Calling All Bears!

Click and read. Afterwards you'll probably be wondering what role you wanna play. Go ahead, pick up the phone you sick fuck!

The Mr. Move!

The Mr. Move rocking our Depraved tee at his most recent show at Southpaw, The Future Is Frank CMJ Showcase w/ Wiz Khalifa, Stalley & U-God. Pic courtesy of Mishka Bloglin.

An Evening of Skate Videos at MOMA!

AN EVENING OF SKATE VIDEOS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
7:30–11:00 P.M.
MoMA
THEATER 1

In honor of the MoMA retrospective Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years, PopRally has invited producer and photographer Patrick O'Dell (of Epicly Later'd) to create a special compilation of seminal skateboard videos from the 1980s to today. Jonze, whose own contributions to the genre will be featured, notes that, "Skate videos have been a big influence and a big part of what I've done for a long time. They are how I got into film, actually." This unique screening is followed by a conversation with legendary skateboarders and filmmakers, including Jonze, Lance Mountain, Greg Hunt, Jake Phelps, Ty Evans, and other surprise guests.

Afterward please join us upstairs for a special performance by NO AGE.

Info here.

¡APESHIT! @ Shea Stadium Tonight!

Like I said, been slacking on the posts. Tonight with a killer lineup of These Arms Are Snakes, Violent Bullshit, dd/mm/yy, and of course ¡APESHIT! at Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St. btwn Waterbury and Bogart, L at Graham, 8pm, all ages, $8. This is gonna be a fucking rad show! ¡Apeshit! opens so get there earl or you'll miss the magic!

Genesis P-Orridge!

30 yrs of art making by a real character! Got turned on to Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle years ago, made a huge, weird, and lasting impression on me. S/he is a weirdo in the best sense of the word. Go see this at Invisible-Exports.

Dain @ Brooklynite Gallery!

Also opening on the 12th from 7-10pm. Hop on your ride and make it a night!

D*FACE and Mark Dean Veca @ Jonathan Levine Gallery!

Opens Sept. 12th, 7-9pm!

¡APESHIT!

Tomorrow fools!

MURDERTRONICS!

Get on this shit muthafuckas! These guys are on some serious fuck you, do your girl and get fucked up party shit! Do that! Myspace em. And download their live set drop here. Word is there may be a Dienasty mixtape cover in the works. Keep an eye out. Above art by Death/Traitors! Check out their new wheels which come as a pack with a tee. Fiyah!

French @ Mishka!

TONIGHT! Tees and Prints!

From Mishka...

French’s latest shirt design for Mishka drops July 30, 2009 at the Cursed Scrolls art show at our flagship store 350 Broadway. Cursed Scrolls runs for six weeks and will host the opening party on Thursday, July 30th at 350 Broadway from 7pm – 10pm.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

PS. Show is super rad and the prints are totally affordable. Get on it!

Cinders Gallery Presesents...

Local Flavor
Octavius Neveaux with Blues Control
Opening reception Tuesday July 28th 7-10pm
Closing reception Saturday August 1st 7-11pm
with performances by Blues Control, SSPS, and Budy Blues

Artwork inspired by Queens Pysch Duo Blues Control that explores the effect music can have on one's artwork as well as the ever-evolving intersection between music and visual art. A record-release closing party features specially curated performances by Blues Control and friends.

Torche/Harvey Milk/Pollution @ Music Hall of WBurg!

TORCHE

HARVEY MILK

POLLUTION

Sunday @ Music Hall of Williamsburg!

Pre NACCC Events NYC!

Died Young, Stayed Pretty NYC Premiere!

This should be way rad! Opens today at IFC. More on movie here.

Directed by: Eileen Yaghoobian

Friday, July 17 - Thursday, July 23

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

Tonight at the Whitney Museum!

FREE! July 17 at 7 pm
Abe Vigoda / Grooms

Part of the LA scene centered around The Smell, Abe Vigoda emerges from a shared background of punk, no wave, and pop. Alternating from melodic and tropical to hardnosed and heavy, Abe Vigoda's sound is equal parts Beefheart and My Bloody Valentine with a haunting pulse and a DIY attitude all its own.
myspace.com/abevigoda

Grooms are Travis Johnson, Emily Ambruso, and Gabriel Wurzel, three friends who play a structurally mutilated brand of noise-pop featuring blissful interplay, sonic experimentation, and song destruction. Recordings have showcased sounds from broken noise-surf to campfire-seance drone. Grooms (formerly The Muggabears) continue to craft songs filled with beauty, gloom, and irony-free whimsy.
myspace.com/groomstheband

Dan Witz!

from slamxhype, thanks.

