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FRIDAY NIGHT! FRIDAY NIGHT! AT TENDER TRAP!

Superchief and Gold Whistle present Smurfo’s Birthday Bash and the video release for Cobra Krames and DJ A.N.S.’s video for “Bend Your Back” featuring Smurfo. It’s free, come get down.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to this Weekend’s Festivities

Tomorrow night we party at Tender Trap for Smurfo’s Birthday. Then on Saturday, Roofeo and Dirtyfinger provide the party at Tender Trap and Unstoppable Death Machines and Ben Robey perform at Broomie’s.

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Medication: The Snake Showcase, Tomorrow Night at FreeCandy!

The Snake is a website that releases and features music from DIY artists from all over. This Friday, they will have their first showcase at FreeCandy and it’s free!

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Superchief and Gold Whistle Present: Cobra Krames and DJ A.N.S. “Gold Diamonds and Platinum Pearls”

DJ A.N.S. (of WC Kids) and Cobra Krames came together to make a split album entitled “Gold Diamonds and Platinum Pearls” with 10 tracks ready for the summer. Here’s the whole thing, free to listen to and download. And! at Tender Trap this Friday, Cobra Krames and DJ A.N.S. will also be releasing a video for their track, from New York Club Volume 2, entitled “Bend Your Back” featuring Smurfo.

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ART OPENING TONIGHT: SWAP SOME ART WITH SEXY PEOPLE AT THE CHICKEN HUT

Tonight in NY art openings: an art swap at the Chicken Hut featuring live performances, puppet shows, beer and people in fun stairwells; meanwhile, the Picture Farm opens at it’s new location!!!

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to Partying this Weekend

DJ Cool Hand Luke’s back, doing all sorts of things this weekend. We’ve got homies providing the fun at the Flat and Tender Trap. And Japanther’s playing with Ritz Riot, Filthy Savage, Boys Who Say No and Unstoppable Death Machines on Friday!

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TENDER TRAP TONIGHT!!!!

Cobra Krames and DJ A.N.S.’s release “Gold Diamonds and Platinum Pearls”, tonight, May 4th, 2012. A FREE EP featuring 10 REMIXES for the SUMMERTIME.We’ll be getting down at the Tender Trap with support from DJ Birthmark (Superchief) and Furoche killing it all night long.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to Partying this Weekend

Cobra Krames and DJ A.N.S. release their mixtape, “Gold Diamonds and Platinum Pearls” at Tender Trap this Friday. Bard College and NYU provide the public with some good music. The Death Set’s playing a Bikes in the Kitchen Show at Shea and it’s Cinco de Mayo!

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Your Blackout Starts Now: This Weekend’s Party Guide

This weekend there’s Retard Strength at The Flat, Fridays Forever at Arrow Bar, Saturdazed at Tender Trap and shows from some of Brooklyn’s best bands.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: 420 Edition

To all you midnight tokers, start your 420 off right tonight at the Flat where Spank Rock, Emily Rabbit and Nick Gazin will be spinning. Editor of Superchief celebrates his birthday for 14 hours on Saturday! And a bunch of other cool shit.

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Hennessey Youngman’s Show at Family Business Closes Tomorrow

Tomorrow, April 14th, is the last day to checkout “It’s A Small Small World” curated by Hennessey Youngman at Family Business in Chelsea.

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Kentucky Man Commits 10 Felonies in less than 9 hours

William Todd went on the most ridiculous crime spree that you’ve ever heard of. He cross-dressed, he smeared his shit all over a law office and then submerged himself in a tub of water on top of a mall waiting for the cops to come and get him.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to Partying this Weekend

Happy Friday the 13th! Shabazz Palaces is playing in Manhattan on Friday and Brooklyn on Saturday. And The Death Set’s at Santos tonight.

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Spectacle Theater Presents: Pigs on the Beat

Tomorrow night, Spectacle Theater Presents: Pigs on the Beat, a night of cop mockery, free donuts and coffee. They’ll be showing, “Protect and Serve,” a compilation of cop training videos and the cult classic, ” Maniac Cop”.

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Alexander Heir Art Show Opening Tomorrow: Featured Artist Interview

Alexander Heir the founder, owner, manufacturer and everything else of the Death-Traitors clothing brand. I chatted with him about the brand, his artwork, and his opening tomorrow at the Mishka Store.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to Partying this Weekend

Celebrate Jesus’s resurrection with your hands on the ground and your ass in the air with Nicky Da B all weekend. Biz Markie’s performing at Tammany Hall tonight, with DJ Jazzy Jeff for free. Oh, and did you know we’re partying it up at Tender Trap this Friday for Nicky Troubles’ “Dream City” Release?

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Booty Battle!: Big Freedia’s Video Game

Big Freedia, the queen diva and Vice have come together to create a pretty addictive video game. Booty Battle is like Dance Dance Revolution for your keyboard and instead of controlling your character’s feet, you control the twerking of their ass.

