Burton x Kidrobot

Burton snowboards and Kidrobot have just released two jacket styles and matching snowboard pants to match their board collaborations. The entire collection can be here at the Kidrobot site.

Merch of the Week

Merch Direct has just added this limited edition Brand New hoodie to their store. There is an additional colourway available in black.

Best Film of 2007: This is England

Tuned's favourite film of 2007 has got to be Shane Meadow's extraordinary This Is England. Celebrate by going to Fred Perry, they're having a 50% winter sale.

R.I.P.

Borat is dead.

Best Kicks 2007

Sneaker Freaker has compiled their 'Best of the Best 2007' list in which 30 of the who's who in the world of kicks talk about their favourite shoes this year. Check it out here.

Karmaloop TV Shepard Fairey OBEY Interview

Karmaloop TV posted this interview with Shepard Fairey of OBEY a while back. The new online channel has been doing some great stuff and already have a big collection of interviews with streetwear designers, musicians and various other cultural icons.

Look at me! I'm popular.

Ever wonder what to get that MySpace whore who has everything? Well, look no further. Urban Outfitters presents you the 'Self-Portrait Arm' for stabilizing your digital camera from a distance.

Now you can pretend you have friends other than your 234,893,329 that exist just in cyberspace.

Superfishal Skate Decks

Jeremy Fish's Superfishal brand have come out with skateboard decks just in time for the holiday season, you can check them out in the commercial below and at Upper Playground.

Holy trailers, Batman!

The new preview for 'Batman: The Dark Knight' can now be seen here.

How bad-ass does Heath Ledger look?! He's sure come a long ways from his teen heartthrob days in '10 Things I Hate about You'!

TUNED A.D. Mag Available NOW!

In case you're accessing this through the blogspot address and not our associated URL www.TunedAD.com, the FREE downloadable .pdf of our year-in-review issue with Coheed and Cambria on the cover is now available! Get it here!

M.I.A. vs. M.T.V.

It's really no shock, but once again the cultural vacuum that is MTV has decided to censor yet another artist. This time, it's the video for M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes', a politically charged anthem that's in my opinion, one of the best songs of 2007. A YouTube leak revealed that not only did the Viacom network censor some of the lyrical content, but they also did some weird shit to her vocals to make them sound horrible. The Brit/Sri Lankan vocalist speaks out quite angrily here on her blog.

Two weeks ago M.I.A. was the network's artist of the week. You know, when they do that thing where her music is running through 'Shot at Love' and 'The Hills' promos? I even specifically remember her talking about the song, saying how the gunshots and cashregister sounds were commentary about how it's cheaper to buy a gun than a mobile phone, so in her home of Sri Lanka kids just shoot each other for cells.

But yet, knowing this, they still try to fuck with a positive message while it's perfectly fine for other rappers to have far more violent and misogynistic videos and lyrics.

Check out the good, un-censored version here:

Lauren Conrad, A&R GENIUS

I'm pretty embarrassed to admit it, but despite it being 'scripted reality', I'm obsessed with The Hills.

At the Season 3 'finale' it was revealed the season wasn't over and there were upcoming episodes of LC and Whitney's voyage to Paris. In the previews Lauren is seen canoodling with a French gentleman, who as Page Six reports is a member of the oh-so-originally-titled band Rock & Roll:

Before Lauren Conrad and her Teen Vogue counterpart, Whitney Port, went to Paris to "work" at the Crillon Ball, producers were "frantically calling publicists to see if anyone knew any guys to set the girls up with in Paris. If they had a love affair there, then it would look better," a source said.

One publicist came through, and the girls were set up with the band Rock & Roll, "the King Cobras of New Wave Rock," who are set to star in the new Roberto Cavalli campaign this spring. And, at least for Conrad - who had been "flirting" with Brody Jenner, although spies say the two were never more than friends - the ruse worked.

"Lauren was filmed riding off with the guitar player, Matthias, on the back of his bike," our source said. "They hooked up." The band's biggest hit is "Loser, Boozer, Jacuzzi-User."

Well, I don't know about 'King Cobras of New Wave Rock', 'Wannabe Strokes' is more like it. LC, you should know better, knockoffs are such a no-no and New Wave is so, like, 2005. Leave it to trust fund babies from the Lower East Side and the Brits, please. You were in France, at the very least you could have hooked up with someone off Ed Banger Records.You can check out Rock & Roll's MySpace here and LC's frog prince (pictured above) has his own page here.

Merch of the Week

Because I don't think it's written/blogged about enough (or ever, even), I've decided to start a weekly series displaying some of the best in artist merch. This deluxe R. Kelly 'Trapped in the Closet' set will set a pretty high standard.

There's even more available at Merch Now.

Thanks to Tom at Washed Up Emo.

You know you've made it when...

Streetwear has finally gotten its own parody site: Satchel of Gravel.

The contributors make some interesting observations, but for people that supposedly hate the scene so much, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of their time learning about it.

Thanks for the tip Rach.

The Streetwear Parade?

Apparently the latest trend in streetwear is taking inspiration from commercial 'emo' pop. Above, I present you with a recent release from the normally cutting-edge LRG and below, a promo shot from My Chemical Romance's Black Parade campaign:What's next? The Hundreds releasing AFI-inspired skin-tight netted shirts?!

Let it Snow

With about a foot of snow dumped on this area of New England and another storm predicted for Saturday, you better be bundled up. I always hated the snow and having to dress up like a marshmallow whenever the temps hit below 40. However, I love this jacket from Rojas, it's got that militaristic edge while creating the illusion of feminine curves and keeping you warm.

I knew it.

This isn't fashion-related at all. But I seriously cannot wait for this to come out. All I have to say is: told you so.

Old News

This is so two weeks ago, but I think this design from Sneaktip is one of the few block letter tees that are worth mentioning. It's available at Karmaloop.

Only in NYC...

While I was in NYC the other day I did a little xmas window shopping and came upon Trixie + Peanut, a boutique for only the most pampered of pooches.

I was originally attracted by their window display which featured some adorable faux fur-trimmed hooded jackets and what appears to be the latest trend in doggie accesorizing: wigs.

I'm pretty sure a greasy 'fro is what's been on my dogs' xmas list this year.

NYC launch party tomorrow!

If you're in the area...come to this!It's FREE! I will be there along with the Cardboard City crew. The new Sports remix is sweeeeeet, come be a hot mess on the dancefloor with me!

205 Bar
205 Chrystie St
New York, NY 10002
10pm-4am

and again...it's FREE!

All that Glitters...

I am pretty obsessed with gold right now. These 14K Muska Skytops from Supra aren't helping.

Designer rabbits, no...not that kind of Rabbit

Parisian artist André has just created this new designer Nabaztag.

The little bunny interacts with your computer via Wi-Fi and gives you up-to-date weather reports, stock quotes, news, the time, receives SMS text messages, does Tai-Chi, answers your questions, interacts with other Nabaztags and basically does anything else you program it to do.

It kinda reminds me of a post-millennium version of those freakish Furby things; cute for the first five minutes and then probably annoying as hell.