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Monthly Archives: March 2015

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: HIGHWAY

Friday, March 20, 2015

Reaching us from the depths of the USA is the first issue of HIGHWAY, a biannual music magazine that comes as a nifty postcard-sized booklet. Firmly grounded in a black & white fanzine / DIY / post-punk aesthetic, its content is refreshingly eclectic and hands-on, ranging from experimental sound projects to electronic producers to punk [...]

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SHEDDING SKIN

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Ghostpoet’s latest album, Shedding Skin, was just released and features maybe one of the nicest covers in some time, abstract at first sight, but extremely literal on closer inspection: the art work are images of skin biopsies, and to be more precise, biopsies of Ghostpoet’s own skin. Read a brief interview here, or see a [...]

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PENDULUM

Monday, March 16, 2015

Once BDSM was seen as a taboo as in the 1999 film 8 mm with Nicholas Cage. One wonders when and why it became a fashion in the mainstream culture. Although, 50 Shades of Grey was cursed by 50 porn stars and professional fetishists and the desperate film Tongue Tied by Miley Cyrus with Quentin Jones was rejected [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: DASHA RUSH

Monday, March 16, 2015

As Dasha Rush is about to release her first album with our friends at Raster-Noton, aptly titled Sleepstep, a look back at the mesmerising Ocean Shy.

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‘DAVID LYNCH: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS’ OPENS THIS WEEKEND

Saturday, March 14, 2015

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful” – David Lynch
In an Australian [...]

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ZOO CHIC

Friday, March 13, 2015

Hollywood and haute couture clash in Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s publicity stunt for Zoolander 2 on Valentino’s Paris runway. While both worlds are equally hermetic, the mix, as captured by Vine, feels awfully accessible, don’t you think?

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SAVAGE BEAUTY

Friday, March 13, 2015

The venerable V&A museum opens its anticipated retrospective on late and legendary fashion designer Alexander McQueen tomorrow, which, if anything, makes it painfully obvious how we are lacking designers of the same calibre and radicality today. In the meantime, longtime friend and collaborator Nick Knight features his own McQueen retrospective of sorts on Showstudio, with [...]

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AMASON

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Listen to Ålen, Älgen, Went to War and all of the other fabulous songs by Amason- there are way too many to list here.

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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Remember those? For his project The Long Lines, photographer Spencer Harding spent a few weeks photographing dozens of ‘microwave towers’ in California, now defunct relics marking a turning point in telecommunication when phone signals were first transmitted via the sky rather than the earth.
Photography: The Long Lines by Spencer Harding

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MONDAY MUSIC: GRIMES

Monday, March 9, 2015

Grimes is back and shares a new track that was never meant to be released.

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