Bear witness: an irony-portal so dense, so graphic, and so utterly and completely obvious that you as a viewer are powerless to look away. It’s so good, so true, and so clever that you may not even think it’s very cool. So I’ll explain: The Bloglin reader can be counted on to very likely hold these two things dearly—very dearly—to their bosom, and here they are. Together at last.

Oh. Wait. You’re seeing this in your feed reader and don’t quite know whether it’s worth the click or not? Well, let me spell it out:

Beastie Boys. Sabotage. Music Videos. THE Early 90s music video. Remixed and re-imagined by way of Battlestar Galactica. Click away.

This Kotaku writeup rightly marvels at just how spot-on this video is…it’s uncanny. They even provide a link for using some sort of experimental youtube dualscreen site (which my computer HATES, btw. My ears are not happy either) which will SHOW you how spot-on they are. I, on the other hand, am choosing to be most impressed by just how deep this rabbit-hole goes. To wit:

The Beastie Boys start their career in 1979 as a punk group. They hit big in the 80s with frat-rap, and it’s not until 1993’s ‘Sabotage’ that most of their adoring fans realize that the Beasties can play ‘rock’ music as well. The X-Factor of ‘Sabotage’ had more than a little bit to do with it’s epic video that portrayed the band members as undercover detectives in the ‘Starsky and Hutch’ and ‘Streets of San Francisco’ vein. It was a perfect 4-minute parody of an entire decade’s worth of TV crime dramas.

Battlestar Galactica debuts on Television in 1978 and is to space drama what Starsky and Hutch is to crime drama. It is terrible, and dies a very quick and very painful death by 1979 and by then, Star Wars has officially happenned. In 2004, some dudes who worked on The Next Generation picked up the license and re-imagined the BSG lore as super dark, super violent, and super controversial…only after this was anybody alerted to it’s inherent coolness.

So obviously, someone would take the two and mix them. The result is like tie-dyeing a tie-dyed hypercolor shirt. It is a mix of mixes that have been mixed from mixes. And it is awesome. And it is—in my humble opinion—what places like the Bloglin are all about.

Juggalos make headline again on national television, this time on ABC’s Nightline. The topic up for discussion was involving Juggalos and the association of the music linked to the recent rash of brutal crimes and murders across the country where all of the suspects called themselves “Juggalos”. This time ABC’s Martin Bashir sat down with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope to get to the bottom of things.

I personally think this was a pretty shitty interview and was heavily edited in favor of the network’s angle. It’s really the same report every news station runs on ICPs and Juggalos ever since the whole culture hit the mainstream about 13 years ago. But I didn’t care because of all the HD concert and backstage footage that ABC aired along with the interview.

Violent J even chimed in a little bit about his thoughts on the interview after airing via his twitter.

10 million a year? What the fuck? Who the fuck makes 10 million a year? In my experiance 90% of the media is fake bullshit. Its scarry. 10 million a year? Who the fuck makes 10 million a year? Martin Bashier maybe. Not us.

I’ll just leave you with the Nightline episode for now. I’ll be back soon with more news from the underground and even a juggalo spin on a favorite Bloglin segment. So keep your eyes peeled and your faygo chilled ’til then…

Harvey Levin of TMZ approaches serious topics with Lil Jon from Lil Wayne’s dental problems, Obama to the meaning of skeet skeet all peppered by a slew of chuckles and randomness and some classic Lil Jon moments… all while sportin’ our Bad Luck sweater!

BTW: there’s an awkward initial minute and a half of nothing in the video… hold tight!

Also heck out this recent cover shot for Skinnie magazine, BASS MOSH all the way!

Are you guys getting excited yet!? We sure effin’ are! Thursday the 18th can’t come soon enough for us, but in the meantime here is part 3 of our Ov Curse preview as we showcase yet another 3 bands performing at the showcase.

