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Hypebeast
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
NEIGHBORHOOD and OTW by Vans Rework Classics in Sixth Collaborative Collection
Summary NEIGHBORHOODhas officially unveiled its sixth collaboration withOTW by Vans, continuing the momentum of their past successful drops. This upcoming release introduces two reimagined classics — the Half Cab 33 and the Classic Slip-On 98 —available in black and off-white colorways, both constructed from premium suede and leather. The Half Cab 33 features refined detailing, including 'Craft With Pride Tokyo Est. 1994' engraved on the sidewall, and the words 'Filth' and 'Fury' subtly embroidered near the toe box — a direct nod to the Sex Pistols and the rebellious spirit of punk. The heel is stamped with 'Neighborhood Craft With Pride.' The Classic Slip-On 98 showcases 'NBHD' branding across the exposed heel and 'Neighborhood Tokyo Est. 1994 Technical Apparel Craft With Pride' embroidered on the vamp. The phrase 'Craft With Pride Tokyo Est. 1994' is also engraved repeatedly along the sidewall, blending heritage with modern design elements. Both silhouettes are elevated with thoughtful craftsmanship and subtle branding — An everyday essential with a subtle, stylistic touch. The collection drops June 27 via theOTW by Vans website. The Half Cab 33 will retail for $135 USD, while the Classic Slip-On 98 is priced at $120 USD.
Edinburgh Reporter
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Reporter
Review – Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter live ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A rare occurrence happened at an outdoor event for the Sex Pistols return to Scotland – it didn't rain. And so Holidays In The Sun was the perfect opener for their front-man Frank Carter to grab his performance by the throat. Heavily tattooed in a black vest, flowing white shirt and Levi denims, he grabbed the mike stand and offered an immediately punchy vocal and stage performance. The 41-year-old got close to hardcore fans down the front and chewed up the occasional negative comment from punk purists. No disrespect to John Lydon, who remains one of the greatest front-men of all time but this potential last run out for the Pistols is potent, especially during these cash-strapped times laced with a sense of injustice and danger from foreign governments. Paul Cook hammered the kit while delivering his melodic drum style that suited the Pistols so well. To hear Steve Jones play the iconic riffs and licks from Never Mind The Bollocks nearly fifty years later is an absolute joy. Sid Vicious might have become the most iconic member of the band but it was Matlock who made an essential musical contribution to tracks such as Pretty Vacant. The backing vocals provided Jones, Cook and Matlock are vital to the sound and they are readily backed up by the crowd while Carter bounded up and down every inch of the Glasgow stage. The mosh pit swirled in full flow during Bodies as fans were dragged over the barrier. God Save The Queen was amplified by the late Jamie Reed's iconic imagery that featured on the 1977 single and an explosion of colour on the big screens. The 'No Future' sing-along ending is sublime. Cook, while drumming, looks out at the reaction with a massive smile on his face while savouring the moment. During No Fun, Steve Jones successfully recreates the unmistakable sound of his hero Mick Ronson nodding to Ziggy Stardust's last concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1973. The set closer is what else but Anarchy In The U.K, the song has lost none of its rousing energy. Most fans in the park were youngsters in 1976 but despite arriving for this all day event in the afternoon they were energised and going for it right to the end. It's phantasmagoria of colour and exhilaration between the flashing big screens, the skies starting to bruise and fans going for it one last time. Steve Jones thanked the enthusiastic audience telling them they were 'the best' while looking very much in awe at the reaction of the fans, who continued singing as they headed home in their hundreds on a balmy summer night. Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Punk All-Dayer, Bellahouston Park Frank Carter ALL PHOTOS Richard Purden Bellahouston Park Glen Matlock Like this: Like Related
Daily Maverick
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Maverick
'Where there's no future, how can there be sin?'- the rise of the age of Brutalism
Post-colonialism has given way to Brutalism; social contract to social assault; human rights to human wronging. The world is undergoing a change of age where the future, even the question of whether there is any future, has become extremely uncertain. In June 1977, Malcolm McLaren, the manager of punk rock band the Sex Pistols, stage-managed an enormous ambush. On the late Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, the Sex Pistols' anthem God Save the Queen made it to number one. In those days, for young people, Top of the Pops was like Sunday church. We waited anxiously to see which group and song would reach No 1 each week. When it was God Save the Queen, the BBC promptly banned the song. In response, the Sex Pistols hired a barge and played it on the River Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament. The police were sent out to commandeer the boat and they were promptly arrested. Prompt was the operative word in the heady days when punk rockers fought the monarchy with music. Cauterise the infection quickly. Or so the establishment thought. What had this motley crew done wrong? In God Save the Queen, an anthem powered by an opening riff to beat all riffs, the Sex Pistols called the Queen's 'a fascist regime'. It wasn't. It was sclerotic and pampered by taxpayers. But the words rhymed, so why not? It was shocking. Believe me. But there was much more to punk rock than exaggeration. One of the lines in the song had much darker implications: 'Where there's no future, how can there be sin?' rasped lead singer Johnny Rotten before adding poetically: 'We're the flowers in your dustbin We're the poison in the human machine We're the future, your future' 'We' were the doomed, thrown-away working-class youth. At a time of rising unemployment, they were in rebellion by making a fashion of torn clothes, Mohican hair cuts and safety pins through their ears and noses. 