Showing posts with label retro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retro. Show all posts
If anyone knows me very well, everyone knows that I am obsessed with retro-sounding music. Doesn't matter what the lyrics are, as long as you can dance like a 60s girl group in polka dots (see my inspiration in a few scrolls) whether in real life or in your head (that would be what I do all day).
You Don't Like Rock-n-Roll
Hunx and his Punx
VIDEO CONTAINS EPIC EXPLICITNESS.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
What's boy-on-boy-loving, polka dot inducing and black leather all over? Mostly inspired from the 60s Ramones-style for their latest EP "Too Young to be in Love," Seth Bogart and his girly crew are back with a new sound. While Gay Singles was more on a power-punk pop and a few electrical licks leftover from Bogart's days of Gravy Train, they have fashioned a new sound and the images are... yeah... wow.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
What's boy-on-boy-loving, polka dot inducing and black leather all over? Mostly inspired from the 60s Ramones-style for their latest EP "Too Young to be in Love," Seth Bogart and his girly crew are back with a new sound. While Gay Singles was more on a power-punk pop and a few electrical licks leftover from Bogart's days of Gravy Train, they have fashioned a new sound and the images are... yeah... wow.
One Kiss Don't Make a Summer
Lucky Soul
Somewhere between champagne and bubblegum is where Ali Howard, Andrew Laidlaw, Ivor Sims, Russell Grooms, Paul Atkins and new addition Art Terry lie. Based out of South London and as an opener for The Pipettes back in 2009, Lucky Soul jumps between as a new Pink Martini of lounge music and early sixties revival.
Love in a Trash Can
The Raveonettes
The Raveonettes lack the ability to suck, especially early Raveonettes where everything is more garage inspired and the sound is like something out of Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" slightly goth yet bubblegum at the same time. The new album, "Raven in the Grave" has been released April 4th.
Sadness is a Blessing
Lykke Li
While a little more subtle with the famous Ronettes beat backing Lykke's signature electronic sound, "Sadness is a Blessing" is a little more sad than the rest of the music on this list, "These scars of mine make wounded rhymes tonight I dream of times when you were mine so I can keep it like a haunting" Li sings, admitting that sometimes sadness is a necessary, but somewhat of a positive attribute could come from it.
Release Me
The Like
This is one of the most addicting and dance-able songs to ever grace my ears. Like Hunx and his Punx, they shifted sounds (and the line-up) with their latest LP, 2010's "Release Me" which have become an improvement for the future of "The Like 2.0" from classic California alternative-rock. Their videos, like "Wishing He Was Dead", is jammed pack with 60s inspired fashion and not just in their music. They're 100 % into it and the love is noticeable.
Double Knots
The Living Sisters
Inara George is just one of those women who is truly immortal through both music (Merrick, The Bird and the Bee, as well as solo projects) and looks. The woman doesn't age, and as one third of The Living Sisters, she shows that she fits perfectly in a vintage frock assisted with her guitar alongside Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark (the voice of Lavender Diamond, The Decemberists) singing perfect and tight melodies.
Pull Shapes
The Pipettes
Video inspired from 60stastic "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and a gift of witty writing through retro melodies has made me absolutely obsessed with the Pipettes... or at least their (rare) first and second line-ups of Rose, RiotBecki and Gwenno. Forget who they are now (Gwenno and sister, Ani) and even better, forget their early manifesto as wiping the Beatles off of the musical radar and focus on the right now of what they used to be.
I was Made For You
She and Him
It wouldn't be a retro play list without at least one song from Zooey Deschanel and guitar bad-ass M. Ward. Zooey as a mod hipster dream sings this surprisingly original song, written in 2008 that makes you need to google-search to make sure that this isn't a cover. Really! It isn't. It's THAT good. 
When I was a little kid all I ever wanted to do was draw models with defined chins, large cheekbones in Award Show like dresses full of drapery and Greek Goddess like fashions. And when I wasn't drawing curvy women I was using this amazing Barbie fashion template. I remember back then I loved mixing the slightly boyish fashions with full skirts and t-shirts, boy jackets with mini skirts and sneakers. I never thought back then it would really be anything: I do not have an eye for numbers or measurements, so I resorted to just describing clothes in my stories and letting my mother dress me as for her power games.
Then it finally happened...
... I got a debit card.
About nineteen years later, I am still inept at the making of fashion; but since Nylon Magazine, the fashion section of BUST Magazine (oh and living in the island of hipsters, aka. Iowa City), as well as my introduction to my own personal fashion heroines that range from...
I fell in love with this outfit as soon as I put it on Tuesday night the day of buying the leggings. I wear my black winter boots with this outfit, mostly because while I love clothes, I abhor shoes! Badly. Although no one else was dressed all hipsterish at the karaoke I was going to, I was pleasantly surprised how well the gold coat and the purple go together! I feel like a hipster cartoon character... Ramona from Scott Pilgrim maybe. I didn't wear my glasses for this one and scattered my side bangs over my forehead to give more of a hipster look from the neck up.
It was a special night I bought the white bubble dress, having to usher for the Gallery Walk in the historical theater, I wanted to buy something downtown that was date-worthy for my late appetizer dinner with my girlfriend. Unfortunately I froze underneath it even with the almost translucent jacket. I love this jacket.. even though it was not love at first sight. Thank God for having a birthday the week after Black Friday. But it was truly immediate love when I first laid my eyes on the bowler hat, and although sometimes accessories don't work on me (my Aunt disagrees with this verily) but as soon as I put it on (in the store that I am OBSESSED over. Moreso than Revival and Ragstock combined) it was immediate love. So like everything else I enjoy I stalked it until I had the resources to buy it. I actually would wear this outfit with black leggings and (you can't see them in the picture) but a matching pair of wheat colored fashion boots to go with the hat.
