Hey babes!!

We’ve gotta very special music video for you to watch today. We made it ourselves, to open your eyes and ears to an awesome new band of rockin’ babes, ZULA. You should check it out, and share it with people, because it’s rather cool. And if you share new cool things with people, you’re cool by association, duh. And when you’re cool, life’s just pretty cool all around. So let’s all get cool!!

This will help:

Ok, now that we’re all on the same Cool page, let me tell you a story. I met Zula a few months ago. They were in a line-up with Elsa and the AwesomeAwesomes and Shake the Baron. Talk about a mega-sexy show. It was a dream. We hugged so many of them and smiled the whole time. And then a magnificent thing happened. Zula assumed the stage.

They had my attention from the first strum of their guitars. I had planned to leave by then but couldn’t stop experiencing the sheer wave of awesome melody that was coming my way. Mostly, I was entranced by the naturalness of their delivery. I felt like they were singing songs I’ll be hearing again. Songs that came from the magical ethers of the golden age of alt-rock. Whatever it is that gripped me ten years ago when I first saw the video for The Stroke’s “Last Nite” was gripping me again. This time it was in person; an up and coming band exuding a cool talent going beyond anything I’ve seen upon the tiny dark stages of the Brooklyn band machine. They didn’t just play their songs, they became their songs. They hypnotized the room to become our central focus, by the end we were all going along…collectively feeling their melody, their beats, their words, their talent…it felt like we were witnessing something important. It was that good.

The set ended and I was left with no choice but to boldly approach. I went up to the juiciest member. (Juicy:adj. slang in babe-ology for a disheveled man-babe exuding the i-don’t-care-about-anything variety of sex appeal.) I said to this babe,”Hey, that was awesome. You guys are really on to something.” He said to me, “Thanks!” Then I said something to the effect of, “I’m Mina, I write about Man-babes and I make videos of them singing, then I put them on the internet, would you like to be on my web-based dude party?” And he said, “Sure, maybe.”

I think that’s how it went.

Before I knew it, these babes were in my Greenpoint art studio. They had their instruments and our attention.  Not only did they agree to share their music with us, but they also prepared a stripped down acoustic version of a song for their appearance on BabeTV. It’s called “Sunshine Baby” and it’s a mellow rendition of their usual full sound.

They played it, we recorded it, we hung out some more, we ate some tortilla chips, we parted ways, and then I made this music video. It includes my favorite new band, and my favorite old color.

I hope you’ve enjoyed it.

They are playing tomorrow night at the Big Snow Buffalo Lodge, I’ll be there and you should cancel whatever else you think you should do to join us. It’s on the early side so you weekday workers won’t have to miss any sleep. They should be on around 9:30pm.

Don’t miss is it, babes! It’s gonna awesome, radical, stupendous, enchanting, intriguing, joyous, inspiring, cool, and fun.

Directions:

http://www.facebook.com/events/100424240080802/

Further Reading:

So how did they get so good? Well, it’s a family thing, the lead singers are cousins…Nate Terepka, that juicy member from earlier in our story, explains:

“…Growing up, Henry and I would play music at Thanksgiving time, jamming with our cousins, uncles and aunts. I always played in bands and Henry recorded solo albums. As we got older our interests and tastes continued to fall in line with each other. In high school we’d be growing our hair out and making trippy drone sounds at Thanksgiving and all our relatives would roll their eyes and ask us to play “Brown-Eyed Girl”.  My main band broke up right before I graduated college, and suddenly it just became apparent to both of us that we should try collaborating. We started working on some songs and wanted to play them out live and did a few shows with bass and drum sequencers. Then we replaced those with Mike and Zach. Mike and I went to high school together, though we played in different bands. Sometimes we would play shows together though at this local cyber-cafe that was down with letting young, shitty bands play. I met Zach my freshman year of college. We played our first show as Zula in September 2010.”

Hey Babe,

You got it goin on!

Thanks for removing your hair from your face. It allows us to see more of what you have going on.

Dear Ladies,

I’d like to call your attention this morning to the exceptional Cutie McHotface. Mr. McHotface is a stunning gentleman with an irresistible smile. Birds sing in his company and squirrels jump out trees to grab his eye. Life is a rainbow of bountiful love frequencies and at the moment, they are consuming my mind.

