Santa Cruz show!!!

Road trip and party like you're supposed to do on these nice Spring days.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

So the posts have been a lil slow coming as of late...

But best believe, there's gonna be a whole lotta good shit that I'm a blog about in the coming weeks.



Honor Roll music related, for those of you that have been patient.



The wait is almost over.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Kid Sister (and Trackademicks!!!) in the new issue of W Magazine

It's a very good article on Ms. Melisa Young a.k.a. Kid Sister. Trackademicks is mentioned in the article when it speaks on the producers on her upcoming album Koko B. Ware.

You can read the article here!

And if you wanna check it out while you're at the newsstand, just look out for this here cover:



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Breasts in space.

Kanye West performing Can't Tell Me Nothing at the recent G Shock event.


G Shock Event - Can't Tell Me Nothing from kwest on Vimeo.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Hi-Fidelity tomorrow night in Vegas!!!

Tell your friends and cousins. Vegas has a night with music that people really want to hear. Off the strip. Away from the tourists, with giveaways, free stuff and lots of entertainment.



Brought to you by the beautiful ladies of KashLuv



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

"No Vacancy" Saturday night at Milk in SF

I'll be your host with the most...





-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

N.E.R.D. - Everybody Nose

Here it is. Enjoy.

Everybody Nose
Uploaded by yardie4lifever2

And here is the inspiration for the video. Merlin Bronques' Last Night's Party

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Liner notes

If you haven't already been checking them out, Trackademicks has been posting up the liner notes for the [Re]Mixtape 2 in a pretty frequent fashion. There's 20 songs on the [Re]Mixtape 2 and he's already on 14! So get on over to TRACKADEMIA, and get your learn on. Yadada YEEEEE!



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

N.E.R.D. on Letterman this past Monday.

The dudes are on the cover of the new Source as well. There's a Gnarls Barkley one as well with a cover story by my homie Krish.



The new N.E.R.D. album Seeing Sounds comes out next month.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Amelie is Coco Chanel!

Audrey Tautou is playing one of the most important persons in the history of fashion in an upcoming biopic.



Not sure when this is hitting theaters, let alone wrapping, but that's the onesheet for it.

Here's some background on Mademoiselle Chanel courtesy of the The Biography Channel UK


Coco Chanel
born: 19-08-1883
birth place: Saumur, France
died: 10-01-1971

Designer Coco Chanel was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in 1883, although she would often claim that her real date of birth was 1893, making her ten years younger.


Her place of birth was also something that she sought to disguise. Coco was born in the workhouse where her mother worked, although she asserted that she was born in Auvergne.

Her mother died when she was six years old, leaving her father with five children, whom he quickly farmed out to various relatives.

Gabrielle adopted the name Coco during a brief career as a singer in cafes and concert halls, between 1905-08.

Coco became the mistress of a rich military officer, and then a wealthy English Industrialist, and the patronage and connections that these men provided her with enabled her to open her own millinery shop in Paris in 1910. She had soon expanded to Deauville and Biarritz.

Coco Chanel became the first designer to use jersey during the 1920s, and her relaxed, mannish clothes for women soon became very popular with clients, who were tired of the corseted fashions of previous decades.

In 1922, she launched the fragrance Chanel No. 5, which remains popular to this day. Two years later Pierre Wertheiner became her partner (taking on 70% of the fragrance business), and reputedly her lover.

Coco launched her signature cardigan jacket in 1925, and the following year matched its success with her little black dress. Both items continue to be a staple part of every Chanel collection.

During World War II, Coco was a nurse, although her post-war popularity was greatly diminished by her affair with a Nazi officer during the conflict.

However, she made her comeback in 1954, her style much unchanged, apart from the introduction of pea jackets and bell-bottoms for women.

During her life, Coco Chanel also designed costumes for the stage, including Cocteau’s 'Antigone' (1923) and 'Oedipus Rex' (1937). She also designed film costumes for cinematic works such as 'La Regle de Jeu'.

A Broadway musical of her life opened in 1969, with Katharine Hepburn taking the role of Coco.

Coco Chanel worked until her death in 1971 at the age of 88.

Karl Lagerfeld has been chief designer of Chanel's fashion house since 1982. His ability to continuously mine the Chanel archive for inspiration testifies to the importance of Coco Chanel's contribution to the world of fashion.