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Hours of Worship hands down  make some of the darkest and most infectious dance beats on the scene. Make no mistake about it this Brookyn duo is not afraid to drop a beat that will set a dance floor off. Stick with me on this one, HOW sound like Teen Girl Fantasy’s slightly crazed delinquent older brother who gets busted on a weekly basis for drinking 40s with his friends in that creepy ass graveyard at the edge of town no one ever goes in? Ya dig?!

Hours of Worship just released a new EP entitled Into the Grass which offers up 4 originals and 2 remixes of the track “Bury Me in Smoke.” To purchase simply open up your iTunes store type in Hours of Worship.

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If I were a Viking raider crossing the cold oceans of Europe ready to attack the shit out of some unsuspecting English town and some how managed to own an iPod I would without a doubt be listening to Awen. The Dallas band play dark and apocalyptic folk music using a variety of traditional instrumentation that ranges from strings, percussion and live electronics. Awen’s music focuses on ancestry and past civilizations. The combination is eerie and haunting anthems well suited to armies marching to battle in the dark ages.

The Bells Before Dawn is the first full length release from Awen out now on Dais. To say the record is epic would be a gross understatement.

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Hellbent on ear drum destruction Drunkdriver will be on hand to release their punishing hardcore punk on Ov Curse. The bands music is comprised of  layers of distortion, spastic drumming and the throat shredding vocals that sound more like a building exploding then some Brooklynites with some instruments and a microphone.

Coming off of the momentum of a LP, cassette and several 7″ releases the band is gearing up to release their debut album for Load later on in the month.

Thursday, March 18th, 8pm-2am
Club 1808
Austin, TX
All Ages, Free!

With the inauguration of our Echo Park shop the doors to the infinite abyss have open up above Los Angeles. There will be monthly apparition and strange happenings masterminded by the demonic Killing Spree DJs that will accompany your lonely hot nights with cold wave, goth, minimal synth and the darker side of music.

The duo is also known for their part in realizing the Weird Records fest in La with the likes of Xeno & Oaklander and Blacklist.

They also have many accolades in their past present and future but those are for you to discover. Find the clues over on their Myspace page…

Friday March 12th, 10pm
Two Headed Horse
1770 Glendale Blvd
Echo Park, Los Angeles
RSVP (For Admission)

The Art Museums – Rough Frame (2010) [Woodsist] // Grade: C

The Art Museums are a lo-fi Bay area duo for who have been garnering attention with their throwback to the Scottish indie pop sound of the 80s . Their debut LP Rough Frame is  tough nut to crack… While stand out tracks “Oh, Modern Girl” and “Paris Cafe” are catchy very easy to embrace, the rest of the album, while enjoyable is also forgettable as songs mostly blend together. Part of the problem, is that like most Woodsist releases the album is very much mired in the raw and unfinished lo-fi sound the label has been cultivating for years. And truthfully that isn’t doing The Art Museums any favors.

For example take opening track “We Can’t Handle It”… the bands lackluster and rudimentary drum machine sequencing almost totally overshadow the strength of the vocals and guitar melodies. And while sure that could be (and has been) a charming rough touch, on Rough Frame it just one of many examples of strength of song clashing with presentation. So while I can appreciate the ambition (and a few tracks), it’s the end result that fall short here.

Some say Planet X is the twelfth planet in our solar system, and a second renaissance of consciousness will overcome humanity when it returns to our orbit. What else is out there? In this Bloglin segment, we’ll delve into the most provocative theories and findings from the new age. Don’t call them conspiracies…and keep this between us. We don’t want to get tracked down by the New World Order!

In a recent human genome study, it was found that our species is evolving 100 times faster than any other period of evolution. A hyper exponential development is varying humans today from our 100-200 generation old ancestors at the genetic level. John Hawks, the anthropologist who led this study, attributes this supercharged evolution to population growth, agriculture, and resistance to disease.

