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Events, Fall '11, Music

[EVENT] SYNERGY x FREE LVE Official CMJ Showcase

SYNERGY & FREE LVE’s Official CMJ Showcase takes place at Hiro Ballroom this Thursday at 7pm with some great local and out-of-town talent that ranges from New York’s ASAP Rocky to Miami’s Stephen A. Clark. A jukebox of genres will be represented to please a wide array of musical preferences. Make sure to RSVP to the email address below if you don’t have a CMJ pass.

Jeremy Asgari, DJ Synapse, Jamie BX and Lady J. Femme Present:

SYNERGY X FREE LVE

Official CMJ Showcase

Hiro Ballroom :: 7:00 PM :: Thursday 20 October 2011

Synergy & Free Lve present a night of live music performances and art projections, a true synthesis of fine sounds, faces, visuals, and vibrant energy.

Featuring art by OG Chino, Smurfo, Tono and music performances by:

King Fantastic

Love Automatic

ASAP Rocky

Navegante

Trouble Andrew

Adam Tensta

Albert Vargas

Steven A. Clark

Rocky Business

Rhyme Calisthenics MC Competition

DJs: Wonder, Troublemaker, Getlive and Synapse

Hosted by Jamie BX & Kinetic NRG

Hiro Ballroom :: 88 9th Avenue :: Doors open at 7:00 PM

Free :: RSVP to SynergyXFreeLve@gmail.com or enter with CMJ Badge

Sponsored by: CMJ, Socialight Entertainment, Fusicology, Brooklyn Bodega, Black Scale, Rocksmith, Uptown Artist Management, Recon, Fuze

Product

Black Scale Wingtip Collection 1.1.11

Our neighbors (now on both coasts) over at Black Scale continue to hit us with more dope goods. They’re starting the new year off on the right foot (pun intended) with the release of the Wingtip shoe collection. Very clean! Drag yourself out the bed, cure that new years hangover, and get over to your respective SF or NYC Store to pick up your pair January 1st!

Product

Collab Electronics + Crooks & Castles, Hellz Bellz, BLVCK SCALE

Collab Electronics is company whose focus is blending high-quality, consumer audio electronics for the lifestyle/niche customer. Their latest project brings together 3 veteran brands of the culture (and no strangers to collaborations) Crooks & Castles, Hellz Bellz, and BLVCK SCALE to create an exclusive headphone series. Product shots below and you can purchase them now at BigRAudio or Karmaloop

Holiday 2010, Top Ten

LTD Mag: The Week’s Best

You already know

Four Loko Stories

As our time with Four Loko is running out all over the country, we discovered a site that allows you to share your opinions/stories or both on how life just isn’t the same without Loko kicking off your weekend.

Suck it, Avatar

Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, GameStop etc…were all transformed into war zones (pun INtended) on COD’s recent release and now as the smoke clears we see the damage that was done. Something like 650 MILLION dollars worth in FIVE days. That’s a lot of pissed off girlfriends/wives, missed college classes, and sick days at work. *kanyeshrug.

Sellin Kilos through your iPod Nano

Or maybe just telling time. Anywho, remember when we featured Kickstarter in one of our lists awhile back? Of course you do, well here is another reason you should check them out: Scott Wilson, former Creative Director for Nike watches and head of Chicago based design studio, MINIMAL has a page on Kickstarter to raise funding for a project to create and sell a real iPod watch. The two models will be the “Tik Tok” and the “Lunatik” and they will be surprisingly affordable at $35 and $70 respectively.

Black Scale Invades NYC

Our Bay Area homies over at Black Scale, took yet another step in building their brand by setting up shop over in our neighborhood here in NYC. Earlier this week, on their opening day, we stopped by to kick it with Mega and the crew. Check it out.

Pacquiao Rearranges Margarito’s face (really)

Following Nellys “surprise” performance last Saturday in Dallas, Manny Pacquiao took the much bigger Antonio Magarito to school for 12 rounds, once again backing up talks of him being the best fighter in the world. Word has it that “Tijuana Tornado” had to get surgery a few days after the fight due to a fractured right eye socket. I guess mocking Freddie Roach wasn’t the best idea after all now was it?

