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Opening tomorrow, Friday July 31st, is the RADLANDS show at PURE GOLD GALLERY. This is a journey of psychedlic proportions. We got a chance to see some of the show and it is gonna be dope! You will be able to place orders for prints and also be able to purchase tees designed by the RADLANDS CREW. FMW and RADLANDS also collaborated on a really dope color fade tee which will be available at the show. So come out tomorrow and peep this awesome show! Starts around 7 or 8…See you there!

Radlands Teaser from Calixte Davis on Vimeo.

Our main man Bryant (of the Vanache blog, click here) is doing his thing on lookbook.nu. I think you gotta be like mad stylish and super cool to be on this thing so you know Bryant makes the grade! Sporting Bert Lorenzo and Melt Water to the fullest, Bryant has always showed us mad support. Go peep the LOOKBOOK.NU website CLICK HERE (or click the pic) and vote for him so we get this thing hyped up!!! Big ups to Bryant for bein the thorough individual that he is. word is bond.

Seriously, this just in. New GORILLA Bicycles (Italian bike frame craftsmen) vid of the crew riding in Paris, France. ED LAFORTE ladies and gentlemen. Just destroying everything in sight. Wonka’s been a good friend of the Melt Water camp for a minute now and when we met him he ripped like nothing we had ever seen and he’s only gotten MUCH MUCH better. Peep:

Gorilla in Paris from Gorilla Bicycles on Vimeo.

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Possibly the best trailer for anything ever created. And that track is ill.

While in NY Meltwater’s good friend DJ Slimfass told me about a new documentary called Soul Power about the concert that was put on for the Rumble in the Jungle when Ali boxed Foreman in 1974 in Zaire. Firsthand unseen footage of a truly amazing musical event at a great time in history. I was told it was one of the greatest movies of all time, and I’m inclined to believe it….
“In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire…this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman…”
How this film could be anything but epic I do not know. It’s currently only playing in New York and Cali so if you can see it I would definitely say you won’t be sorry. Sadly it doesn’t seem to be scheduled to play in Philly (wack) but Voorhees, NJ and Pittsburgh are scheduled so road trip it is. Watch the trailer here and see for yourself….

EDIT: SOUL POWER WILL PLAY THE RITZ PHILLY IN OLD CITY AT THE END OF THE MONTH!!!!

Tonight, Phonte (of Little Brother, and Foreign Exchange) and Tanya Morgan (CLICK) will be hosting a discussion at the shop. Here is the breakdown from the RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY website:
“Tanya Morgan and Melbourne lecturer Phonte Coleman of Little Brother and The Foreign Exchange will hit the Academy couch to walk listeners through their experiences in using cyperspace as a platform to meet musicians from around the world and discuss techniques that gave them the ability to collaborate in this unique way.” (CLICK FOR FULL WRITEUP)

It should be a dope time and a great convo to have. Come down meet Tanya Morgan, meet Phonte and participate in a discussion on the uses of the web in the hip-hop realm, from collabos to advertising and beyond. 20% off tees during the night.

And then it’s off to silk city for the after party where you can see these fine fellows perform. COME THRU!!!!

Tigersapien was rocking the Drip 3 tee last friday at TLA! Check out there music “HERE”

MTV has finally released THE STATE on DVD…I must have!
I wanna dip my balls in it!!!

Yessir! The tee that we did with our homies at REASON is now available for purchase online at REASON’s online store (HERE). This tee came out DOPE and we all but sold out of it at our shop when we dropped it in-store. Now it is available to a wider audience on the net. Grab one now while supplies last as this is a LIMITED run tee shirt! Send us pics of you in this limited tee for some free stuff! holla!