Needy Girl

Put with a pair of skinny jeans and a pea coat or lace tights and a mini, these boots will be looking fresh either way...now who wants to get us a pair for xmas !?? (From Need Supply)

Who Needs the White Ones ?

If you read this blog at all you know that The Shop is all about The Black Keys, so we are very happy to find their latest collabo with Dam Dash - Blakroc. With the musical stylings of Mos Def, RZA, Luda, ODB, NOE and more - every song on this album is good so go get it !!

Brooklyn's Finest

Those S.O.B's have done it again, booking a great show to take the rainy day blues away. Tomorrow, Foxy Brown and AZ (The Firm anyone!) will grace the stage bringing us back to the good ol' days of hip hop. This West Village show is sure to have some serious east coast swagger going on and one not to be missed. See you there !

Wicked Winter Wednesday

So after our company xmas party, The Shop will be hitting up Hot Chip's holiday bash and DJ set at Le Poisson Rouge. We'll be shaking fists, asses and Polaroid pictures because it's our tiger, Ms. Divalicious Lauren Webb's birthday ! JG Wilkes of Optimo will also get behind the tables, if you need another reason.

Picture Me Rollin'

Pictureplane's "Goth Star" has got us all sorts of excited to clink drinks with our Tigers tonight !

Pantie Droppers

Chloe just melted our little hearts with their new boot collection, the dual toned color way with mixed leather and suede leaves us dreaming for a pair. (thank you jak & jil)

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 ?!