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We could say so much about Vice’s 15th anniversary bash. Happy to report a fair amount of noteworthy shenaniganery went down with the hard workin’ Mr. Dank & Christopher Roberts and their sundry cohorts. Exhilarating and fun? Yes and yes. Exhausting and idiotic? Yes and definitely. Which is exactly the way Vice likes a rollick to roll. This was easily the most raging Halloween/Birthday lurk in the NYC area. By far and away.

We could tell you about the mega square-foot warehouse space and its two floors oozing in mystery liquids; we could describe the inventive costumes, the sketchy lighting (i.e. none), the head crushing sound system, and the beautifully built (but quickly useless) booze-soaked mini-ramp.

We could gush endlessly about The Jesus Lizard’s genuinely mind-blowing performance. We could tell you about the overzealous security guards nearly shutting down the Bad Brains’ set. THE BAD BRAINS! We could say so much. But the Flickr photos show it all so much better.

Costumed party-goers waited an average of two hours just to get into the party. On a cold, drizzly night! Why? It was an honest to God blowout. Right after this we packed up and headed to Austin, Texas for the 4th Annual Fun Fun Fun Fest. It’s been a real whirlwind two weeks here at Incase Music & Events. Happy Boo(!)rthday Vice!

Sometimes a dude just has to get out of town and play motorcycle soccer for a few days. So last weekend we had our friend Baby Kelley, (a/k/a The Bubba) shoot photos for us at the Standard Hotel’s Swimming With Sharks rooftop pool party. If you don’t know The Bubba, here are a few qualifications worth noting:

1. She outfits hot lurkers & human babies with hand-drawn sloth bear t-shirts.
2. She recently recorded the rap track “Shake It Like a Single Mom”.
3. Via her legendary LA public access variety show, she wrecks minds with The Mystical & Magical Show Show
4. She plays boingy noise guitar in God’s Gang
5. And last but not least, she runs three super brilliant blogs:
   • BUTT BLOG
   • INSTANT CLASSIC
   • YE OLDE SLOTH BEAR BRROGGG

And her three favorite things are kitty paws, PBR and minimalist industrial design. Basically, Baby K is a one-woman exercise in takin’ it easy, gettin’ weird and havin’ the right ‘tude for the job. Asking her to shoot half-cocked, blurry event photos at the Swimming With Sharks pool party worked out great! It appears a fine lurk was again had by all— lots of splashin’ and spazzin’ out with Incase water guns and Slider Cases for iPod and iPhone. Thanks to the Standard Hotel and MFG Productions (JMZ Outlaw, Matt & Mahtab). Enjoy the photos! Thanks, Bubba.

Be on the lookout for future guest photog & brog-log from our heavy bro—The Shellzbot.

Last month’s Swimming With Sharks pool party—SURPRISE!!!—turned out to be a totally worthwhile lurk in the sun. Great tunes, good BBQ, harsh golden dudes, cold brews, and uber babes in the right shoes. See photos for proof.

Thanks to James Outlaw & his cohorts at MFG Productions, we’ve decided to do it again this Saturday, August 15th. Free Incase squirt-guns battles, Free Slider Cases for iPhone 3G & iPod touch. This time around, Baby Kelley from the Butt Blog & Professor Von Slothheim is gonna be our guest events photographer, so watch out. She’s all about it. To MAKE IT HAPPEN RSVP.

Swimming With Sharks Pool Party
Standard Hotel Rooftop Pool
This Saturday!
August 15th

Only 72-hours after saying goodbye in Chicago to the Bresnitz brothers (from Brooklyn’s Finger On The Pulse Productions), I found myself yet again in their sonic grasp at Saturday’s Swimming With Sharks rooftop pool party in Downtown Los Angeles. From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles in less than a week, these twins get around. Both always rocking that classic identical glasses, beards, tank tops, no shoes vibe… It’s like constantly seeing a variation of the same guy in two places at once. Trippy. How they have time to throw their Incase-sponsored Summer BBQ Blowout Series at Brooklyn’s Hope Lounge while also djing their asses off around the globe and producing Dinner With The Band on the IFC Network, I will never understand.

As a general rule, hipster hotel pool parties can be a real crapshoot, especially when promoters are looking to attract that Chrome Hearts crowd, (you know what I mean), but fortunately Matt & James of MFG Productions were handling the hysterics. Creators of the long-running Dance Right events, day or night these two lurkers know how to make a party feel like you’re relaxing in your own living room, albeit with 400 screaming, wet, spastic teenagers-for-life running around wearing little to no clothing.