New series, Dark Doings, on the streets of NYC! Heads up! Check out more from Dan here.

Victor Wins 1st Place at the Courier Classic!

Congratulations to Victor on winning the grueling Courier Classic on Saturday here in NYC! And doing it in style rockin' our new One Hit Wonder tee! Seen here with photographer extraordinaire, Tak, of New York Bike Dreams. Congratulations also go out to Cali for rolling into 3rd place while rocking our new NYDN tee! Thanks guys for the support!

Peel Sessions in the NY Times!

John "Prolly" Watson gets interviewed about his weekly Peel Sessions! Audio slide show as well! Nice work!

Team Dienasty at the Red Bull/Trackstar Courier Classic!

Victor and Cali are racing in the Courier Classic today, representin' Dienasty with some tees and bandanas! We wish them luck and we'll see you later at rhe Red Bull Space after the race!

Mishka X Fucked Up X Milton Glaser!

from High Snobiety...

Mishka gets together with Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up on a collaborative t-shirt. Being mutual fans and supporters of each other’s works, the Mishka design team worked closely with Fucked Up front man Damian “Pink Eyes” Abraham to ensure the shirt signified everything they love about Mishka and New York. Both Mishka and Abraham threw caution to the wind taking Milton Glasser’s timeless “I Love New York “ design and fusing it with the well known logos of both Mishka and Fucked Up.

The special t-shirt will be released at The Pool Partiesʼ Fucked Up show on Sunday July 12th, which is being held at the East River Skate Park. Damian’s going to be chucking them from the stage! Then look for an Mishka in-store and online release the following Monday, July 13th.

Pool Parties Return!

This Sunday...Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail and Jemina Pearl. More here.

Black Anvil @ RockStar Bar

Red Bull Trackstar Courier Classic

Ad Hoc Presents Willoughby Windows Project!

Willoughby Windows Friday, July 10th, 2 - 7pm
An ambitious creative venture featuring 12 storefronts on an entire block (88-106 Willoughby) of downtown Brooklyn which will highlight installations by 15+ artists.
The opening will be a street party on Friday, June 19th, from 2-7pm.
Some of New York's artistic finest will be representing to the fullest.

Some of the artists included in this event will be:
Ad Hoc Art staff/interns, Cannonball Press, Chris Stain, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Ellis G,
Gaia, Greg Lamarche, John Ahearn, Josh MacPhee, Lady Pink, Logan Hicks, Michael De Feo, Morning Breath, and Tom Beale.
Also, some very special guests will be documenting our efforts,
including Charlie Ahearn, Martha Cooper, Art Jones, and Luna Park.
The party will be featuring entertainment by
DJ $mall Change, DJ Painted, and Lady Circus.
Food will be provided from local vendors.

Lichen Opens @ Factory Fresh!

Straight from São Paulo
Factory Fresh presents
LORO VERZ,
APOLO TORRES & MUNDANO

Friday, July 10th 7-10pm
Show runs till July 26th, 2009

Paul Green's School Of Rock!

Metalocalypse rules! But I do wish they'd bring back Korgoth Of Barbaria!

And another...

This opened last Thursday and is running until July 26th!

from Cinders Gallery...

Cinders Gallery is proud to present a 2 person show with Philadelphia artists Isaac Lin and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, who are old friends, collaborators, and founding members of the Space 1026 Collective. With a joyful color palate, a side-splitting humorous side, and an endearing sincerity, these seemingly lackadaisical yet awesomely prolific artists perfectly represent the attitude and nonchalance of Space 1026's decade-plus history of serious art-making.

There are multiple elements of Arabic calligraphy, musical notation, graffiti, and geometry in Isaac Lin's drawings, prints, and paintings. A repetitive rhythmic flow takes your eyes up, down, and across the page with colors, shapes, spray paint bursts, iconic faces, monsters, and cartoon dog heads. Using screen-printing techniques, gouache, markers, and collage, there is a depth to the layers of textures and colors, a visual hypnosis of patterns that seem to spread like a positive plague across walls inside and out, on found pieces of paper or even on top of photographs.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright also uses hypnotic patterning in his prints and paintings-checkerboards bend and weave, bursts of colors explode, and deconstructed lines form new patterns from old ones. Wright also paints and draws in a naïve yet efficiently done style that uses a large library of hilarious imagery, from invented characters like his series of Labrador dogs with ab muscles to nostalgic pop culture references such as an E.T. - Mr.T hybrid, Furbies, and Rainbow Brite. His potty humor can be silly but is able to retain a poignancy that is both thought-provoking and sincere.

