The female companions of Mafia men. The term moll was derived from “Molly,” “a 17th century euphemism for either “whore” or “prostitute.”"

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Nobuyoshi Araki

This Week…

We looked through the Los Angeles Gang and Prison Photo Archive

We took in the stylish crowd at Frieze

We dug up awesome Submarine Battle Insignia from WW2

We found out having sex with a hornet’s nest is a bad idea

We looked to the Post-Punk Superfriends for protection

and

Bar Paly was our muse

25 Grams is a feature that culls pictures from some of our favorite instagram feeds.

Jason Goldwatch is a NYC-based director and co-founder of decon.

He can be followed on instagram at @jasongoldwatch

We are pleased to present our 176th installment of Sound Advice featuring Taylor McKimens. Taylor is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He has a new book out titled PINK MUD, which you can pick up here.

Sound Advice 176

01. Old King Kong by George Jones
02. Best of All Possible Worlds by Kris Kristofferson
03. Oui (a French Song) by Terry Allen
04. Roll Truck Roll by Red Simpson
05. Beautiful Texas Sunshine by Doug Sahm & The Tex Mex Trip
06. Lay Down Sally by Red Sovine
07. What Goes On When The Sun Goes Down by Ronnie Milsap
08. They’ve Got Millions In Milwaukee by George Jones
09. Carol Jane by Sir Douglas Quintet
10. Workin’ Man Blues by Merle Haggard
11. Fist City by Loretta Lynn
12. Turn the Memories Loose Again by The Everly Brothers
13. To Live is to Fly by Townes Van Zandt
14. Blue Eyes by Gram Parsons / The International Submarine Band
15. Texas Ranger Man by Doug Sahm
16. The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma by Terry Allen
17. If You Call That Love by Margie Singleton
18. Bar Called Kelley’s (Getting’ Stoned) by Johnny Paycheck
19. Fly Away Again by Dave Dudley
20. Tear Joint by Faron Young
21. Stoned Faces Don’t Lie by Doug Sahm
22. Gentle On My Mind by Roger Miller
23. Ira by Charlie Louvin
24. Clay Pigeons by John Prine
25. Lazy Days by The Flying Burrito Brothers
26. Two Six Packs Away by Dave Dudley
27. Truckload of Art by Terry Allen
28. If I Were You by Gene Watson
29. Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe by Bobby Bare
30. Comin’ Down by Dave Dudley
31. You’re Still On My Mind by Gram Parsons / The Byrds
32. Stranger by Kris Kristofferson
33. The Bottle Let Me Down by Merle Haggard
34. Four Strong Winds by Bobby Bare
35. She Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere by Guy Clark
36. Talking Thunderbird Wine Blues by Townes Van Zandt
37. Qualudes Again by Bobby Bare
38. Country Groove by Doug Sahm
39. It’s Four In The Morning by Faron Young
40. Just The Other Side of Nowhere by Kris Kristofferson
41. This Must Be The Bottom by Del Reeves
42. The Winner by Bobby Bare
43. Play Me Some George Jones Songs by Jimmy Martin
44. Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes by George Jones

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Being a child in Victorian England was no walk in the park—extreme poverty and filth lead to widespread disease, and often, death. If you made it out of infanthood, chances were pretty high that a nasty bout of Cholera or a case of good ol’ Typhus would swoop in and take you down, sometimes in a matter of hours.

For British children in the late 1800s, disease wasn’t the only thing getting in the way of growing old and gray—a set of laws that were put in place to deter adultery and relations out of wedlock made it near impossible for a woman to raise a child on her own. It was commonplace for women to either commit infanticide or turn to so-called baby farms as a last resort.

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Desmond Dekker, Israelites

Joe Bradley at Gavin Brown, Andreas Schulze at Team Gallery, the White Columns Benefit Exhibition and Auction, and the trifecta of Andy Kehoe, Souther Salazar, and Marco Mazzoni at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.

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Brand Nubian, Wake Up, 1990

— @TheNameIsJerald

Killing it in the custom belt game.

“For years now I have been honing my skills, learning materials, and making a variety of belts out of materials that seem like they were meant for such things. In the most recent couple years I have been sewing belts together out of a variety of webbing, trims, industrial fabrics, and anything that is flexible enough to work on or as a belt. For the buckles I have been hand painting flip buckles and custom powder coating d-rings.”

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Narrated by Tom Cruise.

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A new t-shirt line from Yellow Rat, inspired by the uniforms worn by the surf rock band The Blazers during their performance at the 1966 United States Surfing Championship at Huntington Beach.

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Put this 1934 classic by John O’Hara with rad new cover art on your summer reading list.

“In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.”

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Puff-Pastry Wrapped Brie

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PUG LORD

Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx photographs the real.

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Drugstore Cowboy by Jake Pearson

Meet the career con man who made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online—and pulled off a federal sting that forced Google to pay $500 million.

Before ‘The Clock’

Every week Chris Black uses his superior internet reading abilities to provide you with a list of links to things you’re bound to find interesting

The MIDI Revolution: Synthesizing Music For The Masses

Here’s what it would look like if Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Tommy Wiseau and Joe Swanberg all directed Point Break

The New Typography Of Irony

How To Collect Music in These Overwhelming Times

A Way to Make Phone Records Not So Easy to Track

Facebook and Brooklyn Killed America’s Obsession With Cars

Movies Booed At Cannes

The Modern History Of Swearing

How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life

also…

This looks cool

— Chris Black / @donetodeath

YES.