One hot artist on the radar is Canada’s rapper Drake whose sick new album Take Care dropped in November. Drake is taking his new music on the road in a unique tour titled the Club Paradise Tour. 
His tour kicks off on Valentine’s Day in Miami and will make his way through 17 cities in North America. The cool thing is instead of selling out to major arenas Drake wanted to take his music to the people who got him to where he is today, college age kids. During an interview with MTV, Drake said, “I fought for this tour, I fought really hard for this tour because, of course they want me to get the big bucks, go into the stadiums and cash out…But I was like, I really made this album for the same people that supported me since day one.” He will stop in major hot spots like New Orleans, Austin and San Diego. After hitting up the college campus’ he will head to Europe for a few additional dates. Ike is psyched for this tour and hopes to get a ticket for the March 3rd show at the Galen Center at USC!
Drake’s Club Paradise
January 13th, 2012Albums set to drop in 2012
January 5th, 2012The New Year has begun and we are excited to see new developments in the music world. Ike is keepin’ an eye out on what music is set to drop in 2012.
In the hip/hop world Nicki Minaj, Jay-z and B.o.B all are scheduled to release new albums. Nicki’s sophomore album; Pink Friday:Roman Reloaded will hopefully be as big of a ‘Boom-ba-doom’ as her first album. Jay-Z hasn’t done a solo album in three years so it’s about time for some new Hova. In addition to the hip-hop world, there’s movement in the rock-indie spectrum as well, as Brendon Flowers confirms that the Killers will release their fourth album in 2012. Muse also plans to drop their sixth album this year. Ike is giddy with excitement and is curious about what possibilities the New Year holds in terms of new music!
Last Minute Christmas Shopping
December 22nd, 2011Everyone is crazed the last hours before Christmas trying to get that one last perfect gift. 
The malls are going to be insane these next few days so why not make it easy on yourself and buy online. Many sites offer free shipping around this time before Christmas and offer expedited shipping for much less than usual.If you are looking for something hip and reasonably priced, check out our store for the coolest ipod and iphone cases. Your techie buddie will love these eye catching cases and products. Lady Gaga lovers will go gaga for the Pokerface Stuffed head or silicone sleeves for their apple products. Just click http://www.psyclopshq.com/store/ or go to our homepage and clik on our store button to check it out. You never know the perfect gift that you’ve been searching for could be right under your nose.
Grammy Season!
December 19th, 2011The nominees for the 2012 Grammy Awards were announced at the end of November and there were some shockers and some obvious noms. 
Kanye West scoring seven nominations, racked up the most nods, followed by The Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars each with six nominations. Adele also gained six nominations including Album, Record and Song of the Year, but many were expecting her to receive more nominations after her amazing record breaking album release. It seemed like this year was a year of talented ladies, Beyoncé’s song says it best, “who run the world? Girls.” Beyoncé, Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry all put out new albums and hit singles, yet they all seemed to be overlooked this year by the Grammy’s. The ladies received fewer noms than male performers like Kanye, Bruno Mars, Foo Fighters. It’s not like the girls didn’t get any nominations but they surely were snubbed after taking over the radio waves with their top hits
The nominees for album of the year include; Adele’s 21, Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Lady Gaga’s Born this way, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now, and Tony Bennett’s Duets. Ike is excited to find out who will be performing at this year’s awards ceremony as it is sure to be a star studded night with incredible performances.
Tis the Season!
December 15th, 2011It’s the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas time! It sure is Ike’s favorite holiday. 
And what better way to celebrate the holiday season than with the music and carols we all know and love. This year some very big artists released Christmas albums and Ike has his favorites. 
Justin Bieber released the album, Under the Mistletoe a fun album featuring collaborations with artists such as Usher, and Mariah Carey. 
