The Throwing Star

Over the weekend, around 190,000 people attended the 2009 Glastonbury Festival held in western England. Billed as ‘Europe’s largest open-air music festival’ on many stages over four days - headliners included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and a reunited Blur. Collected  by Boston.com are 33 images of the festival for The Big Picture column, each accompanied by a short description.

Info & Images: Boston.com

American Apparel has become the choice for deep V-neck shirts and gold lamé leggings of hipsters for over 10 years. These days, the cotton retailer is also all about oxford shirts, duffle bags and swimsuits with zippers. And that’s not all, Dov has just launched a new line of bedding. The sheets ($20–$64) are made from the same ultra-soft jersey T-shirts.

One of my favorite new Hip-Hop artists, Wale, has released the long awaited “Back to the Feature” mixtape. The mixtape is a collaboration with producr, 9th Wonder, and is presented by via Lifted Research Group (LRG). The mixtape features heavy production from 9th Wonder and Mark Ronson along with appearances from some of today’s hottest artists including Big Sean, Jean Grae, Currensy, Talib Kweli, Joel Ortiz, Black Thought and more. You can download it now, here.

Chris Craymer

Huf has jumped on the Budweiser tip with the latest Summer release of tees and snapbacks inspired by the King of Beers. They’re currently available at your local Huf retailer as well as Goods.

Releasing later today from Obey is a new Shepard Fairey print transpiring with the Detournements of Wynn Miller exhibit. It’s based on an image of a young Tony Alva and comes in two colors, each color limited to 250. They will be selling for $80.

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Jim Koch has traveled to Bavaria each hop harvest for the last quarter century to personally hand-select the best noble Hallertau Mittelfrueh hops for Samuel Adams Boston Lager. This year, Samuel Adams (in conjunction with high-end travel agency, Abercrombie & Kent) is offering craft beer lovers the ultimate Bavarian experience -“The Samuel Adams Hopfenpflucken Adventure.”

From July 31st till August 6th 2009, lager lovers will get to experience a true beer adventure that includes: (more…)

Nike SB drops a preview of what is to come in the Spring 2010 season and continue to deliver quality skate footwear. It seems the brand will be going back to basics with colorways along with being a bit more subtle than in the past. Stand out models include the Stefan Janoski signature shoe, Nike Bruin SB, Nike Blazer SB, Dunk  SB Low/Mid/High, and the Zoom Classic SB.

via Sneaker News

Dave’s Quality Meat revealed their Summer cap collection. They will be releasing several five panels and snapback for the warm weather. All three styles, in a multitude of colorways, released yesterday. (more…)