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Your Blackout Starts Now: Your Guide to Partying This Weekend

There’s a lot in store for the last weekend in March. Jugger-nut and Filthy Savage are playing in a warehouse, Freq-NYC at Tender Trap and a shit load of free booze.

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Filthy Savage Album Review!

I’ll try and make this review as unbiased as possible considering how close I am to Filthy Savage. The tape is less than 20 minutes of really raw content. It’s like the toe jam in the best way possible.

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Lil B is coming to the NYU

I’ve seen the rants that Lil B goes on at a concert, besides being ridiculous, he has some pretty wise things to say. He cares a lot about being nice to people, something that a lot NYU students know nothing about.

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Liberty Fest 2012 Video Compilation: Interviews and other Shit

Yeah, I know I’m late with this shit, but you’re just gonna have to deal with it. We’ve compensated for [...]

Interview with Nathan Kensinger, Photographer and Urban Explorer

Nathan Kensinger is a photographer, urban explorer, location scout, and director of programming director for the Brooklyn Film Festival. Over the [...]

Artist Interview: ZOO LION Tells Us All About Her Pornography Filled Collages

Zoo Lion is a 19 year old girl who makes collages out of pornography and old issues of national geographic, they are weird and pervy and we kind of love them. We stared at them while asking her about her process, her obsession with porn, her favorite era in photographed fucking, and about a time where she thought she was going to be killed.

(jeez its hard not to just say porn porn porn porn porn porn porn when writing this excerpt.)

Interview with Alfonz Fanon, Our Favorite Communist Indie Rapper

Alfonz Fanon is an independent hip-hop artist and politically concious individual living in Oakland, CA. He just released his debut mixtape, PC Kids in March, 2012. He talked to Superchief about political consciousness in rap, the political situation in Oakland, and Communism.

‘RIOT // CONTROL,’ A Zine on Rioting for Police and Protesters

This anonymous, photocopied zine includes actual scanned pages from police training handbooks on the left side of each spread. On the right are instructions on the same subject for non-cops. It goes into detail with everything from street-level tactics, to making body armor and gas masks, to disabling vehicles.

Lil B Performed at The New Museum (PHOTOS + REVIEW)

There is no words to describe the joy I felt after two days of the Based God. He’s the most charismatic real dude I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. The positivity he exudes is literally infectous.

Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3: Leather, Raw Nerve, Hoax & More (Photos)

Review of Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest Day 2 & 3. Hoax, Raw Nerve, Leather & More

Interview: Jonathan Schipper Ain’t No Technophobe

FEATURED ARTIST: Jonathan Schipper http://oppositionart.com/ (Week 1) Jonathan Schipper is a big fan of destruction, so naturally that’s exactly what [...]

Liberty Fest Day 1: Midnight, Kim Phuc, Cider & More (Photos)

Review of Day 1 Phonographic Arts Liberty Fest: Salvation, Cider, Kim Phuc, Midnight

WE BLEW UP THAT COUCH AT HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART SHOW IN CHELSEA (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

Last week Hennessy Youngman, the Philly/Internet Art Personality (celebrity? yeah, we can give him that with a lil “c”, sure [...]

Superchief.tv and Gold Whistle Present Nicky Troubles “Dream City”

Superchief Records and Gold Whistle have come together to release Nicky Troubles’  album, “Dream City”. Below you can listen to [...]

SUPERCHIEF HAS THE BIGGEST WORK OF ART IN HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S CHELSEA ART SHOW/BLOCK PARTY TONIGHT!!! (UNLESS YOU CONSIDER THE WHOLE FUCKING SHOW A PIECE OF ART, IN WHICH CASE… HENNY WINS.)

So the charming Hennessy Youngman, AKA: The Dapper Don Draper, AKA: The Curatorial Oracle, AKA: The Bowery’s WU Museum, AKA: Mistah Chillah Than Yo Sistah, has his opening tonight in Chelsea on West 21st btwn 10th and 11th ave at 6pm. ITS GOING TO BE A FUCKING BLOCK PARTY AND SPANKROCK IS DOING A SECRET PERFORMANCE. (we like to capitalize secrets)

oh and our sculpture is the biggest thing in the room…

On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia

Review: On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia by Niki Schur-Narula Superchief Contributer Tally Beck Contemporary [...]

A TRAVELOGUE OF 1990′S NEW YORK, THROUGH HIP-HOP VIDEOS

Take a trip into the New York of the 1990′s with these Hip-Hop videos shot in the dirty 5 Boroughs. Pop 40′s with the homies, smoke a blunt on the stoop and take a trip back in time; dope stuff.

CULTS OF NEW YORK CITY: OTO (ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS)

In New York I always feel amazed at how many parallel realities and uses of the city as an “arena” are simultaneously happening at once. The guy biking past you might be a weed messenger, the guy sitting on a bench might be an undercover cop, the dude standing right next to you on the train could be on his way to a nudist convention, and the guy at the coffee shop could be a member of a cult or secret society.