Everyone I know LOVES this gun dress. I correlate it with my leather jacket as an homage to John Waters's "Cry Baby" for some reason. In fact it has a pretty great back story to it. The day I bought it was the day a friend dumped me for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL. Maybe it was my collegiate PTSD and she as a student could not understand that. So, I was dumped by the closest friend I ever got (at the time before the girlfriend). So after crying into a bowl of gelato with another good friend who I wasn't able to see as often, telling me things that felt good such as the dumped friend looked like a hobbit and put eyeliner on like crayons. It was a feel-good, so before hitching a ride back on the bus, I headed over to Revival without thinking I would find anything and found this gem. After which, I saw one of my karaoke friends in broad daylight while she was at work and my day became immediately better.
This is actually my favorite picture out of all of them. There's really not a huge story behind this dress, other than the fact that it is clinically amazing, and if I had a picture of the back, it's like Alice in Wonderland's key hole and you can see all of my tattoos. The day I bought the tights (unfortunately... I prefer leggings but it's so hard to find colored leggings!) I also wore this combination the first time with lots of white beaded necklaces to karaoke that night. <3 Have I mentioned I love this dress? When I was a little kid I was obsessed with the idea of tutus as skirts and now I'm living out my dream. 
I have been waiting my WHOLE LIFE for a cute retro umbrella, in fact, it took me two years to find the perfect one as of a month ago. It only took a friend to see it at first glance, laugh and say, "That is so YOU" which is the exact statement I got yesterday after buying the Victorian-necked Dollhouse shirt, my first ever clothing purchase at a local artist store. Multiple < 3's . I have quite an obsession with Victorian style shirts, that is possibly a blog for another day, much like my topic of nail polish. Silver Spider, my addiction, isn't necessarily the cheapest nail polish but the brand they carry, KleanColor, is quite possibly most candified colors out of any you'll find at a drug store. This is a drug-store color, but Confetti is probably my second brand of choice. It's hard to find the perfect nail color that looks natural yet candy at the same time when you have a darker complexion.
What's everyone's favorites?
Then it finally happened...
... I got a debit card.
About nineteen years later, I am still inept at the making of fashion; but since Nylon Magazine, the fashion section of BUST Magazine (oh and living in the island of hipsters, aka. Iowa City), as well as my introduction to my own personal fashion heroines that range from...
Natasha Khan (aka. Bat for Lashes)
and...
Sharin Foo of "The Raveonettes"
I have adapted my love of drawing clothes to the building of my own wardrobe to look as hipster as my icons. So here are five outfits and the back story on them hoping that I, in fact, have spent under 25 dollars on each of them. In other words, I feel like bragging but who doesn't?
Hipster Cartoon Character
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Immediate Love
It was a special night I bought the white bubble dress, having to usher for the Gallery Walk in the historical theater, I wanted to buy something downtown that was date-worthy for my late appetizer dinner with my girlfriend. Unfortunately I froze underneath it even with the almost translucent jacket. I love this jacket.. even though it was not love at first sight. Thank God for having a birthday the week after Black Friday. But it was truly immediate love when I first laid my eyes on the bowler hat, and although sometimes accessories don't work on me (my Aunt disagrees with this verily) but as soon as I put it on (in the store that I am OBSESSED over. Moreso than Revival and Ragstock combined) it was immediate love. So like everything else I enjoy I stalked it until I had the resources to buy it. I actually would wear this outfit with black leggings and (you can't see them in the picture) but a matching pair of wheat colored fashion boots to go with the hat. Cry Baby Chic
Everyone I know LOVES this gun dress. I correlate it with my leather jacket as an homage to John Waters's "Cry Baby" for some reason. In fact it has a pretty great back story to it. The day I bought it was the day a friend dumped me for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL. Maybe it was my collegiate PTSD and she as a student could not understand that. So, I was dumped by the closest friend I ever got (at the time before the girlfriend). So after crying into a bowl of gelato with another good friend who I wasn't able to see as often, telling me things that felt good such as the dumped friend looked like a hobbit and put eyeliner on like crayons. It was a feel-good, so before hitching a ride back on the bus, I headed over to Revival without thinking I would find anything and found this gem. After which, I saw one of my karaoke friends in broad daylight while she was at work and my day became immediately better. Black Swan Love
This is actually my favorite picture out of all of them. There's really not a huge story behind this dress, other than the fact that it is clinically amazing, and if I had a picture of the back, it's like Alice in Wonderland's key hole and you can see all of my tattoos. The day I bought the tights (unfortunately... I prefer leggings but it's so hard to find colored leggings!) I also wore this combination the first time with lots of white beaded necklaces to karaoke that night. <3 Have I mentioned I love this dress? When I was a little kid I was obsessed with the idea of tutus as skirts and now I'm living out my dream. 
I have been waiting my WHOLE LIFE for a cute retro umbrella, in fact, it took me two years to find the perfect one as of a month ago. It only took a friend to see it at first glance, laugh and say, "That is so YOU" which is the exact statement I got yesterday after buying the Victorian-necked Dollhouse shirt, my first ever clothing purchase at a local artist store. Multiple < 3's . I have quite an obsession with Victorian style shirts, that is possibly a blog for another day, much like my topic of nail polish. Silver Spider, my addiction, isn't necessarily the cheapest nail polish but the brand they carry, KleanColor, is quite possibly most candified colors out of any you'll find at a drug store. This is a drug-store color, but Confetti is probably my second brand of choice. It's hard to find the perfect nail color that looks natural yet candy at the same time when you have a darker complexion.What's everyone's favorites?
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