Ike’s favorite track off the album has to be the hip hop take on the classic Little Drummer Boy called, Drummer Boy featuring Busta Rhymes. Ike also has a soft spot for that old school sound that Michael Bublé brings to his Christmas Album. The sultry songster brings a little jazz to White Christmas and just makes Ike smile. Lastly, the cast of Glee released their second Christmas album which is just fun for Gleeks everywhere. Ike’s been fa la la la la-ing away and wants to know what your favorite Christmas song or album is this year?
Apologies
December 15th, 2011Ike would like everyone to know that we’ve been running through some technical site problems which is why we haven’t been up to date on our blogs. Our apologies, we will now be back with more frequent blogs!! Thanks for reading. 
Lady Gaga’s New Foundation
November 3rd, 2011You know we love our lady Gaga for her music her crazy fashion and her all out acceptance of all people. She has always been outspoken in her efforts of supporting the gay population and any other’s who are bullied or persecuted for being who they are. Well she’s taken her phrase, “born this way” and turned it into something even bigger. 
That’s right, Lady Gaga just announced yesterday that she would be launching the Born This Way Foundation, a non profit that will focus on empowering youth with “issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti–bullying, mentoring and career development.” Gaga isn’t doing this alone, with the help of the John D and Cathering T MacArthur Foundation, California Endowmnet and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are all on board for this social effort. Also helping with the cause is the mama monster herself, Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother. The official launch of the Born This Way Foundation will be next year and we cant wait to see the success it will bring to our community.
The New iPhone 4s
October 20th, 2011The world has been waiting and it’s finally here in our hands, the new iPhone. Some might be a little bummed that it isn’t the iPhone 5 but the iPhone 4s still has so much more to offer and it fits in our iPhone 4 cases!
On October 14th the new phone was released and Ike is dying to get his hands on one. Its faster, the camera is dope, the picture quality is insane and there is a voice command girl, Siri, who Ike is majorly crushing on. Not to mention that with iCloud Ike can sync his devices so much easier. This phone is a must have especially if you still have only the iPhone 3 and if you don’t have an iPhone I wouldn’t even wait for the iPhone 5 which could take at least another half a year to appear on the market. Get it while it’s hot. Oh and now in addition to ATT and Verizon offering wireless service sprint joined with Apple to offer its customers the new iPhone 4s. the iPhone 4s is available in Apple stores and at the participating wireless company stores.
Honoring a True Genius
October 6th, 2011Yesterday Steve Jobs passed away and instead of mourning over the loss, Ike want’s to celebrate a life of a man who changed the world. Steve Jobs co founded the Apple company at twenty years old out the back of his parents garage.
The company grew exponentially with the development of the Macintosh personal computer and his innovations didn’t just stop there. Jobs was a visionary from working on Pixar movies such as Toy Story to bringing us a new (and freaking awesome) way of talking to each other on a device that does more than just a simple phone. 
Ike’s life would be drastically different without his apple products. This blog wouldn’t be created without his Macbook Air, his favorite tunes wouldn’t be easily accessible without his iPod Touch and reading that new book that he’s been dying to get his hands on while overseas wouldn’t be possible without his iPad. Without Apple, our company wouldn’t even be running. Steve jobs didn’t just make the world a more tech savy place, he inspired us to think outside the box and his legacy will continue with the innovative minds of our youth. Thank you Steve Jobs.
Ike likes UCLA
September 26th, 2011Ike and the PSYCLOPS Crew had a blast at Bruin Fest this weekend! UCLA has an annual festival to welcome incoming freshman from 10pm til 1am on the first Saturday of the first semester. Seeing as though our PSYCLOPS products are in the UCLA Bookstore we had to check it out! It was awesome fun too!
We had our booth in the middle of the carnival booths and we saw some great dance moves from the crowd. People were dougie–ing, jerking, breaking, and cat daddy-ing. The best dancers won awesome PSYCLOPS Products, including our stuffed heads, iphone cases and ipod touch cases. Even if you just shook what your mama gave you a little bit you received a free figural ipod nano case. Check out our Facebook for photos and videos from the event! We can’t wait till next year. If you happened to miss our booth or if you came by and liked our stuff, check us out in the UCLA bookstore or at our online shop!
