Full interview coming soon, but for now check out the preview @ ColoRising.com.

Shouts to Art for making this happen.

Whether you’re a new or casual reader, or you’re here daily, I thought it was only right to recap the year of stories on the blog. Check out some of the highlights below and after the jump…

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Spotted this the other day, I figured that even though it’s a few months old, people wouldn’t mind seeing it. This is me, talking about the brand at Cargo. Check out the video below…

…via SoJones

We’ve officially launched our new online store page with three new styles for the Fall. Check everything out at the link below…

Yesterday morning we did a photo shoot for our new product, I just wanted to give a sneak peak at some of new stuff that’s coming out. If you managed to make it out to the Cargo Trade Show then you’ve already seen it, but for the rest of you its new. We’ll have the new product up for retail later this week. Here are the out takes from the days work…

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Our friends at FRESTHETIC are celebrating their 2-Year anniversary tomorrow at their shop in Williamsburg with DJs One Mic Rivera and DJ Blowout, and an art instillation by Destroy and Rebuild. They’ll also have new Burden shirts on sale, a few weeks before they go on sale in our online shop. Check out more info on everything below….

Omar mentioned before that we would be at Cargo today. We’re here right now so come by if you are in the area today. Clothes, music, food, liqs and us… It’s a good time!

We are at 268 Mulberry St, NY NY

Dom and I will be taking part in next week’s CARGO show here in NYC. If you can make it out, stop by to check us out. We’ll have our latest collection on sale there, a few weeks before it drops in our online shop, along with our other designs, if you’ve been meaning to pick something up.

For more info on everything, click here: Cargo Trade Show, NYC.

Also, check out a video on the show after the jump…

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F1rst Person has been a good friend of ours for a minute. You might recognize him as one of the models for our Basquiat Tee. He’s been on the grind for a while now too, as both a rapper and producer. Check out his new video for his joint “Seeing Is Believing,” off of his The F1rst Move mixtape, below. Be sure to look out for cameos from Dom and I too…

The official video for F1RST PERSON’s debut single “Seeing is Believing.” The song is produced by F1RST PERSON and the video is directed by Joey Angerone. This is the first professional video for F1RST PERSON and is his first single from the acclaimed mixtape THE F1RST MOVE.

Download the full mixtape here: F1rst Person: The F1rst Move mixtape

Just heard about a new DVD/CD combo that’s hitting stores. Check out the info below…

“If I wasn’t a singer,” Peter Tosh once said, “I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.” Funny he didn’t think he could be both, because that’s basically what he was: six-foot-three, stiff-lipped, carrying a guitar shaped like an M16 (a gift from a fan), cursing every 10 seconds, serially high, and considered such an effective agitator by cops that they beat him half to death in mid-1978. “I survived them by intellect,” he said later.

His reggae career started alongside Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston in the Wailers, a group he left in the mid-70s after Island Records’ Chris Blackwell refused to release his first solo album.

No surprise, really– compared to Marley, Tosh was nearly unmarketable. On love songs: “You turn on the fuckin’ radio, 24 bumboclaat hours a day you hear, ‘Darlin I love you.’ A man wouldn’t sing to the almighty a rasclaat, him love a woman more than the creator who create the sun and the moon and the bumboclaat star.”

On the enlightenment of the common man: “I am going to kill the fuckery out there. People is going to be in demand for the truth.” If “One Love” was Bob Marley’s song about paradise, “Equal Rights” was Tosh’s: “Everyone is crying out for peace, none is crying out for justice,” a reminder that nobody argues against feelgood platitudes, but nobody works to make them come true, either.

But one season’s rebel is the next’s vogue, and by 1978, Tosh was guesting on “Saturday Night Live” flanked by Mick Jagger dancing like an electrocuted game hen. In 1987, two years after the first digital dancehall single (King Jammy & Wayne Smith’s “Under Mi Sleng Teng”) radicalized Jamaican music, Tosh won a Grammy for No Nuclear War, a lukewarm hash of roots reggae– the kind of muck longtime contributors to their fields finally win Grammys for regardless of quality. Months later, he was murdered in a botched robbery.

The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience is a $35 package containing one 14-track audio disc and two DVDs: Stepping Razor: Red X (which is already commercially available) and footage of several performances.

Purchase The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience here. Purchase our Peter Tosh tee, pictured above, here. Also, you can view Stepping Razor (Red X), in it’s entirety, here.