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Beginning this week, and every Monday to follow, Upper Playground will be debuting new Walrus TV content for your viewing pleasure.  We’ve got interviews with artists like Slick and David Choe, as well as local favorites Fillmore Slim.  We’ve got more than a year’s worth of content coming your way so stay tuned! In our first installment of Walrus TV, we have a 9-part series, featuring Retna as he discusses how he got his start, what graffiti means to him, and the merits of learning his craft on the streets.  Check out more of the Retna interview here.

This winter, Upper Playground released four graphics, designed by Munk One, inspired by rock tees from the 80s.  It was all about the long hair, moshing, headbanging, tattoos, bad behavior and video vixens.  If you want to relive the glory days, then you need to get with one of the four tees in the series:  Screaming Walrus, Chained, Up Out, and Serial Comedy.  What better way to rock out than with your t-shirt out?  All of the tees are available at Upper Playground store locations in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Berkeley, San Francisco and on the UP Web Store. They’d make a perfect gift for your metalhead friends and family.

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Upper Playground released a new round of comfy hoodies to keep you warm this winter.   First up, they’ve got new hoodies from the UP line featuring the artwork of Usugrow and Morning Breath.  The Hair hoodie   features the lovely caligraphy lines that are unmistakably drawn by Usugrow.  The UP Rugby hoodie features a very official walrus crest done by Morning Breath.  Jeremy Fish went all out on his superFishal hoodies - the quality is all in the design and details.  His Eagle hoodie features embroidered appliques and custom printed lining.  The Bee Team hoodie features embroidered applique, custom printed lining, elbow patches and wooden button details.  He’s definitely taking the plain old hoodie up a few notches.  Sam Flores also has some new hoodies as part of his Twelve Grain collection.  New styles include the printed 4 Turntables graphic and embroidered appliques for the Beat Cycle and Rainbow Lowrider styles. Since these hoodies are all custom, they come in great shades of grey, teal and olive - colors you won’t find anywhere else.  Finally, Upper Playground has two new hoodies from the Estevan Oriol collection.  The first, LA Round 2, revisits Oriol’s most famous image - a woman’s hands making the letters “LA.”  The second features his  version of a “Lost Angel.”

All of the hoodies are available at Upper Playground stores in San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and on the Upper Playground Webstore.

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The December Batch of Upper Playground New Era’s has arrived featuring  3 new styles.  The first, Bunny Hole, is part of Jeremy Fish’s line, superFishal.  The Bunny Hole hat features a rich brown tweed fabric with brown corduroy under the visor.  The embroidery on the crown features a bunny peaking out of a hole, much like its cousin the groundhog.  Hopefully, it will help us skip winter and bring an early spring.  The other 2 styles are designed by Upper Playground.  The UP logo 59Fifty features a classic black and white pinstripe fabric:  This is grown man fabric, not for the boys.  And finally, for the leaders among us, we have the Captain New Era complete with golden oak leaf embellishments or “scrambled eggs.”  Sorry, bacon’s not included with these bad boys.  All of the hats are available at Upper Playground stores in Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York.

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Upper Playground comes out with these shocking (because it’s something we aren’t used to) Premium DWP Hoodies. The materials used for these cut&sew hoodies are wool from imported straight from Italy and other countries and each was made in San Francisco.  Even the interior linning is covered with a soft, satin finish charmeuse. These Premium DWP “Dinner With the Parents” Hoodies come in 4 different types of styles including Plaid, Mini-Houndstooth, Houndstooth Plaid, and Pinstripe with each extremely limited to only 25 pieces. Head down to Lower Haight at Upper Playground Flagship store or on-line at the Upper Playground Online Store. via The Feed

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Looking for new gear is tough in this tight economy, but if you are in the San Francisco/Bay Area this weekend, you are in luck!  Huf, True and Upper Playground are getting together for a massive 80% sale.  It will be held on November 22-23 at the Sutter Room at the Regency Center located at 1290 Sutter Street, San Francisco from 10am-5pm on both days.  Cash and credit accepted!  via iknowtheledge