John Hawks:

“What’s really amazing about humans, that is not true with most other species, is that for a long time we were just a little ape species in one corner of Africa, and weren’t genetically sampling anything like the potential we have now.”

Is positive selection the only attribute to this phenomenon in our civilization? Are we simply the majestic progeny of single celled organisms governed by the law of accelerated returns? The scientific community offer a resounding and unequivocal YES to these questions in their endorsement to Darwin’s Origin of Species…but they never acknowledge that Darwin himself never addressed the origin of the single celled organism (our lead image)…the very first life on this planet. The earliest evidence of single cell life from 3.85 billion years ago had the DNA gene expression system. A fascinating complexity from the beginning. Though attempted to be authenticated by Chemical Evolutionary Theory, this conundrum has yet to be solved. How do you get from chemicals to a living cell?

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, former geophysicist, college professor and author of SIGNATURE IN THE CELL, advocates Intelligent Design from a scientific angle. In accordance with the evolutionary concepts of change over time or common ancestry, Meyers challenges that life at the cellular level is too complex and intricate to have miraculously appeared from such an enormous improbability. Even the notion that a single celled protein can develop in the equation of cosmology suggests design. This is no Judeo-Christian model…

Stephen C. Meyer on Coast to Coast

Meyer’s greatest piece of evidence is DNA, which guides and programs the cell, implanting its highly complex digital code with all the hallmarks of a intelligently designed operating system. He argues that the DNA is an exquisite form of organization, not a repeating order (time) or an irregular form of order (mutation). It’s like a language with sequence specificity. There is a precise message. His view on the elegance of DNA is akin to the perfection of a Shakesperean sonnet or software code, where the individual characters (letters, words, code script) aren’t repeating in an originally ordered way, but their arrangement is critical to that function of text.

Illustration of the Human Genome – click to enlarge

What of the mind/body interface? Conscious? These properties of life remain a complete mystery to the materialism which the science community staunchly endorses. Meyer insists that consciousness is the fundamental forgotten entity in science. In regard to the religious implications which his ID theory may elicit:

Intelligent design in an inference from biological data not a deduction from religious authority.

Signature in the Cell by Stephen Meyer – Book Introduction

The most “simple forms of life” are run by this same biological DNA factory. Meyer breaks down the evolutionary hierarchy in terms of computer code:

You want to give your computer a new function? You need a new code.
You want to build a new form of live from a preexisting form? You need biological info.
Why?
Because you need specific specialized proteins. How do you build the protein?
You need the DNA.

Meyer cites Natural Selections own function as another one of his more compelling articles of ID’s presence.

Natural Selection operates on functional advantage. The smallest unit of functional advantage in life is new protein and difficult from random mutations to generate new proteins. It’s incredibly rare among the space of possible arrangements of amino acids…You’re more likely to stumble on gibberish in the human code than a balanced and evolved protein.

So if Intelligent Design is absolute, and we aren’t environmental happenstance, WHO IS THE DESIGNER? Even subscribing to Zecharia Sitchen or the Directed Panspermia theory doesn’t get us to the Primary Designer. It may take us back a few steps, closer to the origin point…but how can a being within the cosmos design the cosmos? What do you believe?

“I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. – I think that generally … an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.”
-Charles Darwin 1879

Have you ever wondered who some of the dudes are that write for the Bloglin? Well a while back we got a visit here at 350 Broadway from two of our favorite Bloglin contributors, Dr. Dinosaur (left) who has been doing videogame posts and Oh Mars! (right), the man behind most of our TV re-ups, movie reviews and just one of the Bloglin’s all-around editors.

I know you might be wondering if these guys are as cool as they write… and the answer is yes! Their internet demeanor truly carries over into their real-life personalities. And even through I think of these guys as local celebrities ’round these parts, they keep it pretty humble.

These guys told me that they’ve been meaning to make their way down to the store for a while now, which I thought was mainly to throw me some props for all of my store spottings. But alas these dudes’ real intentions were for a good ole’ game of Street Fighter.

