Envy And Thursday To Release Split Album

New Jersey's post-hardcore outfit Thursday and Tokyo's post-rock screamo band Envy will team up together and release a split LP+CD. However, the release date for this split album was not mentioned. The album will be released under Envy's label, Temporary Residence Limited (Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Rumah Sakit).

The LP and CD will be packaged as one and will only be available at independent music stores. A deluxe limited edition release will also be released, featuring hand-screenprinted artwork, exclusively sold through Temporary Residence.

An official statement by Temporary Residence:-
We've decided to convert rumor into fact and lay it all out for all you good peoples. New Jersey's Thursday and Old Tokyo's Envy will come together to release a split LP+CD this fall, and we will be releasing it. It will be a limited edition LP+CD set. There will be no separated CD or LP versions. Both formats will come in one package, and both will contain the same music. This means it probably won't be available in Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Circuit City, or most "record" stores in the mall. But it will certainly be available at your local independently owned record store, while supplies last. We're not exactly sure how limited it will be yet; maybe 10,000, maybe a billion (probably closer to the former, as we really don't have space for a billion LPs). In addition, there will be a deluxe, hand-printed edition that will be sold exclusively through our webstore. These will be screenprinted by hand, and will be limited colored vinyl editions. There is no specific release date set yet, but look for this around Aug/Sep.

And the statement made by Thursday:-
"It's our pleasure to announce a split release with one of our favorite bands in the world. We are currently in the studio recording tracks for a 12" release with Japan's Envy. For those of you unfamiliar with Envy, they are an experimental, epic, lush post-rock band that's heavier than just about anything we've ever heard. Despite the enormous geographical distances between us, the bands have evolved from the same thrashy underground post-hardcore scene (They've toured the states and shared stages with our friends in Malady and Hot Cross). Honestly, there's no way to properly describe them."

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This Is Ivy League

This is Ivy League is a side project by two members from alternative rock band Cobra Starship, Alex Suarez and Ryland Blackinton.

"Blackinton acted in a handful of classical plays at the Pearl Theatre Company and Suarez was working as a grocery delivery boy in Chelsea. Both struggled with low wages and creative stagnation. One day, the two were reunited on a certain unnamed internet networking service. Coincidentally, they lived just twelve blocks away from one another. After catching up for a few hours they traded music and agreed that they should form a band." - Fanatic.

A self-titled debut album was released on April 1 under 27 Records.

Fans of Kings Of Convenience, The Cab and Peter, Bjorn & John, folk pop is simply wider than these few. Explore!

Check out their first single from the album, London Bridges.

Bess Rogers - Decisions Based On Information

Bess Rogers is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn. On April 8, she will be self-releasing her debut CD entitled Decisions Based On Information.

"What’s impressive about Decisions is its ability to straddle genre-lines and to throw in more instruments than you find in a high-school band without ever veering towards the muddled or confused. Bess’ songs run the gamut from waltzy, to alt-country, to brooding folk, to twee pop, and electronica, sometimes in the space of a single song." - Fanatic.

Besides her solo effort, she performs with other musicians like Jenny Owen Youngs and Ingrid Michaelson, concurrently, she plays with her synth pop band called The Age Of Rockets.

Fans of Kate Nash, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jenny Lewis, Leslie Feist, Ingrid Michaelson, Laura Marling and Fiona Apple, consider this as your latest addition.

Go to her MySpace to sample her music.

Burton Streetwear Fall 2008 Women's Collection

Burton Streetwear (not UK's Burton) have unveiled some garments for ladies from their Fall '08 collection. Designed by the brand's in-house designer, Linda Lovemade, who previously designed Obey's women line in 2003 and LRG's Luxirie collection.

Lovemade made use of premium fabrics like leather, nylons and cashmere for this line and transform these raw materials to a beautiful garment to put on. Delicious! Here's some pictures to look at provided by hypebeast.

Hixsept Spring/Summer 2008 Preview

Hixsept is a French clothing label since 1999. They previewed some products from their Spring/Summer '08 collection and there are some slick tees that are attractively gorgeous.

The series consists of 10 t-shirts, and a part of them used the cut & sew application. All tees are strictly limited to 200 pieces only. So if you're loving one of those, get it quick. Take a closer look at their journal page.

Takaratomy Exploding Bomb Bank

An efficient product for your kids to save money everyday. Or maybe yourself.

The Takaratomy Exploding Bomb Bank is a bomb-shaped piggy bank which will burst open spilling all the contents in it if you miss inserting a coin a day. Comes with a game function as well. Fun and saves up money.

Dimensions:- 6.5 inch tall, 5 inch diameter.

Price:- $55.99

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Pepsi & ARTCO Collaboration

This is a current project by New York's ARTCO and Pepsi working on new ideas to outshine others by executing brand new marketing plans to win the hearts of billions of people in the world.

ARTCO have gathered 10 potential artists from ten different countries to design their very own Pepsi can with strict limitations, technical restrictions and extremely specific guidelines that require to follow. The designs will be sold worldwide, however, it will be available at selected countries for the mean time before expanding to other countries. (click here to find out more!)

The ten artists include Owusu-Ankomah from Ghana, Nick Z from USA, Stella Lai from China, Dzine from Puerto Rico, Yoon Lee from Korea, Avaf from Brazil, Thurkal & Tagra from India, Jon Burgerman from UK, Dubossarsky & Vinogradov from Russia and Fernanda Brunet from Mexico.











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