Thursday 28 April 2011

Marvel for Stussy


Fans of Marvel, beware. Stussy debuted a collection of awesome t-shirts featuring your favorite Marvel characters on it. Let's see whether your favorite character is in the list - Captain America, Doctor Doom, Punisher, Wolverine, Doc Ock and Ghost Rider.

The first batch of collaboration was released yesterday, but it was announced that this project with Marvel will last longer than expected, perhaps for another couple releases. Each t-shirt comes with a set of limited edition trading cards.

The second batch is expected to release on May 6 and will involve collaborations with some of the reputable artists in the world including Will Sweeney, David Shrigley, Bill Plympton, Gary Panter, John K, James Jarvis, Todd James, Mister Cartoon and Noah Butkus.









Shop yours now before it's gone.

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Visvim Lauda Kiowa-Folk


Fresh on the shelves of visvim stockists are these minimalist prince, the Lauda Kiowa-Folk. As you can see the sneaker draws inspiration from the likes of All Star tops, only difference is the heavy application of exclusive premium materials, as always expected from visvim.

The added studs gave the high top a rockier image to go along with the leather uppers. As we know, there are two colorways available - there's also a brown version.

Should be in stores some time this week. Check it out.

Sunday 24 April 2011

adidas Originals Premium Iconics 'Color' Artillery Mid


adidas Originals released the Premium Iconics Color pack - the Artillery Mid armed with the Torsion system features a colorful side panel. Available at Crooked Tongues.

Chrome Beats by Dr Dre


Custom Beats by Dr. Dre headphones have been a symbol for music lovers and DJs everywhere. Now, the company that made this possible is helping you to stand out from the crowd in a completely new way. Introducing Chrome, a limited edition finish for Beats by Dre Studio headphones.


With only 50 produced, your headphones will have a brilliantly reflective chrome finish, and each official set will be uniquely engraved. You deserve to have the best, and nothing says “elite” better than this.




HTC Flyer


World's leading smartphone manufacturer HTC Corporation unleashed the brand new tablet computer, the HTC Flyer is a fast, portable, light-weight tablet that integrates the immersive and highly intuitive HTC Sense™ experience and enables content including videos, music, games and more to be easily accessed and enjoyed.

The HTC Flyer features a strong aluminum unibody case that is lighter than an average paperback book. Truly separating the HTC Flyer from the pack is the integration of the acclaimed HTC Sense experience and unique HTC Scribe technology. The new HTC Sense experience offers an interface rethought for the tablet format which allows users to easily scroll and locate photos, entertainment, weather, calendar and mail. An optional HTC Scribe™ digital pen unlocks HTC Scribe technology, which enables the ability to capture and annotate any on-screen content with notes and drawings. Also, with Timemark, handwritten notes taken with the digital pen are synchronized with audio, as well as the popular Evernote™ application, turning handwritten notes into true meeting minutes. Additionally, with front and rear cameras, people can also make live video calls using a variety of available video chat applications available in the Android Market.



Saturday 23 April 2011

Mazes 'Most Days'


Manchester's indie punk lads Mazes unveiled their debut album titled A Thousand Heys, out now via FatCat Records.

The band is the formation of Jack Cooper (vocals and guitar), Neil Robinson (drums), Jarin Tabata (guitar) and Conan Roberts (bass), and have been on tours with bands like Pens, Wavves, Deerhunter, Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles.

A Thousand Heys is a tapestry of collective influences that draws on the band’s multi-national constitution and sees them dart in and out of their record collections with the same enthusiasm and sense of fun as the two wide-eyed kids messing about in front of the camera on the album’s cover. The opener ‘Go-Betweens’ is a song influenced by the honeyed, major-key pop of the band the song’s title references, but with New York Dolls guitars, Buzzcocks intensity and Big Star-esque nihilist lyrics. At other times, as referred to by Marc Riley when he called them a ‘sort of really garagey Kinks’, they can sound like a British Invasion group; a syncopated McCartney bassline kicks in during a chorus that starts with a ‘Hey!’ on ‘Surf & Turf’, with lyrics that actually reference ‘The Beatles at JFK’.

Mazes is here to stay to rock the world folks. Check out their animation of the song Most Days.



The Making of Adolescents by Incubus

Go behind the scenes with Brandon Boyd while he take you through the making of Incubus' latest video Adolescents, track from their upcoming seventh album If Not Now, When? due out on July 12 via Epic Records.



Beastie Boys Fight For Your Rights




The notorious Beastie Boys' eight studio album titled Hot Sauce Committee Part Two due out on May 3 through Capitol.

Friday 22 April 2011

Diet Coke Limited Edition Collection by Karl Lagerfeld




Diet Coke takes another stylish step into fashion this Spring by announcing its second fashion collaboration with international creative genius, Karl Lagerfeld. The world-renowned designer will create not one but three new and exclusive designs for the iconic Diet Coke aluminium bottle.