Days Late, Dollas Short...

Can't always stay on top of everything...Ben Frost @ Brooklynite Gallery. Go before it closes!

Golden Bones July Residency!

The fine gentlemen of Golden Bones are making the magic happen again. Starting tonight they begin their every Friday in July residency at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg! Don't miss this if you're a fan of indie country rock, sweet tunes, and mega talent! Also playing tonight is Little Gold. Sounds like a shiny show! Free!!! So now you have no excuse.

Bombing Down Broadway!

July 4th Alleycat Madness!

Basil Wolverton @ Gladstone Gallery!

Hell yeah! Influential to say the least. Don't sleep on this opportunity to see this man's work!

From Gladstone Gallery...
Basil Wolverton
Curated by Cameron Jamie
515 West 24th Street, New York
June 20 to August 14, 2009
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by American graphic artist and cartoonist Basil Wolverton curated by Cameron Jamie. Basil Wolverton submitted his first cartoon for publication in 1925 when he was only sixteen and remained an active cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1970s. His unique and humorously grotesque drawings reveal both his fantastic wit and inventive technique, once famously described in LIFE Magazine as the “spaghetti and meatball school of design.” Wolverton had no formal training as an artist, creating his own style that distinguished him from the other cartoonists of his generation. As he said, “I know I draw things that look like all kinds of organs and glands, it is like the monkey which, if he pounded away for a million years, might accidentally type out the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ lyrics.” Generations of artists including Peter Saul, Ed Ruscha, Robert Williams, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, and Cameron Jamie have been influenced by his meticulous technique and pictorial freedom, in addition to its undeniable impact on numerous cartoonists from R. Crumb to Drew Friedman.

This exhibition includes a wide spectrum of Wolverton’s work from his earliest drawings published in numerous comic books, including “Spacehawk” and “Powerhouse Pepper,” to his very detailed caricatures, with sculpted and exaggerated features. Perhaps the most famous body of work in the exhibition are his drawings for Harvey Kurtzman’s comic-book version of MAD Magazine from the 1950s. Also included are portraits made for Topps Chewing Gum in the 1960s, which appeared on bubble gum posters and stickers. Wolverton turned to illustrating Biblical themes and events in his later years, represented here by thirteen drawings from the Apocalypse series based on the Book of Revelation. These drawings are regarded among his finest and many of these illustrations were reproduced in Plain Truth magazine.

Born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon, Basil Wolverton resided for most of his life in the Pacific Northwest until his death in 1978. His work has been published in a variety of magazines and comic books, from MAD Magazine, America’s Humor Magazine, The Portland News, Plop! and Hollywood Today. His work has been featured in Timely Comics, Circus Comicsand Target Comics. He also contributed to the Li’l Abner Comic Strip and LIFE Magazine. In 2006, his work was exhibited at The Portland Art Center in Oregon and in 2007 the CSUF Grand Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented a solo exhibition of Wolverton’s oeuvre from the collection of Glenn Bray. The works selected and presented in this exhibition are also from Bray’s private archive/collection.

The living and the dead @ Gavin Brown Experience!

Two of our friends from ¡APESHIT!, Pat Berran and Dave Choi are in this show opening tomorrow night at GBE, 620 greenwich street. Looks insane!

The living and the dead

A long time ago was [is] a long time ago. Now is now. So the question is

not so much “when?” but “where?”

Adam McEwen Ajay Kurian Amy Yao Andrew Kuo Anicka Yi Anne

Collier Ara Dymond Boris Rasin Brian Belott Brina Thurston Cara

Benedetto Carissa Rodriguez Cindy Sherman Dan Colen Dave Choi

Dena Yago Dominic Nurre Elizabeth Peyton George Condo Gianna

Commito Haim Steinbach Harry McNally Hope Atherton Jacqueline

Humphries Jaime Gecker Jerry Blackman Jesse Willenbring Jim Krewson

John Finneran Jonathan Horowitz Josh Kline Josh Smith Justin Matherly

Kathryn Garcia Kenny Komer Lizzi Bougatsos Mathew Cerletty Matthew

Higgs Matthew Ronay Michael Caputo Michael E. Smith Michael Queenland

Michael Zahn Mirabelle Marden Nick Relph Nik Gambaroff and Matt

Sheridan Smith Pat Berran Rachel Feinstein Rob Pruitt Robert Moskowitz

Roe Ethridge Scott Olson Scott Penkava Spencer Sweeney Uri Aran Urs

Fischer and Georg Herold

Plenty of Room On the Couch @ Eastern District

-Dan Taylor

This opened up last Friday, at Eastern District, but is definitely worth checking out. Huge group show, everything is under $300!
June 26th - July 19thOpening Reception 7-10pm Friday June 26th 2009
43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY

