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VIBE has joined forces with NYC's legendary LAVO NYC doorman/fashion designer, Richard Wheeler, to create a limited edition HOUS shirt that will be sold exclusively at our first-ever V-Mix concert starring A-Trak and A$AP Mob, this Thursday Nov 29. (TICKETS HERE). Wheeler sat down to give us the skinny of secrets to passing his coveted red rope, the 411 on the VIBE collabo and more.

A few things you wouldn’t expect to find in a New Jersey nightclub on a Wednesday night: Little people go-go dancing on the bars, animal mascots wandering through the crowd, actual firefighters, and last but not least, superstar DJ, A-Trak.

I originally made this for my friend’s mixtape club under the theme “gift raps.” It is exactly what it says it is.

Australia is an interesting place to go for gigs, not just because it's on the other side of the world and they have great oysters ...

How to Make It in America, HBO's hip, snappy dramedy, could easily be re-titled How to Make It in New York. Given that its two lead characters, best friends Cam and Ben, are hustling to get their clothing label off the ground, the show couldn't really be set anywhere else other than this fashion-happy, hard-scrabble town. To show off the series' downtown New York-ness ahead of Season Two's October 2 premiere, HBO has released a mini-documentary about three New Yorkers who actually did make it in America. Check it out after the jump.

The world famous DJ takes his band of brothers to Paris

"Cultural speed-dating"

Brooklyn just got a whole lot more Brooklyn, everyone. Today marks the official opening of Fool's Gold Records, the store! The New York indie label launched by A-Trak and his pal Nick Catchdubs has, for years, helped to establish acts like Duck Sauce, Kid Cudi, and Kid Sister as some of the best music DJs have to offer. Back in April, A-Trak, who used to tour as Kanye West's DJ, teased the store to BlackBook, saying "We’ll be selling all of our records, obviously, but at Fool’s Gold we do a lot of design and work with a lot of brands to make cool products, so pretty much anything we’ve designed or developed with other companies, we’ll be selling." He also mentioned a launch party, which—guess what—is happening tonight.

It’s primed to be a busy year for A-Trak. Less than halfway through his current North American tour (which makes a stop at New York’s Terminal 5 on Saturday night), the Montreal-born, New York-based DJ still has a lot to look forward to. Next month, he'll open the first official store for his Fool’s Gold record label in Williamsburg. In the fall he'll drop the debut album from Duck Sauce (his side project with Armand Van Helden, which racked up over 50 million YouTube views for their “Barbara Streisand” video), and, maybe then, he'll find some time to work on that solo album.

A mardi gras' worth of parties are going down in Miami this week for Art Basel, but we can safely say we'll be helping to throw one of the best and biggest. On Saturday night, Grand Central, in all its lofty, warehouse-y glory, will play host to music's most beat-obsessed siblings, the Brothers Macklovitch. You don't want to miss it.