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Direct from Brazill and LIVE at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Los Angeles is our beautiful friend Tita Lima. She was with us recently to perform some of her favorite original compositions and hand pick some Brazilian classics with another good friend, DJ Cid Hernandez. What an amazing was to spend a summer day in LA! Enjoy it again with us on the HVW8 International Podcast.

1. Jardim (live vocal) -Tita Lima

2. Uma Rosa Pra Dita – Os Incriveis

3. Ta Tudo Ai – Rubinho e Mauro Assumpcao

4. A Festa Dos Deuses  Afro Brasilieros – Sabrina

5. Pra Swingar – Som Nosso

6. Vendendo Saude e Fe (live vocal) – Ocote Soul Sound

7. Nao Chora Meu Amor – Explosao do Samba

8. You’ve Gotta help yourself – Bongos Ikwue & the Groovies

9. Smile (live vocal) – Tita Lima

10. Quer Queira Quer Nao Queira – Tim Maia

11.  Take your soul – The Sahara All-Stars

12. Sou  Da Pesada – Jorge Ben

13.  Pandeiro e viola / Na Beria Do Mar / A Danca Do Meu / Pecado Capital – Various Artist

14.  Vai Pro Lado de La – Explosao Do Samba

15. Armagideon Time -Willie Williams

16. Secret Track

17. Secret Track

18. Secret Track

19. Pra Oxala – Jazzconductor

20. Barrinton Levy – Murderer

21. Non Non Non – Melaaz

Look for new releases from Tita very soon.. Make sure to keep up with her at www.myspace.com/titalima

HVW8 will feature more new mixes soon. BTS Radio and The RRS Feed are on deck! Keep your subscriptions current and keep checking in at www.hvw8.com.

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Last Saturday night, our friend Alvaro Ilizarbe/Freegums opened his amazing ‘Celestial Beings’ Exhibition with us at our Art + Design Gallery. He literally transformed the space, making it his own.

Above: Freegums hard at work during installation

Old and new friends from LA, up and down the West Coast and all the way from Miami came out to support and admire.

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Special thanks go out to adidas, The Standard Hotel, PBR, our DJs Ta’Raach and Marouan and everyone in attendance.

‘Celestial Beings’ will run through the end of September at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery 661 N Spaulding Ave Los Angeles, Ca 90036. Hours are 1-6pm Tuesday through Sunday.

Select pieces are also available in our online store

Celestial Beings by Alvaro Ilizarbe / Freegums

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Opening: August 21, 2010, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

http://gallery.hvw8.com/category/current/
http://www.freegums.com

HVW8 presents Celestial Beings a solo exhibition by Alvaro Ilizarbe / Freegums. For this show Alvaro painted large wooden pieces portraying large forces that lie in the space around us. With a variety of finely painted lines Alvaro draws upon space and shapes to transform the gallery into a a portal to a parallel dimension.

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More photos from the Bill Mullen’s Check’s Cashed.

The Lovely Ladies of RRS Feed with be joining us for a live podcast this Sunday, 2 – 5pm. More info on the HVW8’s facebook event’s page.

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Bill McMullen’s exhibtion ‘Check’s Cashed‘ continues this weekend at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery.

Come on by and eat some food, drink some drinks, talk about some arty stuff. Everyone’s welcome,

CHECKS CASHED – New works from Bill McMullen at the HVW8 Gallery
BBQ
Thursday, August 5th 7-9pm
661 N. Spaulding Ave. L.A. Ca 90036
ph. 323 655 4898

Bill McMullen:

Checks Cashed

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery

661 N. Spaulding Ave.

Los Angeles, CA  90036

Opening: July 31, 2010, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Closes: September 14, 2010

http://gallery.hvw8.com/category/current/

www.billmcmullen.com

“Bill McMullen wields a light-saber wit all his own… Think Bruce Nauman meets blaxploitation: funky but chic, subversively milking high art for cheap laughs.”

– Flavorpill

Checks Cashed is the new gallery show by beloved/notorius artist Bill McMullen, opening July 31^st, 2010 at Los Angeles’ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. Checks Cashed is all about subverting history with absurd pop-cultured imagery. The new work from the Southern California bred, NYC-based McMullen embraces both Situationism and situation comedy, landing in between with its confrontational black-and-white monochrome language of punk rock flyers and escort-service ads. It’s at once familiar, entertaining, and disturbing, especially to a new generation of consumers who’ve never had to deal with anything like the economic failure, war, or the environmental disasters of today.

