Features, Other Fusing sport and street culture, adidas presents the Ali Values Project, a collection reflecting Muhammad Ali’s core values: “respect, confidence, dedication, conviction, spirituality and giving.†Featuring the works of LeRoy Neiman, Cey Adams, Shephard Fairey, Eric Bailey, HVW8, and Usurgrow,…
Artist, Features Mark Jenkins is the man. See his art next to ballers of arts and culture industries – remember Jenkins “Embed Stories?†Right, heads have to be stuck in walls to not remember “Embeds,†“Tape Men,†“Traffic-Go-Round†and the handfuls of…
Features, Music The Teenagers are three French dudes from Paris that sing “I fucked my American cunt,†in this popular single, “Homecoming.†Some American girls find the word cunt rude, but for the hundreds of skinny jean wearing girls that fill The…
Fashion, Features In a douchebag filled industry of tired 30-something-year-olds making clown costumes for impressionable kids, it is easy to get down on streetwear, but Greger Hagelin, WESC’s founder, is certainly not a douchebag. In fact, he’s kind of sort of popular.…
Features, The Daily Bread Kansas City, Missouri is not known for much outside of Missouri, aside the Royals and a few underground rappers, but Kansas City is not the armpit of America; Kansas City stays fresh with Phil Shafer, owner of Sikenomics – a…
Features, Music The new thing is the old thing or the same thing that swept through America 30 years ago: European bands with wavy hair! Shout Out Louds are four dudes and one girl – Adam, Carl, Ted, Eric and Bebban –…
Features, Other Swagger, for the most part, is an achievement clothing amplifies and finding clothing that catches eyes is painful: driving to the shopping district, finding parking space, searching and comparing boutiques. Argh! Be thankful that Street Swag makes one, two, three…
Extra, Extra, Fashion While hoards of pop-up streetwear lines play follow the leader with their established peers, Lore, a California based clothing company in its infant stages, decides to break ranks by using sometimes esoteric designs. “I guess just look at the designs…
Artist, Features Bob Dob’s paintings are a reflection of Bob Dob. Wait, that statement may not be correct. Bob Dob likes film noir, but in the traditional way, not the Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson and Aaron Eckhart way, though. “They…
Features, Music The Black Lips are from Atlanta, but they’re not rappers and they’re probably not doing a funny Soulja Boy dance – yet, they could be down – or eating at Waffle House with Ludacris at 2:00 a.m. Instead, the Vice…
