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Summer’s Hottest Denim Look: Affordable Men’s Biker Jeans

Say goodbye to skinny jeans, say au revoir to baggy and bootcut, and say hello to the hottest trend in men’s denim for spring/summer.

Moto jeans, or biker jeans, are the next big thing to level up your Denim Designer Clothing game in 2022 and they’re perfect for adding some serious edge to your casual wear wardrobe.

Biker jeans are inspired by motorcyclists and always include distressed detailing, rips and even acid washes. Easily styled up or down, they can be paired with a simple tee and trainers for an understated look or combined with a men’s biker jacket and boots to really spice up the biker/rocker edge. With a huge range of styles on offer, biker jeans are a super flattering denim look on offer, suiting any body shape or size.

Favoured by the likes of Kevin Hart and David Beckham, moto jeans are becoming an increasingly popular fit for modern men everywhere.

So, how do you style the biker jeans?

Firstly, add a twist on a classic outfit with a pair of blue, distressed biker jeans. With a classic motorcycle feel but with a casual twist, simply pair with a tee or sweatshirt, leather jacket and trainers just to spice up the look and introduce this denim with just a few hints of this rocker-inspired vibe.

Alternatively, why not opt for grey, stonewashed or black biker jeans to play around with a slightly edgier look? Black or grey jeans ensures you can introduce various patterns and prints – or keep it cool, calm and collected by combining with a white tee, black trainers, and a black bomber or gilet to keep it chic.

Finally, go full on bold and brash with some patchwork and distressed detailing. The masculine look of the rough edge detailing combined with a skinny fit and dark colouring ensures you wouldn’t look out of place in a motorbike get-together! Pair with a graphic slogan tee and some dressed down skater trainers and, if you’re feeling super brave, throw on a leather or biker jacket to really finish off the look.

Here are our top picks of the most affordable men’s biker jeans, now available on 883 Police.

Brady TANA Skinny Fit Biker Jeans

The Brady Tana Skinny Fit Biker Mens Jeans are a super-stylish example of a moto denim featuring that unmistakeable distressed and rough edge detailing across the knees. With a slim fit designed to accentuate the legs, they’re comfy and soft enough to wear all day and come in three lengths – short, regular and long to ensure they’re perfect whatever your height.

Featuring ribbed knees and side seam detailing with Processed Black Mens T Shirts, the jeans also feature embossed branding on the coin pocket and both rear pockets. Crafted from a 98% cotton, 2% elastane blend to ensure they mould to your body shape, they’re a must-have for Spring and Summer for those who are looking for a cool alternative to classic grey denim.

Moriarty TANA Slim Fit Biker Jeans

An easy-wear option for the biker jeans, this Moriarty Slim Fit Biker Jeans are perfect for those who are looking to take the plunge into biker denim but without going to the extreme. An attractive and appealing blue light wash shade, they’re crafted from 98% cotton and 2% elastane meaning they’re comfy and stretchy enough to wear all day without losing shape whilst the biker detailing is apparent through the ribbed knees.

The jeans also feature side seam detailing as well as embossed branding on the pockets; both coin and rear pockets. Available in a range of sizes from 28’ waist through to 40’ waist, they also come in a range of leg lengths to suit any height. Now only £65 from 883 Police, expect these to sell out soon!

How to Make Your Look Glow with Beauty Hacks

There’s nothing more frustrating than spending time on your beauty routine, just to have everything fall flat when you head out the door. That’s where these genius beauty hacks come in. This blog will give you some of the best tips to help you achieve a natural glow that will make everyone wonder what your secret is. 

1) Get more sleep: 

This one might seem obvious, but it’s true! Getting enough rest is crucial for your skin’s health. When you don’t get enough sleep, it shows in the form of dark circles and dull skin. So make sure to get those eight hours whenever you can. If you have trouble sleeping, try some of these relaxation techniques before bedtime:

Drink chamomile tea

-Read a book

-Take a bath

-Listen to calm music

Don’t forget to remove your makeup before going to bed! Sleeping in your makeup can clog pores and cause breakouts. 

2) Eat healthily: 

What you put in your body shows on the outside. Eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and water will help your skin look its best. Foods that are high in antioxidants, like berries, are especially good for your skin. And if you’re looking for a quick fix, try using a face mask made with natural ingredients like honey or avocado. When eating healthy, you will glow from the inside out!

