Local dancers, kindly text (646) 894-0866 stating your business or kindly call and leave a message stating your first, last name, and contact number and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. You can also email dance@grungecake.com. Subject line should read “Dance Auditions”. Thank you.

Members Only: A GrungeCake Party

On Monday, June 28, 2010, GrungeCake Magazine debuted its artists for its new venture, GrungeCake Records. With our special guest performer, Dai Burger and special guest host, Peter Hadar, the Members Only party was hot, smooth, raw, and uncut. We encourage you to sign into your Yahoo account to see photos from the beginning, leading up to the show. We would like to take the time out to thank everyone who attended our Members Only party.

For more photographs from this event, kindly visit our Facebook and like it. Feel free to become a contact via our Flickr. Thanks.

Name for the 'Drum' Album

Blurb from YAMS:

Name. I have known Name for quite some time. Online friend turned one of my favourite musicians ever, Name manages to sound like disco and dance music from the 80s and dress the part — his lyrics are catchy, meaningful, and he will earn awards in the near future. I can feel it! Kindly visit this link to listen and click the banner to buy his album, Drum: Thanks. Photos: Sebastian Ludvigsen

MP3: “Alphabet Love” by Name

MP3: “Latest Fad” by Name

GrungeCake: If love were a colour, what would it be?

Name: Love always changes shades of colour. Red, blue, green or maybe peachy keen are the most viable ones to me. Red is an exciting, sometimes dangerous one. Blue is the all to often sad one. Green is the sometimes jealous one. Peachy keen is the rare one. Too good to be true almost!

GrungeCake: How did you come up with the chorus for Alphabet Love?

Name: A simple melody often calls for a simple chorus. The whole late 50′s/early 60′s vibe of the song had me free associating love in the most sweet and naive way.

GrungeCake: According to my handy dandy, Wikipedia, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure (“I loved that meal”) to intense interpersonal attraction (“I love my girlfriend”). This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states. If you had to define what love is, using half of the Norwegian alphabet, what would be your definition?

Name: Haha. This is getting too time consuming! Our alphabet is basically the same as the english one except we add the letters ÆØÅ after yours is over. Maybe those three letters were specifically designed for a task such as this? Any who, I’m way too lazy for this!

GrungeCake: To read the full interview, click here to buy the magazine.

Members Only Flyer

Members Only: A GrungeCake Party will take place on Monday, June 28, 2010 and Tuesday, June 29, 2010 (both events) begin at 6pm and end at 9pm. Entry fees are collected each day. Live music-performances, finger foods and drinks will be served. We encourage you to network and be a part of art history. This event will be filmed. If for any reason you do not want to appear in the video, you will be able to fill out our disclaimer at that time. Thank you.

You must RSVP via email by Monday, June 21, 2010 to enter at $5. Come early for giveaways!

We advise all attendees to bring identification that will prove they are over 18 years of age.

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Boogie for Members Only

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Gut for Members Only

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Dai Burger for Members Only

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Jungle Pussy for Members Only

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Nassaka for Members Only

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Peter Hadar for Members Only

Ning.com announced new pricing plans for its networking website. Instead of continuing our community-based forum [on the Ning platform], GrungeCake.com started its own at my.grungecake.com.

It is free, and easy to maneuver. We have equipped the site with a Soundcloud dropbox – making it easy to share music with us. This dropbox is located via the About link. Kindly visit my.grungecake.com to get started on your account.

Notice from Ning:

In July, we will rollout three new pricing plans and begin phasing out our free service. Many of you chose the Ning Platform to build your communities because it is the easiest to use, has the most reliable performance and easily scales to hundreds of thousands of members. Our shift to a paid service model will enable us to focus to a greater degree on enhancing the features, performance, and services we offer to our paying Network Creators. You will immediately see greater control over your network branding, design, and member experience. All three plans offer an incredible value relative to our current premium services offerings.

You can find this message by clicking here: http://about.ning.com/announcement/?xg_source=announcement_bar

When Ning pulls the plug in July, grungecake.ning.com deletes. Take this time to save any photos, videos, and contacts that you have made.

Thank you,
Richardine Bartee
Founder • Editor • Creative Director

Photos: Resin Denim

Blurb from YAMS:

Headlined “Enough with the Leggings! Why Resin Makes Us Want to Wear Jeans Again“, Chelsea Zalopany writes about how the designers met, what makes them different in the cult pool of jean designers, how much their brand costs, the connection with Paper Denim & Clothing, the fit and last, but definitely not least, our love Ibrahim Ahmed III’s contribution to the jeans. See my interview with Mr. Ahmed by kindly clicking here. To read the article on Vogue.com, kindly click here!