So it’s time for a poem:

He’s clad in plaid

Ready to party

I’m ripe in stripe

Heading to Naughty.

aaaaaannnnddd…..my hormones are making me retarded

In the loud, dirty depths of our great city, the Babe of the Century rests upon a pole and reminds you that you are alive and so is he. You look into his eyes and a lifetime passes before your eyes. You will be never be the same. And just when you think your knees can’t handle his smoldering glance any longer, he goes ahead and….

…smiles.

He is also the reason why we’ll never take another cab in our lives.

(Photo courtesy of Doug Jones)

Hey Everybody!!

It’s time for an awesome new episode of BABEtv. W:O:OH:O:O!

This week, we go and hang out with Samuel Sveen, a young renaissance babe, shakin it and makin it in shades of yellow and seafoam green. Riding the beautiful sound-waves of his home engineered musical gadgets from South Dakota to Ithaca to Bushwick, Sveen is part mad scientist, part boy next door, and completely bonkers in the most brilliant way.  His musical project “Elsa and the awesomeAWESOMES” is confusingly silly, adorably animated, and 100% celebratory. Samuel is a soft-spoken and hard-working creative genius, but he gracefully assumes the roll of a jolly fool to trigger a distinct bliss which is far more powerful than his actual music prowess. Don’t get me wrong though, Sveen has a unique and very sincere vocal style that will win you over by the end of this clip. Stay tuned to find out what he thinks about your bikini!

(Photo Courtesy of Alexandra Diracles)

Babes understand the importance of looking directly at the sun for their psychic health and third-eye enhancement. The babe above is a direct descendant of an interestingly named ancient leader and consciousness expanding practices such as this one have been passed down in his family for generations. In fact many babes possess esoteric knowledge about ancient stuff that makes you look really good and have great taste taste in jewelry. This is why we like babes. They help us explore of our consciousness.

Sometimes a babe may appear before you and seem so familiar. Maybe it’s their kind eyes, or their gentle smile, but who knows…maybe they are your neighbor, or even a distant relative from the same motherland…oh, I don’t know, could it be his handsome law-line or his cute curls. Things are hard to know sometimes, but good thing we have pop culture to help us figure stuff out.

May I join you?

(Photo courtesy of Gabi Porter)

Hey Sexy Babes!!!

So during the course of Project Jagger, our rock and roll troupe pulled in many other icons of the Rock genre to hang with on Halloween night. John and Yoko dropped by for a dance, a gang of Bob Marley’s showed up to celebrate plant life with us, and an extremely sexy Slash paid us a visit that was so attractively exciting, we must share it with you here at our babe temple!!!

What a mondo sexcellent vision! My heart just erupted in a symphony of electric guitars doing the guitar solo from November Rain.

And here he is sharing his whiskey with us….another bonus that totally earned him an extra long feature on Babe City Babes.

Being that I was dressed as Keith Richards at the time, Slash handing the whiskey to Keith was like Sitting Bull passing the peace pipe to Geronimo.  Or Paula Deen sharing a cupcake with Martha Stewart.  Or Bill Cosby lending any indie band a sweater.

Today, Babe City Babes is staging a massive, joyful, hilarious, and sensual tribute to Mr. Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones. This tribute is taking place in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and it will involve lots of loud Rolling Stones music, beautiful humans dancing beautifully, and a gourmet Ice Cream truck (courtesy of COOLHAUS).

Come out to see it, and meet us by 5:30 on Broome St between Varick and 6th ave to join us.  (ENTER AT THE PERFORMER GATE ON DOMINICK AND VARICK ST). Come in tight clothes, glitter, and lipstick.

After this, we will return to babe hunting.

In other news, did you know the world population just hit 7 billion? HOLY SMOKES?

How many of those people do you think are man-babes?

…with our sexy Jagger babes!!!!!!

(Which includes lots of bare chests, British accents, and some inappropriate conversation.) ENJOY!!!

Tomorrow’s the big day! We are meeting on Broome between Varick and 6th ave at 5:30 pm. It will be COSMIC!!!!

ROCK ‘n’ ROLL!!!!!!!