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Learn How To Tie a Tie

Before putting on your tie you should have your shirt buttoned up all the way to the top button and have the collar up. Starting the tying process with the wide end of the tie on the left or right side is just a matter of convention, so if you are more comfortable starting with the wide end on the left side then start from the left. Keep the knot of the tie tight throughout the tying process.

When you are finished tying your tie put your collar down, the knot should be in the middle of your collar and the wide end of your tie should end around the middle of your belt buckle. If you don't get it right the first time simply unknot your tie and try again, tying a perfect knot on your necktie takes practice.

The Dimple
A good knot should always have a dimple. The dimple is the little indentation right below the knot of your tie. A good dimple is made before you tighten the knot. You start by putting your index finger in the fabric directly under the knot while lightly squeezing the side of the fabric as you tighten the knot by pulling down on the wide end of the tie. The dimple should be centered in the middle of your knot. Now that you have a general understanding of how to wear a tie, lets take a look a some popular knots for ties.

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Milburn - Cheshire Cat Smile

Milburn are a loud, confident and funky foursome from Sheffield consisting of Joe Carnall (lead singer, bass), Louis Carnall (rhythm guitar), Tom Rowley (lead guitar) and Joe ‘Greeny’ Green (drums). They have a truly passionate following of fans who appreciate not only Milburn’s music, but their close and easy relationship with their followers. Obviously, they’ve been burdened with Arctic Monkeys comparisons since their arrival due to the raw musical energy and socially observant lyrics penned by the very clever Joe Carnall (a man who turned down a place at Cambridge to be a rock n’roll star), but they’re much more than that…

Islands Return To The Sea

All you need is an indie pop heart and two functioning ears. A love of melodies and innocent weirdness. The ability to see through the clouds of hype surrounding other lesser bands and grab on tight to this band and record. So clap your hands, say yeah, and throw Islands a parade (wolf or otherwise) because Return to the Sea is an indie rock triumph!

Listen to Jogging Gorgeous Summer

Lesley Gore - Better Angels

Feelilng blue? I've found the perfect song for you.

Story Driven Fashion

Like a wearable magazine , T-post is a t-shirt subscription based on news stories. Every six weeks, the Swedish company takes a new item that has caught their attention, and designs the next t-shirt based on that story.

Recent examples include 'Like Love on Demand' (March issue, above left), sparked by a statement by documentary photographer Jens Assur that the thing he likes about dogs is that they give love on demand. The February issue (above right), titled 'First Condoms, Now This', pictures curly pig tails. The underlying story? Taiwanese researchers breeding glow-in-the-dark pigs.

Every t-shirt comes with its story printed on the inside of the neck, like an elaborate neck tag. After subscribing, customers are sent a new 'issue' every six weeks. Shirts are printed in Stockholm, sold for EUR 26/USD 32 a piece, including shipping. T-post has recently started shipping worldwide.

We know there are more online t-shirt businesses than you can shake a stick at, but mixing fast fashion with slower op/ed news coverage should be a winner. (Not to mention a great conversation starter!) Local versions might be even more appealing.

Cary Brothers - Waiting for your letter

Cary Brothers. Not actual brothers, just one dude who got a share of the spotlight when his evocative ‘Blue Eyes’ was featured on the Grammy winning and indie artist exposing soundtrack to Zach Braff’s ‘Garden State.’ In fact, Brothers and Braff attended Northwestern University together, and they are pals.

Fast forward to 2006. Brothers, in preparation for his debut LP, has released an EP, ‘Waiting for Your Letter.’ It’s just five songs, but they’re good ‘uns; you’ll be awaiting the full-length after hearing them. Brothers has also developed a unique way to communicate and interact with his fans over the internet. His website (carybrothers.com) has a ‘Free Song of the Week’ section, and many of the songs are works in progress. Users are encouraged to send Brothers feedback on the songs, what they liked, what could use some work. Take a listen.

The Rocket Summer

The Rocket Summer is Bryce Avary, a phenomenally gifted 20-year-old whose self-produced, self-recorded debut album finds him playing all the instruments and singing (almost) all the parts to songs that, naturally, he wrote himself, and that sound like the product of someone who's had 20 years to hone his craft. Admist all the negative reviews surrounding Bryce and his beloved Rocket Summer, I've come across this catchy little jam for you to enjoy.

