Philly or PoP

We're looking forward to heading down to the "City of Brotherly Love" this weekend to host the next installment of our "PoP Up Experience Shops." Philly PoP is taking place on Sunday and definitely promises to be GREAT event. Be sure to come through to do a bit of shopping, grab a bite to eat, check out some art or just chill with some good people.

*FYI* Philly PoP will make for an excellent road trip. So, if you don't live in Philly fuel up the car or rent a whip for the weekend, you'll be glad you did and be mad if you miss out on Philly PoP.

RSVP Here: http://www.phillypop.eventbrite.com

We're Heading To Austin...

The Ladies of Harriet's & Team SHAE are heading cross-country to spread the goodness that is HAE... well that's the plan anyway and... WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN ;O)

We've pitched a panel to be part of the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival next year and we need your vote to ensure it makes the festival program schedule.

Registering with the site and casting your vote for our panel will take less than 5 minutes. The voting link and panel details are below.

**** FYI... You will need to register for panel picker before casting your vote. Just clicking the thumbs up will not count as a vote unless you first sign up. But don't worry you are not signing up for a mailing list and will not receive any communications from SXSW or panelpicker other than logging in instructions.

Here's The Link To Vote: http://u.nu/95wx

PANEL TOPIC:
T.I.A. (This Is Africa): Marketing 21st Century African Music

Description:
African music isn't just Fela. There is a new cadre of African artists who are mixing their own music and culture with rock and hip hop to form something new. Who are they? More importantly, how are they bridging continents and cultures and building audiences stateside?

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT... Austin Here We Come!!!

Shop & Chop It Up With Designers, DJs & Artists

Only in Brooklyn would a crew of designers and artists trick out a loft transforming it into a fashion, music and art house. Join us on Sunday, August 23rd for a most amazing time @ BK PoP in DUMBO. Be sure to RSVP.

I Klash, You Klash, We all Klash

Photos Courtesy of Richard Louissaint

READ ABOUT THE FESTIVITIES
Village Voice
FADER Mag
Time Out NY
NY Daily News
The New York Times

Apollonia Circa 2008...

I must admit I hate artistic comparisons, but sometimes they help to drive a point home. Now I know youngens reading our blog is like who or what in the hell is Apollonia. So let me give a quick pop culture lesson for those who don't have a clue. Apollonia was Prince's female counterpart in Purple Rain... and she also fronted Prince's girl band Apollonia 6. At that time mad dudes wanted to date Apollonia and just as many girls wanted to be like her. She was sexy, without being slutty and just plain dope. Lesson over...

So back to the here and now... Harriet's was in the building this past Friday at 'When Boy Meets Girl' V3.0 at Sputnik in Brooklyn, so we got to bear witness to RAYE 6, who killed it. She reminded me of Apollonia in the way that she commanded the audience, taunting the fellas with her sexuality but at the same time earning her respect. Raye's band was also on point (quick shout out to Malik and T-Bone formerly of GAME Rebellion). She had great stage presence, her outfit was ridiculous (loved the dress and shoes) and she gets an A+ for crowd participation... she even gave out roses to all the ladies in the audience.

Catch her this Saturday, August 16th at Backyard Couture @ Harriet's.


Photo Credit: Elizabeth Allen | EMA Photography

Backyard Couture. The Photos.

July 19,2008. The 2nd installment of Backyard Couture was Grrrrrrrrrreat-Tony the Tiger Style-! The joint was literally packed from sidewalk to yard and by the end of the night over 400 folks had rolled through. Check for the next and final Backyard Couture of the season on August 16.

Well enough chatter -here are the photos as promised. If you've got some shots you wanna share, send em' our way and we'll upload them too!





This Installment of Backyard Couture Was Brought To You By:

The Lovely Ladies... Harriet's Alter Ego
The Dynamic Duo... The Agytators
The Queen Bee... Good Peoples
The Tasty Crew... A Squared S Squared Catering
The Sound Boys... The Ahficionados & G.U.T.S.
The "It" Girls... Around The Way Girls
Our Drink of Choice... Steaz -especially when we aren't downing rum punch or dirty lemonade courtesy of Kitty Hawk.


P.S. The Gallery Show BK ALL Day only runs for the next 2 weeks. Come sign the wall and check the photos (or buy$$) while you can.

Bringing The Heat.

AYo... This past Saturday @ Harriet's was HOT. And not just because it was 90 plus degrees outside! The All-Star line up was crazy!

Nola Darling was sooo on point, Malene Younglao's performance was ridiculous (did yall see her shoes?..whoa!),the food was amazing, the Dirty Lemonade (served up by our resident bartender Kitty Hawk) was a crowd pleaser, the great designers, the dope photographers... ahhhh I could go on for days re-capping.

