I just learned about the Levi's workshop in San Francisco. It could be well worth a trip to San Fran. It's open to the public on Sundays and they have free printing workshops. They also have product for sale and the proceeds go to local charities. Amazing!






-ERIN

Tomorrow night in Riverside is the Sea No Evil Art Show, which is an annual event that benefits the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Tons of great artists donate their work for this one night only silent art auction. Shepard will be spinning some records and has some work available also. Also, Shark Week starts sunday, represent!

SHARKS!



-Tommy

Pubes / July 30, 2010

we got smoked out, a block away from our office by some asshole in a blue vest taking a smoke break next to a stack of 100 wooden palets... good job

some randomness from the fair, this past weekend...

BYE BYE

Tomorrow night (July 24th)  FRESH will be hosting the Salt City Sprints at their shop.  Be there by 7:30 PM if you wanna register for the races.  The Winner will receive a signed print from Shepard Fairey.

Get some gears!

I headed down to SD on saturday to check out Shep's show..  It took just under 4 hours to drive 80 miles, major bummer! ohh well, enjoy the pics below!

Our friends at LA RECORD and Wild Records are putting on a groundbreaking show at the Echoplex in LA on July 24th. If you're around, go go go!

Here's a short bit of an article from the LA Times on this scene, and go to the LA TIMES to check out the whole article. Really a wild scene and worth checking out. It reminds me of discovery punk rock music as a kid and that feeling you had in your gut, the rawness!

Reb Kennedy was chasing something. No, it wasn’t the punk sound that inspired him while growing up in working-class Dublin in the ’70s. It was the punk energy—the raw, authentic, kick-your-butt ethos that the British and American movement evoked. In 2000, at the precipice of an era sanitized by iTunes and at the end of one still slumbering with arena-style shows and velvet ropes, Kennedy walked into a hole-in-the-wall strip-mall bar in Downey, after driving six hours from San Francisco upon merely seeing a photocopied flyer promising a night of “Mexican Rock and Roll.”

“The place was packed with underage Mexican kids,” says Kennedy. “Myself and my wife were the only gringos. The band Lil’ Luis y Los Wild Teens was playing. There was a solo, and then all hell broke loose—total bedlam!” After the solo by Luis Arriaga, the band basically gave up on the song they’d been playing and just trailed off into a ferocious jam.

“What impressed me was not the musicianship—they were atrocious!” he says with a sturdy Irish brogue. “But there was fantastic energy in what they were trying to do! It went back to the first wave of punk. It was the most honest energy I’d seen from a band.”

Kennedy chatted with the group that night and then showed up at their rehearsal, where he soon discovered a song that would get him even more excited—“La Rebeldona.” It was a dirty, nervous and instantly winning vintage-style rock ’n’ roller, a blend of the Cramps and Chuck Berry—the kind of song that might’ve warranted police intervention in 1959 with Arriaga’s lascivious growl on “Rrrrrrrrebeldona.”

It was brass knuckled through and through—and it just happened to be sung in Spanish, which may be the only thing that really made it “Mexican.” Inexplicably, Kennedy asked the guys if they’d like to cut a record. Arriaga says, “We thought, Why the hell does this crazy Irishman want to record a Mexican song?” The cultural divide was crossed, Kennedy was smitten—and Wild Records was born.

MORE HERE

-PUBES

if you are in the area and wanna do some swapmeet style shopping, come check out the To Die For Swap Sale, its free. We will have some sales samples for sale, new and old, as well as a handful of other brands, party.

-TOMMY

Its hot... go sailing

dont forget you're shorts..

We popped open the OBEY archives to hand select some of the timeless graphics from our original catalog for the reissue classic tees. Snatch a favorite up before they get put back in the time capsule……

Our UK brethren posted some pics from their trip out to the Glastonbury Festival which seemed pretty mutatious... Here's a heap o' -tos for you to skim thru.

please visit our UK Site, for more info!

(photos by Simon Holmes)

- roam

Yo dudes, it's a sale! It's only going from now until Sunday night so as one of our greatest Americans, Larry the Cable Guy, once said, "Git 'er done! "

Enter discount code: JULY20

-PUBES