El Cool

Check out LA's El Ten Eleven doing a cover of Joy Division...double neck guitar/bass, check, bad ass drummer, check, two men covering a 4 piece band, check (well shit, almost) !

OneZeroTwo

A dear friend and special Tiger in our life has a beautiful blog that covers her and a friend's forays into making Momofuku soba noodles, French films, Brooklyn happenings, great book reviews and all around a romantically feminine and culturally sound point of view. Do yourself a favor and check out onezerotwo.

Chop Suey

Listen Pete Rock will go down as one of the greatest producers, at least Mr. Chop and I agree on that. That's why he has done a cover album of sorts of Pete Rock's greatest jams, called For Pete's Sake. The album takes you on a bit of a psychedelic ride with heavy jazz and funk influences. A proficient producer in his own right and nasty on many different instruments this album allows you to hear many of Pete Rocks beats in a whole new light. You can listen to the album courtesy of Turntable Lab.

Light It Up

It's all about lighting, here at The Shop. All our overhead lights have dimmers and we prefer an unholy glow in the room, to just about anything else. To prepare for this dormant winter season (yeah right) I've decided that a little mood lighting is just what I need in the bedroom.
Here is one of my favorites, the Solo pendant, from Re-Surface (outta Brooklyn). The microphone shaped pendant comes in a woodgrain or white/black lacquer finish and adds that purrrfect gleam to a room...wink wink.

In my bedroom, I've hung with an antique hook, found at some flea mart and just nailed straight into the grout.

Check one two, one two...

Claws Come Out

The holidays are coming up and we'll be heading home to Nor Cal for Thanksgiving to do what The Shop does best - get hyphy at my pops place and and see which cousin goes man down first (duh, the married one). But first, we have to get our nails done real proper. We'll be heading to Valley in SOHO to get something 90's inspired perhaps...maybe our crush's nickname across our nails...eh, might be on to something here. Got any ideas ?

Boots and Hos

While some may shudder at the onslaught of an East Coast winter, here at The Shop we embrace it with open arms. To get ready for our favorite time of year to layer yourself in luscious fabrics and throw on a bad ass pair of boots - here is a peak of a few of our favorite's for the season...

For the men some new arrivals from Ralph Lauren (they have a great store front display at W. Village shop)...


...and for the ladies the Arie boot from Dolce Vita.

Starbucks & Hyperdub

After ordering my soy pumpkin spice latte (quiet !), I put my ear buds back in and pressed play on a little Cooly G. Heard "nice pick" coming from the left. Jumped back, "What ! You don't know me !" After judo chopping dude in the neck for sneaking up on me, ended up having a nice chat with a fellow DJ by night and editorial creep during the day.

He schooled me to the fact there is a nice little dubstep night going on tonight at Hugs in Williamsburg that The Shop might go check out...perhaps we'll see you there (free beer, duh !).

Here are the details:

Text: TURRBOTAX® is a new monthly dropping UK Funky, 2 Step and Dubstep at Hugs in Brooklyn the first Thursday of every month.
Name: TURRBOTAX®

Venue: Hugs

Venue Address: 106 N. 6th, Williamsburg (btw Berry & Wythe), L Train to Bedford Ave stop

Event Dates and Times: Thursday, November 5th from 10pm - 4am (First Thursday of every Month)
Event Price: Free

Drinks: FREE Asahi from 10-11pm AND 1-2am

Website: http://turrbotax.wordpress.com/

Artists: Headliner: Dre Skull (Mixpak Recordings) and Resident DJs: Saputotime, Mayster, C-Sick, Video City, Contakt

I Said Godamn !

Natalie Portman on the cover of V, rocks my world. The lighting, her hair/makeup, that sultry look - bravo V, all the boys of The Shop will be stuck behind their desks for the next few minutes.

Take em' to the Zoo

Ok, so we had to lament over SF for a minute but we're back with our feet on the ground in grimmy NY. And to give our home a little love check out Skyzoo, our new hip hop lover from Crown Heights, BROOKLYN y'all. Citing his inspiration as Dilla and working with 9th Wonder, how could you not love this kid ?!

Forever Young

I was young and dumb and I took you for granted. I looked at you everyday and never took the time to appreciate how you had helped define me, how you forced me to pick a stance and a style all my own. I thought I had a firm grip on how to dive right into you, yet unbenounced you were the buoyant force whisking me from one water to the next. I look back on your salty seas and smile, because now I can see you were the one all the while.

Footloose Friday

Sitting in this glass tower, clicking keys in a horizontal hum drum is doing nothing for this restless spirit. After having the best trip to the Bay Area for a Halloween bash with our Tigers this weekend, our daydreams are a bit counter productive. (Check back for more pics, we left our precious camera in the bay and awaiting it's return.) To keep your thoughts onward and upward here is a nice gig on Friday night that is sure to keep your fancy footwork up to date.

Come on, come alll to see Jazzy Jeff and Viking ruin the one's and two's at Webster Hall (I know, I know the crowd can be hit or miss, but you know the music is going to be worth it.) Come say hi to The Shop, we'll be the ones teetering and flailing on the dance floor.

Archangel

Currently in love love lovely with Burial's song "Archangel" on his album Untrue. Check it out and then put it on repeat.

Goblets and Goblins

With Halloween coming up we're trying to shake things up and finally get in the mood to put together a smashing outfit for this years fete. Recently a Cabinet member got a Dia De Los Muertos x Mike Giant inspired tattoo we thought we'd share with you to get the creative juices flowing.
Now what to be...perhaps we'll go as one of our favorites - Style Rookie, we love her swagger !

Dos Family

Perusing design magazines is one of our beloved hobbies, however we've found the static styling and lifeless approach to some of these mags leaving something to be desired. Except for perhaps Wallpaper* and World of Interiors, the photography feels very flat and a bit too commercial.

Like a breath of fresh air we have recently come across DosFamily, a blog that gives us something to aspire to. A Swedish family that loves curious and eccentric do it yourself oddities while also taking photos of other peoples homes. The photos are very true to life, unfettered and full of creative vignettes that tickle our fancy.

Now time to get our abode decked out !!

No Cover Monday

Here at The Shop we are recently obsessed with the sounds of Home Video. The New Orleans natives and now Brooklyn residents have got us pegged like a wooden leg and we're into it. They will playing a free show tonight at Webster Hall (NYC), so get drunk before hand and come dance around with us !