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On the cover: CLEO WATTENSTRM; photo: WARWICK SAINT; stylist: JOSHUA LIEBMAN; hair: BRADLEY IRION for Artists by Timothy Priano; makeup:QUINN MURPHY for De Facto Inc.; manicure: JESSICA TONG; location: FAST ASHLEYS. Tripp NYC hot pants; Maria Black earrings; stylists own necklace.

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I m t Y P I N g t h I s L E t t E R L A t E A t N I g h t O N A P R I L 1 9 , and the secondsuspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has just been taken into custody.My adrenaline and American-red blood are pumping as the reports comein rom my birthplace o New England. Im watching a video o citizens whohave poured out o their homes onto the streets, fnally ree rom a lockdownand the threat o terrorism. As local police pass through, the throng breaksout into an impromptu rendition o the national anthem. Once I hear and thehome o the brave, I lose it. I cant help it: Music is one o the most transi-tive art ormsit touches the soul. Like tattoos, its a way to show pride, toinspire, and, sometimes, to move people to tears.

In this, our Music Issue, we eature Sarah Churman (1), a dea woman whosobbed uncontrollably when she frst heard her own voice at 29 and wastransfxed by her frst experience listening to live music. Dustin Cohen (2) shotseminal New York City punk goddess Theo Kogan or our Q&A. And IsaacFitzgerald (3) and Wendy MacNaughton (4) o Pen & Ink illustrate tattoos omusic inuencers such as Jonathan Davis, French Montana, and Tim McIlrath.

Gavin Thomas (5) trains his lens on the sexiest tattooed women in musicvideos or Video Vixens, while Aaron Richter (6) snaps away at TeenageBottlerocket, a punk band that believes YouTube is giving music videosanother renaissance. Just in time or cookout weather, dedicated musicaltastemaker Jonah Bayer (7) gives you the INKED summer playlist. And KaraPound (8) presents the rock poster ar t o Brian Ewing, who is now trying hisskills in the tattoo world.

Hopeully the music, the tattoo art, and the stories on the ollowing pages willinspire you to be your wicked best.

Rocky [email protected]

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West Coast rapper The Game added President Barack

Obama to the collection of inuential people commemo-

rated in ink across his body. Carlos Macedo tattooedthe 44th commander in chief on the rappers sternum

in between nishing up portraits of Malcolm X and

Muhammad Ali. In related news Obama told the Today

show if either of his daughters were to get a tattoo he

and the First Lady would get the exact same tattoo in

the same place and well go on YouTube and show it off

as a family tattoo. His rationalization is that by doing

so it might dissuade them from thinking that somehowthats a good way to rebel.

QR coes provie easy access to

web pages, but Berrge Tattoo ouna new use or the intricate back-patterne squares. The shop took

out an a eaturing a aint QR coethat require prospective empoyeesto show their patience, steay han,

an attention to etai by ingin the esign correcty in orer toaccess the job appication onine.

The tactic sure beats weeing

through cover etters.

yes He Can get an obama tattoo

55%

TheTaTTooers

Code

This spring, teen io HarryStyes reveae a new ai-

tion to his ink coection thatreceive mixe eeback romhis preteen ans. Yes, its abutterfybut we think itssoi work. The back-an-gray piece, inke by artistliam Sparkes, reportey

pushes the One directionvocaists tattoo count past 20.

winging it

The percentage o peopewho got a tattoo beore age16 an regret it, accoring

to research presente at the2013 American Acaemy odermatoogy meeting. Ony26 percent o those who gotinke between ages 21 an

40 have regrets.

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Weve reached that point in our orbs revolu-tion when the northern hemisphere is closest to

the sunbut summer isnt ofcial until you have

a light, cold one in your hand. Thats right, noth-

ing is more delicious than a frosty one. Heck,

Coors has a whole marketing campaign revolv-

ing around how cold their beer isas if they

have control over the temperature setting in

your fridge. But lets move away from the fridge:

Fill up your cooler and make your way to the

beach, park, ball game, or wherever you want to

drink al fresco and hang out with your buds.

What to put in the cooler should depend on

the Weather Channel. If the forecast predicts a

day thats at least ve degrees hotter than thecomfort level on your home thermostat, then nd

your way to lighter summer brews. Why? First,

no one wants to be slugging down brown ales in

the sun. Second, depending on how frequently

your local store turns over inventory, chances

are the summer beers are fresher than a regular

12-er. And perhaps in response to the com-

plaints of insecure men who consider summer

beers to be girly, brewers have more and more

options that arent overly fruity. Grab one of

the summery choices shown in the box at right

and meet us at the skate parkwell bring the

koozies. Robert McCormick

Thr ar two tims o th yar to loo orward to: th month whnGirl Scouts dlivr thir coois, and summr, whn brs hit coolrs.

wet, Hot ameriCan summer

tiki talkA chat with Jc Dl, who wors

at Purpl Orchid in el Sgundo, CA.

wh d y k h? Dudes with Shriner

hats and tiki drinks make things more interesting.