Plenty of Room On the Couch (Group Show)
-JK6- -Trevor Bittinger- -Colin Stinson- -Spaze Craft 1- -Denise DeSpirito- -John Breiner- -Dan Taylor- -Jesse Jones- -Kyoko Heshiimu- -Becca Roach- -Kelly Vetter- -Steve Smith- -New Colony- -Downer- -Chad Koeplinger- -AKO- -Michelle Tarantelli- -Gillian Goldstein- -Patrick Conlon- -Chip7- -Todd Noble- -Mister Mark- -Eyeball- -Chris O'Donnell- -Andreis Costa- -Zoe Sonenberg- -Carlyle Micklus- -Josh Taylor- -Jay Flanell- -Joshua Abram Howard- -Jeremiah Maddock- -Amandalynn- -Sweety- -Nikki Balls- -Subtexture- -Dosa Kim- -Amy Finkbeiner- -Aunia Kahn- -RROBOTS- -Dennis McNett- -Michael Alan- -Damion Silver- -JesseHectic- -JoKa- -Kristen Ferrell- -Douajee Vang- -Matt Vancura- -Grime- -Evan Cairo- -Parskid- -Justin Lipuma- -Regino Gonzales- -Lyndsey Lesh- -Tim Diet- -Dick Chicken- -Laura Meyers--Fernando Lions- -Sacha Jenkins- -James O'Brien- -John Reardon- -Myles Karr- -Dan Trocchio- -Andre Malcolm- -Leif Parsons- -Duane Bruton- -Bishop203- -Diego Mannino-

Love Is Like Magic @ Cinders Gallery!

from Cinders (a great gallery run by great people)...
This Sunday we are having a silent auction benefit for the gallery! We asked a bunch of artists who've shown here over the past 5 years to donate some work and have been humbled with everyone's overwhelming radness. It will be a fun and diverse show that will also help us ring in our 5 year anniversary! With a BBQ on the sidewalk, surprise guest DJs, and spiked lemonade to celebrate summertime(finally), gay pride, great art and 5 more years- lets party! Love is Like Magic Sunday June 28th 3-9pm A Special One Day Silent Auction! Featuring Richard Colman, Brendan Monroe, Thomas Campbell, Jo Dery, A.J. Fosik, Rich Jacobs, Kyle Field, Jordin Isip, Matthew Feyld, Allyson Mellberg, Jeremy Taylor, Ali Aschman, Brian Chippendale, Travis Millard, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Diane Barcelowsky, Maya Hayuk, Josh Slater, Jessie Rose Vala, Kevin Hooyman, Noel Friebert, Mel Kadel, Kelie Bowman, John Orth, Sto, Nick Kuszyk, Alex Barry, Mike Pare, Bongout, Mindy Abovitz, Ryan Jacob Smith, Suzanne Sattler, Sam McPheeters, Molly Colleen O Connell, Kim Schifino, Sean Samoheyl and lots more!

This is the LAST week to see the 2 great shows we have up right now: Knock On Every Door by Kyle Field and Storm Season by Jessie Rose Vala both close Saturday June 27th.

UPCOMING: The NeverEnding Story IV Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Isaac Lin July 2 - 22nd 2009 Opening Reception Thursday July 2nd 7-10pm
Local Flavor Octavius Neveaux with Blues Control Opening reception Tuesday July 28th 7-10pm Closing reception & Blues Control Record release party Saturday August 1st 7-11pm with performances by Blues Control, SSPS, and Budy Blues
Friendly Yoga Blokis and Elisita Punto August 6th - August 30th 2009 Opening Reception Thursday August 6th 7-10pm

CINDERS GALLERY 103 Havemeyer st. Williamsburg Brooklyn 718 388 2311 http://www.cindersgallery.com

Lauriston Avery Opening Tonight @ Hogar Collection!

This is gonna be awesome. Tonight at Hogar Collection, 362 Grand St @ Marcy. Check out the online catalog. Good work!

My Deck...