From Vogue.com written by Chelsea Zalopany:

There is something indubitably American about (a) denim and (b) two brainy, hustling New York City hipsters. Chantel Valentene, a native of Brooklyn, first met the small-town Louisianan Durango Adams while they were both studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After five years of freelance designing, these self-proclaimed “denim-heads” quietly launched their jeans line, Resin—you might have stumbled across it in Barneys—at the end of last year—with the help of friend and co-founder of Paper Denim & Cloth Chris Gilbert. “We all brainstormed for months on why there needs to be another denim brand in the market,” says Valentene.
Clearly they thought one does. What separates Resin from the glut of denim labels is its inventive approach to the most utilitarian fabric on the planet. The name of the brand derives from their use of synthetic resins (usually it’s a natural substance found in plants and trees). “Resin, the chemical solution, changed the face of the denim industry from the basic stone and acid washes of the eighties to the crisp and gloss-coated unwashed denim of today,” explains Valentene.

Technicalities aside, it’s evident they’re doing something right from the looks of the brand’s body-hugging burnished skinny, the Lariat ($148), which is manipulated to instantly feel worn-out while being soft to the touch. Or their subtly washed black-garnet signature skinny jean, the Catalyst ($154). The Artisan denim trouser ($154)—which brought them to our attention—takes its cue from menswear. “We’ve relaxed the fit and shortened the length to keep it sexy yet comfortable,” says Adams. There is an artsy (installment artist Ibrahim Ahmed III designed artwork for the pocket linings) and organic feel to the label, which is as effortlessly cool as this pair of jeans-obsessed designers.

Photos: Richardine Bartee and Angelena Als

Long Island City, New York, April 5th, 2010 — New York based arts and entertainment publication, GrungeCake Magazine kicks off post-Easter with artist Jacob Ouillette. Following an intimate interview, Jacob Ouillette and Yams will discuss pressing topics and current events with fellow artists and web loggers: contemporary artist and illustrator Ibrahim Ahmed III, product designer Chanel Kennebrew of Junkprints, recording artists Shinobi Ninja, recording artist Nassaka, music relations and web logger Kaos Blac, online writing trio Pussy Galoreee, and the GrungeCake family. Taping will be held at the Dean Project Gallery in Long Island City, New York at 10am. This is a private event filmed by Milton.

GrungeCake Cubed, the online television production, a division of GrungeCake, L.L.C., owned by Richardine Bartee, brings viewers closer to and unfolds the artistry and views of innovative, and prominent artists by featuring exclusive interviews, informing discussions, and debates.

To begin your printed GrungeCake experience, order here: http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/55217

Photos: Screenshot of www.dookyblog.com

Blurb from YAMS:

If it isn’t obvious, the title of this blog is simple, humorous, and interesting. Dooky. I can almost swear, Kennebrew makes the ugliest of words, so ‘cool’. But(t). Seriously, Kennebrew covers a variety of topics: her dream-dwelling-place, her past in editorial photography, her crafts, the deaths of music publications — that I also liked and wanted to work for, and Pieter Hugo. Now, that’s a dooky blog for yuh. Check it out when you don’t have shxt to do! I just had to say that. To view the Dooky Blog, kindly click here. To read more about Kennebrew, kindly click here.

About The Dooky:

This blog is dedicated to exploring visual and pop culture concepts, working out ideas bragging and re-contextualizing current events to expose absurdity. The blog was started by Chanel Kennebrew and Anuli holds down most of the day to day postings. When we aren’t brain fuggling, raising miniature elephants and making ourselves sound way cooler than we are, you can find us making really fun stuff for the Junkprints fans, consumers and munchkinlanders.

Late Night Basement Sessions' Cover

Blurb from YAMS:

We are proud to announce the new GrungeCake Magazine music project with Recording Artist Boogie of Meridian, Mississippi. Introduced by one of our GrungeCake princesses, Ny Wesson, we have been enthralled with Boogie’s artistic expression, delivery, his musical decisions and presentation. We leave you without choice. Press play. Now. To embed the player, kindly click here. To download stream with artwork, click here. For the individual tracks, click here.

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Photos: Courtesy of Boogie

Blurb from YAMS:

I see star quality.

Boogie’s Bio:

With a southern background and a universal sound, Boogie has captivated the ears of listeners with his witty wordplay and progressive style. This Mississippi native strays away from the stereotypical modern day mediocre sound by staying true to himself and experimenting with different genres of all sorts.

MP3: “Late Night Basement Sessions” by Boogie

“The black sheep could be washed repeatedly but never loose it’s color.”

Born and raised, in Meridian MS, Jarante “Boogie” Glenn grew up in a household full of art, the soundtrack to his days mainly consisted of great musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Outkast just to name a few. “I remember when I was 13, I use to spend most of my time in back of the math class drawing instead of calculating.” Before hitting his teen years, he started taking those thoughts and images in his head and begun translating them into lyrics, and by the time he finished middle school he had already begun establishing his self as an artist. Although he rarely exchanged words with others, he gave peers a earful when they heard his music.

With the same mind state he came in the with, Boogie is beginning to leave his mark on the hearts of real Hip-Hop lovers.