Our crowd is always fun because its a destination

spot for tiki bus tours, party buses, and car and

bike clubs. We have burlesque shows, and bands

play every so often.

s ld cd h k l hv cl;

h fcd Ppl ochd? Most of our patrons areblue-collared and tattooed.

H b h ? I have the most tattoos out of all

the employees.

D y hv y k-hd pc? My work is more

traditional Americanaor from late-night tattoo

parties.

D y hv v? Its hard to pick a favorite

maybe my thigh piece.

wh h b gh y b? Friday nights arealways fun and memorable. We bartenders keep

it fun by playing games with each other, like well

only communicate in baby talk or something

ridiculous like that.

Sam adamS Summer ale

Jim koch and that cool bardd guy romth Sam Adams commrcials ma a

damn n, crisp summr al. Mad with

lmon zst and a spic calld grain o

paradis, its citrusy, pppry favor pairsamazingly wll with shllsh.

aNcHOr Summer Beer

Almost 30 yars old now, this summr or-

ing is an all-malt br, with mor than halo its malt drivd rom maltd what. Youll

want to pour it into a glass bor drining,

as th whats natural protins crat a

had as thic as mringu.

21St ameNdmeNt Brewery

Hell Or HiGH watermelON

Th San rancisco br mar brws aclassic Amrican what br and intro-

ducs rsh watrmlon during a scondaryrmntation procss. Th rsult: crisp brwith just a hint o th summr ruit.

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It wasnt until 1998 that it became legal to tat-

too in Milwaukee, WI. Growing up, when you saw

someone with a tattoo, you knew there were only

three ways to get it: you were either in jail, in the

military, or you went out of state, says artist Brian

Ewing, who grew up in Wisconsin.Ewing has garnered attention as a well-known

rock poster artist working with musicians like Tom-

ahawk, Morrissey, The Deftones, and Graveyard.

After stints in New York, San Francisco, and Los

Angeles, Ewing moved to Columbus, OH, where

he recently snagged an apprenticeship at High

Street Tattoo. I respect the craft, Ewing says of

the possibility hell transition from rock poster artist

to tattoo artist.

Ewing describes his Midwest childhood as a

steady diet of skateboarding, punk music, heavy

metal, and comic books. In the early 2000s, Ewing,

a self-professed art school dropout, moved to L.A.

and landed a job at Larry Flynt Publications doingproduction and layout for 1-800 ads in the back of

Hustlermagazine. He would spend lunch hours and

weekends freelancing and creating posters for local

music venues.

Inuenced by art nouveau, ukiyo-e wood-block

prints, southern Californias car culture, and com-

ics, Ewings work has been exhibited from Italy to

Kansas City. My artwork is pretty dark and a lot

of the stuff I do is self-taught, he says. But for his

tattoo work, he is going the tried-and-true route. I

want to go through a traditional apprenticeship and

learn everything from the sanitation to the workings

of the machine. Kara Pound

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Poster boyMost rock fyrs ar mant to b stapldto a tlphon pol; Brian ewings arpolishd nough to hang in a gallry.

Clockwise from below: Tomahawk Gig Poster; Deftones Gig Poster; Queens of the Stone Age Gig Poster.

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miXmastersTokidoki teamed up with SolRepublic for the TokidokiTracks HD headphones ($150,solrepublic.com), featuring killersound and some fresh characters.

tHewrite

stuffWest Coast tattoo artist

Paul Timman collaboratedwith ACME to create a line

of accessoriesa pen ($73)and card case ($47, both

acmestudio.com)inspired byhis traditional-style artwork.

Crust

PunkYou have two choices:You can smash all of yourplates, or you can scrubyour dishes with thePunk Washing Up Brush($5, amazon.com).

Hotwater

musiCSinging in the shower?

We prefer screaming likeGlenn Danzig behind theSour Puss Clothing Mis-

ts Shower Curtain ($19,sourpussclothing.com).

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wooDstoCkAudiowood Barky Turntables($1,500, audiowood.com)

are custom-made so notwo decks are alike.

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HaPPyHour

Ron Englishs Fld linefeatures the pop artistssick twist on logos and

icons of pop culture, likethe Yellow Grin ($50,

udwatches.com) with askull peeking out from

the smiley face.

Howmany?

Show the world howmuch you care by

stitching VNMs ZeroFucks Given Patch

($5, thevnm.com) ontoyour favorite jacket,bag, or holey pants.

musiC is a weaPonHandmade from an ammo case, the Thodio A-Box (starting atabout $390, thodio.com) works with MP3 players and laptops,

and can even be used as a guitar amp.

JuiCyCoutureMUSAs Free Biggie T-shirt ($30, musaapparel.bigcartel.com) doesnthave tigers or alligators,

but it does feature theNotorious B.I.G.

remembermiX taPes?

With Sharetapes, you buy a cassette

embedded with an NFC chip and printed witha QR code ($7 for 5, sharetapes.com), use

the site to link it to a playlist, then give the

tape to that girl you have a thing for (to play,

she can tap the cassette against a Blackberry,

Android, or Windows device, or scan the code

with any QR reader).