The game started to get a little heated when Oh Mars! took the victory in a best out of 3 series. But before it got too heated and turned into an actual street fight these guys got off of the sticks and made up as good blogger buddies should. They even gave me the drop on their next up and coming venture, the formation of the first ever Folk-Dubstep band. I think the name of the group is still up in the air, but either way I still gave my nod of approval and wished the guys the best of luck… I think that they might need it.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

I’m sure I’m late on this guy, but with all the Juggalo obsession that goes on over here on the Bloglin, I figured someone might appreciate this. Borgore’s a new “hot” producer in the Dubstep scene. His forthcoming EP entitled Borgore “Ruined Dubstep” is due out by the end of the month. With tracks like Nympho, it’s easy to see how his shock value is gaining him attention.

Kinda like what ICP did to Wigger rock right? Maybe? Prolly not.

Where to start? Why to care? Our homies over at Creative Control put this video up a couple weeks ago. I’ve been listening to the song on repeat for hours at a time. The video is cool, basically what has come to be expected with the proliferation of HD. Straightforward, no high concepts, just dude rapping. It’s interesting to see how HD’s ability to captivate us with stunning resolution lets us stop fussing with the theatrics. One of the trends in both media, and technology seems to be the apotheosis of the quotidian–I’m into that. Fader had mentioned that Big K.R.I.T. is looming in the shadow of TI. This is the first Big K.R.I.T. song that I’ve heard, but I find him much more compelling than TIP #NoShade.

I’ve also been listening to the new Laws mixtape 4:57 (download here). Being that Laws is a fellow Floridian I was very excited when I found out about him. He had another mixtape over the Summer–or maybe in the Fall–titled Your Future Favorite Rapper. I’ve been keeping up with him and I’m eager to see where he’ll go. He started out, like a lot of the other Florida dudes that I know, battling. To me, that says a lot about a rapper’s potential, and it’s dude’s potential that I’m most excited for. There are definitely some bangers on both of these records, and I’m diggin where dude is going, but you can tell that he has tons of skill that he’s still holding back. I think we’ll see some good stuff from him this year.

I went to Fader’s Yelawolf show on Monday. I’ve been keeping up with this dude since early in the Fall. He’s definitely been making moves, and coming up. He put out a mixtape with @DJBurnOne (same dude that did Pill’s 4180) a few months ago. I’m not gonna lie, at first I was bummed on dude’s mixtape. I felt like it was lacking in content, but after a few listens I definitely began to feel differently. This guy is serious with the craft. He’s cold lampin on the kind of cadences that most emcees wish for. There is a great deal of finesse, and understated effort to what he does. And, that finesse really came through at the show on Monday. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was hoping that his live performance would reflect the studio recordings. It did, the guy did not miss a beat, and the delivery was top notch. I could definitely become a fan of this dude if he continues in the same fashion.

I went to Pulse, Scope, and Independent last week. If you’re not familiar those are three of the bigger art fairs that happen in New York along with the Armory fair. I have this very tumultuous relationship with art. I love it when it’s good, but it disgusts me when it’s not good. Unfortunately for me art is rarely good, I’m probably compelled by 15% of the stuff that I see, and that’s a rather generous estimate. But, between Pulse, Scope, and Independent I was able to catch a few things that excited me. I took poor notes, but here is my list of stuff worth re-visiting after the fair:

• Evol at Wild Gallery
• Tadashi Moriyama at Bonelli Arte
• Daniel Glaser at Magdalena Kunz
• Ivab Puig at Kunsthaus Santa Fe
• Al Fosik at David B. Smith Gallery
• Brian Nuda Rosch
• Gaain Gallery
• Brian Nuda Rosch
• Jorge Mayet (image above)
• Jonathan Callan (image below)

i find this distasteful it doesnt show any art work either if i saw this on the side of my building i would be pissed i would rather have something bright and colorful that makes me people come look at. — Some dude on Flickr talking about a Dickchicken stencil.