Listen to Cross My Heart

The Spill Canvas

If you've ever wondered if there was a band out there with enough emotion, passion and melody to bring you to tears, make you want to dance and make you want to love and be loved all at the same time-- the answer is yes. Picture this: a younger Dashboard Confessional, minus the overused and sappy love sick lyrics, blended with a little John Mayer, with songs that actually build up and go somewhere, and add in some drumming and extra guitars, and that's only the start of The Spill Canvas.

Listen to the single Lust a Prima Vista

Listen to their latest release One Fell Swoop

Alive with the glory of love.

Through the over-hype and constant buzz swarming around Say Anything, I discovered an album that made me think; and with the lyrics and music combined, made me search a little deeper than what was on the surface. It is very easy to disregard something at first just because it doesn’t sound familiar or doesn’t really fit into a genre. It can easily happen if after the first listen, you walk away.

My initial thoughts were that I didn’t like it one bit. It was a different type of sound and different isn’t always a good thing. But after that first listen, I said to myself, what the heck was this album all about? I rummaged through the lyrics, reading line after line, and I started to listen to the album again, appreciating the unique approach to indie rock music. .....is a Real Boy definitely is an album that needs to grow on you. You have to use your imagination and your head a little bit to fully grasp what I believe is going on. For some, that might be asking too much and some simply might just not get it, but for those who do, lucky you.

Listen to Say Anything - is a Real Boy

Gettin Filthy With The Expendables

This Santa Cruz Californa-grown, surf culture band that is described as an eclectic mix of genre-bending rock, reggae and surf. Sounds like Reggae had sex with metal, Punk got in the mix, and ska videotaped it all. Then out pooped The Expendables

Listen: Let Her Go
Lisent: Bowl For Two

Bransky - the most wanted man in the art world.

Banksy has become Britain's most infamous young artist. Originally from Bristol, he has taken his provocative and inspiring brand of vandalism to sites world-wide, from the Sydney Opera House to Cuba. A media favourite for stunts like hanging his own work in the Tate gallery, but a popular star long before any of this high-profile activity - simply because the people love his stuff.

“I’ve wandered round a lot of art galleries thinking, ‘I could have done that,’" Banksy once wrote. “These galleries are just trophy cabinets for a handful of millionaires. The public never has any real say in what art they see."

One day Banksy, a prolific artist, discovered his sister throwing a large number of his paintings into trash, “and I asked her why? She said, ‘It’s not like they’re going to be hanging in the Louvre.’"

Banksy was inspired. “I thought, why wait until I’m dead."

During one week of March, 2005, Banksy slipped into MOMA, New York’s fabled Museum of Modern Art and, using very strong glue, stuck onto a wall an Andy Warhol-like painting of a tomato soup can—not Campbell’s, but a discount brand from Tesco.

Read more about Bransky.

This band is so cool that it's basically uncool to like them

What started out as a few Montreal drug addicts scamming welfare make-work programs back in 1994 has become a global empire of hedonism known simply as VICE. From a 16-page newspaper about punk bands and violence to stores, a clothing line, VICE Films, VICE TV, VICE Records, viceland.com, etc., VICE has become much more than a way for three guys to get laid. It's become a lifestyle of sex and drugs and rock and roll and death. This book is a collection of the irreverent, hilarious and downright scarygonzo journalism that brought three losers from the crack houses of Le Plateau to the deluxe apartments of Manhattan. Read more about the book.

Youth Group

The indie hit of summer, Forever Young is getting high rotation across the universe for its appearance on the O.C., in the scene where the two wealthy, good-looking and thin sweethearts decide they need a heavenly song to represent their perfect lives. If you haven't heard it (seriously, where the fuck have you been?), here's the jist. Beautiful guitar with pretty rhythms and angelic vocals that fit so well and beautifully together, you decide the group of youths are, infact, angels. Watch Forever Young.

Youth Group Website

Graphic Noise

Graphic Noise is a big and bountiful exhibition of contemporary concert posters currently touring the country. Nearly 500 posters by more than 100 artists from eight countries will be hung throughout Galleries across the U.S., uniting screenprinters, illustrators, graphic designers and more in an expansive feast for the senses.

Politics and Cigarettes

As far as young emerging bands go, finding one these days which doesn’t fall head long into the “emo” categorization is relatively hard. Thus when the single of an exciting band does come across my itunes, I feel the need to share with all of you.

