Russians make the best music/music videos
Break out the bad sweaters and awkward dance moves and sing along. hope ya’ll enjoy the awkwardness/awesomeness as much as I do.
Brixton Spring 2010 Lookbook and on-line store launched
Brixton, a headwear and clothing brand based in California, recently released their spring 2010 look book. I really enjoyed this preview of their new products because it features a lot of great photography featuring their skate team, some babes, and various musicians that also endorse their products. I came across Brixton a few years ago at the skate shop where I used to work. While I wasn’t really into their nicer hats at that point in my life, I still found it very interesting that a company and product like this would be marketing to skateboarders/skate culture. Anyways, fast forward a few years to the release of their very strong spring 2010 collection (for both men and women), and I find myself extremely impressed. Something that I really love about this brand is the fact that they have a very good idea of who they are, they aren’t making a million different kinds of products to appeal to all types of people. All of their hats and clothes seem to be rooted in a sort of traditional americana that I really like. So if your looking for some solid clothes/hats/flannels (again for both men and women) definitely check out Brixton. cheers.
Here is the link to their look book
And don’t even think about copping the green one before i do!
Check Out Carole Feuerman
Carole Feuerman is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most prominent hyper-realist sculptors. She has enjoyed three museum retrospectives to date, and has been included in prestigious exhibitions at, among other venues, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.
Source: Sweet- Station
dc7zine.com released by DC Shoes
In today’s fast-paced society, where new content is generated hourly on pretty much anything you could ever want to see, skateboarding is no exception. For some reason this never really hit home for me until relatively recently when DC Shoes, a sneaker company known for the wide variety of footwear specifically designed for skateboarding, bmx biking, and even race car driving, released their “7zine” project. The website dc7zine.com is interesting to me because aesthetically it is reminiscent of a d.i.y. zine or book, only in website form. This look coupled with the goal of the website (to pretty much add content daily covering any topics you would ever want to know about their skateboarding team) was something that really appealed to me but also opened my eyes to how much this thing called the internet is rapidly changing every facet of our society. Anyways, if you like skateboarding and look at random stuff on the internet everyday like myself, then I recommend this new “e-zine.” Oh and Matt Miller is rad.
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Tonight: Making Time Presents: Neon Indian and Memory Tapes
Tonight, chillwave artists Neon Indian and Memory Tapes will arrive at Philadelphia’s Voyeur on 12th and james.
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MGMT reveals new album cover for “Congratulations”
Grammy nominated for Oracular Spectacular, MGMT has finally revealed the album art work for their second EP release for Congratulations. The album artwork definitely signifies surfing and how psychedelic drugs play a role for this release. The artwork was done by artist Anthony Ausgang. Also if you want to pre-order the album, you can do so here and if you select the ’special edition’ choice, you will receive a “scratch off front cover with custom metal coin.” Everyday someone comes up with new ideas for pre-orders, like either a “golden ticket” to get into a free show, or something stupid and insane like this. I wonder what you’ll discover if you scratch off the front cover…
…probably a now owned fucked up cover. Way to go.
Due out on April 14th on Columbia Records
Ironlak x Supervision x Primary Flight
This is a dope video documenting Ewok, Jaes, Augor, Pose and Enue from the American Ironlak Team as they join forces with Askew at Primary Flight as a part of Art Basel 2009 in Miami.
Keith Birthday vs. Russia part V – Berlin: This Club is Legend/Disappointing Music/Grrrlz on E?
This is the first part in a (hopefully) ongoing series in which Keith Birthday will recount some of the more interesting moments of his recent travels through Europe. This post originally appeared on rubpawpress.com
the warehousey exterior of an otherwise famous Berilnese club
We had put on our ‘best threads’. We expected to stand in line; he had heard so much about this ‘awesome warehouse club’ and how it was the ‘best party in Berlin’. Located in East Berlin, near the Friedrichshain district, Panoramabar/Berghain had gained a reputation of being ‘super exclusive and totally rad’. So I had high expectations, as any person would after hearing such praise.
There were four of us, the two girls A. and AK (German), and K. my male traveling companion. I knew A. through my sister and through the internet; they had gone to school together in Germany (sister was an exchange student) and upon hearing that I was going to Berlin, A. took the liberty of becoming my ‘internet friend’ in order that we could establish some contact before I arrived. AK was A’s friend who was visiting from home. Maybe it was the constant switching between German (the Germans and I) Russian (A, K, and I) and English (everyone), but when the four of us had met for drinks earlier, the conversation had felt a little restrained and awkward, so I was slightly skeptical as to how the rest of the night would play out.
It had taken us a while to find the building (massive warehouse) where the club was located. We had encountered what AK had insisted was the Berlin wall (it wasn’t) and numerous drunk folks wandering about looking for the same place, it seems that everybody had been there once before but had absolutely no clue how to find it again, being that ‘a friend had taken me there’. We found it eventually (it was behind and to the left of the hardware superstore).
