Contest Featured Music American Trash: Represent Your Cynical Side
September 1, 2010 - 5:57 pm
Hey you! YES YOU! We want to see you get off that couch, put down that 40oz and express yourself! An ambitious fan of INNERPARTYSYSTEM created this video to their new single, America Trash. It got us thinking, we’d like to see YOUR take on creating a video for this song. Upload your video to youtube and send a link to us at info@chinashopmag.com.
5.00 (2 votes)
Loading ...Featured Gallery Music Tribute to a Hollywood Icon: Slash Day
September 1, 2010 - 3:43 pm
There is no disputing the fact that Slash is legendary, iconic, renowned…(I’m stopping before this all goes to his head). He’s as part of the history of West Hollywood as the Sunset Boulevard street sign itself and as a result is this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival official honoree. Tonight at the House of Blues, photographers and press crammed like cattle behind a velvet rope to await the arrival of the man himself to his very own tribute party. As we waited for Slash, a stream of important people began to trickle down the red carpet to occupy our time. Carpet walkers included Lemmy Kilmister, Billy Boy from Poison, Warner Drive, Cherry Bomb, Twilight’s Boo Boo Stewart, Blowing up the Moon, Dan Black, Nic Adler, Franky Perez, Acidic, Kenny Aronoff, The Shrills, Juke Kartel, Kevin Brown, Diamond Lane, David George Band and more. After much anticipation, Slash made his way out of a black SUV and through the mob of press, fully done up in true Slash style – the hat, black clothing, a t-shirt with a bikini girl standing in front of a luxury car, dark shades, etc… Speaking of shades, I laughed as several photographers tried to haggle people like Kenny Aronoff into taking off their sunglasses for a photo opp and were very unsuccessful. Most of these refusers must have shared Kenny’s reason for rockin’ their shades, which was, as he laughed and explained, “I don’t want to take my glasses off, I look like shit.”
5.00 (3 votes)
Loading ...Featured Music Road to 8 Mile: Eminem Judges The Red Bull EmSee National Freestyle Battle
August 30, 2010 - 12:44 pm
It seemed as though every hip hop fan in Detroit made his or her way down to St. Andrews Hall last night to witness the National Championship of the most talked about emcee battle of the summer —Red Bull EmSee: The Road to 8 Mile. When judges Eminem, Mr. Porter and The Alchemist named 18-year old hometown favorite FowL as the national winner, the crowd of over 1,000 fans went bananas. Hip hop legends Bun B, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Xhibit were among the VIPs that came out to support.
5.00 (2 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Featured The Classic Glamour Dolls
August 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
When you have a big event coming up and you are female, it’s inevitable that you want your hair and make-up professionally done. It just perfectly accents a night out on the town, a wedding, a red carpet ordeal, a high school reunion, or any situation where the goal is to shock and awe with your looks. One thing to consider is that when you hire hair and make-up people, they are in your house for a long time. I got my hair and make-up done for my wedding and spent a good 3 and a half hours bonding with my lady. She was nice, but there wasn’t anything unique about her and I found myself resorting to the ‘go to’ questions: Isn’t the weather nice? Where are you from? How long have you been doing make-up? We got through it, but there were a lot of moments when the concept of ‘silence is golden’ keep fluttering into my head.
I recently stumbled upon the perfect solution to my quest for make-up/hair artists with finesse, the Classic Glamour Dolls. Specializing in preparing you for everything from photo shoots, to performances, red carpet appearances, film, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthdays, and special events, the Classic Glamour Doll “Team” consists of a group of make-up and hair artists whose motto is to bring you “Make-up and hair with a Hollywood flair.” The gals live out the 1920’s to 1950’s glam eras and show up to get their clients event-ready fully decked out in an old school Hollywood get-up that Fergie would describe as the definition of G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S. When I witnessed them in action, they explained to me that the look must always include: red lipstick, fake eyelashes, cat eyeliner, flowers or big jewels in the hair, very clean and shapely defined eyebrows, and a victory roll in their hair – obtained with hot rollers, curling irons, lots of hair spray and “thousands and thousands of bobby pins,” and of course fun rockabilly-inspired clothing.