“Knock em out the box”

Zuckerberg and his team of “social media experts” blindsided competitors by taking steps to make Facebook more appealing to web users by incorporating a more personal approach to reaching out to your “friends.” Outside of browsing through our friends walls for the latest scoop, we’ll soon be able to text message, instant message, as well as send a traditional email with our new “@facebook.com” email account….Apparently, Gmail experienced a 10 minute disruption during the announcement. AOL and Yahoo better watch out. via Businessweek

A Beautiful Mind

Creative brand, Imaginary Foundation is opening a gallery show today in San Francisco at FIFTY24SF. The show is a comment on how even though the mind is divided (left brain/right brain), only when both sides work together are we truly at full thinking/feeling/ideating power. In addition to the show, the brand will also be running a pop up store in the space from November 20-28. Check out the Undivided Mind site for more info.

Steady MOBbin Holiday 2010

Progressive women’s streetwear brand Married To the Mob unleashed its Holiday 2010 Lookbook upon us this week. The collection is filled with its trademark t-shirts with not so carefully veiled inuendos and modern, tailored pieces for girls that want to look feminine but still want some flavor. Check more images at hypebeast.

Either build or DESTROY

The Nike Destroyers campaign has been generating a lot of buzz as of late. The idea was born out of the axiom that things must be destroyed in order to be born anew. Examples of this can be found in many religious texts, literature, movies etc…it’s definitely a concept that we as humans are fascinated by. Nike will be adding more depth to this project by producing a journal coinciding with the project’s launch. The journal will grant us a deeper look into the creative process, products and the minds behind Nike Destroyers. They are even planning an installation at Bowery stadium in NYC. via hypebeast.

Lebron 8 “South Beach” Release

After a wildly successful Miami only release a few weeks back, this highly sought after colorway of Lebron’s newest signature sneaker has released to the masses (sort of). Many boutiques still only got limited numbers or some none at all and as for your local mall….hope you had a connect because we’re sure the number of pairs that were received and the numbers that were actually advertised in most retailers were probably off by a few pairs if you catch our drift.

Fall 2010

Black Scale opens up shop!

Yesterday, we took a stroll in the neighborhood to check out our homies over at Black Scale in what officially marks their 1st day open here in NYC. While they were still in the process of setting & stocking up, they welcomed us inside for some pics and great conversation.

If you stop by and don’t see your favorite piece from the Fall/Winter 2010 Look Book that we featured a few days back, don’t be alarmed - the official grand opening is Friday, November 26th.

Black Scale - 296 Elizabeth Street, NYC

Summer '08

BLACK SCALE FALL/WINTER 2010 LOOKBOOK

Black Scale gives us a look into their Fall/Winter 2010 collection which features cold weather staples with modern clean detailing to hats to jewelry. Enjoy and if you like what you see, hit their online store.

Product, Releases, Shopping

Mighty Healthy x Black Scale (NYC pop up shop collab)

As you all know the Mighty Healthy Pop Up shop NYC is opening tomorrow, March 6th, at the Reed Space Annex (see flier below). There will be lots of specialty pieces only available there and one is this collab tee with the Black Scale crew. Hella fresh bro!!!

Interviews, Video

Video: Black Scale “Balance of Opposites”

The Retrospective just shot a video of the big homie Mega from Black Scale. It’s a quick glimpse into his world shot in San Francisco with him in and around the flagship location.

From The Retrospective:

Black Scale is quickly becoming the unsung hero of street wear culture. Commanding absolute respect on both the ground level and throughout the international fashion market, it’s gone from good idea to San Francisco flagship in only a little over a year. But unconditional admiration and global acclaim is never a simple coincidence: behind every great empire is a leader with vision, and in the case of Black Scale, there’s MEGA.

In a world where balance is everything, MEGA effortlessly walks the edge as if it were the norm, striking the balance of opposites with every stride. This first-hand story takes you beyond the label to hear MEGA’s brilliant perspective, inducting you into the society of secrets known as Black Scale.

Credits:

Executive Producer: Theretrospective.com
Director: Matt Carvalho
Producer: Gitamba Saila-Ngita
Camera: Brian & Austin Chu
Editing: Brian Chu
Photographer: Steven Simonetti
Original Music: Michael Musumeci
Post Production: thewerehaus.com


Releases, Sneakers

Black Scale x Android Homme video + product

Check the video and images of the Blackscale x Android Homme collaboration.

Shopping

Black Scale “Shades Of Black” Sunglasses


Resembling the iconic Ray Ban shades, Black Scale has designed its “Shades of Black” sunglasses. Its exterior all black everything color scheme, adds a suave laid-back look to the cat wearing it, deceiving the crowd of its master plot to run this town. Check em’ out, at Black Scale’s new flagship store in San Francisco this season.

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