Come out to Santos Party House tomorrow night to check out this week’s installment of ‘That Shit!’ with DJ Vibe and God’s Favorite DJ, DJ Clark Kent, getting busy on the tables, along with Hawaii Mike taking care of the hosting duties. The magic word for entry is: LTD+

SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
96 LAFAYETTE ST.
11PM-4AM
LTD+ IS THE MAGIC WORD AT THE DOOR

This is probably long overdue, but glad that it’s done. Complex Magazine took a trip to LTD’s founder “Hawaii” Mike’s crib to check out his Top 25 sneakers….that he owns….and wears. While many people have their “favorite” kicks; many cases may prove that they may not actually own them.

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We closed out our Model x LTD+ summer series at the Rivington Hotel Rooftop with the homeys On Smash and Prohibit for “Fall Back” event. DJ Soul and Plain Pat held down the turntables while Hof, Chace Infinite, and Hawaii Mike tore the roof off with the rest of our evening’s patrons. Many thanks to everyone that came out to support all of our events this summer. Make sure to keep your eyes and ears alert for what we have in store for the Fall and Winter.

Photos courtesy of Brook Bobbins

For those of you that missed out on our Modelo Especial Penthouse event series at the Hotel on Rivington, part of Hawaii Mike’s month-long birthday celebration, check out this video done by our man Josh a.k.a. Oaklyn Shoots. Also, make sure to show love on Twitter by using the hashtag #ModeloLTD

New York City’s 1977 summer blackout was the inspiration and theme for the Umbro x The New York Cosmos Blackout Collection. This past Wednesday marked the opening of a pop-up shop, at Reed Space Annex, with an all-black everything motif. A celebratory party, in conjunction with the new shop, produced by LTD Magazine’s Hawaii Mike, was held at Reed Space with DJ Clark Kent, who also happened to begin his DJing career in 1977.  Below are photos from the event along with an animated film interview with Carlos Alberto Torres, a former Cosmos player from Brazil who depicts his trip to New York to sign with the club during the 1977 blackout.

Special thanks to the good folks at Umbro, The New York Cosmos, Jeff Staple/Reed Space, Exposure, and everyone else who came out to support.

Photo Credit: Exposure

Last week we kicked off the Modelo Especial Penthouse event series with a birthday celebration for our own “Hawaii” Mike and good friend Timbo from Rad Collector. A select group of guests were invited to the Hotel on Rivington Penthouse to enjoy an endless supply of cold Modelo’s, food, and sounds by Dao-Yi and DJ Soul. DJ Clark Kent, Eddie Huang, 13th Witness, Circe Wallace, Chace Infinite, Mike B., Mickey Factz, Sickamore, Mel D. Cole and more came out. Peep the pics courtesy of Brook Bobbins below.

Thanks to Modelo for making it happen, look out for our upcoming event for Clae next week!

Shout out to Good Wood for the ill coasters!

Due the grand success of the Mel D. Cole and Etnies collab, the infamous sneaker and shirt are circulating the web to make the man behind the camera over 7 feet tall. He had an all inclusive interview with the folks at Highsnobiety, heres a glimpse of how the interview went through below.

“S: First of all, how did your partnership with etnies come about?

Mel: Hawaii Mike bought me in for a meeting. He said he wanted to do something with me and that something turned into doing tee shirts to doing a basic sneaker to doing to my two limited edition sneakers (64 pairs made) and my two tees (430 tees). The kicks and tees are not for sale.

HS: What was the process like in getting your own shoe? Any specific inspiration behind the color/silo choice?

Mel: The process was kind of confusing for me. I never designed anything before. So, I had to employ the services of a good friend Upendo ( Leroy Jenkins) to help bring my thoughts in my head to reality.

I wanted the sneaker to be basic and very clean, with the pop coming with the insoles. As far as the colors go, I love greens…all kind of greens. But this particular one stood out to me and I thought all the homies would like that color as well. How can you go wrong with black and green?

HS: The photo tee was inspired by Common’s Electric Circus album cover and features a ton of your favorite people. Tell us a bit about some of the shots included.

Mel: Well 1st off I want to tell you who brought my idea to life. That guy would be named Ron J (Leroy Jenkins). He is on the tee along with: kid Cudi, Mos Def, Ian Reid, Q Tip, Cons, Black Thought, Questlove, Emeka, Scott (10 Deep), Timbo (Rad Collector), The Knux, Clipse, Little Brother, Talib Kweli and many more people.

One of the most significant shots on the tee is the one of Common. His photo is from a show back in 2002. One of the 1st concerts I ever shot. It
inspired me to do what I do. ”

For the whole interview check out Highsnobiety.

The weather is getting colder, I’m not much of a boots in Summer guy, so I was finally able to break out the Concepts + Red Wing 875s. Yeah, they came out a while ago but these joints are so fire i had to do a closer look. Shouts to Frank The Butcher and the CNCPTS crew.

The upper is brown leather and waxed canvas

Subtle tonal logo hits

The red laces take it over the top, perfect contrast to the leather and canvas

Check the behind scenes video footage of LTD Magazine on The Press Play Show with Terry Urban. we’ll post the podcast as soon as it’s ready.

Tune in tomorrow night to catch “Hawaii” Mike and Hyun on The Press Play Show with Terry Urban and DJ Mick Boogie. We’ll be chopping it up about the magazine and what we do. The Press Play show is Saturday night from 8-10pm est on Shade 45 or XM 66.