Brooklyn NY, February 28 - New York-based Vengeance Designs unveiled their latest collection, Color Me Kinky, on February 28th at the FreeCandy space in Brooklyn. Vengeance Designs is known for their quality and dedication in combining clashing elements to form latex masterpieces for the fetish and cosplay crowd. This latest collection featured a variety of colorful latex outfits, some innocent and sweet, others revealing women reveling in their power over the male ego with a flash of skin. Designer Kayla Lael described the collection as, “A fusion of classic pin-up style with a pop-art twist!”

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We are giving away two pairs of IAMX concert tickets for April 26th at Irving Plaza in New York City! IAMX is featured in the April/May 2013 Issue. Two winners will be selected, each winner gets two tickets to the concert.

Purchase tickets to this concert at : http://bit.ly/14C5aqe

TO ENTER :
COMMENT on the “IAMX Giveaway” BLOG post on our WEBSITE from April 10th to April 17th :
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DETAILS
Two winners will be chosen at random from those who left comments on Auxiliary Magazine’s “contest : IAMX Concert Ticket Giveaway” blog post at www.auxiliarymagazine.com and from those who share the IAMX Concert Ticket Giveaway photo on Auxiliary Magazine’s Facebook Page between April 10, 2013 to April 17, 2013. You can enter to win two times by doing both. You must leave your email in the email field when commenting in order to enter on Auxiliary Magazine’s website. The email field is only visible to the website admin and will only be used to contact the winners of the contest. The winners will be contacted on April 18, 2013. Giveaway is for two pairs of IAMX concert tickets for April, 26 2013 at Irving Plaza in New York, NY. The winners will be on the guest list for the concert with a plus one and the winners must present a photo ID the night of the concert at guest list check in to claim the tickets.

New York NY, January 17 – Arden Leigh, author of the book The New Rules of Attraction and our Ask Arden relationship advice columnist, has brought her power and beauty to the world of music! Her new band Arden and the Wolves hit the stage for the first time at RBar on Bowery in NYC on January 17th. Her stage presence was enthralling. The best thing besides the music is the band’s look, Arden is very fair, like a Snow White, and her band members are very rock and rough (I mean rough in a good way boys!). Band members include lead guitar Gabe Mera, rhythm guitar Mick Royale, bass Percy Trayanov, and drums Matt James.

Arden Leigh took a few minutes to answer our questions!

What made you want to start singing?
Arden Leigh : I can remember wanting to sing for as long as I’ve been alive. I would sing at recess in school and the other kids would tell me to shut up. I spent most of my adolescence and early adulthood singing in theater, but that got old. I started writing acoustic singer/songwriter stuff in my early 20s, and then later decided I wanted to take advantage of my higher range. Indie pop rock bands (Paramore, Anberlin, The Classic Crime) have always been the kind of music that gets under my skin, and that’s what I wanted to put out there.

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We’ve gathered up some of the best Halloween parties happening this year, sure to be what you’re looking for no matter how crazy you want the Halloween party you end up at to be. There are so many parties going on, one is sure to fit your particular brand of dark. We can’t list them all, but here is a selection of some haunting hallows eve events.

New York NY, October 26 
Dances of Vice: Experiment in Terror - A Classic Horror Film Music Retrospective, 1954-1981

Kick off your perfect Halloween weekend by dancing to your favorite classic horror movie soundtracks performed live by Morricone Youth. The event also features Auxiliary Magazine PinUp Marlo Marquise plus Ruby Valentine and Nikki le Villain.

for more info click HERE

Los Angeles CA, October 26
Miss Kitty’s World Famous Halloween Ball 2012

The entire club is opened and transformed into an erotic, living, breathing haunted house of pansexual live performance, shows, dancers, mazes, interactive sets and dirty carnival style games. Featuring the Boulet Brothers, Miss Kitty, DJ Barbeau, Rudeness, Whorehaus, Kate Crash, St Peter D’vil, Carlos Gomez Aranda, and Eric Charles. Hosted by maters of horror Clive Barker.

for more info click HERE

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New York NY, September 8 – Jet Berelson founder of Vampire Freaks can put together a show like no other. Icon of Coil was insanely at it’s finest. The opening band [:SITD:] started to get things going with an amazing energetic set, followed by Icon of Coil amping up the crowd even more. Andy LaPlegua was all over the stage at Gramercy Theatre. When I spoke with him he told me, “his fans mean everything to him.” It was obvious this night as he smiled at his fans and made sure to hit every point of the stage where people could see him. In my opinion, he is a very talented, nice musician, and worth going to see at any show by his many bands: Icon of Coil, Combichrist, Panzer AG.

This night was also one to celebrate Vampire Freak’s own Annabel Fagan’s birthday. This had to have been her best birthday to date as her and Icon of Coil sat in the back and had some birthday cake together.

All in all it was a perfect night.

- Emily Strange

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New York NY, March 31 – Faderhead has kick started their new album The World of Faderhead which was released March 30th, 2012 with a tour that started on March 20th and ended April 3rd. The band is somewhat new to the music scene only having about six years under their belt but has already made their name with five albums not including their new one. Faderhead has had club hits such as “TZDV” ( from album FH3) and Dirtygrrrls/Dirtybois (from album FH2), which are still playing in clubs today.

While playing at Cybertron in New York City on March 31st put on by Vampire Freaks, Faderhead played their club hits along with some new songs. They also covered Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back”. The crowd was pumped up as Faderhead jumped on stage to their electro stompy music. The band is very connected getting low on stage to become face to face with fans.

As for the whole night it was a blast and was full of people. Once again Jet Berelson owner of Vampire Freaks has put on an amazing event and has many more to come!

- Emily Strange

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New York NY, February 19

Opening tomorrow, February 19th at Last Rites Gallery in Manhattan is Michael Mararian’s solo exhibition entitled Snow White. Famous tattoo artist Paul Booth opened Last Rites Gallery in 2008 and it has become a première gallery for art with a darker vibe and a haven for artists who prefer to explore the ominous, uncomfortable, and eccentric in their work.  If you are in the New York City area, this is a show not to miss!  Auxiliary featured Mararian in the October/November 2010 Issue.

left “Snow White” . right “Doc”

Mararian reveals his technique as, “hand drawn in various paint, dry-brush and ink forms, crudely scratched at times for a gritty, textured aesthetic. He is inspired by new and old journalistic-style photography, vintage graphics, cabinet cards, as well as retro advertisements and post mortem photography.”  Mararian clearly defines his intent as, “touching upon such topics as gross consumerism, school violence, teenage disappointments, pressures and the slowly growing social isolation that are part of our childhood and adult culture. The use of contradiction is an integral part of my work to magnify the absurdity of any given situation and draw a conflicting reaction from the viewer.” What can, on one level, be construed as melancholy and cruel, can alternately be viewed as amusing, or even charming. Mararian enjoys letting his audience decide.

A graduate of the Art and Theater program at the University of Bridgeport. His work has previously been shown at various galleries around the world. Originally from Andover, Massachusetts, Michael currently lives and works from his studios in Brooklyn and Buffalo, New York.

The show will run until March 19th, the opening is tomorrow.

SNOW WHITE a solo exhibition by MICHAEL MARARIAN
DATE : February 19^th, 2011
TIME : 7pm-11pm
LOCATION : Last Rites Gallery, 511 W. 33rd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10001

- Jennifer