Pics soon come.

Head of The Class

Here are some photos from the 3rd installment of "The Class Reunion" - guest hosted by us and the funk punk band Sweetie. The "reunion" was held at the lovely neighborhood hot spot Frank White (St. James & Atlantic...BK Allday!) - b.t.w They've got the yummiest vegan chocolate chip cookies!

Our boy FREE aka"Blackocaine of the Ahficonados" kept the party grooving. And YOU Guys & Gals were beautiful as always!

Big Ex-O-Ex-O's to The Minority Report, Yume, Nicole James & Kiser.

The Line Up...

We're At It Again...

10 Photographers, 4 DJs, 2 Bands, Open Bar & Non-Stop Shopping!

If you were at the last installment of Backyard Couture you already now how crazy it was! Close to 300 beautiful people came through and shopped, drank, partied and shopped some more(and drank some more...what yall know about that rum punch?...yeah!).

Well this edition of Backyard Couture, is promising to be just as great... we'll have 4 DJs spinning including K-Salaam from VP Records & Radio Rose (Missbehave/Around The Way Girls), our home girl #1 Lynnee Denise & our favorite part-time DJ/part-time romancer Frei of the Ahficionados!

Also, BackYard Couture coincides with the opening of BK ALL DAY- hosted by the AGYTATORS- BK ALL DAY is a group show featuring work from 10 Amazing Brooklyn Photographers.

PLUS... were taking a break from our rum punch to have the amazing duo from 'A Squared S Squared' Catering serve up FREE Sangria and tasty Hor D'oevres.

Last but not surely not least SHOP OUR OUTDOOR MARKET featuring

Funky Lobes

Cut It Out apparel

Guerilla Soul

Born as a Raggamuffin

*** Backyard Couture is going down Rain or Shine ***

*see you at the shop!

Nola Who?

Don't ever say we didn't try to put you on.

So here is the story. In the spring of 2007, Brooklyn’s iconic fly girl (the one who just had 'to have IT') got reincarnated in a Queens NY & East LA duo of feminine noise makers. The rest is music history in the making.
And if you didn't know, now you do…so no excuses!

The extra darling & fabulously-Fresh Chicas who are "Nola Darling" release a brand new mixtape-ish, non-concept-concept sound bomb. Straight to Stereo.

DOWNLOAD THE NEW MINI MIXTAPE FROM NOLA DARLING AT RAPPERS I KNOW

Nola Darling is proud to introduce the world’s first ever “Mini-Mixtape,” a new format in which to release music.


Too many original songs to be classified an EP… Not enough sampled tracks to be labeled a mixtape…. Too random to be considered a concept album…Not miscellaneous enough to be categorized a compilation… too soon to be the greatest hits…too late to be a single… too dope to be dubbed anything but a “Mini-Mixtape.”



P.S. Make sure to check these flygirls3000 for free why you still can...BACKYARD COUTURE Baby!

BLK JKS Live At Harriet's Alter Ego

Big ups to the good folks over at DigForFire.tv who just recently released these amazing videos!

Waaaay back in April, our favorite South African Sound Benders stopped through for what was suppose to be a quite farewell to their stateside debut tour.







While we'd like to think of ourselves as refined ladies; we don't really know how to "do" quite goodbyes.

Ahtaah! Taah, Taah, Taah!



p.s. and in case your missed the photos click here and here

Yardies

Those of you in attendance at Backyard Couture know how ridiculous this Saturday's festivities were. We ate, we drank (some a little to much), we danced, we shopped and drank and ate some more. Peep the flicks...

BackYard Couture...The Recap.

Ok, so this past Saturday in Brooklyn was crazy! Every corner, every backyard and every park had an amazing event going on. But despite the looming threat of rain and the smorgasboard of things for folks to get into -BackYard Couture was BANANAS!

Sarah White, 77Klash, Sweetie & the FREAKING AMAZING HEAVy literally brought traffic to a stand still on Flatbush avenue.

Thanks to the great vendors, our talented DJ, the best Veggie Burgers on the planet (according to all of you guys who kept coming up to us asking where you could get em') & Kitty Hawk's Infamous Rum Punch a great time was had by all!

Special, big, lovely, humongous, shout out to all our sponsors, partners and of course YOU!!

“Fresh Air & Even Fresher Fashion”

www.aroundthewaygirls.net
www.myspace.com/2sevenklash
www.makemusicny.org
www.sunshineburger.com
www.fusicology.com
www.myspace.com/sweetietheband
www.steaz.com
www.myspace.com/djlynneedenise
www.myspace.com/sarahwhitesol
www.junkprints.com
www.whoisheavy.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/nationalsocietyofsoul

Here are a few photos(courtesy of Ms.Kimberly to hold you over until we get this slide show thing up.)