'Foul-mouthed yobs' the establishment media called them. They made their point and changed the direction of popular music as well as of society. But it didn't end there. Almost 50 years later, the line 'where there's no future, how can there be sin?' reveals a surprising prescience. Looked at carefully, it's an existential statement that may offer a key to understanding the industrial cruelty being inflicted in Gaza and other places that ordinary people are unwilling bystanders to in the world at this moment. For 'sin', not coming from the dispossessed youth, but from the over-possessed elites, is now the name of the game. Post-colonialism has given way to Brutalism; social contract to social assault; human rights to human wronging. The sin pandemic There's a whole lot of sin in the world at the moment. Genocide is sin. Ecocide is sin. Femicide is sin. Infanticide is sin. Democide is sin. What's different is that the sinners have become oblivious to their sinning. They are certainly not sinned against. They don't sugar coat it; they think they are beyond sin. Why? I have been trying to comprehend such a quantum leap in loss of humanity, to work out how elected political leaders and oligarchs have become so brutalised. An epiphany that came to me while walking around Oxford recently. I think I have the answer. The world is undergoing a change of age where the future, even the question of whether there is any future, has become extremely uncertain. As climate chaos explodes, as the sixth mass extinction accelerates and now extends even to human beings, a largely uninhabitable earth may be a real prospect within several generations. The evidence is mounting: Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events | Extreme weather | The Guardian; WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level; Climate change: World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat – BBC News As the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh pointed out in a lecture he gave at Wits University in September 2024, the ultra-rich, while financing Trump and his climate denialism, are simultaneously preparing for the social breakdown that may be one consequence of the climate crisis. Ghosh writes: 'It is well known now that several billionaire tech entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Peter Thiel are preparing for an impending apocalypse by building enormously expensive and heavily fortified retreats on remote islands, or in sparsely populated stretches of the United States and Canada. Not to be left behind, a bevy of America's most popular stars, such as Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise, have also acquired cutting-edge apocalypse shelters. Nor are the ultra-rich the only Americans who are investing in doomsday retreats: so great is the demand that a new and rapidly growing industry has emerged to cater to it.' This is the time of survival of the richest. Democratic restraints and rules that took several centuries to establish are being broken with manic abandon. 'Death capitalism'; 'crack-up capitalism'. Call it what you like. The hypocrisies are worthy of Shakespeare. A political establishment that less than 30 years ago impeached a president for lying about having sex in the sacrosanct Oval Office, now enables a deranged president who blatantly abuses the office for private profit and has appropriated to himself the divine right to permit, stoke, arm or directly make wars that threatens millions of lives. For rulers who would be kings, who believe that the future is uncertain, indeed that for billions of human beings whose lives are extremely precarious, the very idea of a future is becoming untenable, moral rules fall away. Sin becomes permissible. Welcome to the new world disorder. Join the resistance. DM
Axios
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Axios
Carol Kaye, other artists who turned down Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Carol Kaye wants nothing to do with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. State of play: The prolific bassist, who is part of the class of 2025, announced last week that she is "declining" the honor. Kaye, who's worked with the likes of Brian Wilson, Phil Spector and Quincy Jones, had long populated lists of Rock Hall snubs. What they're saying:"[I'm] turning it down because it wasn't something that reflects the work that studio musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s, recording hits," Kaye wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post. "You are always part of a TEAM, not a solo artist at all." "I refuse to be part of a process that is something else rather than what I believe in, for others' benefit and not reflecting on the truth — We all enjoyed working with EACH OTHER." Kaye thanked her fans, friends and family for their support in a later post. Flashback: She isn't the first artist to "decline" induction. The Sex Pistols, Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead), and Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses) all famously disavowed their inductions. Yes, but: All of those artists were still inducted and Kaye will be as well. She is set to be honored with the Music Excellence Award at a Nov. 8 ceremony in Los Angeles. The other side: Kaye could change her mind, as Jay-Z did in 2021.
Scotsman
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Summer Sessions 2025 Bar Prices: Here's how much a pint or a cocktail will cost you at the Scottish concerts
The Summer Sessions are now underway. | David Hepburn The series of huge gigs have now started - and the price of a pint has been announced. Strap in... Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Punk All Dayer saw the start of the Summer Sessions of concerts set to rock Scotland's two biggest cities over the next few weeks. The Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter, The Rezillos, The Skids, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks and The Stranglers played to thousands of fans in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on Saturday (June 21). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The coming days will see Simple Minds, Stereophonics and Sting play the venue, while later in the summer Edinburgh's Royal Highlands Showground will play host to Sam Fender and two gigs by Chappelle Roan. The big question is: how much are the drinks? Here's what you'll be paying for refreshments. Beer and cider Brooklyn Pilsner (Pint): £7.30 Somersby Cider (Pint): £7.30 Carslerg 0.0% (330ml): £5.50 Brooklyn The Stonewall Inn IPA (330ml): £6.50 Wine White, red or rose (187ml): £8 Spirit and Mixer Smirnoff Vodka (25ml): £8.50 Gordon's Gin (25ml): £8.50 Gordon's Pink Gin (25ml): £9 Captain Morgan Dark (25ml): £8.50 Captain Morgan Original Spiced Gold (25ml): £8.50 Johnnie Walker Black Label: (25ml): £8.50 Casamigos Blanco Tequila (25ml): £12.50 (Mixers: Pepsi Max, Lemonade, Britvic Ginger Beer, Soda Water, Tonic Water, Grapefruit Soda) Vodka and Rockstar Energy (25ml): £10.70 Ready to Drink Spirit and Mixer Smirnoff Miami Peach (250ml): £9 Smirnoff Raspberry Crush (250ml): £9 Captain Morgan and Pepsi Max (250ml): £9 Gordon's Gin and Tonic (250ml): £9 Johnnie Walker and Lemonade (250ml): £9 Captain Morgan Muck Pit Brew (250ml): £9 Soft drinks Water (500ml): £2.60 Rockstar Energy/Tropical Guava (250ml): £4 Rockstar Peach (330ml): £4 Pepsi Original (330ml): £3.15 7UP Free/Tango (330ml): £2.95