My homie, and aspiring designer, Jenny Brodman put me up on Coco Chanel back when we used to kick it hard, and I thought her life story was hella interesting. I'm hoping the film'll be good.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

The Trailer for the new Woody Allen flick

Vicky Cristina Barcelona



From the looks of it, I'd guess that there's a whole lotta fuckin' going on in this movie. Woody Allen is a horny old man.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Missing Tien while she's on her adventures in Oz.

Tien's one of my best friends, even if we don't hang out as much as we probably should. Her and I went to, and dropped outta FIDM together (me for graphic design, and her for some other shit =P). We've been close ever since!

Back in '04, through the school committee, we'd volunteered to work some party for San Francisco Fashion Week (LOL!), and had to get DJ Jazzy Jeff a bucket of chicken for his backstage rider. He didn't touch much of the bucket, so we stole a buncha pieces, and if you know me, you know I can't contain myself when it comes to friend chicken.



Word to Norma Robinson.

Now my homie is bouncing with her hubby to make moves in Australia. Gonna miss her.

Ciao, for now babe!



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Janelle Monae

She is the truth. I know that's such a cliche, but even if lies didn't exist, she'd still be a truer truth than the most.

So anyways, MUA extrordinaire, and overall downass homegirl Aja, just posted a couple days ago that Ms. Monae's first single for Bad Boy is gonna be "Many Moons". Here's the cover:



Her aesthetic is nice.

Here she is doing her thing in Oakland last year. Video courtesy of Mr. Trackademicks.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Veni, Vidi, Vici tomorrow night at Club 6

DARK ROOM:
Live performances by
Souls of Mischief

Trackademicks (HONOR ROLL)

Radioactive

Goodword

Knobody

El Rock

Sonicbloom

w/ dj's
Personify & Kap10



WHITE ROOM:
Steinski

Smalltown DJs

Miss Watkins

Justin Time



BASEMENT:
Performing live
The universal rootsman
Winstrong

W/ dj's
Jah Yzer

Rebs

Daneekah



Special guest curator
PACIFIC ART COLLECTIVE
painting live and showing work by



Damon Soule-Sirron Norris-DUSER-Yoshi47-Charlie Alan Kraft-TEWZ
PACO EXCEL-Mark Fox-Jamie Johnson-Aunia Kahn-Chris Haberman
JW Miller-Kevin Nguyen-Sohaila Adela-Ricky Watts-Stacks Malone
Zoso-Joe Barajas-Jake Beeson-Scope One-Garry Booth-Mike Biggs
Dasha Biggs-Brooke Grucella-JP87-J. Catoni-Linas Leo-Brett Gilbert


$5 b4 10 / $10 b4 11 / $15 after
limited presale tickets & info : going.com/m10jux


This is a 21+ event.


Cost: $5-$15

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Foreign Twin

So, last month the HONOR ROLL was in Vegas to perform at "Hi-Fidelity". Before we were scheduled to perform, we decided to walk Fremont Street and get a quick bite to eat, and cause some trouble. All present were Tap.10, Spanks, Moxmore, 1o.A.K., Track, and myself.

While walking and goofing off, I hear Mox go "OH SHIT MIKE, IT'S YOUR TWIN!!!!!!!!!" Usually people say things like that, and it's not the case. This time though, Mox hit it on the nail.

Here's my Czech twin brother. Stubble, glasses, hair, nose - CHECK!



And yes that is Mox's big ass hand acting as a platter for Czech-Mike's head.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Vote Obama by TISA

If politics were presented in a fun n' kooky way like this more often, I think the youth would vote more. I'm just sayin'.



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Tiger Attack

Crazy video. That is all.



Not as nice as this guy, eh?



-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

Naked

Ever since the late 90's/early 00's, Trace has been one of my favorite magazines. And their "mission statement" really boils it down to what makes this publication special:



TRACE is a TRANSCULTURAL Styles and Ideas magazine, a new expression in culture documenting the impact of the interconnected worlds of music, fashion, film, art, politics on today's multiethnic youth.



People of all cultures, class, ethnicities, shapes, colors, etc. are welcome to the party, and Trace gives it to us in a way no one else can. They've recently gotten more "multi" in their media, and their representation of the female form is very fresh, cuz it's about the appreciation, not the exploitation.

The following video is of a casting call Trace had for their "True Beauty" issue. It's about women in their own skin, just being comfortable in their own respective beauty. Shout out to the homie Shaunte!

Here weeeeeeee go:

Trace Magazine issue 80 "TRUE BEAUTY" casting call.

n a k e d from One Time on Vimeo.

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker

... Of the day

-Mike Baker the Bike Maker