AHHH!!!ahaha
So I’ve been watching a lot of old horror films from the 80s. Among the movies watched were, Chopping Mall, The Video Dead and Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend.
What I’ve come to realize is that horror movies have been altered with regards to their genre make up. The great things about these cheesy 80s classics was in fact, the cheese itself. Horror, as a cinematic genre is meant to include elements of humor. The inherent fantastical nature of Horror plot-lines are best served to an audience coupled with some comic relief.
In recent years with releases of films like, The Ring, The Messengers, etc the nature of the genre has become much more serious; as a result we often still laugh; but inappropriately so: at the fact that we are supposed to take all of what is being portrayed as real. Horror movies of the 80s understood the viewer’s need to lightheartedly giggle at the ridiculous story-lines.
That is not to say that the movies released today are not “Horrors” but rather, they lack the comedic elements that are honed by some of the greatest Horror movies like Stephen King’s The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Dolly Dearest.
Matt Ritchie – “Scrap Drives”
Matt Ritchie, a graphic designer working out of New Hampshire, has developed a product called “Scrap Drives” in an effort to raise awareness regarding the current process of manufacturing, and recycling, USB flash drives. The project stems from Ritchie’s research into the life cycle of ‘throw-away’ technology such as flash drives; finding a void in terms of both innovation and design, he generated this product line. The drives are handcrafted out of recycled materials, with their exterior casings and packaging using 100% naturally sourced products.
Source: definitivetouch
Terrifying adorable animation called Alma
Check out the Animated short from Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas.
Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.
Pictures from Seattle: A Van Full Of Meat
Dear Philadelphia/McJawn readers,
I know that it’s been awhile since I’ve been around or written for McJawn. In case you didn’t know, I moved to Seattle. I miss you all very much. In Seattle no one wants to pregame malt liquor 40s before going to whichever dance joint is giving out free PBR/Sparks(R.I.P). Seems like the coolest dance clubs here are gay clubs, which is ostensibly alright unless you’re a straight boy who’s already awkward enough about “trying to get with teh ladiez”. What’s worse than “trying to get with teh ladiez who went to the gay club in order to avoid awkward bros who are trying to ‘get with teh ladiez’”? I do not know. Furthermore, it is impossible to get malt liquor in the Central District (where I live) and Capitol Hill (where I hang out; where aforementioned gay clubs reside). Though it is possible to buy malt liquor in the adjoining (young professional spawning ground) Madrona, where I used to be employed. Not allowed to sell malt liquor in certain places here (something about “Alcohol Impact Zones” or “Thinly Veiled Attempts to Get Rid of The Homeless/Bum Population”). Nor are they allowed to give away free beer. The beauty that was (is?) Metropolis could never happen here. Last Thursday night I came home from rehearsal—it was Eleven P.M. and I made no attempt to go out. I didn’t want to. I literally felt that there was nothing out there for me. So I went to bed. This would not have happened in Philly. My life has truly changed.
Anyway. The above has nothing to do with the below but you’ll have to bear with me. When I still had a job (oh yeah I’m unemployed at this point so, uh, thus the post, your welcome) I would often stop at an Ethiopian market on the way to get cigarettes. On such a day I saw men in long white coats. They seemed to be coming out of a white van that had reverse-parked right up to the entrance of the shop. One was carrying a cart, upon which lay gelatinous slabs of pink and yellow cow(?) meat. I walked out to see that the van was filled with meat—jiggling slabs of some meat. The slabs of meat were just sort of chillin’ on the hard plastic floor of the van. The seats had been removed from the back of the van, evidently:
I think this may be in violation of some sort of food code.
So there that is.
TONIGHT @ barbary >>>>ZUZUKA<<<<<
BARBARY/// FREE ENTRY /// FACE PAINTING /// JUNGLE MADNESS
READ McJAWN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW w/ZUZUKA HERE !
ZUZUKA PODEROSA brings Baile Funk and the Jungle to Philly’s Barbary >>>McJawn Exclusive Interview
Zuzuka Poderosa (mc / dj /dope homegirl) drops Brazilian bred, Brooklyn based swagger like no other. A stylistic blend of Funk Carioca and NYC rumble add a breath of fresh air to today’s international music scene. She’s hard to miss with her unapologetic sultry Portuguese lyrics. This, coupled with booty bumping basslines, she packs New York nightclubs like sardines.
Zuzuka turns the BARBARY into a wild jungle on THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12th. Doors at 10pm. Free Entry.
McJawn: How did you first get into MCing and rocking the mic?
Zuzuka: I was a DJ before I got to the mic and all my life I’ve been interested in music. I have a Brazilian background, where we thrive on music. Then when was older i moved to the West Indies for a bit, then New York, which led me to love Drum’n'Bass music. Satellite & Breakbeat Science were like my second homes. I’ve spent so much time and money there over the years. Later in 2003 I met my good old friend J. Stones from Tropicalia in Furs Records. There I started my rare collection of Brazilian records. Joel & I started to throw parties in N.Y, the SambaFunkSoulBeat . Around 2005-2006 I met w/ the crew from Nossa that were also doing the Brazilian Favela/Clash parties in the city, we became friends and soon enough I went to the studio where they were recording and I quickly wrote ” Ai Voce Gosta” and got on the mic. Then boom!! All the DJ’s in NY had the song in their set, and I couldn’t believe they were really digging it. “Ai Voce Gosta” was, and still is such a hit. Kassiano produced it and Gandja Monteiro directed the video.