That’s funny cause I would much rather see some subversive shit than some bright colorful vapidity. Here’s an update from Richard Poultry himself. Whether you’re in New York, Los Angeles, or London dude’s in your hood:

Friday March 12th, 7-11pm
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway between Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY

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Saturday April 3rd, 7-10pm
Rogue Status x Abztract
1720 Main St.
Venice Beach, CA

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Thursday April 8th – Sunday April 25th
Zero Cool Gallery & Sole Heaven Present: Kicks and Canvas
London, UK

Shy Child – Liquid Love (2010) [Wall of Sound] // Grade: C+

Before I argue that Shy Child’s latest feels glossed over and redundant, let’s pause to appreciate its little bit of charm: Liquid Love does a fine job of skittering between two disparate sorts of 80s schtick. Type A: JC Penney dressing room 80s. Back-to-school shopping in humid August with Hall & Oates and Phil Collins, Heart’s “These Dreams” and racks of neon bike shorts. Type B: Moroder 80s. Tron and Wendy Carlos 80s. Robots and dystopia and fast, futuristic cars. Hell, let’s even throw a little John Carpenter in there; a few moments of first single “Disconnected” (maybe the best track on the album) have a serious, if fleeting, Big Trouble In Little China vibe.

Still: Shy Child’s latest—a major POV shift from the duo’s hysterical, explosive dance on Noise Won’t Stop—feels glossed over and redundant. All the Wendy Carlos in the world can’t save Liquid Love from itself, because you know what? This market’s already been cornered. Pop-funk electro retro: we’re lousy with it. And it’s not just that Datarock and Junior Boys have already saturated (and perfected) a similar sort of situation; so many of the songs on Liquid Love fade and fizzle and fall asleep on themselves, it’s difficult not to walk away feeling just as overwhelmingly ambivalent.

The first half is better. “Take Us Apart” and its grumbling, propulsive bass. The title track’s Fleetwood Mac samples and a bunch of floaty, falsetto vocals that complement more often than they distract. “Criss Cross” goes full-on Moroder, and though it chugs through seven minutes when it could’ve ended at four, it’s a cool, crisp bright spot. But by the time we get to “The Beatles” and an almost shockingly lackluster “Depth of Feel”, Liquid Love’s pretty much hit the hay. You can sense the energy (or at least sense that there’s supposed to be some), but actually feeling it?  Not really. It’s a shame to feel so nothing about a band that previously inspired at least a little excitement—even if you hate Shy Child, you can’t deny their exuberance—but here we are. Give the first bits a spin, but the rest? Eh. Up to you.

Ice Cube – Steady Mobbin‘

Eazy E – Real Compton City G’s

Dr. Dre – Nuthin’ but a G Thang

Toddy Tee – Just Say No

I almost promised myself I wouldn’t post this but it’s early in the morning right now and I’m making poor choices. The newest leak from Cam and DJ Drama’s upcoming mixtape Boss Of All Bosses 2.5 is a tribute to everybody’s transit beat down meme. Listen:

If there is some strange reason you want to keep this song forever then download it here.

*BONUS* Feel free to vote for my first and last LOLCAT.

The countdown to our SXSW showcase, Ov Curse continues! Its getting closer kids and just to keep your hype levels at 11 here are three more of the bands that will be performing for you good people at Club 1808 on the Thursday, March 18th.

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The Chicago duo know as My Gold Mask play incredibly catchy and moody pop in the vein of Siouxse and the Banshees while adding in almost gypsy sounding rhythms to create a sound that sets them apart from their peers.

If the bands break out track “Violet Eyes” sounds familiar to all my fellow fashion geeks out there it may be because it was used along with another great track “Your Coo Ka Choo” in Phillip Lim’s FW 2010/2011 runway show. Something tells me we are going to be hearing alot about My Gold Mask in the future.