4.79 (24 votes)
Loading ...Contributors Featured Gallery Disneyland Adventurefun
August 18, 2010 - 3:07 pm
When you get together with out-of-town friends, it best be memorable. This is precisely why I decided to join my usually remote comrades Gala, Nubby, Amy, Kevin, and Danielle at Disneyland. It had been years since my previous visit, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew there would be rides and crowds, but would I still have fun after the initial shock of color and people wore off? I wasn’t the only one wondering – I’m pretty sure I heard Gala exclaim “I can’t believe you’re at Disneyland!” at least three times. Even as a worldly maestro of advanced years I enjoyed myself, whether it was making myself dizzy on the teacup ride, marveling at the thousands of attendees, trying on very special hats, scarfing junk food, bustin’ a move at the night-time PG rave at neighboring California Adventure Park, or destroying gift shop displays with bubble gun warfare. Sure, there’s a somewhat incongruous captain Jack Sparrow inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride now, but I sort of enjoyed him. And speaking of captains, Captain Eo is back, and the new[ish] Tower of Terror ride is a tribute to The Twilight Zone, which I adore. Though I don’t see myself buying a pair of sequined mouse ears or being a season pass holder, I’m looking forward to the next time. With so many bloggers in our midst, cameras were present and plenty. Proof of adventurefuns, below!
5.00 (15 votes)
Loading ...Art/Design Featured Gallery GuitarTown Invades The Sunset Strip
August 13, 2010 - 1:40 pm
The Sunset Strip is sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. It has been for as long as anyone can remember. After years and years of such wear and tear, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it might need a teensy weensy bit of tender love and care. Fortunately The Sunset Strip Business Association has its back. The committee kicked off the $5.4 million Sunset Strip Beautification Project in January 2010, giving West Hollywood a facelift with improvements such as replacing faulty traffic signals, repaving the boulevard for the first time in 75 years, planting new trees, making parking meters credit card accessible, etc… The official “re-opening” of The Strip took place on Thursday, August 12th, with the unveiling of one final touch, GuitarTown, a public art project featuring 26 ten-foot tall fiberglass Les Paul model guitar sculptures that were donated by Gibson, decorated by local artists, and scattered all over the strip.
4.69 (36 votes)
Loading ...Featured Music Red Bull Big Tune Winner Frank Dukes Records with Ghostface Killah
August 11, 2010 - 2:25 pm
This year’s Red Bull Big Tune competition brought together hip-hop giant Ghostface Killah and up-and-coming producer/beat maker Adam Feeney a.k.a. Frank Dukes for a recording session in Red Bull’s $6,000,000 Santa Monica studio. Dukes, whose name is a Jean-Claude Van Damme / Blood Sport reference, is an all-business personality. Seeming comfortable in the studio, he is meticulous, well spoken, and purposeful. His focus and tenacity were tested by fire when Dukes lost in the 2008 big tune finals to Chicago native C-Sick. Undaunted and eager to set the record straight, Dukes returned in 2009 to unleash his wrath on Detroit, winning the national producers competition and earning him the opportunity to work with the MC of his choice.
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Loading ...Featured Gallery New York City Graffiti perseveres in the ever-changing NYC
August 11, 2010 - 12:56 pm
Graffiti and New York City are inseparable. Regardless of how many security cameras are installed or other preventative measures enacted, there is no way to completely stop writers from leaving their names on surfaces across the expansive five boroughs. It’s a decades old tradition that not even rabid gentrification can cease. And in 2010, it’s good to see that walls, doors, street posts, and all reachable surfaces are still being hit up with style.
4.60 (5 votes)
Loading ...Featured Gallery Music All Eyes on Flying Lotus: Hard Fest 2010
August 10, 2010 - 1:21 pm
I have photographed Steven Ellison, a.k.a Flying Lotus, 5 or 6 times in the past 2 years. It was during the first set of his which I photographed that I noticed Flying Lotus had certain, “tell”, as they so call it in poker. Just before the baseline is to drop through the floor, into the basement and most likely end up in the water table, he would pause as if floating Wylie Coyote style in mid air. Just hovering there above his Eve bitten clamshell which contains the soles of well worn Samiyam 8-bit beats and most likely photos of a black tee clad Thom Yorke.
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Loading ...Featured Gallery Music How I Spent My Summer: Camp Spin-off
August 9, 2010 - 5:49 pm
I think a lot of people have memories of camp as a kid. Long hot days, mosquitoes, friendship bracelets and camp fire smores. Now imagine for a minute that you are a kid into DJ culture! You love music and you spend pretty much all day listening to songs wishing you had an outlet for your creativity. Well DJ Tina T decided that both of these experiences needed a home, and thus Camp Spin-Off was born.
4.25 (4 votes)
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