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Music Jeffree Star and Friends at Chain Reaction

August 26, 2010 - 10:14 am

Shakespeare once said “All the world is a stage.” For pop culture icon Jeffree Star that stage is a catwalk, and life should be “fierce” at all times. Nothing less will do!

Jeffree Star likes cupcakes, Hello Kitty and all things pink and sparkly, which means we have a lot in common, except I couldn’t walk nearly as well in those heels all night!

The “Lookin’ Hot And Dangerous Tour” kicked off with a sold out stop at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California and ChinaShop was there to witness the carnage.

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Music Hipster Haven: The People of Sunset Junction

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

August 25, 2010 - 4:44 pm

If you managed to take your eyes off of the music stages, carnie games, explosion of food trucks, and vendors, you couldn’t help but miss the hipster haven that was Sunset Junction 2010. Saturday and Sunday at the Sunset Junction Street Fair, a fashion show took place, and the runway models were the Los Angeles hipsters. I am by no means a hipster, I’m not cool enough to keep that up with trends, but walking around the festival I was taking notes (literally for my article but also for my next shopping trip). I’ve seen hipsters before and been in many hipster hangout areas, but I don’t think I can say I’ve ever been in an area so saturated with them. By pure observation and a few crazy conversations on the patios of bars, I learned all about what is currently trendy, what is over the top, and what I definitely would not be able to pull off.

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Music The Oldies: Lee Scratch & Ohio Players

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

August 25, 2010 - 1:21 pm

Looking around at Sunset Junction, the majority of the crowd was the young, trendy music fanatic. There were a huge variety of bands covering a wide array of genres like indie, rock, reggae, and electronica, but most of them seemed to cater to a modern generation of concertgoers. There were however, two exceptions, the Ohio players and Lee Scratch Perry.

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Music Sat Night Show Hopping at SSJ 2010

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

August 25, 2010 - 1:17 pm

Saturday was the first day of Sunset Junction and I couldn’t have been more excited to get there. After a near impossible search for parking, it was decided that I’d park at Sidney’s and we’d make the half-mile hoof down the hill to the junction. On the way, we ran into some excited hipsters who clothed us in glow bracelets and geared us up for the evening ahead. When we finally arrived, we ran right to the Sanborn Stage to catch Fishbone. We walked up during the “All Together Free” chant that they had engaged the crowd in. It was a fun show and really feel-good music…well at least until the “Let Dem Ho’s Fight” song which seemed to be a favorite of the ornery members of the audience. Shortly after, the mood was back to jolly as the guys covered “Date Rape” by Sublime, which definitely went over well with the crowd. Fishbone poked fun at the parking situation in Silver Lake and complained of parking tickets before continuing on with the set.

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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Katy Perry, The Sword, Usher, Apocalyptica, and Little Big Town

by Shop Keeper

August 24, 2010 - 1:50 pm

This week, I’ll dream with Katy Perry, if I get to be on that cloud…The Sword takes you back in their Warp with stoner-sludge metal…Usher is fighting the good fight in Versus…good ‘ol Todd Rundgren is still around…and American Idol’s Fantasia releases Back to Me…

Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
Little Big Town – The Reason Why
Fantasia – Back to Me
The Sword – Warp Riders
Todd Rundgren – For Lack of Honest Work
JJ Grey - Georgia Warhorse
Jeremy Camp – We Cry Out: The Worship Project
Various Artists – My Country - Smash Hits
Randy Travis – I’ll Fly Away
Usher – Versus
Ra Ra Riot – The Orchard
Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony
Blind Guardian – At The Edge of Time

Art/Design Artstar: Cynthia von Buhler

by Molly Crabapple

August 24, 2010 - 9:41 am

When I first met Cynthia von Buhler, I was topless and covered in white paint. As a cash strapped nineteen-year-old, I stumbled upon her ad on Craigslist hunting for human statues, and soon I was posing as Pauline Borghese at the most debauched absinthe ball of my life. In many ways, Cynthia von Buhler could be credited as setting me down the road of Professional Naked.

Raven haired von Buhler has had a career so broad, and glamorous, as to defy description. While von Buhler is best known as an award winning fine artist and illustrator, she has also danced in music videos as Bettie Page, ran experimental record labels, run galleries, and sold pieces of herself (literally) in a fine art vending machine that has toured the globe. Most recently, she’s been hard at work doing the art for Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley’s “Evelyn Evelyn” book project, as well as focusing on her own children’s book series “Who Will Bell the Cats?”