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Hussle Club is the latest offering from Prince Terrence who may know as the drummer for Santigold, Spank Rock and HEARTSREVOLUTION or perhaps from one of is many DJ sets in and around NYC. Hussle Club is without a doubt one of my favorite new acts to pop up in quite sometime and are set to have a huge 2010.

In the few short months since Hussle Club was the subject of the first ever You Should be Listening to… the Hussle Club machine has been at full throttle with Terrence adding a backing band, adding a introductory Webster Hall date then heading out to Texas to take on SXSW. Hussle Clubs dark and dancey Post Punk references the grittiness of NYC’s past when the Lower East Side was a haven for Artists,Punks, Junkies and Gangsters not Under Grads and fancy restaurants.

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Featuring ex member of Liars and Knife Skills Brooklyn/Chicago trio These Are Powers bend the lines between noise, experimental electro and pop like no others.  Release after release this band becomes more impressive if you like your music loud, noisy and fun as hell well then here is your band.

These Are Powers frontwomen Anna Barie has one of the best voices in the game right now adding a whole new level of depth to the bands music. The recently released Candyman EP shows the band upping the ante on their mastery of noise-driven pop. Check out our review for it on the Bloglin.

Thursday, March 18th, 8pm-2am
Club 1808
Austin, TX
All Ages, Free!

Blasphemophagher – For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation (2009) [Nuclear War Now!] // Grade: B

To say Blasphemophagher embodies a certain shock value is an understatement. They use monikers like Atomic Incinerator of Necronuclear Collapse & Plutonium Winds, R.R. Unholy Bastard & Phosphene Wargas and Necrovomiterror for their names (written in Gothic whenever possible) and a sephia filter for their promotional photos. Somehow they pull off a mix of Motörhead meets army surplus store in the middle of Florida as their style and being Italian, they go over the top with that. Their presence, along with their healthy mixture of black, thrash and death metal, has earned Blasphemophagher a name, or at least a buzz, in the metal scene and helped keep their label, Nuclear War Now! Productions, in business.

For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation mashes up every significant band in the past few decades. From Bathory to Napalm Death, this album, like the band, is all over the place. Brutally engaging vocals, sharp riffs and stomping drums fill the 40-minute long album. “Intro – Descending into Extermination”, gives you a foul taste of what to expect; rotten flesh in a blender. If you don’t like the way this decrepit intro tastes after the initial sip, you won’t want to down the rest. “Chaos Obscurity & Desolation” gives us a gift in the form of a blast-beat canker sore. More menacing vocals, courtesy of Unholy Bastard’s infected windpipe. Each track in the album kinda runs together after this point. There’s no real break from the onslaught; but at 40 minutes, do we really need one?

“Ascending to Chaosthrone – Outro” is my favorite track and coincidentally, the last. Which is a saving grace for Blasphemophagher. It’s one hell of a way to end the album. Again, it’s mostly blast beats and raspy growls, but that’s the name of the game. As the track fades out, the band engages in a twisted and typically-demonic incantation. What did you expect? Actual singing? For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation is a great mixture of genres that I admire, combined in an above-average attempt at capturing stage presence in a 40-minute LP. For some reason, I think you, Beelzebub and Blasphemophagher would agree with that.

Мишка and Undocumented Management are proud to present the live debut of Hussle Club. On Friday, March 12th at The Studio at Webster Hall. Hussle Club’s post-punk meets no-wave approach to song writing is led by Prince Terrence, the stylish indie icon who has manned the drums in the past for the likes of Santigold, Spank Rock, and Heartsrevolution.

Their ability to mix dark musical soundscapes with tales of strife in a modern urban life has set the stage for a powerful and unique live show that should set them apart from many of the sounds coming out of New York and beyond. With additional live sets from Maluca (of Mad Decent) and T.V. Baby (feat. members of A.R.E. Weapons), this promises to be a one of a kind gathering of artists bound to make an impact in 2010.