My nasty contribution to the Night of the Living Decks Show at Ave A Sushi (Ave A btwn 6th and 7th) which opened last night. Big thanks to the organizers of the event Mike A, Miss Gunns, and Jason McKown for putting together such a rad catalog and poster! Sorry for the crappy pic, the color is way off, but I had to swipe it from the catalog since I was too rushed to take a pic before the show and too lazy to bring my camera to it. The whole show is supposed to be on Fangoria's website but couldn't find it yet. I'll post it if it does. Thanks to all my friends for coming out and the new ones that I met. There is some seriously great art and the show is up for the next 8 weeks, I think, so GO!!!

Fuckin' Rain!

Gaia & Imminent Disaster @ Ad Hoc!

Two of the most talented street artists on the scene are opening this friday at Ad Hoc Art, 7-10pm! This should be great! Check out a little preview of the show and a little Q&A with both of the artists on Brooklyn Street Art. Top notch! And not to be missed!

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DECKS!

Did a board for this...forgot to take a pic though! Mine's a tribute to David Carradine! Dienasty!

The opening's this Thursday, 7-11 @ Ave A Sushi, Ave A btwn 6th and 7th st! There are some seriously rad and metal boards on display. Great work by some super talented artists. Come take a look!

Bridge Battle 5!

Dienasty will be flowing some product to the organizers of The Bridge Battle, now in it's 5th year, for the winners of this year's race! The prize's will be handed out at the BFF block party on 2nd Ave and 2nd st. Or so we've been told! Check it out! If you see some dudes rockin' our new tees, that's us! Come up, make friends and grab a spoke card and some stickers for your ride or just to post up! We'll also have some new tees, for sale, backpack style!

Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest!

This looks ill! And free! So many things to do this weekend! Hopefully it won't rain!

THE 5th ANNUAL BROOKLYN HIP-HOP FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE JUNE 20TH 2009
12-8 PM
EMPIRE FULTON FERRY STATE PARK
DUMBO, BROOKLYN

Artists
Full lineup

Pharoahe Monch
DJ Premier
Styles P
dead prez
Smif N Wessun
Grand Puba
J Period
Torae and Marco Polo
Tiye Phoenix
Keys N Krates
Brown Bag All Stars
DJ Parler
DJ Misbehaviour
Metermaids

Special Guests: Chip Fu, Kel Spencer, Homeboy Sandman

hosted by Ralph McDaniels

Second Stage

Donny Goines
Nyle
Eagle Nebula
Brokn Englsh
Children Of The Night

hosted by Homeboy Sandman

Family Day and Main Day are June 20th at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, 1 Main Street, in DUMBO Brooklyn from 12p.m. - 8 p.m.

Joyride Thursday!

Come out and roll around with your crew while checking out some bicycle inspired art! Part of the Bicycle Film Festival happening this week in NYC!

AVOID, BLOKE, AND FARO @ FACTORY FRESH!

Opens tomorrow at Factory Fresh, 7-10pm!

Cinders Gallery Opening Tomorrow!

Cinders Gallery Presents:  Knock on every door  Kyle Field  and  Storm Season  Jessie Rose Vala  May 29th - June 28th 2009  Opening Friday May 29th 7-10pm

Richard Kern!

Love this guy's work! Pervy. He has an show of new works at Rental Gallery opening on June 4th. 

WHOLE IN THE WALL OPENING

Check out more here.

Zine Fest Fundraiser!

This looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun, come out and support independent publishing. Nothing like the free press and first amendment!

From nyczinefest.org...

Friday May 29,  8pm - midnight,  $5 - $15 donation

At Brooklyn Lyceum
Come out for a night of socializing, dancing, networking and supporting the arts! We're throwing this party to raise funds to make the NYC Zine Fest '09 as affordable and successful as possible. Sponsored by Sixpoint Craft Ales.
There will be zine readings by Cristy Road, Jessica Max Stein, Jenna Freedman, Julia Wertz, and more. Also music! Contact the Fest if you would like to guest DJ. Keep checking back--the page will be updated thoughout the week.
Tickets will be on sale for the fantastic Raffle--to take place on June 28 at the Fest. Items will include rare zines, books, gift certificates, art, and more. Contributors so far include Spoonbill & Sugartown, IG Times, Printed Matter, Booklyn, Julia Wertz, Melissa Staiger, Picturebox, Inc., Trong Nguyen, and others.

FRANCIS BACON RETROSPECTIVE AT THE MET!

The master. Get over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art today for a FREE, ALL DAY symposium on the late Francis Bacon's work! Wow! For more info and todays's schedule go here.