Brooklyn electro-rock composer Santi White (better known by her stage name, Santigold), has teamed up with skater apparel line Vans to create her own shoe. The new shoe, a predecessor to her forthcoming sophomore album, sports the silhouette of a high-top, and features perforated full-grain leather plus faux gold-chain accents. The look becomes complete with a custom SG gold pin created with the trained eye of jewelry designer Jules Kim of Bijules.  The Vans x Santigold Tosha Hi begins shipping to stores February 1, 2011.

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While looking for a little holiday pick-me-up on Guitar Center’s website, we came across Clayton’s durable Acetal guitar/bass picks, which feature pinup artwork by artist Susan Heidi. They’re perfect for the tattooed vixen or viking who likes to strum something sexy. ($4.99 for a six-pack. Available at Guitar Center stores, and online at GuitarCenter.com)

Pre-registration for the 2011 ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO — to be held April 28-30, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles — is now open.
GRGR artists and fans can register early at a discounted rate: The Early Bird registration price $300 for our members or $275 for members who are also members of ASCAP. To take advantage of this special rate, select GRGR from the Partner menu towards the end of the registration process.
We at GRGR headquarters in NYC can say from experience that if you’re serious …

More than ten years since I joined my first band, I’m still waiting for that big break. But last year, I stopped waiting for that dreamy proposal when Zack popped the question on the only sunny day in June, in Stamford, Connecticut.

GRGR alum and punkrock/hip-hop Brooklynette Shiragirl is taking a cue from the Henry Rollins school of thought with the debut of video vignettes highlighting her musical adventures. Check out new episodes of “ON THE ROAD” at YOUTUBE.COM/SHIRAGIRL
Here’s the trailer for you:

She’s a spiritual chick and a rocker chick who believes in serving her rock sisters. And that’s just the beginning.

“A band is like a marriage,” says Cathy. “People grow and they want to do different things creatively. It got to the point where we needed to step back and let people do what they needed to do on their own.”
On one recent fall day, Cathy and her sister Kristen Henderson, who started Antigone Rising with a few pals back in 1993 at Bucknell University, spoke to GRGR’s Rock Hotsheet about the band’s latest metamorphosis into a four-piece, with pal and sweet-piped siren Nini Camps finally taking on a …

You don’t have to be a hipster with skinny jeans and arms laced in tattoos to play Brooklyn’s musical hood. Here’s what you need to know to book your band at an awesome hotspot.
?The Music Hall of Williamsburg?
66 North 6th St (Between Kent Ave and Wythe Ave)
?(718) 486 - 5400
?www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com?
Type of venue: “Premier” medium-size live music venue that’s larger than most Williamsburg clubs.?
Bands that play: The Clientele, Handsome Furs, Orchard Lounge
?Contact: Josh Moore; josh@bowerypresents.com
?The lowdown: “We look for bands that have a strong live show,” says Moore. “We book some …

Plenty of frontwomen belt it out with passion. Few of them possess the pipes, power and hard-to-stomach personal history of blunt blues-rock singer Janiva Magness.
The gutsy siren has been through a higher level of hell than most of her peers (double-parent suicide at 16; teenage pregnancy, mean boyfriends who discouraged her from singing). But perhaps because Janiva (pronounced “Jenniva”) truly believed that from a very young age that she was meant to sing, the 52-year-old chanteuse has a career most rock singers would envy.
The hot-ticket artist, who recently …