SEASON TICKETS - Year in Review
SEASON TICKETS - Year in Review
Sorry for the late reply
Apologies for the radio silence at Season Tickets it’s been a busy time over at Franchise HQ, we have some exciting announcements in the coming weeks/months, but for now lets take a look back at 2021,
If you haven’t checked out our latest drop there are still limited sizes available on our shop and stockists around the world.
Season Tickets is now free to everyone but subscribers get exclusive perks like early access to product and invites to events whenever those happen again.
FRANCHISE YEAR IN REVIEW:
We launched our new apparel line in 2021 with a selection of new shirts designed in house alongside an editorial shoot in Japan by Gui Martinez
This collection featured a limited edition zine and NFT:
This was followed by a collaboration with our friends at Rokit and the talented Fit of Body aka Harsh Riddims aka Ryan Parks
We then had a collaboration with our friends in Japan AKTR that highlighted summer games of the past:
Which was followed by our Summer drop:
We released our first record on our newly formed record label:
have some killer releases lined up for 2022
We debuted our ongoing city profile series - Home Court
We released a joint mixtape with our friends at Victory Journal to celebrate the Nigerian Basketball teams in the Olympics :
We made a limited edition shirt for WNBA voted GOAT Diana Taurasi:
and then concluded the year with our latest winter drop which is still available here
We have a lot more product in store for 2022, thank you for the support.
STUDIO FRANCHISE 2021
We had a busy year at our creative studio in 2021 and were fortunate to work with a selection of amazing partners:
NBA
NEW BALANCE
NTWRK
NBPA
NIKE/HOUSE OF HOOPS
Here are some of our favorite releases from 2021:
favorite SONGS
We took over our friends at Ghostly International’s productivity playlist in conjunction with our collaboration jacket. The playlist highlights some of our favorite songs from 2021, its not order of ranking but more in order of song flow, check it out:
favorite ALBUMS
We listened to a lot of music this year, here are a few of our favorite long players..
JOHN GLACIER - SHILOH: LOST FOR WORDS
Mesmerizing debut album by London based Producer/MC. “John Glacier says she chose her stage name because she's "icy". But, like her pitch-shifted vocal and deadpan stare, that dissembling coldness is shattered by the blistering reality of her lyrics.”
KANYE WEST - DONDA
DEAN BLUNT - BLACK METAL 2
One of those releases that makes you feel like no other music exists for a hot minute, Dean Blunt returns with a second Black Metal album for Rough Trade, delving deeper into his unfathomable yet completely approachable and direct take on visceral x melancholic folk-pop. Spoiler: It’s really fucking good.
MADLIB - SOUND ANCESTORS
Kieren Hebden AKA Four Tet:
A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album.
FRED AGAIN - ACTUAL LIFE 1 & 2
Fred finds that the contrast of recorded voice clips and ghostly, nocturnal house beats reaps seriously poignant rewards and whatever the emotional register of the tracks, they are in every case distilled to their purest strength. - LOUND AND QUIET
NOW THING 2
Resetting the timeline to 1997-2020, ‘Now Thing 2’ expands upon the seminal first set - which was a gateway to the world of dancehall for many heads - with crucial cuts from the scene’s leading producers; spanning Dave Kelly to Steely & Clevie, from NYC’s Bobby Konders to Ward 21, and including killer side-spins on ‘90s rave and R&B.
Demdike Stare - Drum Machines
New mixtape from Demdike Stare featuring their own - all previously unheard and unreleased - productions, edits and mixes based around an obsession with drum machines and classic Muzic Box/Ron Hardy/Poindexter/Lil Louis vibes, assembled in typically scuzzed & fucked style.
