Big City Rebels 3

Chad Cherry of The Last Vegas

Party Death & Wild Street boys

Josh of The Party Death

The Party Death

Ali of Wildstreet and The Party Death

Bobby Flores

Josh of The Party Death and Marty E of The Dirty Pearls

me

Lips Velvet

Alex York

Marcelo Dutra

NC Shuva

Toxic Vision Fashion Show

Big City Rebels is a bi-annual rock n' roll event hosted by Sammy Valentine, one of New York's finest rock n' roll nightlife mavens. If you follow AFS you've heard me rave about it here and here. I came to Rebels armed with a camera and the aim to capture a bit of the action. Like most R&R events the audience is as interesting as what's on stage. In addition to rock bands, Sammy mixed things up with a rock n' roll fashion show, Toxic Vision by Sharon Toxic. Rock n' roll and fashion collide once again and the results were marvelous. The four looks above are my favorites from the show. Not surprisingly, I can't get enough of rock n' roll muppetry... those furry sleeves are calling my name. You can get some of those Toxic goods here.

The Music of Ladyland

Astro Erie

David Alva of Stoned Fire

Bobby Flores and Sammy Valentine

Ian El Derado

Jeffrey Clark Grossman

Jeremy Limpkin and Guy Furrow

Kelle Calco

Lipsy Velvet

Lady Valtronic

Jessica Paige, Sammy Valentine and me hidden by hair

Ladyland at the Hudson Hotel Library Room from August 5, 2010

photos by ASH FOX edited by KELLE CALCO

The above photos are the results of me whirling around Ladyland with a camera in hand.

The party gets better and better each week. I'll say it again, Ladyland is the closest thing to 54 in 2010. Come for the fashion, the friends, the spectacle of it all, but mainly for the music...

As visually stylish as the attendees are, you can't capture the music stylings in photos. Resident rockstar DJs, Kelle Calco and Guy Furrow have the finesse to know when to play to the present mood of the party and when to transform the mood completely. They play a rock/punk/glam/ funk/soul potpourri, but each have a distinctive methodology in how they arrange their sets. Instead of the usual top 40 club hits, or the hipster-- "it's only cool if it's indie and unknown" stuff, they play what they like. Guest DJs Ian El Derado, Marty E, Sammy Valentine, and others pop in from week to week adding another layer of rock n' roll goodness to the music menu. Ladyland's DJs have so much style that there's no need to look at the DJ booth to know to whose spinning.

LADYLAND : A ROCK N ROLL DANCE PARTY about Love, Light, Laughter, Ecstasy, Inebriation, Grit, and Glamour spreading and celebrating the spirit of a real and infectious musical sound which christened a lifestyle of liberation, libation, and celestial satisfaction. This is a place for souls who know that god still needs guitars and hearts don't beat to a click track. As one million dreamers tap their toes and tune into Jagger's lips and lyrics spitting on and all about the streets of New York....the very streets that we’re groovin on tonight.....we will be the faces they dream of, and this, my friend, is where those faces will meet. Come play with fire and paint it black. Come dance, little sister, dance with a motley cast of muppets, models, and musicians every Thursday at The Library in Hudson Hotel, Hell's Kitchen, NYC. EVERY THURSDAY, 11 PM – 4 AM"

Ladyland Night

me & alex york



me and simon j

photos by Angus Smythe

Come tonight and see what the party's all about!

"LADYLAND : A ROCK N ROLL DANCE PARTY about Love, Light, Laughter, Ecstasy, Inebriation, Grit, and Glamour spreading and celebrating the spirit of a real and infectious musical sound which christened a lifestyle of liberation, libation, and celestial satisfaction. This is a place for souls who know that god still needs guitars and hearts don't beat to a click track. As one million dreamers tap their toes and tune into Jagger's lips and lyrics spitting on and all about the streets of New York....the very streets that we’re groovin on tonight.....we will be the faces they dream of, and this, my friend, is where those faces will meet. Come play with fire and paint it black. Come dance, little sister, dance with a motley cast of muppets, models, and musicians every Thursday at The Library in Hudson Hotel, Hell's Kitchen, NYC. EVERY THURSDAY, 11 PM – 4 AM"