KCRW World Festival
Hollywood Bowl
07/26/09
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Dengue Fever are set to make their Hollywood Bowl debut as part of KCRW’s World Festival program. The band will be performing in a truly eclectic line up featuring theatrical pop group Of Montreal and pop dominatrix Grace Jones! →

If you have not heard about Topshop or it’s male line Topman, consider yourself informed.  The UK powerhouse recently continued its big name collaborations with a project that challenges designers to reimagine the iconic white t-shirt.  Look for names like Christopher Shannon, Henry Holland, Juun J, JW Anderson, Phillip Lim, and Richard Chai.

What’s interesting is 10 years ago, anything coming from Topshop was widely considered as unfashionable. →

Mas Exitos
Verdugo Bar – Glassell Park, CA
4/14/09
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This bar night is a bi-weekly event that traces the connections between the music made on both continents of the Americas. Think of it as a National Geographic documentary on sound that will take you from the Andes of Peru to the East Side of LA. From fuzzy cumbias, to funky jazz oddities, to psych freak outs and janky beats… →

Featuring Aakash Nihalani, Ellis Gallagher, Poster Boy & ZEUS
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art – West Hollywood
4/9 thru 4/30/09
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Aakash Nihalani, Ellis Gallagher, and Poster Boy (aka the Neo-Con Collective) have arrived in Los Angeles!  The infamous NYC street artists have made an impromptu landing in West Hollywood this week for their first West Coast exhibition at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art.  If this isn’t enough to get you excited, the Neo-Con Collective will be joined by UK graffiti god Zeus.  →

EM:  Occupation and Position.
I used to be a graphic designer for a company in Baltimore, Maryland, but now I am working on my own creative projects.

EM:  What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?
I identify with Baltimore City – specifically in the Mount Vernon neighborhood. It’s a great community filled with tons of art students creating interesting art and music. Baltimore is a gritty place to live, but its charms are abundant. →

I don’t envy the President. Though being compared to the anti-Christ by Crazy Fucking Conservatives™ while concurrently being called the world’s messiah by Crazy Fucking Liberals™ would be sort of cool, I suppose. While I was lifting weights and reading Dostoevsky I ran across this poll by the Pew Research Center which states that Obama has the “most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades.” Right. The piece was written like a rhetorical version of post coital seminal drippage. Ah, I love the salty taste of ejaculatory disdain written along with my statistics. →

If there is one entity that has redefined itself almost as much as Madonna, it’s the Gap. From their humble beginnings in the late 60′s as an outfitter catering to the more youthful consumers of the Levi’s denim fashion movement, the company has taken on as many different personas as they →

55DSL Fifteen Fuckin Years Party
Riviera Hotel
04/18/09 
12-7 pm
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Next week is Coachella and Dim Mak Records will be joining experimental Diesel spinoff brand, 55DSL to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary!  To mark the occasion as well as to launch their new tent collaboration, 55DSL and Dim Mak will be taking over the Music Loves Fashion event for the entire day on with DJs, sun and booze.   →

To commemorate Record Store Day on April 18, Dengue Fever will be releasing a “split” 7” inch vinyl record of a previously unreleased track “Genjer Genjer” with the Brooklyn-based psychedelic surf cumbia band Chicha Libre on Barbes Records. This 7” will be a limited edition pressing of 1000 and will be available in stores, online and on tour. →

In collaboration with Generic Surplus and Arkitip, the stylish Ace Hotel in Palm Springs presents two new products that embody California cool. The Ace Palm Springs shoe and tote are made of breathable, non-slip mesh perfect for poolside use. The white cotton mesh and vulcanized orange rubber soles lend themselves to the heat and leisure of the desert resort. →