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tHe streetSuBject: Benny ThomsonSpOtted: Irving Plaza, New YorkwHere He GetS iNked: Eight of Swords Tattoo,located in Brooklyn. They have so many killerartists there, and Dave [Wallin] did my calves.Thomsons right leg has a saucy damsel with aroaring 20s look to her. Shes in black ink withpowerful blue and green specimens of the insectkingdom crawling around her, he says. On hisleft calf, theres an eerie gentleman with tentacles

protruding from his coat. I see the two pieces asrepresentative of wanting what you cant have, ina way. Theyre from two different worlds and heslooking at her, but shes looking away, explainsThomson. Girls, manwHat HeS weariNG: The Cast leather vest ($875);The Cast studded bracelet ($12), thecast.com.BraNd BackStOry: When you walk through thedoors of The Cast in New York Citys Lower EastSide, you can hear the echoes of Iggy Pop, TheRamones, and Patti Smith. Its almost as if their

punk spirits escaped CBGB when it closed itsdoors and found a new home at this shop, whichsells a private label of clothing featuring every-thing for the rocker or punkette in need, from bikerhats and jackets to vests and concho bootstraps.wHat elSe HeS weariNG: WeSC skinny jeans;Red Fang T-shirt; Dr. Martens boots; Oakley sun-glasses; Bennys own bracelets and necklace.

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tHiS iS tHe eNd

Were going to need a bigger mar-quee. This hysterical, hard-R-ratedcomedy follows six friends trapped ina house after a series of end-of-the-

world-like events plague Los Ange-les. Heres the cool part, though:These arent mere characters; theactors are playing themselves. Itsa party at James Francos house,and the friends hiding out with himinclude Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill,Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, andCraig Robinson. You can also expecta shitload of cameos (Jason Segel,Aziz Ansari, and Michael Cera, toname a few). From the writers ofSuperbadand Pineapple Express, itis going to be bat-shit insane. G.M.

pacific rim

The great Guillermo del Toro (PansLabyrinth, Blade II) directs thissci-/action ick about giant robotsthat take on giant monsters. In a

futuristic world, creatures knownas Kaiju emerge from the sea, andhumans create Jaegersmassiverobots that are controlled by twohuman pilotsto combat the mon-strosities. It looks like Transformerson steroids versus Godzilla andfriends.Del Toro never seems tolet us down, and with the mas-sive amounts of destruction andawesome-looking special effectsthis will be pure popcornsummer

fun. Its a good excuse to sit in anair-conditioned theater. G.M.

tHe maN BeHiNdtHe BraNd

maN Of Steel

Poor Brandon Routh. It looks likeSuperman has been rebooted againas Superman Returns failed to reig-nite the franchise. This time, Zack

Snyder (300, Watchmen) is behindthe lens, so we know therell be alarge amount of style and visual air.The chiseled Henry Cavill is playingSupes, and hes accompanied by acast as solid as his abs: Amy Adams,Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner,Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, andRussell Crowe. Christopher Nolan(Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) isalso involved, as producer. The fateof the Justice League movie relies on

this icks success, so we hope thisSuperman soars. Gil Macias

tHe wOlveriNe

After the very disappointing X-MenOrigins: Wolverine, were getting yetanother stand-alone movie about ourfavorite adamantium-clawed mutant.

While the previous ick was a pre-quel set before the events of the rstX-Men trilogy, The Wolverine jumpsto present time and takes place afterX-Men: The Last Stand. This time,the lost and wandering Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) nds himself inJapan, where he battles samurais,ninjas, and an enemy from the past.Comic fans will be pleased to knowthe Silver Samurai appears, andtheres even a glimpse of Jean Grey

(Famke Janssen). James Mangold(3:10 to Yuma) directs. G.M.

Som youg turs oly ow do e Haryrom hs mall cloths, but thos th ow

rcogz hm as o o th gratst lvg

tattoors. Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tat-

toosby Hary a Jol Slv s th frstha

accout o th artsts llog jouryromCalora a nw Yor to Hawa a th ar

eastas h lar at th stools o Phl Spar-

row, kazuo Ogur, a Salor Jrry Colls. Thstattoo mmor s th story o th ma who too

tattoog out o th shaows a hlp tur tto a worlw ar t movmt. Nick Fierro

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saraH CHurman: Grow-g up, my a wrot, play

musc, a sag qut a bt. irmmbr my parts rs

woul com ovr a th guys

woul play musc utl th whours o th ght. As a ,

t sm so magcal to sta watch th guys. Though

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what to chc out, or i hara sog i l, i t to buy th

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l a w woma, a pup

grls mboy cofc.Rocky Rakovic

newsensationBor a, Sarah Churma t hav thjoy o (ully) xprcg musc utl shrcv harg mplats 2011 (mlloshav watch hr har or th frst tm aYouTub vo). Th tattoo mom o two, aauthor o Power On: The Sounds I Choose toHear and the Noise I Dont, shars what ts lto rscovr musc a whol w way.

