Fred Perry has honestly been a bit boring the past few seasons, but they stepped up to the plate with this selection. Fred Perry knows what they’re doing, that’s why they’re still relevant after over 50 years.
Now moving on to the actual clothes and background. Fred Perry has always had an immense following and effect [...]
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Fred Perry Fall 2008
Posted in Fashion, Music, tagged Fred Perry on August 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Captured
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Music, tagged captured, clayton patterson, Heroin, lower east side on August 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Captured is a documentary about The Lower East Side of Brooklyn in the 80’s. Clayton Patterson, a well-known man with the camera capturing everything from the heroin, art, riots, blossoming hardcore scene, police brutality, and every other vice known to man, compiled footage from the era and has finally made a documentary. Take a look [...]
A Selected Visual History of Hardcore Music
Posted in Art, Music, Politics, tagged Hardcore, Music, Punk on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
American Hardcore was a decent book and film documentary. I’m interested to check this out and see how it matches up in similarities and views on subjects and events. Radio Silence offers a new one, let’s hope it makes a staple.
Hardcore music emerged just after the first wave of punk rock in the late 1970s. [...]
Who Knew Wellington’s Could Be So Fashionable?
Posted in Fashion, Music, tagged Glastonbury, Jay-Z, Kate Moss, Oasis, Pete Dougherty on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Continuous Lean turned me onto a great article featuring attendee’s for this years Glastonbury Festival. If you haven’t seen the video of Jay-Z covering Wonderwall by Oasis, here it is. Must of been a spit in the face to Mr. Gallagher who was raising hell about a rapper headlining, and not his band. Gotta [...]
Madchester
Posted in Art, Fashion, Music, tagged Happy Mondays, Madchester, Manchester, Stone Roses on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Madchester was a late 80’s and early 90’s phenomenon that gripped Manchester, England and changed the music landscape up til present day. Rising out of the acid fueled rave clubs from London to the Northwest, it not only took it a step further beyond the dance music of the 80’s. It combined it with the [...]
Jason Pierce
Posted in Music, tagged j. spaceman, jason pierce, spacemen 3, spectrum, Spiritualized on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Jason Pierce (often reffered to as J. Spaceman) is the mastermind behind Spacemen 3 of the 80’s and Spiritualized from the 90’s to present day. Spacemen 3 took the post-punk psychadelia deep into a world unto it’s own. Moving beyond Spacemen 3 in the late 80’s, Jason Pierce took his psychadelic roots and put them [...]
My Bloody Valentine’s First Show in 16 Years
Posted in Music, Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over at Vice, there’s a great show review of My Bloody Valentine’s show in London a few nights ago. There’s a video included, but considering how loud the band is; you can’t make out anything really. They’re playing Chicago this summer. I’m not sure if it’s sold out or even gone on sale yet, but [...]
Mix Tape II
Posted in Mix Tapes, Music, tagged New Order, Mix Tape II, Acid, Rave, The Hacienda, Tony Wilson, House, Manchester, Madchester on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Mix Tape II features artists from the 80’s drug fueled acid house scene of Manchester, England. The artists range from original DJ’s from the club nights of the opening of The Hacienda in 1982. Then leading up to the artists of the 90’s continuing the saga until the near death in the mid to late [...]
10 Things Noel Gallagher Loves & Hates
Posted in Music, tagged Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Oasis on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
GQ May 2008, Temptation
Posted in Fashion, Music, Travel, tagged cocktails, gq, New Order, summer suits on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
1. It’s been a few days since an update, and that’s because I took a last minute trip to Florida! To update…while browsing the news stands, I noticed the newest GQ is one of the best that I have seen in quite awhile. It includes summer cocktails, The Sartorialist’s photos from Yale & Cambridge, the [...]