The 'Diet Coke Limited Edition Collection by Karl Lagerfeld' is totally irresistible and is set to become the perfect accessory for style conscious women everywhere.

Using the light and playful elements of his identifiable trademark style, such as graphic cuts, a contrasting black and white palette and clean lines broken with colour or detailing -- Karl Lagerfeld has created a bold, contemporary yet instantly recognisable collection.

Referring to his first design for Coca-Cola light in 2010, Karl Lagerfeld said, "I love this bottle but it's time for a new one. Actually I want to do three bottles." He also added, "I loved what we did last year but I will love 2011 even more. I'm delighted about this collaboration."


The bottles are now available to order at colette.

XLarge x Birki's Sandals


Birki's and XLarge did a good job by producing this limited edition sandals. The sister label by Birkenstock provided it's two strap sandals as the platform to go with XLarge's all-over print camo style design.

Due out on April 29, at selected Japanese stockists.


Tuesday 19 April 2011

Lab the Rat 'I Know'

Malaysian indie folk group Lab the Rat released their first official video of the track I Know.




A family band comprising three brothers, a wife and two close buddies, Lab the Rat draws influences from outfits from the likes of Counting Crows, Hootie and the Blowfish, The Cure, among others.

The band was formed by Syarul Reza, also the frontman of another rock band called Love Me Butch, and their first ever show was the qualifying round of the Global Battle of the Bands Malaysia competition, which also they won and were sent to the UK to play at the London Scala Theatre for the World Finals.

One of the most promising bands under the spotlight to look out for, the band released their debut EP titled I Know, and their debut album is scheduled to release very soon.

Explosions in the Sky 'Take Care, Take Care, Take Care' Out Now


That one album you've been waiting for ages is out now! Explosions in the Sky's latest album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is now available at Amazon UK.

Sunday 17 April 2011

Steve Mason - All Come Down EP


Scottish singer/songwriter Steve Mason releases new single, All Come Down, through Double Six on Monday May 2nd 2011. The stunning single is one of the stand-out tracks from his much-applauded solo album, Boys Outside, which was released last year and subsequently featured in many end of year ‘best ofs’ including Q, Mojo and NME. The 10-track album was produced by Richard X and Steve Mason.

Steve is currently in the studio with the legendary producer / musician Dennis Bovell working on a ‘dub version’ of the Boys Outside album. One of the leading lights of U.K. reggae, Bovell gained renown with his own group, Matumbi and also worked with the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, I-Roy, Janet Kay. He also produced a wide diversity of bands including The Pop Group, Orange Juice and The Slits. The album is nearing completion and release plans will be announced shortly.



Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts


Thurston Moore is proud to announce his fourth solo album titled Demolished Thoughts, scheduled to release on May 24 via Matador Records. The Sonic Youth frontman collaborated with Beck on production of Demolished Thoughts.

Recorded in Los Angeles, Demolished Thoughts is an equally beautiful and brooding work; while there's more than a few tonal similarities to some of the past Moore compositions, the execution this time around is nothing short of staggering.

In addition to Moore's guitars and vocals, other guest performers include violinist Samara Lubelski, harpist Mary Lattimore, bassist Bram Inscore, drummer Joey Waronker and of course Beck.

One of the highly anticipated release for the year.



Saturday 16 April 2011

Spirit People - Dragoons

Dragoons is the first collection of exultant hymns and saturnine carols by the New York-based music makers/fiend alliance called Spirit People.

The young men who make up this musical collective have been writing songs together for over a year, and began work on this album in September 2010. After six months of recording in a basement, lit by the yellow light of a winter evening that crawls through frosty windows, the album is ready to be heard.


Dragoons is messy, it is strange, it is joyous fun and harrowing distance. The album was made with a collection of guitars tuned incorrectly, over-explored drum sets, sweaty pianos, swaying electronics, and phantasmal singing. The tracks are all fleshed out with lyrics that range from austere and harrowing to nearly psychedelic maneuvers of form. The songs make use of syncopation and contrast parallel melodies, all awash in miles of oceanic reverb, with each new listen revealing tokens of hidden sound.

Album tracks like "Keep Knees" and "Big Guard / Tetra Disaster" ache with severe guitar dysphasia and chord progressions that reek of unearthly jazz; "Quiet Rooms" and "Sammy" are warm and inviting, wrapping you in moss, and coming as close as Spirit People ever does to the pop stylings of an album like Vampire Weekend or a C.S. Lewis novel; the almost mathematical "Leave Me Be" is a cyclothymic dreamworld of wizardly trills and distraught vocals; and the closer, "Sprouting," the barest track on the album, ushers you safely back into the real world with the hollow rings of a woodland gospel and smiling nostalgia.

Becca Stevens - Weightless


New York songstress Becca Stevens unveils her second studio album titled Weightless due out on April 19 via Sunnyside Records.