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tHe inkeD PlaylistB y J o n a h B a y e r

tHe laSt Of uS

PlATfORM: PS3When a virus transforms everyday citizens into hu-

manoid zombies, the fabric of life unravels and themilitary places the small remaining pockets of theuninfected under martial law. To fulll a promise toan old friend, a smuggler must sneak an orphanedgirl out of the quarantine zone and escort her acrossthe post-apocalyptic wasteland to a rebel strong-hold. Often outnumbered and lacking ammunitionfor big reghts, you must stealthily circumnavigatemost threats and steel yourself for brutally violentencounters when spotted. With powerful storytell-ing and tension-lled missions created by NaughtyDog (the makers of Uncharted), this is one adven-

ture PS3 owners wont want to miss. play if yOulike:I Am Legend, Uncharted, The Road M.B.

cOmpaNy Of HerOeS 2

PlATfORM: PC

More than 20 million Russians died during World War II. Rewrite history and cut that egregious numberdown by taking command of the Soviet Red Army in the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed real-time strategy games ever. On your march to Berlin, the weather poses just as much a threat as the GermanWehrmacht. Entrenched soldiers need to stay near heat sources during winter or risk dying of frostbitebefore the Germans even arrive, but the bonres may reveal your position. Rushing your tanks across afrozen body of water could result in a surprise strike, but if your rival German commanding ofcer is savvy,he could mortar the ice and send your T-34s to a slushy grave. If you channel your inner meteorologist andmaster the weather, you can march down the road to victory in both the solo campaign and competitivemultiplayer. play if yOu like:Band of Brothers, Brothers in Arms, Enemy at the Gates Matt Bertz

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rememBer me

PlATfORMS: PS3, XBOX 360, PC

Thanks to powerful sensation engine technol-

ogy implanted in every citizen, humans can relivethe sexy and dangerous adventures of anyonewho wants to share them. This has turned half thepopulation into crazed and violent mem addictsand the other half into the repressed citizens of asurveillance state. Resistance ghter Nilin used towield the power to remix peoples memories, buther memory has been wiped and she must ght herway through the streets of near-future Paris whilepiecing together her past. The memory hunter maybe an amnesiac, but she still knows how to kick ass,with lethal combos that players can customize as

they learn new moves. play if yOu like:Blade Run-ner, Devil May Cry, Strange Days M.B.

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Mr. Sunshne wreaks havoc on tattoos.lucky, there are products specfcaycreated to save your nk.

The beach, camping, cookouts, biking, out-door concertsall summer fun happens in thesun. Though the great outdoors is great for a lot

of reasons, it also exposes you to harmful UV raysthat could damage both your skin and your ink.The sun can fade ink over time, making it some-what lighter and less vibrant, explains Andrew K.Pollack, M.D., director at the Philadelphia Instituteof Dermatology. On top of that, UV rays dull anddiminish certain colors faster than others (red isnotoriously quick to fade).

The best way to protect your artwork is tocover it with clothing or sunscreen, like thetattoo-specic SPF products here. But if one ofyour tattoos is already damaged and you want itgone to make room for a better piece (that youpromise to protect more vigilantly!), take comfort:Laser removal of a faded tattoo is likely to beeasier and less painful than it would be for freshink, says Dr. Pollack. Natasha Van Duser

Cruel

summer

cOppertONe tattOO Guard

lOtiON Spf 50

The conc sunscreen maker turns ts attentonto nk wth ths tattoo-guardng oton ($8, drug-

stores) that protects aganst UV rays, mosturzes,and s water-resstant up to 80 mnutes.

H2OceaN Sea life Spf 45

Bed as an extreme sunscreen, the nkednsders sunscreen o choce ($7, nkedshop.com)wont stng new tattoos or your eyesperect orprotectng head tattoos on sweat-nducng days!

jwOww tattOO cOlOr

prOtectiON cream

Created byJersey Shores Jenn areya gr whoknows tannngths oton ($17, amazon.com)doesnt eature SP, but t does renew vbrancy on

coor work, thanks to mosturzng grape-seed o.

tattOO GOO cOlOr Guard Stick

witH Spf 30

i you want to cover up a sma pece and st geta tan, use ths stck ($9, amazon.com), whch sthe sze o p bam. it aows you to trace nkedareas precsey, eavng the rest o you exposed.

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artst Tm ds has th so Tm McGraw, l Way, a nl

payr Athoy Hargrov. l wasa pachy- th Bg easy ut

Hurrca katra cam a wpout th cty. dvastat a trmto ma a rsh start, ds a hs

w rocat to Charsto a opth ctys frst tattoo shop, Bu Gora

(1409 kg St.), 2004. Tattoog hab ga South Caroa btw

1976 a 2004, so ocas wou rv to

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chagg th archac rguatos, dsswoop a st up shop. Ths ays,

s ar out th oor a th accoasp rog . Rachel Khona

> Get artSyFor one-stopart supply shopping,nothing is better thanArtist and Craftsmans

Charleston location (143Calhoun St.). They haveeverything you need toprepare a tattoo, saysDennis. Impeccablecustomer service anda helpful staff make thestore inviting and easy tonavigate. Whether youneed tracing paper andpencils or help with amore complicated projectlike building a bench, thisis the place to go. Thebest part? The companyis employee-owned, soyoure supporting thelittle people.

