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Urban Outfitters

From Japan

10/14/09 12:03PM

Collection of People Running Like Idiots

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Some videos need no explanation. This is not one of them, but we'll just have to do with the rough translation—"Collection of People Running Like Idiots."

From Elsewhere


10/13/09 10:23AM

Egyptian Hip-Hop

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A band with little to do with Egypt or hip-hop, but rather four teens from Manchester who make quite good music. Take, for example, "Rad Pitt."

From Los Angeles

10/06/09 02:45PM

Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience

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Filed under OMG we missed it: Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience. It was yesterday. Though looks like Jenny Lewis didn't make it, either.

From Boston

10/05/09 01:43PM

Drug Rug

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It's Drug Rug, dude! One of your new favorite bands. 

From New York

09/26/09 03:10PM

Showpaper Benefit

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Showpaper, the volunteer-run, DIY publication of all-ages shows and art listings, is hosting a benefit tonight at Brooklyn's Kidd-Yellin gallery in Red Hook. Admission is $8-$25 on a sliding scale, so show up and show support. 

From Philadelphia

09/18/09 10:26AM

Simplefly Presents Amanda Blank

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For Red Bull's Public Assembly, they challenged two local party promoters to throw the best party they could, and the winner gets the go-ahead to throw a no-holds-barred event in NYC. How does this affect you? As part of the contest, Simplefly is giving away 600 free tickets to an Amanda Blank show next Tuesday at Woody's.

From Austin

09/15/09 10:30AM

Art Outside

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Art Outside brings together hundreds of creative individuals for a three-day art show at the Apache Pass in Texas. Amidst the exhibits there will also be a clothing swap, workshops, mimes, and bands from around the country rocking out. Consider it a holdover for the next six months until SXSW rolls around again. 

From New York

08/25/09 01:07PM

Amanda Blank In-Store Performance

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If you're in NYC tonight, stop by our store at 14th St. and 6th Ave. to catch a free, in-store performance by Amanda Blank. The trash-talking Philly rapper is back on the East Coast before she starts touring with Matt & Kim, so you can see her on what's almost her home turf. Show starts at 7pm. Don't be late, or Amanda will be pissed! Kidding, kidding. She won't care, but you'll be mad at yourself.

From Toronto

08/24/09 04:14PM

Diamond Rings "All Yr Songs"

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It's Monday. We need all the eyeshadow we can get.

From New York

08/24/09 11:55AM

Furry Puppet Studio

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Furry Puppet Studio in Brooklyn is run by Zack Buchman and Maria Gurevich. These two mastermind puppets of all kinds, write a blog, and offer puppet-building workshops. They even post pictures of how they build their puppets. No strings attached.

From Los Angeles

08/20/09 11:24AM

Karaoke with Mr. Belding

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If we could tag this post Bayside High, we would. Dennis Haskins, the actor who played Mr. Belding on Saved By the Bell, is a big karaoke circuit star (wtf?) and is coming out with a karaoke album on Sept 1st. "When I wake up in the morning and the alarm gives out a warning" is, sadly, not on the tracklist. (Via Flavorwire.)

From Elsewhere


08/12/09 04:31PM

Transfigurations

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From the 13th to the 15th, celebrate the five-year anniversary of one of Asheville, NC's best indie shops, Harvest Records, at the Transfigurations music fest. Artists such as The Books, Espers, War on Drugs, Brightblack Morning Light and Kurt Vile perform at three small-capacity venues. As if you needed a reason to want to go to Asheville.

From New York

07/31/09 11:01AM

I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL

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If you ever start to despair and think that modern-day life is a cultural dearth of reality TV and celebrity gossip, you need only think of one thing to remind yourself that all is not lost: I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL. Yes, that's right: A musical inspired by I Can Has Cheezburger and LOLcats. Catch it at this year's Fringe Festival. Tickets will go faster than a cheeseburger in a room full of noming cats. Or something like that.

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07/20/09 04:15PM

CHBP: Micachu and the Shapes

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In anticipation of their July 24 performance at the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, we caught up with Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes to get the goods on grime and their homemade instruments.

From Los Angeles


07/17/09 02:34PM

Pangaea Pop-Up

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The latest happening to occur at Space 15 Twenty is the Panagea pop-up shop. Featuring a special installation by Confettisystem and jewelry by AESA, All for the Mountain, Arielle de Pinto, ConfettiSystem, Daydream Nation, Deka Ray, Dragneva, Elana Estaun, Lizzie Fortunato Jewels, Maryam Nassir Zadeh and Samma. The opening reception also features a performance by Nite Jewel, appropriately.

From Seattle

07/16/09 02:31PM

Tiny Vipers

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Hometown favorite Jesy Fortino, aka Tiny Vipers, brings her witchy, organic, Laura Palmer sounds to hometown favorite venue Wall of Sound tonight.

From Elsewhere

06/29/09 02:50PM

UO Profiles: Crocodiles

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The fuzzy, lo-fi songs of San Diego duo Crocodiles are pure, catchy pop with surprising not-so-sunny side. Fortunately, they’re not nearly as angry as they (try to) look.

From New York

Free Energy at Mercury Lounge

06/25/09 06:54PM

Free Energy at Mercury Lounge

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You know how sometimes you really like a band, but they only have two songs on their MySpace and they don't have an album yet but you don't care and listen to those two songs over and over? We've been doing that with Philly upstarts Free Energy, who's first track, "Dream City" is a bonafide, feelgood beach jam. Catch them in NYC tonight at Mercury Lounge—the perfect way to celebrate the fact that it almost, kind of, actually feels like summer.

From Miami

Freedom of Expression

06/25/09 06:25PM

Freedom of Expression

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On Friday, July 3 from 6-9pm at Urban Outfitters South Miami store in The Shops at Sunset Place, Freedom of Expression brings together local artists and craftarians to help raise money for the Del Portillo Family, a local Miami family battling lung cancer. Also catch The Killer Moon (7pm) and Spinlight City (above, 8pm) as part of the good-hearted festivities.

From Philadelphia

Win Tickets to See Sonic Youth

06/25/09 05:30PM

Win Tickets to See Sonic Youth

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Sonic Youth roll through town on July 2nd for a show at the Electric Factory in support of their new album The Eternal, and we're giving you a chance to see them. For free! Enter to win tickets to the show at UO's two Philadelphia locations (110 South 36th St and 1627 Walnut St.). And don't say we never gave ya nuthin'.