Sneeze No. 6

Good morning. I'm pleased to announce that Sneeze Magazine will be readily available in Chicago starting today. People can grab their copy at St. Alfred or Uprise, with two additional locations to be determined shortly. The feature article on Rammellzee is one you might need to read twice.

No. 6

Fall Winter 2009 is here. Please check the "Clothing" tab for further details. Thank you.

The Joneses Fall Winter

The Fall Winter season hits retailers this week. Pictures to follow.

Fall / Winter 2009

Please stay tuned as Fall / Winter releases will be available shortly.

Sneeze

Good morning. I hope everyone is doing well. Issue No. 5 of Sneeze was delivered yesterday. This issue has a good article on Keiichi Nitta, that's a worthwhile read.

No. 5

I'm bugging Sneeze to put a Streetbox in Chicago. If anyone wants to help make that push the information can be found here:

Streetbox

Email james@sneezemag.com for the Streetbox.

Dead Weather

This is a great music video by the Dead Weather.

Will There Be Enough Water

Lovers' Land Bike Tour

Things like this blow my hair back. It puts a deep pitted feeling of resentment in my stomach which is immediately followed by a stricken fear that I may not be able to do something so incredible.

Three friends embarked on a motorcycle trip with few plans beyond finding good waves. This is the blog that they put together.

Lovers' Land

Chicago the Beautiful

This is a great film featuring Chicago in 1948. It's amazing to see how things have changed and yet remained the same in 60+ years. Enjoy.

Chicago the Beautiful

Les Paul never stopped doing what he loved

In 1981 Mr. Paul underwent one of the first quintuple-bypass heart operations. After recuperating, he returned to performing, though the progress of his arthritis forced him to relearn the guitar. In 1983 he started to play weekly performances at Fat Tuesday’s, an intimate Manhattan jazz club. “I was always happiest playing in a club,” he said in a 1987 interview. “So I decided to find a nice little club in New York that I would be happy to play in.” After Fat Tuesday’s closed in 1995, he moved his Monday-night residency to Iridium.

At his shows he used one of his own customized guitars, which included a microphone on a gooseneck pointing toward his mouth so that he could talk through the guitar. In his sets he would mix reminiscences, wisecracks and comments with versions of jazz standards. Guests — famous and unknown — showed up to pay homage or test themselves against him. Despite paralysis in fingers on both hands, he retained some of his remarkable speed and fluency. Mr. Paul also performed regularly at jazz festivals through the 1980s.

He recorded a final album, “American Made, World Played” (Capitol), to celebrate his 90th birthday in 2005. It featured guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Sting, Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. The album brought him two Grammy Awards: for best pop instrumental performance and best rock instrumental performance. He had already won Grammy recognition for technical achievements.


Les Paul Article via NY Times

Kitschworth

The Curators of Lowbrow Culture are back at it with an updated look. Put it on the list of daily readers.

Kitschworth