^ liSteN tO live muSic One of Charlestons best-knownmusic venues, small but intimate Music Farm (32 Ann St.) isthe perfect place to see national and local bands up closeand personal. I saw Suicidal Tendencies there, Dennissays. If you want to hear rock music in Charleston, MusicFarm is the place to go. Bands like Ben Folds Five, OK Go,and They Might Be Giants have all played the venue, taking

advantage of the rich and clear sound the seasoned vets ofMusic Farm know how to deliver.

< diNe ON duckTattooedMoose (1137 Morrison Dr.)may be a gastropub, but ithasnt forgotten its Southern

roots. A large stuffed moosehead and gun rack hangbehind the bar, while a signnearby reads, We dont servewomen here. You have tobring your own. Of the ducksandwich, Dennis says, Todie for. And they have theseawesome blue cheese fries.People also come far andwide for that duck club sand-wich, featuring duck cont,

applewood-smoked bacon,cheddar, and aioli.

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Captains Comics and Toys (1209 Sam Rittenberg Blvd.).Whether youve been a collector since the Ice Age or youremore of a newbie, Captains Comics offers everything acomic nerd could ever dream of. Plus, the friendly staff isalways happy to help outeven if you dont know GreenLanterns secret identity.

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Surf aNd SHrimp You may not think of surng when it comesto Charleston, but nearby Folly Beachs close-knit communitymakes it one of the East Coasts most energetic surf scenes.I learned how to surf when I moved here, says Dennis.When youre done working up an appetite on the waves,

he recommends trying the shrimp and grits at Ritas Sea-side Grille (2 Center St., Folly Beach). They serve the bestshrimp and grits in the country, hands down.

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In the 90s it was sort of pointless for a smaller band to make amusic video. But nowadays its easy to watch an underground band on

YouTube. That certainly helps motivate us to shoot our stupid videos.Brandon Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket

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bottlerocketWyoming, the Cowboy State, is known for many things: beautiful country-

side, Dick Cheney, buffalo, Old Faithful, and punk rock (cue sound of a recordscreeching to a halt). Yep, punk rock in Wyoming. Teenage Bottlerocket maysound like they grew up down the street from CBGB, but its Laramie that theycall home. One might think that it would be difcult to start a band without ascene to support it, but this was never a hindrance for TB. Thats the thingabout Wyomingtheres nothing to do, says guitarist Ray Carlisle. So if yougive them something to do, the kids are going to do it.

The bands name is an apt description for their soundenergy-driven pop-punk with a sarcastic sense of humorand it was chosen when the act formedin the early 2000s, just long ago enough for the guys to forget where the namecame from. Our rst guitar player, Zach, said it was the name of his dads rstcar, a 49 Ford, drummer Brandon Carlisle reports. But that Zach guy was sofull of shit. It was probably something he read in one of his hot rod magazines.That guy stole my U.S. Bombs shirt, and Ill never forgive him for that. What-ever the origins, the name has gotten a little awkward to play under as the bandmembers advance in years. My moms friends like to bring up the fact that weare no longer teenagers, Brandon notes.

But that hasnt stopped Teenage Bottlerocket from touring relentlessly andusing a tool to get noticed that many bands abandoned after the Total Request

Live era. Their videos for Skate or Die and Headbanger depict the frenzy andhumor of the band perfectly and are racking up hits on YouTube every day. Yeah,the YouTube thing makes videos more relevant for underground bands. In the 90sit was sort of pointless for a smaller band to make a music video, Brandon says.There was really no chance of anyone seeing it, unless you were set up to be onMTV. But nowadays its as easy to watch an underground band on YouTube as itis the bigger bands. That certainly helps motivate us to shoot our stupid videos.

The ink of the guys in the band also seems to be cohesive with the soundof the group. Guitarist Kody Templeman shows off the light side of the bandwith Trogdor the Burninator inked on his forearm. Brandon has tattoos depict-ing some of the groups musical inuences, including Screeching Weasel andthe Ramones, and the story behind Rays main tattoo would be perfect lyricalfodder for one of TBRs songs: I got this tattoo in Italyits my ex-wifes name.Then I got it x-ed out in Bakerseld, he explains. The most heavily tattooedmember of the group is bassist Miguel Chen, who has a mishmash of seriouspersonal tattoos and a lot of tattoos inuenced by sci- and horror movies,which are common themes in TBR songs (see: Necrocomicon and BloodBath at Burger King). Chen gets a lot of his work done by Jeff Everett at The

Underground in Laramie, proving once again that Wyoming has more than buf-falo, Old Faithful, and Cheney. Charlie Connell

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gardenhireFootball is still months away, right? Wrong. The women of the Legends

Football League (formerly known as the Lingerie Football League) are currentlycareening into each other for our amusement. And the top pick on our fantasy

team is number 15 on the Las Vegas Sin, Jenny Yukich-Gardenhire (a.k.a. Doll-face), who tears up the tur f and has as much ink as her counterparts in the NFL.

