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Dance Party + Launch of Chambers Apparel

It’s just about that time of year again. From Los Angeles to Brooklyn to Portland, Austin, and Toronto the hibernation is nearly over. Happy to report our friends are firing up music festivals, dance nights, and house shows all across the continent. Next week we’ll be at Mess With Texas 4 during SXSW in Austin, TX. Guaranteed to be a real spazz-fest with Gwar, Andrew WK, and F*cked Up on hand. In April we’re sponsoring Generic Man’s week of Coachella events at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs. Hot poolside pavement and a whole lotta ice cold lurking in the shade.

All that said, for our first sponsorship of the 2010 events season we’re gonna keep things close to home and dear to our hearts. Our friend Matt Goldman, (mastermind behind MFG Productions), is about to launch a new apparel line called Chambers. The party takes place at Las Perlas in Downtown LA and will feature dj sets from Mike B of Camoufos, Boom Bip of Neon Neon, and Bobby Evans of Brother Reade. Should be a real nice time with a few hundred sweaty, happy people. And yes, Mike the Cobrasnake will be on hand to blind you with his camera flash. RSVP only. Make it happen. Congratulations Matt, you’ve earned it.

Incase & MFG Productions Presents:
Dance Party + Launch of Chambers Apparel
Wednesday, March 17th @ 10PM
Las Perlas: 107 E. Sixth St. in Downtown Los Angeles
RSVP at Chambersclothing

WIRED Media Lounge at CES

Incase is sponsoring this year’s Wired Media Lounge at CES located at the Society Café Encore where Wired editors will be conducting one-on-one interviews about the latest and most innovative product trends for 2010. Featured within the lounge’s CES Gadget Lab will be our Perforated Snap Case for iPhone 3GS. And for those lucky enough to receive a gift bag, please enjoy our Combo Charger for iPhone and iPod.

Society Café Encore
Thursday, January 7
6-11pm

The VICE 15th Anniversary Party

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!

Swimming With Sharks Rooftop Pool Party #2: Shark Attack!

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.

Another Swimming With Sharks Pool Party

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

Squirt-guns, Tight Buns & Bad Puns

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!

Swimming With Sharks Pool Party

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….

Finger On The Pulse Summer BBQ Blow Out of 2009

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.

Anthem Ranch House Party Aftermath

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.

Hey Chicago, Happy New Year from Incase!

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!