love for Neil Young

We are heading back to Los Angeles to pay tribute to one of our favorite musicians and we want you to join us! On Friday, November 20th our friends over at When You Awake will be taking over theBootleg Theater for an evening to celebrate the songs of Neil Young and to support the Children’s Music Fund, a local non-profit organization that provides musical instruments and Music Therapy to children with chronic and life altering illness.

The night will feature performances of Neil Young songs by Delta Spirit, Jason Simon of Dead Meadow, Ferraby Lionheart, The Parson Redheads, Leslie Stevens of Leslie and the Badgers, The Chapin Sisters, Family of the Year, Justin Gordon, Restavrant, Shakey Graves and the Dark Horse House Band featuring Andy Creighton (The World Record/Parson Red Heads), Brian Whelan (The Broken West), Josh Charney (Le Switch), John Hoskinson, Dan Iead (The Broken West) and Rob Douglas.

Plus Kelly will be providing music inspired crafts!!  Lastly there will be DJ sets by Turquoise Wisdom (who made those amazing Bootcut ClassicsMixtapes for us last month). Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door and you can buy them here.

When:  Friday November 20th  9pm
Where: Bootleg Theater 2220 beverly blvd, los angeles
Cost: $10 in advance / $12 at the door (18+)

Get a little crafty with good people, good music, for a good cause!

stencil party!

benny and I are super excited to announce that our next stencil party is in the city, sunday November 8th at Indie Mart!  We will be setting up a little stenciling station at our booth, where anyone will be able to come and decorate whatever goodies they want with a wide selection of benny’s designs.  We will supply you with all the stencils & spray paint and you just bring your creativity and clothes. This is the perfect opportunity to renewed some old threads or make a sweet gift for your love.  Start gathering blank surfaces today!

When:  sunday nov 8th  12pm – 6pm
Where:  thee parkside 1600 17th street, san francisco

hope to see you there!

$5 art party

What do you do when your broke but love the art of your very talented friends?  Well Brisa, Mike, Megan, Lucas & Deanna decided the only solution is to throw a $5 dollar art party!!  If your wondering what exactly a $5 dollar art party is, think awesome house party mixed with a low cost ($5 limit) art and craft show.  benny and I are thrilled to be joining in the festivities with our temporary tattoos and beer cozies. So come join in all the fun, meet some good people, have a beer and spoil yourself with some awesome art!

shop Pretty Penny!

benny and i just took a bunch of stock over to the always amazing Pretty Penny.  Stop on by and check out some of our awesome new fall pieces…flannel cowl neck tank tops, stenciled leather, organic shawls, stenciled tees.  If our lovelies are not enough to entice you, maybe the newly expanded upstairs shoe area at PP will!!

SALE…SALE…SALE…SALE…SALE

As fall weather starts to set in, there nothing is more exciting then shopping the sales rack for new pieces.  So we just posted a bunch of new sale pieces on our etsy store for your shopping pleasure!!

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we love corduroy in fall…

check out some of our new temporary tattoo multi packs after the jump!

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more tattoos!

We have been estatic about the response that our temporary tattoos have been recieving and could be happier!  But kelly recently commented about maybe transforming a few more of my original designs into tattoo.  So i said why not!  Check out the new tattoos below!

glitches & tweaks…

Our new website is being a bit stubborn in it’s initial release.  So unfortunately, we be offline for a day, maybe two, to make a few tweaks here and there.  And don’t fret we will not be leaving you while we go under construction once again.  We will be redirecting our url www.bennykelly.com directly to our blog.  We thank you for all your patience!!

spray paint & leather

we love the smell of spray paint & leather!!  New stenciled leather just listed….Enjoy!

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new goodies for you to shop

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bennykelly is a clothing line created to recapture that magical play we all need from our little child within. Combining simple apparel design, for both men and women, with stencils and screens of a limited run.

shop us local…

Pretty Penny
5488 college ave
oakland, ca

RAG co-op
541 octavia st
san francisco, ca

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