Stevens' soulful vocals and amazing tunecrafts has earned her quite a reputable fame in the NYC music scene. Aside from her brilliant compositions, she does covers by her favorite artists such as The Smiths, Animal Collective and Iron & Wine.

In Weightless, there are eight original tunes by Stevens, and four cover tunes. Weightless was recorded at Manhattan’s Sear Sound with veteran producer Matt Pierson (Joshua Redman, Jane Monheit and Kirk Whalum).



Therapies Son - Over The Sea EP


Hailing from Van Nuys, California, 19-year-old songwriter Alex Jacob and his gang Therapies Son caught our attention with their dreamy pop tunes drawing influences from the likes of Beach Boys and Flaming Lips.

Over The Sea is the debut 5-track EP released through Sargent House.

On his debut EP Over the Sea, we have the to-ing and fro-ing, galloping playground pop jam "Rose Red Rose", in which the initial whispered, tender intones make way for Technicolor orchestral bursts, glittering melody and breathless, merry-go-round waltzing, rubbing shoulders with the shimmering ebb and flow of the appropriately named "Still I Call", opens up into something more vast, more widescreen, and, with its swirling strings and otherworldly beauty, absolutely not of this epoch. The exquisitely poised heartache of "Touching Down" meanwhile, sounds bizarrely all the more yearning with what sounds like an entire marching band behind it, while "Yellow Mama" kaleidoscopes a whole world of loss and longing into its short running time, Jacobs' hushed vocals guiding the listener gently to a close. A truly one of a kind talent bound to break plenty of hearts of his own in the near future.



Thursday 14 April 2011

Polarsets - Sunshine Eyes EP


Newcastle-based trio Polarsets teams up with Kitsuné to release "Sunshine Eyes", their sunny dancey pop first single due out on April 18.

Drawing influence from Friendly Fires to Cut Copy, Two Door Cinema Club, Gwen Stefani and The Pixies. It all started with a trip to Ibiza, where the boys were thrown into a hazy world of dance beats for the first time and observed the power of truly immersive, communal music. It is a lesson they took back with them to Newcastle, and married to an immovable love for big pop melodies and classic indie. The resulting songs are immediate and exhilarating flights of escapism like their debut single "Sunshine Eyes" an arresting mix of Latin percussion with euphoric dance.

Waste(twice) x Porter x B Yoshida Briefcase

Japan's three way collaboration - Waste(twice), Porter and B Yoshida worked on a special briefcase that combines each labels' specialty. The application of mixed materials including PVC-coated canvas and leathers. Available in three colorways, click here to buy.




Ronnie Fieg x Converse Star Player 75




Strictly limited to 240 pairs per color for the billions, Converse teamed up with shoe designer Ronnie Fieg to produce a series of four Star Player 75 silhouette featuring various types of premium materials and leathers. Two lows and two highs, available in red, grey, blue and green. And the star and chevron was given the embossed treatment.





Available beginning April 15, try your luck getting your favorite pair at DavidZ.com.

Jil Sander Geometric Stripes Tee


One of the pieces from the spring/summer 2011 collection by Jil Sander. This colorful geometric stripes tee is one sophisticated design, painful yet beautiful. A true 'Made in Italy' piece available now at oki-ni.

James Jarvis x SIGG Water Bottle


Swiss made water bottle maker SIGG and British renowned illustrator James Jarvis unveiled a special collaboration 0.6L water bottle featuring Jarvis' famous Amos icon.

The world's toughest water bottle being tagged by Britain's notorious artster, a world class masterpiece. Available now at colette.

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Supreme Spring 2011 T-Shirts


Supreme releases a new batch of t-shirts for Spring 2011 available on April 14 in Supreme stores.








Monday 11 April 2011

Head Porter Cordillera Series


Head Porter unveiled a new collection recently - the vibrant colour series Cordillera features a collection of bags on a selection of strong colours.

Should be available anytime soon. Via honeyee.com.

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Head Porter North Shore

Head Porter debuted a new collection known as North Shore. It's made of Cordura nylon and it's available in four product range - pouch, tote bag, boston bag and waist bag.





Original Fake 'Hate Heart' Tee


You can spot similarities to Comme des Garçons PLAY on this one, but it still look amazing with Kaws.

Original Fake unveiled the Hate Heart tee, available in gray and white, exclusively at colette.

Married to the Mob Spring 2011 Delivery 2




Who wants some MOB? Yeap, Married to the Mob is back with the second batch of Spring offerings. How unfortunate we did not flash the first, but not to panic, as you still have chance to pick up some good stuffs before check out.

For the ladies, they've got some really awesome graphic tees that will get you all the attention you need. Not too often you see MOB for the boys, but now you see it - simply irresistible, especially the Wet Dreams tee.












Available now at MOB online store.