH
1PM - La Zona Tosa [Village Voice / LA Weekly]
4PM - The Side Bar [NAIL / Fanatic]
11:50PM - Flamingo Cantina [Lovepump / Panache Showcase]
SATURDAY 15TH
2PM - Austin Convention Center [SXSW Day Stage]
4PM - Volume [Stereogum / Paste]
8PM - Mrs. Bea's Bar - [Todd P]
Band Of The Day #18 - HEALTH "Triceratops" (ACID GIRLS Remixes)
When bodies lie in heaps, there’s little dignity in dancing to hardcore. Knees strut, muscles rupture and grind to this awkward racket; ‘til the wallflower goes mad with a blade and then the disco’s all to shit, all at sea among blood and oil spewed like milk and grease have been before in these pages. Obviously though, it’s not quite the same, and nor will the dancefloor ever be again after this twin rhythmic test; even if HEALTH’s rampant ‘Triceratops’ conducts all his menace in bedroom coreography now that the Acid Girls are interested.
Having had glitchers Crystal Castles shifting the bastard behemoth from its rust-ridden docking for a recent re-jig of ‘Glitter Pills’, Lost Angelese noiseniks HEALTH find their shrieking neu-kraut hardcore turmoil again lathered in lubricant for this pair of remixes from California’s fluo-kid affiliated Acid Girls.
Rubbing a Euro-pop stink up against HEALTH’s volatile noise, bleak beats are chewed up and regurgitated with a think-on-your-feet dancefloor ingenuity, putting a still-beating heart under the track’s detached neo-tribal stomp. Ultimately though, you can dress a ‘Triceratops’ up in whatever flimsy finery you want, it’s still gonne be a fucking triceratops.
“Are you broken? Are you leaving? Is your blood red? Are you breathing?”
Feet stomp, still-hearts beaten tonight.
Download: HEALTH - 'Triceratops' (Acid Girls 2Steps2Freedom Mix)
Download: HEALTH - 'Triceratops' (Acid Girls Before Dancefloorasaurases Ruled the Earth Mix)
- Samuel Strang and Kev Kharas
Fashion: Def Jam goes BAPE-shit
We were in Taipei recently and visited the new Bathing Ape Store. As well as men's apparel, BAPE had its latest women's line called BAPY and a girls range called APEE. Globally, BAPE has developed brand extensions including a BAPE cafe, a luxurious BAPE hotel and a record label called '(B)APE Sounds'. Launched in 2000 with help from James Lavelle of UNKLE fame, (B)APE Sounds has released about four recordings through Def Jam. Nigo, founder of BAPE, said, “James is a good friend and he loves Japan,” Nigo continued, “He's a representative of London's new generation, the way I am a representative of Tokyo's.”
Nigo produced Teriyaki Boyz' debut album, called "Beef or Chicken". Although Nigo brought together a superstar roster of artists to collaborate with the Boyz (think Daft Punk, Kanye 'The Louis Vuitton Don' West, Mark Ronson, Dan The Automator and more) the end results are a mixed bag. (B)APE Sounds can only be described as J-hip hop (Japanese pop blended with hip hop). For weirdness' sake check out Kanye guesting with the Teriyaki Boyz:
Murakami Hits LA
Is it '"art music?'" Or "music fashion?" Or is it all the same? TheTakeshi Murakami exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) fuses these three aspects together into a blur of excited neon colors and little digestable bites of merchandise. We dig it. The exhibit is running now until Feb 11, 2008.
On Oct 28, the Murakami MoCA Gala bash went down with a live Kanye performance for $1000-a-head. If you didn’t want to dine with celebs you could’ve just gone for cocktails for $500. Come on, it was for a good cause…
What's the connection? Kanye went to Murakami’s Tokyo studio and asked him to do the Graduation album cover and his video for "Good Morning". Murakami’s reply: “…kinda, yes!” Tokyo’s DJ Krush also played for Murakami at Saturday’s opening party in downtown LA. Guests had previews to Murakami’s art - a manga-like, Warhol-esque, Keith Haring-inspired cacophony of paintings, statues, and video. Inside the MoCA store Murakami skateboards sold out. Queues formed for the Louis Vuitton store as fashionable punters scooped up LV Murakami coin purses and tote bags. Murakami is today’s embodiment of art, fashion, music. Let’s hope he doesn’t get burnt out with the success.
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