High Places + Modern Amusement

Bryan Sheffield photographed Mary Pearson, one-half of the experimental duo, High Places, at one of their recent LA shows. She's wearing Modern Amusement's 53's.

High Places is currently touring Europe, browse their myspace for dates. For those in Europe and beyond, you can check out their new album, High Places Vs. Mankind, available now!

Baumvision at SXSW 2010

Baumvision heads down to Austin, Texas for SXSW 2010. Here are some of the artists from this year's lineup sporting Paul Frank and Modern Amusement Eyewear:


Billy Bragg (3rd from left) in Olympic Airways.


Jason Collette of Broken Social Scene in Back on the Motorway.


TJ Orscher of Bear Hands wears Legion of Indecency. The band is wrapping up their tour with Passion Pit but will be on the road with As Tall as Lions in April and May.


Native Aussies, The Crayon Fields, came all the way from down under and are wearing (from left to right) The Sporting Life, Dance Dance Dance!, Legion of Indecency, and A Friend in Tweed is a Friend Indeed.


The guys of Title Tracks don the styles The Sporting Life, 52's, and 48's.


BRAHMS in (from left to right, and up to down) White Lips Kissed, Land Locked Lifeguards, 49's, and Sans Soleil / Sunshine Clouds and Everything Proud.


Toronto-based band, Holy Fuck, in Feel My Heat, Fountain of Truth, My Bright Future, 53's, and Back on the Motorway.


Mariachi El Bronx wearing Paul Frank Eyewear

Baumvision Europe + The Bloodhound Gang

Llion of Baumvision Europe goes backstage with The Bloodhound Gang in Croatia and is happy to report that "(free) Paul Frank sunglasses are officially more interesting than 4 litres of (free) Jagermeister."

From left to right: The Yin wears The Crafty Engineer, Evil Jared in Bold as Love, Denial P in Legion of Indecency, and Jimmy Pop in B-Sides.

Vision Expo East 2010 + The Hold Steady

Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady stopped by the Baumvision booth at this year's Vision Expo East in New York. Here he is with Baumvision owner, Shane Baum.

Their new album, Heaven is Whenever, will be released in May, but the band is gradually releasing individual tracks to stream online via Stereogum. They're also currently touring around the US and will be heading to Europe in June. Check out their myspace for tour dates.

MIDO tradeshow 2010

Baumvision Europe at this year's MIDO tradeshow in Milan. Thank you to all those who attended and made this our best MIDO show yet.

NOMO + Paul Frank

Ann Arbor based Afro-beat supergroup, Nomo, stopped by the office before their show at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa and hung with Granny Leta out in Newport beach. They're currently on tour, Check out their myspace for dates. Also check out frontman Elliot Bergman's handmade kalimbas for sale. We're waiting for ours to come any day now...

Calling all artists!

Attention all you artists out there...Paul Frank has teamed up with popular arts & culture magazine, Juxstapoz, to hold an original artwork challenge - ART ATTACK. Whether you're a photographer, painter, mixed media artist, illustrator or craftsman...no medium will go unnoticed! Paul Frank will be awarding the grand prize of $2500 toward art supplies AND a full page showcasing of the winning artwork in Juxstapoz Magazine! Click here for details!

Baumvision + Little Boots

Baumvision's own Customer Service Ambassador, Arthur, visited The Glass House in Pomona to check out English electropop singer-songwriter, Little Boots. The eclectic artist plays a variety of instruments like the keyboard, piano, stylophone and even a Japanese electronic instrument called a Tenori-on.

Check her out wearing Paul Frank Olympic Airways in burnt umber.