Raised in Wichita, KS, Yukich-Gardenhire is a longtime model and athletewho got her start with the LFL in 2009, playing for the Denver Dream. Thisseason marks her second playing for the Sin at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

Heres the gist of LFL: Its a seven-on-seven, full-contact football league.The ladies play on a eld thats 30 by 50 yards. There are no eld goals, sothe games a fast-paced, nonstop 40 minutes, with each team going for asmany touchdowns as possible. Oh, and instead of wearing uniforms that padtheir hard bodies, the girls are in lingeriewhich, tantalizing as it is, can leadto busted coverage.

Every once in a while my bra top will get snatched over to the side, butIve never gotten it actually ripped off of me, Yukich-Gardenhire says. I dontremember my bottoms ever getting pulled off, mostly because Im not an offen-sive player, so Im doing the tackling.

You might imagine that a locker room full of girls in lingerie would turn into acatght complete with feather pillows and a Jell-O wrestling ring, but Yukich-Gardenhire says thats not the case: We really dont ght with each other.Sure, when were on the eld, we ght hard and we play hard, but when wereoff the eld, were all pretty good friends.

If youre not already in love with Dollface, you should probably know that herfavorite things to dobesides playing footballare gaming (Halo, specically)and getting tattooed. Shes currently rocking a Day of the Dead tattoo done by

Duncan Macormac at Victory Tattoo, and a voodoo doll, monster cupcake,teddy bear, and innity sign from Tony Arias of Hart & Huntington. Kara Pound

The Legends Football League may not have asmuch ink as the NFL, but this member of theLas Vegas Sin keeps things colorful.


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ttention, TV producers: meet Cleo Wat-

tenstrm, a tattoo artist and model from

Stockholm. Doesnt Stockholm Inkhave

an interesting ring to it? Like reality stars

Kat Von D and Megan Massacre, Cleois a tattoo artist rst and foremost. In

fact, she was reluctant to charm the

camera. When I started modeling I was

a bit torn because I feel that in the tattoo industry,

if you are a professional tattooer, people think that

you shouldnt display yourself in any other light,

she says. I was a bit worried about what people

would think about me, with the publicity and nudity

and so on. Then I just made peace with the fact that

I cant go on worrying about others so I might as

well go ahead and do whatever the hell I feel like.

Cleo uses modeling as a means to do what

she loves. I prioritize my tattooing, she says. A

modeling job has to give me either the oppor-tunity to travel or money for it to be worthwhile.

I have enough pictures of myselfI dont see

why I would need more of them.

In 2009, after learning her craft for a few

years at a small shop, she got a station at Life-

style Tattoo. Her work, which she often free-

hands, uses color in interesting ways and mixes

new school and traditional. Though she hasnt

been tattooing long, shes always been drawn

to the art form. As a kid I was really intrigued

by bands that had a punk look, often with pierc-

ings and tattoos, she says. When I was 13 I

found a dodgy tattoo parlor where they did a

little text on my hip that reads Babylon GoingDown. I had dreadlocks down to my butt at the

time and was going through some rasta-punk

phase. She pauses and blushes. Its embar-

rassing to talk about, but I will never consider

covering it up. That is tattooings whole charm

for me: collecting little pieces of your life as you

go. Currently her favorite piece is a neck tat-

too of a street lamp with wings, but that could

change as her collection grows. Anja Cadlek

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INKED: The Lnahik lie hw were epi. Did pt a lt

thght int the ial apet them?

The Kgan: I was actually an art student at [theSchool of Visual Arts] for a couple of years. Iwas really obsessed with horror makeup. I lovehorror movies, and there was a workshop with[special effects makeup artist] Tom Savini, so Isigned up for that. I was stoked that we weregoing to make heads and blow them up. Butthen he got booked on a movie and had to can-cel the workshop, and I was literally crying into

my pillow. It has been so long and Im still sosad. In our very rst Lunachicks album I made abig bloody gash on my arm in one of the photos.At a CBGB show I made this big wound and Iwas so proud of it.

Wa it dd t that peple thght r Lnahik lk

wa ex? It was awesome. It was attering. Thereare lots of younger girls who will write to me onvarious social media and be like, I cant believeI missed seeing you guys. And they look like

they could be in the band now. I love it; I thinkits adorable.

What d think abt the wa miian lk thee da?

Once MTV came around I think things becamemore visual and looks became much moreimportant. Look at Janis Joplinshe was not apretty woman. There are some ugly fuckers inrock bands from the 70s. KISS are not attractivepeople, so they wear makeup to make it so theylook like rock gods. I think looks are much moreimportant now than they were, but if the talentand showmanship are there you can make it.

D think anne i arring the Lnahik fag tda?There has been a resurgence in glam rock, butI havent seen any new bands in quite a whilebecause I dont really go to shows anymore. Theday that I found out I was pregnant was the lastnight of my regular party. It was New Years Eve atDon Hills. But now I have kind of matured.

And nw Dn Hill int een arnd. Yes, and CBGB isgone. I dont want to be one of those people whosays, Eh, everything sucks now. Everything is

just different; its probably awesome for the kidswho are in the scene.