3) Try new clothing: 

One easy way to change up your look is by experimenting with new clothing. For example, if you usually wear jeans and a t-shirt, try a sundress or skirt. Or if you’re used to dresses, mix things up with some pants or shorts. Wearing different styles can make you feel more confident and radiant. You can also visit someone to help you dress better that matches your body type. For example, a pair of women’s boots will go great with a summer dress to make it more fall appropriate. 

4) Get active: 

Physical activity gets your blood flowing and gives you an endorphin rush, both of which will leave you looking flushed and feeling great. If you’re not used to working out, start slow with some gentle stretching or walking. You can also try taking a dance class or going for a swim. And don’t forget to drink plenty of water before, during, and after your workout!

5) Get some good makeup: 

Having the right makeup can make a huge difference in your appearance. Consult a makeup artist at your local cosmetics store if you’re not sure where to start. They can help you choose the best products for your skin type and colour. And don’t be afraid to experiment with different shades and styles! Trying new things is part of what makes life fun.

6) Put product in your hair: 

If you have dry or damaged hair, using the right products can make a world of difference. First, look for conditioners and treatments that will hydrate and nourish your hair. You can also try using a leave-in conditioner or oil to help tame frizz and add shine. And don’t forget to get regular trims to keep your ends healthy!

7) Practice self-care: 

Remember to take care of yourself both physically and mentally. Make time for things that make you happy, whether it’s spending time with friends or family, reading your favourite book, or taking a yoga class. And don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it! We all need a little support sometimes.

8) Try out different body lotions: 

Your skin is your largest organ, so it’s essential to take care of it! Using body lotion can help keep your skin hydrated and looking its best. And there are a lot of different formulas to choose from, so you can find one that works best for your skin type. For an extra boost of hydration, try using body oil or serum. Body butter is also an excellent option for dry or sensitive skin.

By following these simple tips, you can achieve a natural glow that will have everyone asking what your secret is. Remember to get enough sleep, eat healthily, try new styles, get active, find the right makeup products for yourself, use hair products accordingly, and practice self-care. Then, with a little effort, you can look and feel your best.

4 Of The Best Baseball Movies Ever Made

Baseball has been around for a long time, longer than the movies. So the first baseball movies had real baseball players as the stars, which sort of makes them the first movie stars. The first baseball movie, Right Off the Bat, released in 1915, as did The Birth of a Nation, which featured John “Mugsy” McGraw as himself.

Since then, there have been more baseball movies released than we can count. Of course, not all of them can be considered cinematic greats and some of them are way better than others. As such, we have four of them listed below that we consider to be the best ever made.

  1. The Natural

Directed by Barry Levinson, the 1984 film is touted as not just one of the greatest baseball movies of all time but one of the greatest sports movies of all time. It stars Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a talented, young prospect with a bright future ahead of him in the 1930s before being shot at 19.

However, 16 years removed, he is still not ready to let the game go and gets signed by a pretty bad team called the New York Knights. The story has more to it than just baseball and brings to the fore a middle-aged man bent on living out his dream in the face of adversity and criticism. It is also about a male who is attracted to the types of women famous people gravitate towards, only to realize he can have a much better life with his high-school sweetheart.

The movie is accentuated by two huge home runs from Hobbs which prove to be defining moments.

  1. Field of Dreams

While most sports movies are about people rising above challenges, trumping impossible obstacles, and saving the day at the last moment, Field of Dreams isn’t about that at all. The 1989 offering is all about believing in the magic of sport, leaving the worries of life behind even if it’s for a fleeting moment.

The story features 36-year-old Ray Kinsella who lives with his wife and daughter on their corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa. Ray, who is tormented by a broken relationship with his late father, harbors fears about growing old without achieving anything of note.

A hardcore baseball fan, Ray hears a voice whispering “If you build it, he will come” while walking through the cornfield one night. He is then shown a vision of a baseball diamond in the cornfield with “Shoeless” Joe Jackson standing in the middle. Ray then convinces his wife to let him plow part of the property to build a baseball field, despite their financial constraints.

In the end, Joe meets a younger version of his father while his dream of people coming to watch baseball at his cornfield becomes reality.

