As part of Yellow Bird Project’s continuing efforts to emblazon the banner of indie-rock for charitable causes, they proudly present a new t-shirt commemorating Jay Reatard’s career. The prolific underground musician, born Jimmy Lee Lindsay Jr., left grade school to become a one man punk-rock phenomenon. His evolution as a songwriter and musician, and prolific repertoire resulted in a massive underground following. →

BONNAROO:  WHAT, WHICH, THIS, THAT, THE OTHER
The first official book about the country’s premier summer music and arts festival contains over 400 photos covering all 10 years of Bonnaroo, featuring shots taken by some of the best shooters working in music today, including Danny Clinch, C. Taylor Crothers, Jeff Kravitz, and Ryan Mastro, among others. It also highlights numerous personal anecdotes from fans, the festival producers, various staff, and some of the top musicians and comedians who have performed there.  →

ENJOY FUTURE ROOTS RADIO AS A FREE IPHONE APP!
Yes…The free dublab iPhone App is currently available! Now the world can listen to dublab’s future roots radio on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch!  To download this audio enlightenment tool search “dublab” in the iTunes App store or click here.  More information to follow from the dublab camp.

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Globe, designers and distributors of shoes, clothing and cruiser skateboards, unveiled its upcoming Year Zero collection this past Monday at the Roosevelt Hollywood premiere of its acclaimed surf movie Year Zero. Produced in conjunction with the film, the Year Zero collection features unique, one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by the film’s dystopian, post-apocalyptic art direction. →

Celebrate the Difference
A lookbook of Civil Clothing’s Fall 2011

Our good friend, Brian Leung, created his concept clothing brand to celebrate the diversity that blesses Los Angeles. As a long-time Angeleno himself, Leung documents the music, film and art percolating in the streets and uses his journalistic endeavors to inspire his fashion designs. →

Libros Schmibros Teams up with the Hammer
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
Ongoing – 10/9/11

The Hammer Museum’s Public Engagement program will bring an artist project by David Kipen—an interpretation of Libros Schmibros, his hybrid lending library and used bookshop in Boyle Heights—to Westwood from August 27 to October 9, 2011. Libros Schmibros will be set up in the Hammer Museum’s lobby gallery. Kipen, former Director of Literature for the National Endowment of the Arts and a past book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, established Libros Schmibros in July 2010 with his collection of roughly seven thousand books, in response to the lack of accessibility to books in his Boyle Heights community. →

Condoms. We all need them yet I think I speak for every gentlemen of how painfully awkward it is when one has to purchase them. Fellas, you know what the scenario, that long line at CVS where you end up buying your pack of jimmy hats and you felt obligated to purchase the latest issue of People to camouflage one’s purchase. Ok, maybe that’s just me but in any event, I think one company did condom packaging and marketing right. Take a look at Sir Richard’s Condom Company, which takes the philanthropic TOMS Shoes model and provides →

For the ninth installment of Curated by Arkitip, artist Romon Kimin Yang, aka Rostarr, explores human nature via a series of geometric paintings applied to Incase’s signature protective cases. Available today, the Rostarr capsule collection for Curated by Arkitip treats Incase products as a vessel for delivering original Rostarr artwork →

SIR/FQ magazine art director, Abel Munoz, is a couture shoe designer and Costa Rican native based out of Toronto. With SNL/Bridesmaids actress Kirstin Wiig wearing his shoes, a coveted write up in WWD and a nod in an Italian Vogue spread (for his chic, multi-buckled Petronia,) Munoz is a rising star with few peers.  And for good reason.

His shoes are sassy, yet refined and beautiful, made for women of “any age who love luxury and shoes.” They are architectural, bold and streamlined, perhaps echoing his graphic design back ground.
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Arkitip is very pleased to announce the reopening of Project Space.  Stop by Saturday between 11:00 – 19:00 we will be serving complimentary wine and small bites during the afternoon. All online inventory as well as some surprise items will be available with a special 50% discount on ALL issue editions. →