Today is a good day, as Lil B and Chance The Rapper finally release the collaborative mixtape Chance has been hyping up the past couple weeks. Titled Free, the “Based Freestyles” mixtape features six tracks from the based-spun duo, some reaching almost 10-minutes in length. Now that’s a lotta chemical induced philosophizing! Peep Free below […]


Reebok taps beloved artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for its latest “Affili’Art” collection of sneakers, a program that looks to fuse the worlds of art and fashion. Arguably Andy Warhol’s most talented protegee, Basquiat’s iconic neo-expressionist scribblings are screen printed onto the uppers of several of Reebok’s more popular silhouettes, including Classic Leather, Workout Mid, Ex-O-Fit, Freestyle and […]


25 Oct
Michigan-via-Virginia rapper drops her latest 6-song EP

It’s a good day for music as Angel Haze drops her much anticipated mixtape Classick today. The “Werkin Girls” track off her previous EP Reservation has been remixed and reworked across genres, putting the young flowstress on a lot of people’s maps — even before her  debut LP comes out on Universal Republic. The 6-song […]


3 Oct
New 42-minute set from San Francisco's Bass maestro

Maestro of bass, original dubstep provocateur, friend of LIAS, political rabblerouser and all around supernatural EDM talent Bassnectar blesses the world with a brand new mixtape today, simply titled the Freestyle mixtape. Mr. Lorin Ashton’s chest-rattling 40-minute set offers remixes, collaborations and guest appearances by the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Ming & FS, Zion I, Mimi […]


Today two of the best of the new wave of hip-hop artists dropped mixtapes — Lil B and Theophilus London. Among the top in the fresh crop of Twitter Rappers, the two albums include the Bay Area’s Lil B, aka Based God, who has compiled all his freestyle raps into one expansive encyclopedia of stream-of-consciousness babble […]


9 Feb
Standard issue for every girl who wouldn't talk to you in the 80s

If you grew up at all in the 80s, then you fell in love at some point with a girl who wore white Reebok Freestyle sneakers. It’s not an assumption, it’s empirical science. For those kiddies who grew up in the 90s, the vision of young girls rocking huge Aquanet hair, bright make-up, stirrup pants, […]


11 Jul
Photographing vintage Chevrolets & model Jeri Lee in lingerie

Fellow Angeleno and friend of Lost In a Supermarket Estevan Oriol has a job most men would envy (read our Q&A with Estevan HERE). As a photographer, he spends much of his craft shooting impeccably restored vintage cars (he and his SA Studios partner, Mister Cartoon, being pillars of the Lifestyle Car Club) and Latinas. […]


26 Jan
The revival of the famed P.K. Ripper

SE Bikes is a company known predominantly for their BMX and freestyle bike heritage, makers of the famed P.K. Ripper bike of the 80s (named after proto-BMX racer Perry Kramer). But in a rebirth they’ve decided to get somewhat civilized and also enter the fixed gear and single speed bike world. Their series includes 4 […]