McMullen is renowned for his witty, pointed combination of high art presentation, graphic design immediacy, and street art’s confrontational boldness. He’s as well known for his KidRobot toys, Adidas designs, and Beastie Boys album covers as he is for his gallery shows, and he blends that provocative sensibility into Checks Cashed. Rooted in the visual language familiar to those living paycheck to paycheck, Checks Cashed picks up where McMullen’s previous exhibition at L.A.’s Constant Gallery, 2009’s Hype, Hustle, Rip Off, left off (“Fantastic cutting-edge art – definitely worth seeking out,” SlamXHype raved; “McMullen’s work ultimately resonates because it does more than brand, copy, market, and elevate,” noted Limité). But where Hype… demonstrated McMullen’s multimedia ADD (turning R2D2 into a boombox, reconfiguring Starbucks and Coca-Cola logos into camo combat gear) in his new work, McMullen strips away his relentless, Times Square-meets-Roppongi color palette. Instead, he focuses on the iconic, harsh black-and-white half-tone of old-school newspapers and pre-Internet Xeroxed ‘zines –

even down to painting the exhibition walls black, contradicting the traditional gallery “white cube.”

Here, McMullen combines the radical photomontage of Barbara Kruger and John Heartfield, the pop appropriation of Richard Prince and Andy Warhol, and the irreverent cut-and-paste sampling of hip-hop – all with the flavor of someone known for, say, designing Method Man album covers. Ultimately, Checks Cashed compels because of that same contradiction: putting his money where his mouth is, McMullen balances conceptual toughness with advertising’s seductive surfaces and the irreverence of urban culture.  –  Matt Diehl

The BBQ is back on…

Join us this Sunday from 2-5p for a live recording of BTS Radio with Andrew Meza and guests. Everyone is welcome.

Andrew Meza was instrumental in the development of the recent Charles Munka Exhibition at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. Charles Munka is also Art Director for BTS Radio. We’re proud to work with Meza again to record/release this BTS Special Edition of the HVW8 International Podcast.

Get ready for a crazy bass filled afternoon.

Sunday only in-store specials on art, apparel, music and more!

More on BTS Radio and Andrew Meza:

BTS Radio was created by Andrew Meza at the University of Cal State Fullerton in 2003. What started out as a local college radio show soon became a worldwide movement and culture unique unto itself. Since BTS’ start, Meza has welcomed guests ranging from all music genres and in the process, spearheaded a new movement of electronic/hip-hop producers.

Meza is known as one of the most influential tastemakers/djs, spotlighting underground talent and championing artist such as Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Blu, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Georgia Anne Muldrow & J*Davey when they were still unsigned names. Other guest features on BTS have also included a slew of up and comers, seasoned & the legendary, including acts and members of: 4Hero, The Avalanches, Four Tet, Peanut Butter Wolf, Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Mitsu, Exile, KanKick, Eric Lau, Samiyam, Rustie and Jneiro Jarel among others.

“Andrew Meza has set the international standard…The undisputed champion of the beats.”
- Shook Magazine

“BTS Radio is awesome…Andrew Meza is destroying the game right now, he’s got people around the world biting his show.”
- Flying Lotus (Warp/Brainfeeder)

from www.btsradio.com

See you on Sunday!

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles, Ca
90036

The HVW8 International Podcast returns to the ‘Live at the BBQ’ sessions for Summer 2010 with the perfect Brazilian vibe of Tita Lima.

Please join us for an afternoon of amazing music, bbq and friends – all surrounded by the art of HVW8.

See you on Sunday!
More on Tita Lima (via Giant Step):

A modern-day Tropicalista, singer-songwriter Tita Lima was born into a family of musicians (her father was the bass player for 70s rock band Os Mutantes). She paid her dues in Sao Paulo’s musical scene playing bass, singing and sharing the stage with widely-recognized artists such as Bocato (Metalurgia, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Maria Rita), Joao Donato, Luz de Caroline.

The sultry vocalist’s music has become a favorite among DJs in Brazil, the US and Europe, including Rafael Moraes, Garth Trinidad (KCRW) and Gilles Peterson, who included the song “A Conta Do Samba” in his superb compilation ‘Brownswood Bubblers.’

Master Blazter, born at the HVW8 Gallery, performs with Dam-Funk tonight at the Troubadour.

More on Master Blazter HERE.