Wild Ones: It’s Real

Missy Elliott's KCON debut, Wild Ones' sporty music video and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

Portland is known for many things: Rain, coffee, craft beer, flannels and indie music. But like much of the entire Northwest, it is not known for sports. With this in mind, videographer—and sole craftsman behind leather camera-strap brand Great State Strap Co—Gary Tyler McLeod directed the video for “It’s Real” by Portland-based band Wild Ones. In what may well be an emotional exposé on watching …

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Missy Elliott's KCON debut, Wild Ones' sporty music video and more in our look at the songs we tweeted this week

Missy Elliott + G-Dragon: Niliria There’s more to Seoul than “Gangnam Style.” While Justin Timberlake pleased Brooklyn at the VMAs, his Korean counterpart G-Dragon (who rose to fame through his pop band Big Bang and whose solo career has been equally influential) was rapping a duet with Missy Elliott at LA’s annual KPOP convention. While we were happily stunned to see Elliott—who’s kept a pretty …

No Mas + Pilgrim Surf + Supply

Reproduction jerseys from the preeminant 1963 US Surfboard Championship held in Huntington Beach, CA

Since 2005, CH has kept an eye on Brooklyn’s heritage sports-culture clothing brand No Mas, during which time they reintroduced Mohammad Ali’s famous boxing robe and founded their very own print publication Victory Journal. Most recently they collaborated with Williamsburg’s Pilgrim Surf + Supply to shed light on the 1963 US Championships of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA. That year, famed surf photography pioneer Ron …