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A Quick Coffee with Dermot Kennedy

Irish songwriter Dermot Kennedy has already racked up over 300 million streams on Spotify, sold out Brooklyn Steel, and performed at Billboard Live all before even releasing his first album. Born and raised in Dublin, the 25-year-old initially got interested in music during his teens. He quickly began busking to gain experience and exposure — it wasn’t long before people began to take notice. And although he got his start by performing live for strangers, Kennedy is always thinking about how the listener is enjoying the music on their own.

 

“I started out wanting to just do the acoustic, folk thing and wanting to be like Damien Rice or David Gray, one of those artists — that was what inspired me in the first place,” he tells me over coffee at Lafayette in NoHo. “But then a couple of years ago I was working with a producer in London and we had a song that was totally acoustic, literally a folk song with my guitar and a vocal, and he put a really heavily programmed beat over it — it was really in your face and it just felt so good. It wasn’t intentional, it happened organically but it felt like a really cool sound to chase.

 

Photographed by Nate Morgan.

Photographed by Nate Morgan.

Kennedy’s work is a mixture of Irish folk with modern urban production, creating a unique and intimate soundscape. His interest in fusing different genres and embracing experimentation is a beautiful contrast that has earned a following around the world, but he considers lyrics paramount to his work. And despite his extensive live performance, he writes music with the individual listening experience in mind.

 

“There’s a bunch of stuff you do in the studio that, which for a moment you think, ‘I won’t be able to do this live,’ but you kinda just gotta disregard that and figure it out later on,” he says. “Cause if it sounds good, it just has to exist. And if something sounds cool when it’s recorded, you can definitely get it across live.”

 

Kennedy has a slew of festival appearances set for the rest of the year but is committed to working on the album early next year. He mentions his interest in working with big names like Travis Scott but also mentions more traditional outfits like The Gloaming. “Two things from totally different worlds,” he shares, ensuring that his debut record will be a masterful marriage of genres. We just have to wait for it.

 

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GINA Reinvents Coffee Brewing at Home

GINA Coffee MakerImage: Goat Story.

Driven by a love for coffee, passion for design, and user experience improvement, Goat Story brings the first smart instrument, GINA, to kitchens worldwide, allowing artisan coffee brewing within the home. Combining immersion drip, pour over, and cold brew styles into one machine, GINA boasts a built in Bluetooth scale and companion mobile application. The partnered app, which displays the weight of all ingredients, connects users to an online-community and even offers coffee ratios that guide beginners through the entire brewing process, aiming to create the perfect sip. Crafted with carefully selected high-end materials: stainless steel frames, ceramic covers, a funnel with specially designed ridges for better air flow and extraction, and a borosilicate glass pitcher for elegant serving, GINA provides a long-lasting and technologically-sound experience. Offered in three shades—steel, white, and black—and with a sharp and modern design, GINA is a chic device that can help save kitchen space and make coffee time that much more enjoyable.

GINA by Goat Story is available online now.

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It’s Been A Long Week: 1800 Añejo’s Miners Cough

Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, 1800 Añejo.

As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make a glass or two on us, you deserve it.

WHAT

1800 Añejo’s Miners Cough

Dark clouds mean darker roasts, and this bittersweet treat from 1800 Añejo‘s doesn’t disappoint – a flash of tequila quickly warms up any cold soul.

HOW

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz. 1800 Añejo
  • 1 oz. Dark roast coffee
  • 3 dashes Chocolate bitters
  • 0.5 oz. Agave nectar
  • Whipped cream

Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, 1800 Añejo, Fee Brothers, Sunfood Super Foods, and La Colombe.

THEN

Combine all ingredients into shaker and shake for 10 seconds. Strain in rocks glass, then top with whipped cream and garnish with shaved chocolate.

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Pop-Up Central Perk Celebrates ‘Friends’ Anniversary

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It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since we first tuned into Friends and rocked out to the catchy theme song by The Rembrandts. Now, fans of the mega-hit TV show can take a stroll back to 1994 and sip a cup of joe in a fully functioning replica of Central Perk—the colorful coffee shop hangout frequented by the shows cast—to celebrate its upcoming 20th anniversary. This fall, Warner Bros. will partner with Eight 0’Clock Coffee to create a pop-up of the iconic coffeehouse, which will offer visitors free cups of coffee, as well as a chance to view some of the show’s original props. In addition to superfluous amounts of caffeine and a chance at limitless selfies on the original orange couch, the pop-up Perk will also feature appearances from fan-favorite James Michael Tyler—who played Gunther—trivia contests, giveaways, and in-store performances. Here’s hoping for a revival of, Smelly Cat.

The  Central Perk pop-up will be located at 199 Lafayette Street in New York City from September 17th-October 18th 2014.

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Café Kitsuné is Now Open in Paris

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Care for a little cream with your dark roast? What about a quaint, European-style hang out with a stylish sensibility? Yes? Perfect! Smack in the middle of Paris Fashion Week, record label/fashion house/cool-kids Kitsuné’s newest free-standing café is officially open for business as of today. Developed by the brand’s founders, Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kurok, the coffee shop is the second caffein-focused outpost for Kitsuné, after a successful opening of Café Kitsuné in Tokyo last fall. Centrally based in the historic Palais Royale, Café Kitsuné serves a selection of fresh roasts, cold-pressed juices from Bob’s Food Etc, and Noglu gluten-free pastries in a storefront that is as charming as you would expect.

We’ll meet you there for a fox-shaped biscuit and latte in between shows!

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Images courtesy of Café Kitsuné.

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Our Favorite Coffee Cocktail You Need To Try

 

ce9bf9e3b1aca4a1e83d1abad53e687259dd292fIt’s almost September 29th, and you know what that means: It’s almost National Coffee Day. We wanted to find the perfect coffee cocktail to help make this year’s National Coffee Day truly one for the books.

ILLY ISSIMO SHOT

Ingredients:

1 illy issimo coffee drink
4 cl sambuca or vodka
Ice cubes

Recipe:

Put in a tumbler ice cubes and 4 cl Sambuca or vodka: serve together with a can of illy issimo coffee drink. That’s it!

So just what is this illy issimo that you’re sipping from a bottle? Well, coffee, sure, yeah, but it’s taking the legendary illy blend you love waking up to in the morning and making it available in convenient on-the-go bottles. It’s keenly available in flavors like Caffe, Caffe No Sugar, Latte Macchiato, Mochaccino, and Cappuccino. For more info, or more recipes, or just to gawk longingly at pictures of coffee, visit their website: www.illyissimo.com.

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Saturdays Surf Coffee La Colombe Home Brew No. 1

You May Now Brew Saturdays Surf Coffee at Home

Saturdays Surf Coffee La Colombe Home Brew No. 1Fusing ingredients from Brazil, Ethiopia, and El Salvador, Saturdays Surf NYC has been proffering an unforgettable medium dark roast blend in partnership with La Colombe since the day they opened their doors back in the summer of 2009. You know, just one more good reason to hang around a store already filled with cool urban-surf minded books, chachkies and clothing. So, since you all love the coffee,  just about four years later, they’ve decided to free the bean…as in make it available for you to take home, grind and brew yourself. Of course the tin it comes in is a near perfect design for display…like if Chock Full o’Nuts decided to update more than once in a century. Anyway, Saturdays Blend No. 1 is perfect for..uh…Saturday mornings? Sure, why not?

Saturdays blend retails for $13.50 and is available online at saturdaysnyc.com  and at Saturdays’ Soho and West Village locations

 

Related: Portage: Saturdays Surf NYC Duffle