  1. Pride of the Yankees

This 1942 classic sees Gary Coopers starring as the iconic Lou Gehrig, who is probably more popular today for the nerve disease that ended his career and carries his name. Gehrig, a six-time World Series Champion and seven-time All-Star, played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939. New York gambling would have been pretty profitable for residents back in his heyday.

As for the movie, it’s hard not to feel hopeful while taking it in, particularly after Cooper recreates Gehrig’s farewell speech. “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” Gehrig would tell a packed Yankee Stadium while he called curtains on his career. Though the ending is a sad one, it’s as happy as sad endings get.

  1. Bull Durham

Bull Durham, from 1988, is perhaps the film that encapsulates the madness of baseball better than any other. Some would claim that only an actual baseball game is better than watching Bull Durham, and not significantly better either.

The romantic comedy sports movie partly recounts the experiences of writer and director Ron Shelton in the minor leagues. It tells the story of the players and fans of a minor-league team in Durham, North Carolina called the Durham Bulls.

The Bulls, suffering through another poorly attended season only has one thing going their way, a star rookie pitcher named Abby Calvin LaLoosh, who has Major League potential but is said to have a “million-dollar arm, but a five-cent head.”

When 12-year minor league veteran “Crash” Davis Costner is installed as the team’s catcher to rein LaLoosh in line, things get off to a rocky start.

Shelton played five years in the minor leagues after graduating from college but quit after realizing he was never going to make it to the minor leagues.

“I was 25. In baseball, you feel 60 if you’re not in the big leagues. I didn’t want to become a Crash Davis”, he joked once.

Turnover Release New Songs ‘Wait Too Long’ and ‘Mountains Made of Clouds’

Turnover have returned with their first new music in three years. Today, the Virginia band has released two songs, ‘Wait Too Long’ and ‘Mountains Made of Clouds’, and you can give them a listen below.

“‘Wait Too Long’ is about expectation from yourself and others about what life is supposed to be like,” frontman Austin Getz explained in a statement. “Finding that balance of being motivated and inspired by what’s around you without it feeling like something pushing you down. I moved away from northern California this year. A town called Sebastopol was my home for about 5 years and i changed a lot in my time out there.”

“‘Mountains Made Of Clouds’ is an ode to that time and place,” he added. “I wrote it from the perspective of a bunch of different people I gathered things from while I lived there and my own observation. It’s a song I wrote hoping to be able to listen back years from now and remember it.”

Turnover’s most recent LP was 2019’s Altogether.

Pinkshift Sign to Hopeless, Release New Song ‘nothing (in my head)’

Baltimore pop-punk outfit Pinkshift have signed to Hopeless Records, marking the announcement with the new single ‘nothing (in my head)‘. Check out its Daniel Zawodny-directed video below.

“‘nothing (in my head)’ is a cry for help,” the band said in a statement. “It’s about the feeling of wanting out, wanting a change in scenery, wanting to escape from feeling locked inside, claustrophobic, and overwhelmed. This song is like a hand reaching out to anyone willing to grasp onto it and say they feel the same way. We hope people hear that and feel a little less alone.”

Pinkshift dropped their debut EP, Saccharine, in 2021.

Florist Unveil Video for New Song ‘Sci-Fi Silence’

Florist have previewed their forthcoming self-titled album with a new single titled ‘Sci-Fi Silence’. The track follows previous entries ‘Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning)’ and ‘Spring in Hours’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.

“‘Sci-Fi Silence’ is a love song about the mystical forces that attract us to one another and the spaces in-between words that can hold profound communications,” Florist’s Emily Sprague explained in a statement. “It is also a reflection on our impermanence and the acceptance that it is worth it to invite love and connection into our lives even for just a moment.”

Florist is out July 29 on Double Double Whammy.

Phoenix Share New Single ‘Alpha Zulu’

Phoenix have returned with a new single called ‘Alpha Zulu’. Marking the French group’s first new music in two years, the song follows ‘Identical’, which they contributed to soundtrack for Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks. According to a press release, the title comes from a phrase Thomas Mars heard a pilot repeating over the radio during a flight in a storm. Listen to it below.

