Malcolm McLaren w/ Buffalo Gals Photo by Bob Gruen
It’s been a rough first half of the year. Malcolm Mclaren died yesterday. He was 64. Though he will undoubtedly be best remembered for his work as manager for UK punk rock act The Sex Pistols (and slightly less for his role as impresario for the red-patent-leather-commie era New York Dolls) his contributions to fashion, music, and popular culture could quite plausibly be described as “immeasurable”. Nearly everything Mclaren touched has influenced the work we do here at Riot Style. To say that Jamie Reid, Vivianne Westwood and Malcolm Mclaren are our style and design forebearers would be an understatement. They brought art to terrible music, and music to terrible art. They brought situationism to the mainstream and the underground to market. We would go so far as to say we ripped them all off… Viva cash. Viva chaos.
As a tribute, Here’s part 1 of a two part video interview SUPREME conducted with Malcolm as a part of their Spring / Summer 09 collection based on the Duck Joint / Buffalo Gals / Duck Rock era work of Mclaren, Keith Haring and the world famous Supreme Team DJ crew.
This has to be one of the funniest black metal / death metal shirts we’ve seen in a long time. From our friends over at Chronic Youth.com:
You might have heard that Nachtmystium got embroiled in some controversy with a certain car manufacturer for having some supposedly racist ties in their past. Well after issuing a proper statement saying, “hey man, we’re not racist…”
You ever get so shitwasted on Jack Daniels that you wake up at the Bedford L stop boiled, missing an arm, with a red balloon tied to your ass? The only way to deal with it is to just kind of lie there while some white hippie shotguns you rips through a didgeridoo.
[ED - There will be a real post about this soon, with further details, just getting this up to satisfy the fiends on the Riot Style Twitter.]
Burgos was supposed to write us a post about how much she loves this band, but her words are escaping her. Murder City Devils have announced on their blog that they are doing a set of reunion tour dates this coming February. Full list and links (for you west-coasters and Brittish-Canadians) to get tickets after the jump.
After a long day of trampling through the snow in clown makeup and severing the heads of your frenemies, nothing goes down better with the blood of your vanquished foes than an Original Recipe™ spicy crispy chicken sandwich from The Colonel.
If you don’t know Fucked-Up you better axe someone. They are pretty much the best active hardcore band right now (sorry Municipal Waste & Government Warning). So good no one cares that they’re Canadian and that says something. They sound like Total Chaos, except good and without the liberty spikes and they occasionally rock gear from our boys Death/Traitors.
Hi I’m Damien, This Is Moby
If you’d never met their lead singer Damien you might think he is one mean-ass-sonofabitch but he’s the chewy nougat center of the punk rock universe™. He is basically the punk-rock-dad version of Captain Lou Albano from the Girls Just Want Wanna Have Fun video, minus the hair.
Diesel is throwing a “Golden Ticket” party Oct. 11th, but you can view the ridiculous “SFW” commercial / promo on YouTube right now. This animation technique is called Rotoscoping and has been used in everything from Who Framed Roger Rabit? to Richard Linklater’s adaptation of A Scanner Darkly.
Diesel xXx Party
October 11th at a Secret Location in NYC
MIA
N*E*R*D
Hot Chip
O Fracas
+ Special Guests