This installment of LA’s now legendary pool party was about 85% more bonkers than I figured it would be. Between the rooftop pool’s panoramic city views and the Incase-branded squirt-gun wars; to the blazing bikini situations and random muscle dudes with bad tattoos; to the deeply mind blowing Goth chicks with vampire teeth (wearing black knit swimsuits, velvet capes and platform boots); to the exceptional DJ skills of Mr. James Pants *[that was for you Apple & Rachel]; to the creepy/funny contests dreamed up by James Outlaw, (of course); to the free BBQ; to Totally Tammy’s crushing yellow outfit and Baby Kelley indiscreetly shooting photos for her burgeoning “Butt Blog”… — the party was total chaos. Wonderful, barely contained chaos.

Winners of the gummy worm/make-out/whipped cream/balloon contests went spazztastic for their Incase gift packages (nylon backpacks, neoprene sleeves and Slider Cases for iPhone & iPod). Like, you’ve never seen dudes without shirts so stoked in their lives. Check the photos, you’ll see what I’m saying. So much happy.

Now that the June gloom is gone, it’s summer here in Los Angeles; people are finally out of their shells and enjoying themselves. Thanks to MFG & Finger On The Pulse for throwing such a quality poolside lurk.

Enjoy the photos!

Incase is sponsoring the Swimming With Sharks pool party at the Downtown LA Standard Hotel. Happens this weekend, Saturday, July 25th. We will be on hand gifting Slider Cases for iPod & iPhone, as well as doling out prize packages to contest winners, etc….

From a purely gastro-intestinal standpoint, this post is kind of a big deal. Incase Music & Events is very happy to announce that after last year’s run of neighborhood-friendly, chef-curated bar-be-cue events, brothers Greg & Darin Bresnitz (a/k/a Finger On The Pulse) are once more firing up the grills for summer.

From now through August should you find yourself in Williamsburg with $5 bucks to burn and a hankerin’ for gourmet BBQ—do yourself a favor—GO TO ONE OF THESE EVENTS. Hosted every last Wednesday of the month by a cast of adventurous chefs, luminary DJs, and dubiously clad heavy petters, you’re guaranteed to experience at least four things:

1. You’ll stuff your face.
2. You’ll dance.
3. You’ll make new friends. And,
4. If you arrive early enough, you’ll walk with a small pile of Incase products for your iPod & iPhone.

The first BBQ kicks off next week, May 27th at the Hope Lounge.

For more info, follow Incase and Finger on the Pulse on MySpace.

This past Saturday in Indio, CA, our friends at Anthem Magazine—that long running bastion of all things adult and contemporary, debauched and freewheelin’—threw (for the fifth year in a row) a mega house party during the 2009 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Read more on our MySpace page and check out some crazy photos on our Flickr stream.

For those of you livin’ and lurkin’ in the windy city, the best way we can wish you a Happy New Year is to hip you to the raddest New Year’s Eve party in all Chicago. Join DJ’s Frier Tuck, Logan Bay and Bobby Burg with special guest VJ Brunerd at the Hideout (mayhem begins at 9PM).

For your new tech holiday toys, we’ll be on hand doling out Incase iPod, iPhone & notebook cases while you dance your ass off and guzzle in the new year.

Remember to:

1. Name a designated driver
2. Drink water
3. Get gross on the dance floor

Honk! Bonk! Whee! Tickets available via TicketWeb.

Folks, seriously, pay attention… if this flier doesn’t make you want to go, you’re obviously not ready to party. Take a couple shots, maybe crack your neck, do a few leg lifts and then look again. This one’s gonna be a goner!

We attended the official Girltalk afterparty / Hearts of Darknesses homecoming celebration at Santos Party House in NYC on Tuesday night. Hosted by ragtag group of fellas Bulldozier and our favorite party dude Andrew WK, with sets by Grand Buffet, CX Kidtronik, The Death Set, Hearts Of Darknesses, Passions and hip-hop / performance artist Bad Brilliance (holy shit!), the night just made us feel all warm and fuzzy.

It was a party thrown by deeply individual friends working extremely hard to help each other out. We danced so hard we’re STILL sore! Andrew WK took to the stage in between sets to throw out Incase products to an eager crowd. We saw a guy rocking the slim backpack all night after he dove over a couple of girls to catch it.

We also witnessed HOD unloading their guitars from the Incase guitar cases we gave them a few weeks ago for tour to play a SOLID set. They are still stoked on the cases – Frank especially because he doesn’t have to carry his pedals in a milk crate anymore – everything fits into his guitar bag.

All in all, it was a great, sweaty night among friends.

A new retailer for Incase, Alife, hosted a party along with Nas for his album release last night! It was my favorite summer party (so far). Alife always kills it!

All of us at the Foundation crew went together after listening to Nas in the office alllll day!

ALIFE NY STATE OF MIND -the best backyard in NY in my opinion.

Foundation: me, Pamela (SUPER), Yoshi (In4mation), Cassadra (Hellz Bellz) & Tara (Creative Rec).

Nas -he loved the vibe so much, he was speechless in the middle of one song!

My favorite part was watching some kids hanging out of their window watching!

Nas with Matt (our buyer from Alife) – No fake smiles here.

Video of the night….

Video of the week…

I love NY!