To add to the festivities, the show will also serve as a kick off celebration to the one-year anniversary weekend of Мишка’s flagship store, which promises to be absolute insanity all throughout. In the meantime enjoy Hussle Club’s “I Have High Expectations For What I Want To Be But In The Mirror I Don’t See Them Staring Back At Me” and don’t forget that Hussle Club will also be performing in Austin, Texas on Thursday March 18th as part of our Ov Curse SXSW showcase.

Friday March 12th, 8pm-Midnight
The Studio @ Webster Hall
125 E. 11th St. bet. 3rd & 4th Ave
New York, NY
$10 Cover/19+

Kiss is commonly regarded as the mashing of one’s lips against another person or object. It can be an expression of love, passion, respect, greeting, good luck, or total barnyard hornlust. It is universally common among all cultures except for Eskimo, a culture so dangerously cold that kissing can result in one’s face being eaten by a good friend. Observe this video and learn more about the kiss.

Music: “And Then I Kissed Your Lips” by Gary Wilson

Alexander Binder is a German photographer I discovered a year or so ago when he emailed our info line. I instantly fell in love with his work and had him contribute some photos for upcoming Мишка designs. His work is absolutely haunting and runs the gamut of creepy by echoing 70s occultism through to 90s nordic Black Metal.

Revel in New York conducted an interview with Alexander earlier this year that covered everything from his technical method, inspiration and influences all the way to his video projects. It’s a great read with a great talent that you should all get on to your personal radars.

So with all of the hubbub of our recent retail expansion to Los Angeles and Tokyo, maybe you thought we forgot all about our homebase here in Brooklyn? WRONG! This Saturday, March 13th, marks the one year anniversary of the opening of our flagship store in South Williamsburg. To celebrate, we’re doing it up big with our own way of publicly stating that “we’re here to stay”…permanently, like a tattoo!

We’ve teamed up with our friends over at Three Kings to bring you an entire day-long event, where you can get tattooed with your choice of custom Мишка-inspired flash artwork, created by the gracious and talented artists from the shop. But here’s the kicker… the tattoos are only going to be $3.50!* That’s effin’ right, for the cost of a bacon, egg & cheese on a bagel from your local bodgea, we’re giving you the opportunity to get a tattoo from one of New York’s finest shops. You’ll N-E-V-E-R get a deal this great on this kind of work!

The shop will open at 12 noon and will stay open until 8pm, permanently adorning a legion of fans, hipsters, hoodrats, heshers and hypebeasts with a lil bit ‘o Мишка that they’ll take with them forever and ever! So come by, get tattooed, do some shopping (we’ll have Spring 2 in-store that day) and have a few drinks! It’ll be a Saturday you’ll never forget!

To handle overflow and give everyone a comfortable place to chill while they wait their turn to get inked, our neighbors across the way at Trophy Bar have been very gracious to open their doors at 1pm that day. They’ll be having $3 Brooklyn Lagers ’til 11pm and a happy hour from 5-8pm with $3 well drinks, $2 off drafts and $4 margaritas & bloody marys. Then, from 7-10pm,  Trophy will host an after party for the 1st anniversary, featuring the Chronic Youth DJs and a special DJ set by Prince Terrence of Hussle Club. Oh and did I mention that there’s a huge lead-up party to all of this the night before? More on that later today…

Please note: Anyone getting a tattoo must be at least 18 years old and must have a valid ID (driver’s license, passport, or birth certificate) to get tattooed! No exceptions!

*The $3.50 price does not include a gratuity for your tattoo artist. Be kind and courteous and tip the artist for his work and time!

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

During the early hours this morning, Corey Haim died of a drug overdose. He was 38 years old.

He hasn’t done many movies of late, although his IMDB page has nine movies in production. The last one I saw him in was Crank 2. After Lost Boys and Prayer of the Rollerboys, Haim could’ve retired. Total bummer, indeed.