YU SU - Yellow River Blue
bié Records 和 Yu Su 想以厂牌第一号出品 Yellow River Blue 作契机，为华人文化区域内不同背景的音乐人建立抒发个体感受的出口。
2019 年冬，这位中原生⻓又旅居海外的音乐人一路从黄海西岸的青岛游历至青藏高原最大的城市西宁；在这趟首尾对应黄河两端的巡演途中，她被中国前卫电子音乐场景和场景参与者的自由姿态深深吸引，随即思考如何以音乐创作为这个集体作出贡献。
Yellow River Blue，Yu Su 对于这段经历的开放性回应，听感流畅也暗藏情绪张力。源于自己丰富的聆听经验和对个人经历的敏锐感知，Yu Su 的音乐语言包含了超越⻛格标签和自身文化根源及所处环境的复杂意识。山水的清幽不仅仅源于她与自然的亲近关系，更是一种个人情绪外化的 “人造” ⻛景。
透过 Yu Su 拨弄的象征符号与音乐风格元素，你会清楚看到她扰乱 “内与外” “中与洋” “我与他” 边界的初心以及她温和又澄澈的自我画像 —— 于愈发混浊的湍流中泛起轻舟，以自若之势扬起一面古老的帆；Yu Su 正为自己，也为世上紊乱的风指引新的方向。
favorite SHOES
OFF-WHITE X AIR JORDAN 2 RETRO LOW SP 'WHITE VARSITY RED'
COMME DES GARÇONS HOMME PLUS X AIR FOAMPOSITE ONE 'BLACK'
FRAGMENT DESIGN X SACAI X LDV WAFFLE 'LIGHT SMOKE GREY'
NEW BALANCE NOBIUM C_2 x TOKYO DESIGN STUDIO
favorite MAGAZINES
IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, WE LOVE MAGAZINES. WE’LL PROBABLY DO ANOTHER ONE SOMEDAY, UNTIL THEN HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE ISSUES FROM THIS YEAR…
AUTRE ISSUE 13: BIODIVERSITY: ACCESS TO NEW TOOLS
An entire issue about the environment. We were given a paradise of epic proportions but we fucked it all up. Over 60,000 words and nearly 400 pages, Autre’s Biodiversity Issue asks readers to take a fascinating dive into our fragile ecological world. After two years of living through unprecedented climate change phenomena and a summer of catastrophic natural disasters, this is the most urgent edition we have ever published.
ARCHIVO No 6 The Eighties Issue
This issue of Archivio instead continues our journey back through the twentieth century, stop-ping this time on the fluorescently outgoing, yet such intimate years of the 1980s—so close and yet so far.
UNLIRICE #00
Based in Tokyo, Japan, UNLIRICE Magazine focuses on new and emerging creative cultures found across Asia and Volume #00 marks their first foray into physical print. This debut issue highlights contemporary Asia as a whole and dives deep into the untapped potential found across the continent.
BRUTUS ISSUE 942 MUSIC AND SAKE ISSUE
The July issue of Japan’s Brutus that profiles a large selection of listening bars around Japan, track it down or checkout the digital edition.
SPIKE ART ISSUE 67 (SPRING 2021): SPORTS
features on David Hammons’ basketball works, Ligia Lewis’ athletic choreography, Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint, and Rineke Dijkstra’s videos of young gymnasts, and reviews from Bangkok to Vienna to Brazil.
SNEEZE N°50- FALL 2021-“The WhatsAppenin’ Issue”
RIP VIRGIL
favorite BOOKS
THE JOY OF BASKETBALL
DESERT ORACLE
search term
Easy to be Hard
THE BASKETBALL ARTICLE
favorite SHOWS
SHATTERED GLASS @ Deitch LA
“Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding. - NY Times
GREG ITO - Apparition @ ANAT EBGI
Greg Ito’s solo show here, “Apparition,” assumes the form of an immersive installation and is suffused with yearning—for a deeper connection to the past or, perhaps, a better today. - Art Forum
DAVID HAMMONS: BASKETBALL & KOOL-AID @ Nahmad Contemporary
Hot Concrete: L.A. Arrangement/You Lead Follow Me @ Sow & Tailor
Elijah Funk & Alix Ross (Online Ceramics) -The Galaxy Song @ David Kordansky
