Ah, we so wish we could have teleported to NYC to hear Bobbito/Laylo/Sake’s tribute to Fania Records.   He’s rocking the classic logo shirt from their new collection.  Photo is  by legendary photographer  Joe Conzo.  Check out  his collabo shirts with Sedgwick  & Cedar.

Tonight Bobbito is at Camaradas (1st Ave bet 115/116 St) from 9pm-1am for his First Monday of Every Month residency.   You can get the latest on his Facebook.

The Berkeley Humane Society recently suffered a devastating fire in their facilities.  We have donated/will be donating our proceeds from the Obey Awareness Adopt items to them.  Please consider purchasing one of the items so they can get back on their feet and start adopting out animals again!

Bamuthi is currently trying to gather funds to debut his new production…he says if they don’t reach their goal, they have to return all of the current pledges!

red, black and GREEN: a blues (rbGb), is a full-length, multimedia theater work that lands at the intersection of green economics and black psychology, written by USA Rockefeller Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through a collaboration with installation artist Theaster Gates (Whitney Biennial 2010), Joseph uses music, movement, poetry, and gallery performance to jumpstart a conversation about collective responsibility in a climactic era of climate change.

red, black and GREEN: a blues uses performance to document the process of creating single day, eco-themed hip hop festivals in Black neighborhoods across the country. The festivals, called LIFE IS LIVING, are co-organized by Joseph’s Living Word Project and local partners with the specific intention of re-framing environmentalism in underused parks in under-served communities.

More info here.

We will be hanging out in the Obey booth tomorrow for the Aqua Surf Swap. Back parking lot at 2830 Sloat Blvd, SF 94116 415.242.9283
We’re mainly bringing tees. A bunch of our vendors are also vending!

RSE doin’ it up big this weekend…

Z’s going to be putting in serious work this weekend. Another day, another city…

MADVILLAIN – “PAPERMILL”
NEW TRACK, FREE DOWNLOAD
DOOM & MADLIB, 2010.   1st single off new album!!
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The Sounds of VTech / Tezeta De Ethiopia: A Special Mulatu Slideshow

Mulatu Astatke Slide Show

It is sometimes easy to forget that Timeless is the brainchild of two photographers and a promoter. But for those lucky enough to see the shows live there was always photographs there to remind you. For Verocai we had an amazing slide show of a recent trip to the North East of Brasil, Suite for Ma Dukes was presented complete with a tough look at Dilla’s Detroit and of course Mulatu’s show was resplendent with a slide show of Ethiopian photographs.

In 2004, Miles Cleret of Soundway Records, Will “Quantic” Holland and B+ spent three weeks in Ethiopia. The plan was to meet Mulatu and dig for records. B+ shot some 120 rolls of film and the best of that is represented here. The music is an exclusive track from the concert that didn’t make the film. “Ene Alantchi Alnorem” is a languid beautiful song of longing.

This slideshow along with lots of other treats are contained on the DVD.

Featuring many of our peep! There are a couple other dates besides the LA show.

“One Way or Another will feature some of the most talented folks in the skateboarding industry. Each artist involved is donating their valuable time, skill and resources to inspire the next generation of creators.”
– co-curator Isaac McKay-Randozzi.

During the tour they will be camping out, skating local spots and cavorting with each community on the most grass roots level.

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Eric Anthony, Todd Bratrud, Mark Fos Foster, Greg Pnut Galinsky,
Ben Horton, Matt Irving, Andy Jenkins, Michael Leon,
Geoff Mcfetridge, Travis Millard, Donny Miller, Mat O’Brien,
Dennis McNett, Andrew Pommier, Michael Sieben

SHOWS:

Saturday, May 29 (7 – 10 pm)
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave.
L.A., Ca 90036
323 655 4898

Friday, June 4 (6-11pm)
Escapist
405 Southwest Blvd.
Kansas City, Mo 64153
816 842 2504

Monday, June 7 (6-11pm)
No Comply
812 W. 12th St.
Austin, TX 78701
512 804 0472

We started this crazy journey in ’99, but we took The Giant Peach site live on May 25, 2000.  People still bought CDs (dang, they still even made cassettes).  The site started with music & merchandise from ABB. Dilated Peoples, Hip Hop Slam, Ledisi, Quannum (and soon after Live Human, Stones Throw & Def Jux).  Many thanks to Stinke &  Meca, Colm, and everyone who has contributed to the site over the years.

Celebrate our 10 year anniversary with an extra 10% off  all day today (the 25th).  Enter the code 10YEAR at checkout (it will take it off the item price).  Thanks for the support!