In an interview with Apple Music 1, Mars explained:

To me, I’m so scared of flying that it sounds like Mayday when I heard this the first time. Like, “Alpha Zulu, Alpha Zulu, going down.” And so I guess it stuck with me, and it came out in a strange way in the studio. The way we make music is so… It’s really collaborative, and it’s almost like therapy, kind of. And I don’t know what we just did, but also the sense of time felt really strange because we worked on this for a long time during the pandemic. I guess every album that came out recently is a pandemic record, more or less. They all have to be linked to this weird moment in life. I’m not sure when we started, when we stopped, how long we stopped for. But at some point when we were seeing the end of the tunnel, not only the pandemic, sort of, at least we could think, “Oh, there’s going to be a tour.” That was going to be a possibility of this record coming out then. Then it clicked, and all the joyful pieces that we were hoping for, came together and made this record. And you use that time of self-reflection, and you use it, it comes out in the music. So I guess all that time spent not doing anything is somehow coming out on this record. It does something to you.

Phoenix issued their most recent album, Ti Amo, in 2017.

Of Montreal Announce New Album ‘Freewave Lucifer Fck’, Release Video for New Song

Of Montreal have announced a new album called Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck. It’s set to arrive on July 29 via Polyvinyl. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a video for ‘Marijuana’s a Working Woman’, which features animation by Madeline Babuka Black and artwork by David Barnes. Check it out below.

“Like all the songs on the album, this one was informed by pandemic isolation and the psychological struggle inherent in that kind of existence,” Kevin Barnes said of the track in a statement. “The lyrics are a free flowing collage of all that I was perceiving and absorbing during that time period. I swapped alcohol for weed midway through the pandemic and that is what the title of the song refers to.”

Last year, Of Montreal self-released their album I Feel Safe With You, Trash. Their last LP for Polyvinyl was 2020’s Ur Fun.

Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck Cover Artwork:

Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck Tracklist:

1. Marijuana’s a Working Woman
2. Ofrenda-Flanger-Ego-à Gogo
3. Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden
4. Après Thee Dèclassè
5. Modern Art Bewilders
6. Nightshift
7. Hmmm

Of Montreal 2022 Tour Dates:

Sep 8 Athens, GA – 40 Watt #
Sep 9 New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf #
Sep 10 Austin, TX – Mohawk #
Sep 12 Albuquerque, NM – Sister #
Sep 13 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom #
Sep 14 Los Angeles, CA – Regent #
Sep 15 Berkeley, CA – UC Theatre #
Sep 16 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall #
Sep 17 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #
Sep 18 Seattle, WA – Neumos #
Sep 19 Missoula, MT – The Wilma #
Sep 20 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro #
Sep 21 Englewood, CO – The Gothic #
Sep 22 Lawrence, KS – The Granada #
Sep 23 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag #
Sep 24 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre #
Oct 4 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle #
Oct 5 Richmond, VA – Broadberry #
Oct 6 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club #
Oct 7 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere #
Oct 8 Boston, MA – Sinclair #
Oct 9 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts #
Oct 10 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom #
Oct 11 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick #
Oct 12 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall #
Oct 13 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line #
Oct 14 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall #
Oct 15 Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theatre #
Oct 16 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle #

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Maggie Rogers Releases Video for New Song ‘Want Want’

Maggie Rogers has released a new song called ‘Want Want’, which will appear on her upcoming record Surrender. The track arrives with an accompanying video filmed at a karaoke bar in NYC’s Koreatown. Check out the Warren Fu-directed clip below.

Surrender is set for release on July 29 via Polydor Records. ‘Want Want’ follows early single ‘That’s Where I Am’, which was paired with a video featuring cameos by David Byrne, Quil Lemons and Hamilton Leithauser.

Panic! At The Disco Announce New Album, Return With New Single ‘Viva Las Vengeance’

Panic! At The Disco have revealed the details of their new album Viva Las Vengeance, which is set for release on August 19 via Fueled by Ramen/DCD2 Records. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared the album’s title track, marking their first new music since 2018. Check out its Brendan Walter-directed video below.

Frontman Brendon Urie recorded the Pray for the Wicked follow-up live to tape in Los Angeles alongside Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola. “Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before,” Urie explained in a statement. “I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”

Viva Las Vengeance Cover Artwork:

Viva Las Vengeance Tracklist:

1. Viva Las Vengeance
2. Middle of a Breakup
3.Don’t Let The Light Go Out
4. Local God
5. Star Spangled Banger
6. God Killed Rock And Roll
7. Say It Louder
8. Sugar Soaker
9. Something About Maggie
10. Sad Clown
11. All By Yourself
12. Do It To Death