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Brian Schroeder, a.k.a. Pushead, is not just another artist to us at The Blogs. Pushead is THE artist.
Our love affair with Pushead started in the fifth grade as just another skate brat elbowing for room at the local park with our Zorlac x Pushead Pirate One signature deck. Thanks in part to an unhealthy obsession with thrash metal and hardcore punk – namely Metallica and The Misfits, both of which frequently collaborated with Schroeder for album and tee shirt art – Pushead’s art and music with his own band, Septic Death, was all we needed to properly piss off parents, teachers, police and all else who dared to diss us.
Quick fact: We started wearing all of our tees inside-out following a nasty confrontation with a math teacher who got us suspended for wearing a “grossly offensive” Pushead-designed tee (still have the school letter sent home with us, high comedy). Rather than trash it, we wore the tee (and just about every other since) inside-out until it was left in stained, smelly tatters.
Needless to say, we’re fuckin’ stoked to see the great tradition of corrupting young, impressionable minds continue with The Specimen Tee (below). The Altamont collaboration with Pushead features one of dude’s signature skull n’ bones designs, this time trapped for an eternity within the confines of a laboratory jar. Check it out below, and definitely stay on the look-out for more from Pushead and Altamont!
The Specimen Tee
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Brought to Boston in part by our pals at FutureClassic and Hourglass Tattoo, legendary NYHC outfit Cro-Mags makes it’s first appearance in The Hub for damned near a decade, and Blogs’ is fuckin’ STOKED.
The Middle East (472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge) doors open at 8:00 p.m. for this 18+ jam, but get your tickets now or be early ‘cuz this shit is definitely gonna sell out – especially with hometwon heavyweights Shipwreck, C.O.A. and Product of Waste blessing the stage before Cro-Mags hit.
See you on the floor!
Fucked Up formed in Toronto in 2002, high-school friends influenced by first- and second-wave hardcore bands like Minor Threat and NOFX. It was instantly apparent that they were not carbon-copy punks. Known by bizarre aliases, Fucked Up employ creative methods of spreading information & misinformation. Basic facts are constantly in flux. It is unclear how many of their 7″s have actually been released. Rumors about Fucked Up circulate like wildfire among their obsessive fans. The bottom line is that this band could only come out of hardcore, but they are now making music like no hardcore band in history. Though Fucked Up remain punks at heart – if quixotically diverse ones – they continue to create great, weird, heavy records that stubbornly stick in your brain and your heart.
- Altamont
Stay tuned, pals – Fucked Up is one of The Blogs’ favorite bands out today and we’ll have much more content coming your way throughout Altamont’s campaign – in the meantime, check out some select videos after the jump:
The F’d Up Tee
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Along with Karmaloop‘s own Bad Rabbits, Wiz Khalifa teamed with Boston’s Young Riot, M-Dot and Ryan Leslie to perform in front of more than 10,000 heads at Boston’s City Hall Plaza last Saturday afternoon. Our locals killed it for the hometown crowd, and Wiz showed some Boston love with a forthcoming ®Society Original Products tank.
Check out some flicks from the BUMP performance after the jump:
Props to photographer Derek Kouyoumjian and our pals at The Boston Phoenix for the flicks!
(click to enlarge)
Boston represent!
M-Dot (seventh from right, black tee) and posse shortly before dude was arrested on some bullllllshit.
Young Riot
Ryan Leslie
Bad Rabbits
The crowd couldn’t wait to see Wiz…
… and here comes Khalifa!
Killed it – peace, Boston!
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This has truly been the Summer of the Ninja.
RockSmith has been seen and heard all over the damned place lately, and it has a hell of a lot to do with the brand’s sensational Explicit Tank Top. The two latest co-signers, our dude Wiz Khalifa and Cleveland, Ohio rapper Machine Gun Kelly, feature the piece prominently throughout an MTV segment and on stage respectively… and let us not forget how beautifully it draped Yonehara‘s stunning models in his RS look book photo shoot.
Check it:
“Rap Fix Live” with Wiz Khalifa
Machine Gun Kelly
Yonehara x RockSmith – Explicit Content
The Explicit Tank Top
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Hometown heroes Hot Pink Delorean are gearing up for a European tour before hitting Asia, but before they leave us, the HPD crew hooked it up with the second installment of it’s Summer Mix series.
You can listen for yourself by clicking here or on the image above; and be sure to purchase HPD’s two latest tracks “I’m Your Computer,” a big-room club banger, and “Spear Shaker,” a tech house anthem, at Beatport here.
Karmaloop, Good Peoples and Amstel Light bring you Amsterdam Live, a unique nightclub experience fusing art, music, dance and DJs in true Amsterdam fashion with live performances by The Rapture and The Scumfrog.
It’s going down this Wednesday, August 4th, at Royale (275 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts) and Karmaloop has your hook up – RSVP here [http://amstellight.com/rsvp/index.php?promoter=bosPromo258] and make sure to get there in time for the 8:00 p.m. doors because this jam will be packed to the ceiling! Remember, this is a grown-folks only affair (21+) – no exceptions, sorry kiddies.
See you there!
Karmaloop and Mike Posner have teamed up to bring you the “Up in the Air Tour,” and we have some free tickets for you!
All you gotta do is click to enter the random drawing and you have a chance to win two tickets to the “Up in the Air Tour” stop of your choice, a meet and greet with Mike before the show, and your very own copy of the forthcoming “31 Minutes to Takeoff” LP dropping August 10th.
Click here for all of the details and to enter the drawing!
Some of the best acts Boston has to offer grace the same stage this Saturday night as Toyota Antics presents The Boston Party, featuring live music and free beer n’ BBQ!
Karmaloop’s own Bad Rabbits will be performing favorites from The Stick Up Kids EP as well as new music produced by Teddy Riley out in Los Angeles earlier this summer, highlighted by DJ sets from KTV’s own Redd Foxx, old pals Hot Pink Delorean and the dudes from award-winning synthpop outfit Passion Pit.
The jam kicks off at 9:00 p.m. at the Artists for Humanity center (100 West 2nd Street, South Boston), and the free beer starts flowing when the doors open, so get there early! RSVP here for FREE admission, but keep in mind that this a grown-folks only affair (21+) – no exceptions!
See you there!
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The Duck Down Records crew celebrated 15 years (and goin’ hella strong!) of carrying hip hop on it’s collective backs last week at New York City’s B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill, and our RockSmith ninjas showed love by crafting the super-exclusive collaboration tee for the occasion!
If you missed out on the jam… sucks for you. With performances from the unfuckwithable Duck Down stable including the mighty Pharoe Monch, Smif N’ Wessun, Heltah Skeltah, Black Moon, O.G.C., Kidz in the Hall, Skyzoo, Marco Polo, Torae, Ruste Juxx and special guests Talib Kweli, Havoc, Styles P, Pete Rock, Masta Ace, Donnis and Jean Grae, this show went down as the hip hop answer to Woodstock.
The RockSmith x Duck Down Tee takes inspiration from Nintendo’s Duck Hunt video game classic, updated for 2000-now featuring the iconic Duck Down “running man” logo. The tee was doled out to the first 50 lucky motherfuckers who showed up to the official jump off last week, and now you can say you were there by copping it here at The ‘Loop.
Much respect to Robert Mayer for the flicks! Check out his site for more photos, and scroll down to check out the tee.
The Duck Down x RockSmith Collab Tee
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