CARHARTT and Stones Throw Records are proud to present the first major European Tour of Aloe Blacc. The new Soul sensation from Los Angeles will be touring Europe together with his band, The Grand Scheme, during the last weeks of September and all of October, introducing his brand new longplayer “Good Things” (out on 27 September across Europe). Aloe Blacc, who sees himself as a musical activist and is best known worldwide for his hit “I Need A Dollar”, will present a package of handmade Soul rhythms and lyrics with a social message – a style he has dubbed “Brand New Old Soul”.

As a side event of the tour, CARHARTT celebrates the release of the CD “Dark End of the Street” which was exclusively compiled for us. The CD features unstoppable Soul, Funk, and Boogie tracks composed and performed by artists such as Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk, and Paul White. Courtesy of Stones Throw Records and its sister labels Now-Again and Soul Cal, a couple of previously unreleased gems from bands and acts like Freedom Express, Dimlite, and Paul White round off the track list. The CD’s highlight is an exclusive Aloe Blacc cover version of the classic “The Dark End of The Street” previously performed by such artists as James Carr, Bruce Springsteen, Eva Cassidy, or Cat Power.

The CD will be available at all CARHARTT Stores and CARHARTT retailers. Exclusively at the Carhartt Stores you also get the chance to buy the strictly limited Aloe Blacc European Tour T-shirt. When you purchase the T-shirt you get the CD for free!!

Further reading:
www.carhartt-wip.com
www.stonesthrow.com
www.stonesthrow.com/aloeblacc
www.nowagainrecords.com

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, we’ve finally managed to climb from under the mountain of boxes that have been delivered to let you know about the Fall / Winter arrivals online and in store…

With new stock arriving daily, keep your eye on the site for updates, or better yet, pay us a visit at one of our stores in London or Manchester.

More coming soon…

A great find on eBay, these went for $255 !! More info over at Rivet Head.

From 12 – 15.08.10 saw the 2nd  World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships take place, this time in Berlin, Germany.

64 of the best teams from polo scenes across the World, including North America, Australia and many European capital cities, came together to battle it out for the ranking of World No.1in hardcourt bike polo.

Cosmic³, who have already had a great summer by being crowned UK Champs as well as runners up at the European Champs, were present at the WHBPC to rep Carhartt and European polo as well as show the Polo World some cosmic magic.

However, the cosmic boys, Mat, Tom and Todd, didn’t have an easy tournament start, due to having fixtures with Machine Polotics from Chicago (the eventual tournament runners up) as their 2nd game on day 1 and one of Germany’s No.1 teams, The Candy Coloured Clowns, first thing on the morning of day 2 in heavy rain. But cosmic got the results they needed to move into the top 32 for day 3 which was the knockout stages. Despite an opening game close loss to the North American champs, The Odds, by day 3 cosmic had found their groove and were beating big teams all the way to finally finishing 7th, which was the highest ranking UK team and 1 of 5 Europeans in the top 10. Results the confident Americans thought Europe could not achieve.

Overall, cosmic had an awesome time and gained many new friends and fans of the cosmic vision.

The final top 3 ranking results were as follows…

World Champions – The Beaver Boys – Milwaukee, USA, Runners up – Machine Polotics – Chicago, USA, 3rd – L’Equipe – Geneva, Switzerland

Next up Cosmic v2 (the new team with Rupert instead of Tom) came 5th at last weekends London Open, which wasn’t a bad result considering it was the first time Todd and Matt had played in their new format with Rupert.

Cosmic³ got a great win against the USA team who finished 2nd in the Worlds, but they got knocked out by L’Equipe, the Geneva team who beat us in the final at the Euro’s….annoying!

Thanks to photographer Slamm for the great photos. See more HERE

Carhartt Japan has created a line of bandanas in “Yuzen” fashion, which shows Heritage graphics that can be found all over the F/W10 range as well our Carhartt Wallpaper. Avalible only in Fukuoka and Tokyo stores and on the Carhartt Japan webstore.