D mi the ene and perrming? Wld eer d it

again? I certainly never say never. Im sure that I amgoing to want to get up on the stage again. Thelast time I was onstage was about a year ago. It

was at MoMA PS1, an amazing performance at amuseum. I had a great time, but I didnt feel like Istill want to do it all the time. When I am onstagethe artistic energy is owing through me, and nowthat channel is visual again. I have so much creativ-ity going on visually, which is where I started as anart student. When you are doing makeup you arebasically painting. With Armour Beauty, I am com-ing up with new colors and artistic vision.

Where did the name Armr Beat me rm? Beautygives you armor; makeup gives you armor fromsociety. Also, our line is plant-based, with natu-ral oils and butters that shield your lips and skinfrom the elements.

What prmpted t reate the line? I was doing abunch of performing at the time and I was at apoint where I wanted to do something different.Makeup has been a passion since I can remem-ber. As a child I could remember going into thehair salon with my grandmother and loving thesmell of the nail polish, chemicals, and hair dyes.

Lip gloss just seemed like the obvious choice forme because there are many out there but nonethat I think are as good as Armour Beauty. Of thelip glosses I was using, Id get a great color but itwould dry out my lips or would only stay on for veminutes. I wanted to make the best-looking long-wearing, chic, beautiful, colored lip gloss line. Allmy girlfriends who wear next to no makeup stillput on lip gloss every day. Its the one beauty itemthat most women are going to use.

Wa the tranitin rm rker t binepern natral?I didnt think about that until recently. Being in a

The Lunachicks rock goddess is back in black, and red, and orange, and purple

I you ask around the INKED ofces, a handul o the women on our sta will tell you the reason that they frst got

tattooed was to be like Theo Kogan. When the seminal glam-punk act Lunachicks was at the height o their popularity,

Kogan, the lead singer, had more ink than almost any other musicianguy or gal.

The tattooed It girl is more than a singer, though. Shes modeled or Calvin Klein, Burberry, and Kenneth Cole, and

appeared inZoolander, Rock Star, and Martin Scorseses Bringing Out the Dead. She also ronted an electro band, Theo

& the Skyscrapers, and hosted one o the most exorbitant regular parties in New York City.

Now the mom o a young daughter, Kogan has moved on rom the reckless lie o punk music and ocused her

creativity on a rock n roll line o makeup inspired by everything rom Heart to Led Zeppelinand the riot grrrls in

between. Armour Beauty eatures shades as colorul as Kogans vibrant tattoos, and the lines glosses have slicked the

lips o Lady Gaga, Eva Mendes, Rachel Zoe, Karen O, and Fergie. Pucker up.

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Now its allabout every-one wavingtheir fuckingdick in the air,Look what I

did! Everyoneis showingoff. I thinkthat comesfrom fear.They craveother peoplesapproval.SpiderWebb

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who dont want it, not wanting whatIm giving that day. Isnt that cool?[Laughs.]Children laugh about 2,000times a day, and most adults laughabout 40 or 50. People are so araid.I think tattoos take a little bit o earaway. Makes them a little stronger.

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house up or sale, sold it the day ater,and threw all my shit in one o thosepod things. I didnt know where theuck I was going. A guy I used to workwith had moved to North Carolina,so I called him and he told me to stayat his house until I fgured out what I

was doing. So I stayed in his houseor a month. I didnt even know wherethe uck I was. Then I just walked thestreets, I saw a house or sale, and Ibought the ucking thing. Then I oundout where I was. And here I am.

te u bu e amer t Mueum

yu e u. Well, Lyle [Tuttle] wasout visiting and he said, Whatsin that? pointing to books with myartwork in them. I told him they werejust ash I had drawn through the

years. He grabbed the books, ipsout, and says, Holy shit, you haveenough art in here or 10 ucking

museums. I said, Okay, Lyle, maybeIll open one in my ucking garage.And I did. Thats the extent o myucking museum. [Laughs.]

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be remembered? I dont know. Maybethat I had a good time. Let me tell yousomething: People are obsessed withmoney. Im not. Im ree. Ive watchedpeople chase money, and its sad

and wasted talent. Theres so muchmore to do with your lie. I just try todo the best I can, make a paintingor a drawing or a tattoo. Ive beenbuilding these tattoo chess sets. Justtry to be happy. You dont need tobe remembered. I dont think beingremembered is important at all. I thinkliving is important. You got to do thatcrap now, not tomorrow.

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S.T. Tattoo Studio in west LosAngeles was ounded in order tocelebrate the usion o punk rock andtattoos, two things that go togetherlike coee and cigarettes. Jason

Brown (ormer singer o Evol) andMike Muir (the singer rom SuicidalTendencies, which released their lat-est album, 13, in March) wanted tofnd a business that combined theirtwo great loves; thus S.T. Tattoo wasborn. Id known Mike since the 80swhen we would go on tour and dotattoos on the road, Brown recalls.Basically when we got back romthe road we decided we wanted toopen up a tattoo studio that includedpunk rock music, art, and a little his-

tory on the band. Ater a ew yearsBrown bought out Muir, but the shopis still very much connected to themovement and the band.

