The Ace Hotel New York’s signature plaid blanket is now available for purchase via their online shop for $150. Made exclusively for the Ace NYC by the established wool makers at Pendleton, the blankets are fashioned of pure virgin wool in a unique design specifically created for the New York hotel in Pendleton’s Oregon mills. […]

Trouble & Bass was tapped by the Scion A/V series for their latest release — an EP compiling some of the label’s best acts [download the EP HERE]. We caught Trouble & Bass label founder Drop the Lime this past Tuesday at the “Check Your Ponytail!2″ party when he brought his brand new rockabilly-meets-dance live […]

Esquire invites Paz de la Huerta to be the latest installment in their Me In My Place series, where beautiful women invite an anonymous photographer back to their personal habitat for an intimate photoshoot. So Paz invites him back to her New York apartment to photograph her, you know, tying on boots and rolling around […]

It’s been 24 long years for fans of The Cars, one of America’s most important New Wave bands of the 80s. Today, May 10th, The Cars release their brand new album, Move Like This, on Hear Music/Concord Music Group. Produced by Garret “Jacknife” Lee (Bloc Party, U2, REM, The Hives, Weezer) and The Cars, the […]

A commentary on the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on the waves of American veterans returning from tours of duty in Iraq. These toy soldiers — an obvious twist on the ubiquitous green plastic soldiers kids play with the world over — are an art project titled Casualties of War. As creators Dorothy write: “The […]

Oh boy, this is one of those re-issues that you wait so long for you kind of get to the point that you don’t think it’s ever going to happen, so you resign yourself to a dull, vice-less life. It’s like you wake up after 20 years of marriage, and all of a sudden your […]

MYKITA has certainly never shied away from teaming up with an avant garde designer to offer a far-future look at eyewear. Their designs with Rad Hourani — as well as their headscratching Yuri sunglasses — are exercises in the eccentric. This latest collaboration effort with designer Bernhard Willhelm may not be as pioneering, but they’ll […]

Porvocacao brings us NYC/Milan designer Adam Kimmel’s latest release, his new ‘Bandana Roll-Up Sleeve’ tshirt. In all there are four different colorways to choose from — black, beige, navy and blue — all made of cashmere/cotton with a silk cotton twill bandana design on the roll-up sleeves. Inspired by Snoop and his love of bandanas, […]