Tradition teamed up with New Era to bring you two New Era 59Fifty caps featuring their “OG Crest” logo. The two colorways include a classic black, white, and charcoal grey as well as a grey, black, and fire red. The hats will be available this Wednesday, June 23rd at both Tradition locations. Phone orders are available (805) 497-4717.
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The Dum Dum Girls is the project of Los Angeles musician (via a brief stop in San Diego) Kristen Gundred. Now referred to as Dee Dee, she writes and leads the garage-pop project through a fantastic, psych-rock album, “I Will Be”, that was released by Sub Pop Records in March. This track specifically showcases the lo-fi meets 60′s girl group aesthetic that has brought them critical acclaim and a steadily growing fan base across the country.

Golden State Warriors rookie superstar Stephen Curry has teamed up with Tradition and Heist & Co. to bring you the Limited Edition“Baby Faced Assassin” tee. So Cal retailer, Tradition, is one of the hottest streetwear boutiques in the game, and it is also a shop that Stephen Curry frequently visits when he is in the L.A. area.  Being avid Basketball fans, teaming up with Stephen Curry and the Los Angeles based streetwear brand Heist And Co for this official collab was a no brainer. Don’t let Curry’s baby face fool you, as you saw this season he’s a killer on the court. Tradition will be releasing the tee Thursday June 17^th. Due to the demand for this limited edition tee, Tradition is offering a chance to pre order this shirt before the official release date. All of Tradition’s collaborations and limited edition t-shirt drops always sell out fast, and this will be no exception. Call (805)497-4717 to preorder one today.

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After a video preview of their summer line appeared in the form of a yacht party, Orisue has now come out with a more traditional look book to showcase their Summer 2010 collection. The collection is what you would expect for summer consisting of denim, shorts, cargos, polos, plaid and solid woven button-ups, and the ever so crucial tanktops. The full collection can be seen HERE and is available at all of your favorite boutiques and online at Karmaloop and 80′s Purple.

To celebrate the end of the NBA season, I wanted to let you and your readers know about PF Flyers’ Hi Tops archival reissues which include two old basketball sneaker styles, the Bob Cousy Hi and the Glide which both come in Celtics green.

Sport styles by PF Flyers were icons of the 1950s, renowned for helping you “play at full speed longer.” The brand earned a permanent place in American mythology, lionized in stories and films such as “The Sandlot.”

Bob Cousy Hi:
The Bob Cousy Hi was worn by basketball’s first superstar. The sneaker features gullwing closure™ and model specific markings and comes in a Celtics Green just in time for the NBA finals.

Glide:
The Glide was originally released in 1979 and is a plush basketball reissue that features era specific markings, padded tongue, heel ribs and terry lining.

Center Hi:
The Center Hi was originally released in 1953 and is the enduring basketball classic, vertically ribbed toe guard with diamond-patterned outsole.

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I met up with Paul Wall real quick at the release of Famous’ first venture into the footwear game at the Famous store. Sad to say my recorder unexpectedly stop recording but not before I got to ask a few question about what’s he’s been up too and his new album.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen you. How is everything going with you?

It’s been going real good man. Just been taking business on the home front, my son is 4 now and my daughter is 2, and that’s been the most rewarding part of my life. Take care of the kids, man, and still be able to do what I love. I travel around a lot on the road touring, I’m usually on the road, and haven’t been doing as many albums as I would like too or as many songs as I would like too. But, I think the industry; they kinda want you to do radio hits and big hits. I don’t they really focus on good music anymore too much anymore. I’m kind of the reverse, where I never really had too many big radio hits lately, but I think I’ve been putting out some really good music—some good quality music.

But I’ve been stepping my internet game up, I got my new website up paulwallbaby.com, I got an iPhone app and a Droid app, you can download it for free, and bunch of stuff like that. So, you know, just been trying to grind with it.

One of my favorite songs is, “I got the internet going nuts.”

Yeah, for real, it seemed like I had the internet going on at first and then I calmed down, and I was like, shit, I need to step it up and get it going nuts again.

You mentioned that radio only wants the big hits, so for as an artist like yourself, how do you come back from being ‘underground’ for the last few years to getting back on the radio?

It’s kind of like a compromise, you can’t just do everything underground and everything raw, you need to have that radio type of flavor in it to get people pumped up about, the promotion going right, get everything going right and get the right look you want. But, like I said, everybody just cares about a radio hit and first week record sales and that’s it. After the first week of record sales, nobody cares anymore, after the radio song is done, nobody cares about the other songs on the album.

When I grew up, I just always liked to listen to a CD or tape all the way through, where you didn’t have to skip songs. Like, you listen to Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle, UGK’s Riding Dirty, Outkast and the Hot Boys, all those tapes and CD’s you could listen too all the way through. But, nowadays, its like one or two songs on the album is good and that’s it.

But you know, it’s a compromise. I did this album, Heart of a Champion, comes out July 13^th. Travis Barker, he produced half of it, so musically, it’s a little bit different than most of the music that I’ve put out. And even when I say Travis Barker, they think its all rock style, but its not, its straight hip-hop, real hard-core hip-hop, and it sounds incredible man. A lot of the features are crazy on it too; Raekwon is on the album, Jim Jones, Jay Electronica, Kid Sister, and then I got Yo Gotti and then I got all my Texas homeboys like, Bun B, Chamillionaire—there’s a big song with Chamillionaire, Devin The Dude, Zero, Slim Thug, so its like a compilation.

I’m not going to lie, but for some reason the recorder stopped. Sorry.

Akomplice Clothing & Conveyor @ Fred Segal Debut Collaborative Product to Reduce Global Warming. The Paint Project. Akomplice Clothing and Fred Segal Conveyor will host the debut event for Akomplice’s global “Paint It Cool” tour at the Conveyor @ Fred Segal store in Santa Monica, CA on June 16th from 7-10pm.

A special collaborative product-pack created by Akomplice and Conveyor @ Fred Segal which promotes the use of cool roofs will be released exclusively at this event, and the event will also serve as the opening party for Akomplice’s in-store exhibition that will be on display in Conveyor Fred Segal for the entire month of June. The instalation creatively demonstrates why and how “The Paint Project” works.

Together Akomplice and Conveyor @ Fred Segal have created a product that promotes a “green” building strategy. This product and the corresponding exhibition provide background educational information on the science behind cool-roofs while promoting cool-roof initiatives on individual and legislative levels. Images of the tee and the science behind how it works after the jump.

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“Bang Bang Bang” is the first single (feat. Q-Tip) from Mark Ronson‘s upcoming album, “The Record Collection”. While it may seem that the English producer/musician has been fairly quiet since his last album “Version” came out in 2007, he has been hard at work behind the scenes producing for an eclectic mix of artists, from Estelle and Nas, to rock bands such as The Kaiser Chiefs and The Rumble Strips. If you happened to miss his recent Zelda-inspired video for “Circuit Breaker”, check it out here!

The Los Angeles Lakers have a 2-1 lead over the Boston Celtics in the Finals. To celebrate one of the biggest rivalries in sports history, Tradition and The Forest Lab got together and created the Limited Edition “Battle Royale” tee. The graphic is based upon a classic boxing poster and features the Lakers’ biggest fan Jack Nicholson vs the Celtics Leprechaun mascot. The tee is 100% unbiased, and both Lakers or Celtics fans can rock it. This tee is available this Saturday, June 12th at both Tradition locations. Phone orders are available (805)497-4717… Tell them Vapors sent you!