S.T. Tattoo is located about a mile

away rom Venice Beach, wheretheres no shortage o tattoo shops.Were on the borderline o LosAngeles and Venice, but not on thebeach. We dont want to be associ-ated with the shops down there,Brown says. Its just a bunch oscratchers down there; its more o anovelty tourist spot.

Instead o being just another stu-dio down by the beach, S.T. Tattoo isa celebration o all o Browns loves.The culture o the shop is deeply

rooted in punk music, skateboard-ing, lowrider cars, and southernCaliornia black-and-gray tattoos.Brown estimates that roughly 80percent o the work done in the

shop is black-and-gray, but says theartists at the studio are more thancapable o tattooing in other styles,such as traditional and Japanese.We like to think o our shop as aliestyle shoppeople who are intoblack-and-gray, punk rock, and thatwhole liestyle, Brown says. My frststyle was black-and-gray, but I alsodo whatever comes my way. We doeverything.

When the shop frst opened, mosto the business came in thanks to the

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Clockwise from far left: tattoo byDonovan Faulkner; tattoo by JasonBrown; tattoo by Wayne Bernard; tattooby Faulkner; tattoo by Faulkner.

connection with Suicidal Tendencies,

but over the years the studio has built

up a reputation or itsel. Brown takes

an awul lot o pride in the act that

S.T. Tattoo is a custom shop; there

is no ash on the wall, only the worko the artists in the studio. We dont

let anybody walk out o here without

getting a custom piece, Brown says.

He handles much o the black-and-

gray work, but is comortable doing

other styles. Artist Wayne Bernard is

a local Venice boy who spent some

time tattooing in Miami and returned

to S.T., where he does traditional

work. Donovan Faulkner is a jack-o-

all-trades like Brown, and is known

or rocking out sick Japanese tattoos.

Another aspect that makes the

vibe at S.T. Tattoo special is its size.

Originally it was in a larger location

that also included an art studio and

a skate shop, but that just didnt

ft the intimate vibe that Brownwanted, so he made the decision

to move to a smaller location. In

doing so he has created the perect

environment or the S.T. Tattoo Stu-

dio. Were a small crew, he says.

Were a tight-knit amily and we

try to give everybody a nice experi-

encethey get a custom piece that

nobody else has. What makes us

dierent than all the competitors

around us is the act that we can

be one-on-one with the clients and

make them eel comortable.

A lot o shop owners might eel

as i they had taken a step down

by removing some o the rills and

setting up in a smaller space, but

Brown believes that paring the shopdown to the basics allows him to

spend less time dealing with hassles

and bullshit and more time ocusing

on what is most importantthe tat-

too art. I think that, over the years,

as tattooing has grown into ashion,

there isnt a lot o true art out there

anymore. Thats why we decided to

take it down a spot and just do our

own thing. Everybody is connected

to their clients here, Brown explains.

It may be intimate, but S.T. Tat-

too is always bustling, according to

Brown. Theres always something

happening every day, whether it is

Robert Downey Jr. getting tattooed

or Danny Trejo stopping by to say

hi. Its that whole vibe o skating,surfng, and music. I getting inked

up next to Iron Man or Machete isnt

enough to make you want to pop

into the place, the high quality o its

custom work should persuade you.

No matter how crazy a customers

idea might be, the artists at S.T.

Tattoo will do everything they can to

make sure the client leaves with a

custom piece they can be proud o.

We try and make every tattoo like it

was our last tattoo, Brown vows.

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kw er w ee e ueumm d e rzed? E-m u [email protected].

shop giRl at: Eagle Tattoo, West Milord, NJ

thE fiRst Month that i Was WoRking hERE, a

woman came in to ask about a cream she

heard about that removed tattoos. We toldher that there is no such thing and she

looked so disappointed. But as she was

walking out o the shop my boss jokingly

yelled, Ya know what? There is one thing

that will work: unicorn milk. That shit will

get rid o just about anything! The woman

immediately came back to ask where she

could fnd it, but then she looked at me and

the light bulb went o in her head and she

started giggling and let.

a cliEnt Was gEttin g a sMall calf tattoo andit only took about two hours total. He sat

fne, but just as the last line was fnished and

the tattoo was getting wiped down we hear

the sound o running water. Ater looking all

around at the sinks and even in the bath-

room, we saw a puddle orming on the oor

under the chair. The next thing we knew, the

client had passed out and landed in his own

piss puddle. That was defnitely a frst or me.

I elt a bit bad or him, but seriously, the tat-

too was already fnished, dude!

an 82-YEaR-olD, REtiRED nEW YoRk citY policE

DEtEctivE and Korean War veteran came

into the shop to ask about having a tattoo

fxed up. The original tattoo was the insig-

nia o his inantry branch along with a ew

numbers to represent his unit, and it had

terrible lines and the letters were almost

illegible. I told him we could fx it, but he

was concerned about the price. Without

any hesitation, my boss said, For you,

sir? No charge. Its the least I could do in

return or all you have already done or this

country. Thats why I love what I do.

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the time of his Swissted book release party at The Powerhouse Arena.

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