Von Buhler was kind enough to share insights on technique, career diversity, and how she came to live in a castle.

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Event Gallery Camp Hollywood Jitterbugs

by Lisa Johnson

August 24, 2010 - 9:37 am

While popular TV shows like Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance have taken over the airwaves, a small but vital community of retro dance enthusiasts gather for an annual tribute to the bygone era of Swing with Camp Hollywood and the National Jitterbug Championships. Armed with my Cuban heels and stockings with seams up the back, I left the Converse at home and delved into the netherworld of Lindy Hoppers.

Highlights of the weekend included a Miss Camp Hollywood bathing beauty contest, and plethora of heated dance competitions for titles in swing styles like Balboa and Shag. But easily the wildest competition was the “anything goes” underground jitterbug challenge which erupted at 2am on the Saturday night!

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Music INNERPARTYSYSTEM Signs to Red Bull Records

by Barbie Brady

August 23, 2010 - 6:12 pm

American dance group, INNERPARTYSYSTEM just signed to Red Bull Records. The creative trio consists of Patrick Nissley, Jared Piccone and Kris Barman and has been making music you have probably heard and loved since 2007. Known mostly for their endearing and energetic remixes of such songs as ‘Hot N Cold’ by Katy Perry, ‘Don’t Trust M’ by 3OH!3 and ‘Human’ by The Killers, they have the ability to get your body moving on the dance floor.

In the Summer of 2009, the band announced on their official MySpace and Facebook pages that they had parted ways with their label, Island Records. They wrote, “There are some really amazing, overworked, underpaid, stressed out people who love music, working very hard there… and there are a handful of people who just didn’t really understand this band, and didn’t know how to react when ‘Don’t Stop’ wasn’t ‘Just Dance.’ Our bad there.”

In May of 2010 they self-released the EP American Trash, which exhibited a fresh and polished sound that made the industry perk up their ears. Their music is like a well blended cocktail of straight razors, motor oil, premium vodka and chewing gum. Its accessible, eclectic, thumping, melodic masterpieces. Just last week they announced they signed to the ever growing roster on Red Bull Records out of Santa Monica, CA.

Have a listen and tell me what you think about their latest acquisition?

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Art/Design Titmouse Volume 1

by Shop Keeper and Sidney Bensimon

August 23, 2010 - 12:48 pm

Titmouse Inc., The animation studio behind the [adult swim] hit series “Metalocalypse,” T-Pain’s “Freaknik: The Musical,” “Black Panther” and a slew of other cartoons, has assembled a team of weirdo artist types to create a 100-page anthology of art, comics, and interviews for a truly unique and innovative brand of media call a “book.”

The quarterly hardcover publication printed on fancy paper and in full color features comic strips, paintings, and interviews from some of the art world’s most interesting individuals. “Metalocalypse” and “Venture Brothers” director Jon Schnepp; cartoonist and painter Dave Cooper; “Metalocalpyse” co-creator Tommy Blacha; comic book artist Dave Johnson; Emmy Award winning character designer Andy Suriano, and a homeless dude from Hollywood are just a few of the 17 artists featured in this first issue. Drawing inspiration from past publications such as Mad Magazine and Heavy Metal, Titmouse Vol. 1 is like a Ralph Bakshi film on paper. Fancy paper.

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Music Telepathe Already Knows What You Like

by Shop Keeper

August 23, 2010 - 9:05 am

Another in what seems to be a legion of 80s-influenced electronica/DJ/synth duos from Brooklyn, I’m starting to realize that really all these bands are doing is conjuring all the sounds of that decade, including all those over-produced synth samples and drum machines, minus the loud colors and Trapper-Keeper designs and cliche lyrics. Okay, maybe just the cliche lyrics. But Telepathe (pronounced Telepathy, kids) seeks to control your mind with more of a minimalist sound, one that flies in the face of everything the 80s did wrong. It helps that the lyrics are unabashedly tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at what made so many of the bands of the 80s so laughable. These girls are clearly a couple of goofy weirdos (as the awesomeness that is the video for “So Fine” proves) and great at not taking themselves seriously, which makes this all the more fun to listen to, and even enjoyable in the onslaught of uber-nostalgic eighties-worshiping electro-DJ/dance/post-disco groups all over the place today. Things will be looking up with this whole vicious cycle, provided we start getting more groups who are self-deprecating and less self-aggrandizing. Go to Red Bull Music Aademy Radio now and get yourself brainwashed.

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