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This purse by Karen Kalashnik is killer. Karen Kalashnik is a Canadian designer with some stylish and edgy work in leather made all by hand! Working with leather and metal hardware to add those details that stand out, she’s got a collection of custom and ready made pieces ready to check out. The Studs, Spikes & Jewels Hobo, is on my personal wish list, with its black leather exterior, lots of room for everything you’ll need to carry with you to the beach, shopping, or a night out. And if you’re looking for this much loved accessory, because you can’t ever have enough purses, I recommend this piece. With its sparkles and spikes it’s a must have item for any rocker chic chick.

The Studs, Spikes & Jewels Black Leather Hobo is available online for $339.00 at www.karenkalashnik.etsy.com.

- Tasha

On left, jacket and leggings by Mother of London.
On right, sequined jacket by Mother of London.

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Auxiliary Magazine editors Jennifer Link and Mike Kieffer are guests on this week’s ISN radio show! Listen to them chat with ISN radio show host Edwin Somnambulist about Auxiliary, music, and fashion. Plus listen to their selection of 11 tracks for the show, some of their personal favorites and some featured in Auxiliary Magazine.

Listen to the show at www.isnradio.com

Earlier this month Kent Kaliber, our PinUp for the June/July 2012 Issue, hosted a June/July 2012 Issue release party in LA at Bar Sinister. Jay Gordon of Orgy, featured in the June/July 2012 Issue, was the guest DJ for the night and Arden Leigh, long time contributor to Auxiliary and writer of our Ask Arden advice column, performed. It was our first event on the west coast and proved to be a great success!

photos : Steve Prue

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Buffalo NY, May 16 – Santigold has been touring non-stop, with a few more dates in North America, she moves onto Europe and then back. In May we had the chance to catch a show. Santigold mixes electronia and new wave with hip hop and reggae, and before you dismiss that she is not your preferred style of music, know that she is. Santigold creates a style that is all her own, that can appeal to a wide range of musical tastes, and brings an incredible amount of energy to her live shows. Santigold sounds at home played at a ragging summer party and a goth/industrial night.

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Piscataway NJ, May 18-20 - Every year, towards the end of spring, The Steampunk World’s Fair, beckons enthusiasts of steam to the emerald fields of the Garden State, preparing to guard the walls against their fist-pumping foes from the shore. Now entering its third year, they arrive on airships, horseless carriages, unicycles, and the occasional T.A.R.D.I.S., ready to celebrate for a three-day weekend full of performances (from artists such as Voltaire, Platform One, and Danny Blu to circus/sideshow acts), costume contests, panels, and burlesque shows!

- Phil (Knightmare6)

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Buffalo NY, May 7 – M83 are currently touring Europe, they will be back in North America touring from August to October, and back in May we had the chance to catch one of their shows. If you haven’t already, make sure you see one of their shows this fall. An excellent example of how to do an electronic music concert right, M83 gave their all, the songs sounded beautiful live, and the sold out crowd was in awe. There is a reason you have been hearing M83 left and right and their popularity is growing at a very fast rate, it is well deserved.

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Electro-pop quartet Freezepop just released a new EP, Doppelgänger, which comprises of remixes and new versions of tracks from the expanded version of their latest full-length Imaginary Friends. To pair with the new EP, Freezepop made two new music videos for the track “Doppelgänger”. One version known as the “nice” version shows a sign saying, “Free hugs for puppies!! I <3 them!”, the other version known as the “douchey” version shows a sign saying, “I will give yr dog the finger! $50 sale price.” Two fun videos with the sense of humor we love from Freezepop!

- Jennifer Link

We are giving away a print copy of Auxiliary Magazine!

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Montreal, QC – May 17-20 – first hand account by Pete Crane of Shiv-r

Shiv-r

Holy shit Kinetik!!!

Since the first Kinetik was announced five years ago, it has had a pants-wettening line-up and every year we have been tempted to travel to Montreal, Canada to party it up and see the awesomeness. From the first Kinetik featuring one of my personal faves Headscan, and other awesome bands that you don’t get to see on the European festival circuit (and certainly the bands who have a snowball’s chance in hell of being brought to Australia), to 2011′s monster line-up including Frontline Assembly, mind.in.a.box, and Suicide Commando, it’s always a line-up to die for and this year was no different, so it was amazing to finally get to come to Kinetik, let alone being invited to actually perform.

Wendy and I made the flight from Sydney on the preceding Monday. The 19 hour Air Canada flight to Montreal via Vancouver was as brutal as you might expect but we eventually made it in and checked into the Hyatt in Montreal. We arrived in the late afternoon so we walked around the inner city for a couple of hours (we love just walking around foreign cities when we’re there for the first time, it’s my favorite part about travelling and seeing new shit, just walking).

On Tuesday our band mate Lee arrived. Despite writing half the music for Shiv-r, he has never actually been able to play live with us because he lives in Bangkok these days and they don’t have planes there or something. We also met up with another Australian friend of ours, Beck, and got our first taste of poutine (a famous Montreal specialty consisting of fries, gravy, and cheese, but god is it good!) and some shopping. Tuesday night we went drinking at the bar next to Metropolis, FouFon Electrique (or, “The Electric Butt-Butt”). $2.50 beers had me slaughtered in no time and then the rowdiness started. Apparently I was running around telling people (including my friends), “I don’t know if you heard, but I’m playing at the Metropolis on Friday night.”  Well, bitches gotta recognise…

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