McJawn: How would you describe a typical baile funk in the favelas of Rio?
Zuzuka: Baile funk means a lot for the communities, it’s all about the communities you know. In every Favela there are huge Baile funk Balls. This is where residents go out to have fun. You don’t usually see a kid from the favela going to zona sul club and paying 100 reais to get in. It would be impossible. At those Baile Funk parties in the favelas, that’s where you will find the most amazing DJ’s and MC’s. You will also find gigantic speaker systems, fireworks, amazing dancers, and battles… it’s amazing!
But Baile has been looked down in society, since there’s lots of racism and lack of freedom of expression. Talking about drugs, sex, or violence disturbs the masses, especially the upper class. I have some friends that have been arrested because they were talking about smoking weed in their song and talking about sexual acts, so they got arrested for soliciting drugs and pornography. I mean, is that really necessary?
However, Baile Funk has become main stream, and all the kids from zona sul, or any other upper class neighborhood are listening to baile funk and I’m sure their parents are not so fond of it. It’s really breaking the barrier and those zona sul kids are going up in the hills to go to Baile Funk parties every weekend more and more. Just like Samba became a culture, I think Baile funk will become its own. Baile Funk just needs to have more freedom of expression. I just don’t get it. In Brasil, you can turn the TV on and all you see is ass, ass and more ass and that’s soliciting sex too, but the TV says it’s legal and it’s OK. Meanwhile Baile Funk culture is looked down upon for mere words.
McJawn: Baile Funk received a lot of exposure to places around the world as well as even main stream clubs in the past 5 years or so, do you see the funk carioca moving forward in north America and around the world?Zuzuka: Yeah it’s definitely been a huge movement, especially in Europe. In the U.S not as much, but I hope I can contribute to make Baile Funk big here in the U.S too. Outside of Brasil, Baile funk has earned respect from many other countries, and has become a phenomenon. Basically you take very little, put it on a MPC and create something entirely new. A pure form of ghetto music. This culture has changed the way that people view remixing and performing live electronic music.
McJawn: Working on any projects now? Any tours/albums we can look out for?
Zuzuka: We’re working to bring the monthly party that we throw every second friday at Le Poisson Rouge to Brazil in February. BOOmCha showcases singer’s, MC’s, producers, DJ’s from AfroBass, Kuduro, Baile Funk, Dancehall and many other genres. It’s the World Bass Movement Tour.
I haven’t put any album out yet, but by next year I will definitely surprise you all.
Meanwhile you can check my myspace for all my new music www.myspace.com/zuzukapoderosa
McJawn: You play a show in Philly next week! Philly is a dope place to bring new sounds, will this be your first show in Philadelphia?
Zuzuka: It is my first time playing in Philly and I’m super excited!! I know people in Philly always have had great taste in music. I remember back in the day we would drive there just to go to a dope drum’n'bass party on Thursdays. I will be playing The Barbary’s Double Dutch party on Thursday, November 12th alongside WOOLES DJ from Apavoramento Sound System who’s here from Brasil. I hope all the Philly Funkeiros come out en masse because this Amazon Warrior Queen is going to make this club wild like the jungle.
AMAZON JUNGLE. BARBARY. FACEPAINT. NOVEMBER 12th.
Photo Courtesy of Sarah Boyle.
Mini Contest!
In celebration of how much fun we all had Sunday and cute dogs (there were a lot at the bloc party) I am throwing an extra mini contest. All you have to do is leave a comment with a picture of your pet being extra adorable, and though all your pets are adorable, only one wins the prize. There is a catch! If you happen to see this dog pictured below you get an automatic win.
Just snap a picture and leave a comment.
Here is the tiny super cute mini prize:
FOUR super cute nick-nacks to spruce up your house or to gift to that special someone!
We will also throw in some McJAWN stickers!!!!
Thanks for showing all your support by coming out Sunday!
Vote tU pHAce
We owe tU pHAce a huge “thank you” for putting an amazing performance at the Bag of Balloons block party along with Jukebox The Ghost, Akilles and The Odyssey, The Armchairs, Norwegian Arms, Dragonzord, DJ PHSH and Second Wind.
McJAWN is all about promoting talent. So, here we are… promoting… vote for tU pHAce and tune in to watch the winners perform live, starting tonight on BET at 10:30pm.
Simply stated by The Roots,
Like blaow-ba-dow-da-da-dow-da-dah-ow
Either stand tall or sit the fuck down
All the way from the 2-1-5th to Bucktown
Brace yourself, it’s about to go down