Despite their relatively peculiar name, The Voom Blooms, a band residing from Loughborough, England, are in fact, a great sounding indie / pop-rock quartet who’s debut single “Politics and Cigarettes” has grabbed attention from Polydor records. (Yes, that’s Universal Music… the biggest record label there is.) So, they must be doing something right.

“Politics and Cigarettes” is an ode to their indie rock forefathers sounding like a cross between the simple velocity of U2 with their unfathomable catchiness and the ever hailed, ever absorbing quality held by the Libertines – that is, doing something incredibly simple, and still making it sound inredible. Listen to The Voom Blooms.

Hey Mr. Solitude

Eugene aka Brandon Owens, lead singer and songwriter of eugene, moved from Los Angeles to New York at the age of 18. He spent the better part of the past four years touring and recording as a bassist with the elite of the jazz and pop world, such as Lauryn Hill and Terence Blanchard. In Summer 2004 he picked up an acoustic guitar, learned to use a four-track recorder and started to write his own songs.

After years of playing music but never writing his own material, Eugenes songs just started pouring out, with over 40 songs captured on four-track in only a few months time. Though the recording process was painstakingly primitive, what has come out on these recordings is refreshingly honest songs that have a tremendous range, a warm immediacy and a real pop sensibility that is very different from the other sounds currently coming out of New York. Take a listen!

Artic Monkeys

Need a little Friday pick-me-up? These British lads lay down an impressive live version of their explosive post-punk indie-rock tune "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor". The young UK band now holds the record for the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Watch the video!

Jacks Mannequin

Jack's Mannequin is the side project of Something Corporate keyboardist Andrew McMahon. And let me be the first to say this album has it all, great music, great vocals, and some Tommy Lee on drums.

The vocals on this album are comical, powerful, and worth every cent you might pay for this album. Not to mention this album contains the single greatest vocal line ever written, "When did society decide that we have to change and wash a t-shirt after every individual use? If it's not dirty I'm gonna wear it." Comedy, power, and truth, everything you would ever want from a rock and roll album.

Everything In Transit has a very distinct sound, which it gets from the perfectly written piano lines that grace each track. The music itself is quite simple, nothing more than you would expect to hear from an indie rock and roll group. But, oh the piano! I can't say it enough. The piano really makes this album great. If you don't buy this album for any other reason, buy it to listen to the piano.

Get your self some Kho Sante`

A kind of art that makes an union between geometric painting and action painting. This abstract art is very different from the painting of the ' 60 because here the action painting is not formative but it is a delete of the geometry, a destruction (a negative action). Here the painting is only a process. There is a pre-action and so a post-action process. Ya - thats what he said. Check out this guys site..

Ascend Clothing

Ascend Apparel is an independent clothing company based in Las Vegas, NV. At Ascend, they promote a fresh alternative for your fashion hunger and they probably sponsor your favorite band. You gotta get your hands on these threads. Don't be scerd.

Hipster Bingo!

How To Play:
Print this out and take it to the next show you go to. When you get a bingo, scream "BINGO!" at the top of your lungs, then break a bunch of beer bottles on the floor and get thrown out.

Who Says Tubular Anymore?

Like most social groups, Hipsters have their own way of communicating. They converse using special terms and lingo to show they are in the know. Being up on the latest slang is essential to being a Hipster.

Though it may be humorous to tell someone that his or her Pumas are "tubular," utilizing a dated term such as this can be a serious faux pas if not used ironically. Retro terms such as "grody," "bofu," "fresh," and "wicked" all work well when with a tongue-in-cheek, but such words should be used sparingly.

We recommend you take a quick peek at our glossary of terms, to educate yourself on the lingo. With a little practice, we will help you turn an awkward sentence like, "I'm gonna look bitchin' in my groovy jacket," into the much hipper "I'll polish in my deck flogger." This book is deck!

Kings of Convenience: I'd Rather Dance with You

Norwegian duo Erik Glambek Boe and Erlend Oye prove once again that quiet is the new loud with lovely layered vocals and lyrics about how hoofing is better than all that yackety-yack. These dancing fools teach a roomful of schoolgirl ballerinas their silly steps and it's a revelation. Watch the video.

Trust The Dust!

Thats right boys and girls, our beloved Screech. Turns out his house is being foreclosed and he needs our help to raise $250,000. Apparently Zach, and Slater have better things to do. Read the full story here.