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Barneys New York | Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters

The luxury retailer Barneys New York has dared to do something different for its new campaign Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters and cast transgender models for a fashion shoot by Bruce Weber. According to Dennis Freedman, the creative director of Barneys, the transgender community has been neglected in recent history. I was exquisitely aware that...

PHZ-Sicks | The Moment The World Takes Notice

Nominated for DMV Best VA Male Rap Artist in 2011, PHZ-Sicks is now making his mark on the scene with his recent release The Moment (available here). Here he tells us about the tedious two-year production process, family influence and Nelson Mandela. Tell me a bit about your new album The Moment. Did the ideas...

WIN: CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014

The third edition of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival kicks off on 4 February 2014 and will run through until 9 February 2014. Headliners are deep house don Dixon (Germany), drum ‘n bass trio Noisia (Netherlands) and hip hop pioneer DJ The Original Jazzy Jay (US). What’s more, before the main festival (7 –...

DJ Face on hip hop, True School & 9th Wonder

Making an exemplary start in his parents’ basement under the watchful eye of his older brother, Sean Armstrong aka DJ Face is both a fully-fledged member of 9th Wonder‘s True School Corporation as well as the Black Jedi chapter of The Universal Zulu Nation — and thus a hip hop artist gaining steady traction. While...

Interview | Red Huxley’s American Dream

Dylan Jones (Vocals and Guitar), Matthew Pullen (Bass) and Murray Stephenson (Drums) of Red Huxley recently made a much-dreamed-of rock’n’roll fairytale reality. After giving their EP to Dave Catching of the Eagles of Death Metal and Queens of the Stone Age at One Night in Cape Town, they got the opportunity to record their debut...

EVERYBODY STREET | NYC IN FRAMES

Everybody Street is a documentary by photographer and documentarian Cheryl Dunn that pays homage to one of the most culturally and visually stimulating cities — the sometimes mean but always mighty New York City. Being a drawcard for impulsive adventurers from across the globe and rich in history as well as forward-thinking movements, the vibrant...

SEAN SULLIVAN | THE IMPOSSIBLE COOL

Sean Sullivan — a writer, photographer and director — collaborated with Russell Blackmore of Sonic Editions to curate a collection of impossibly cool, rare photographs found at the maximum security Corbis Archive at Iron Mountain, Pennsylvania — Jim Morrison, Martin Luther King and William S. Burroughs are just a few who are part of this...

Contact to The Caverns of Telos | The Lumerians

Influenced by music that transcends cultural, historical and genre assumptions, such as 1970s German Krautrock bands Can and Neu!, as well as African, South American and Turkish psychedelic rock, The Lumerians manage to create a sound that is neither of past, present nor future but simply of intelligent but not over-thought quality. This may be...

New Release: Sean Armstrong | ‘Took Control’

DJ, MC and producer Sean Armstrong — who has performed alongside artists like The Roots, Pete Rock, Little Brother, EPMD, and Kid Capri as DJ Face — is releasing his new album Marble Cake Diaries on 19 November. Here’s the video to the album’s lead single ‘Took Control’ (track available here) featuring Tajai from Souls...

Interview | Yuriy Gurzhy | Russian Disco in Berlin

About three years after immigrating to Berlin, Germany, from Russia and the Ukraine respectively, Wladimir Kaminer and Yuriy Gurzhy started the legendary eastern-disco club night ‘Russendisko’ (Russian disco) in 1999 — first at Café Zapata and then at cultbar Kaffee Burger — by putting light on music that was previously eclipsed by the Iron Curtain....

|INTERVIEW| THE VODUN HAUNTS: ‘LESS TALK AND MORE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’

The Vodun Haunts are a six-piece psycho outfit made up of Le Riche Meyer (on the Vox Box), Russell Hatton (on the Shredder), Lance Brandow (on the double bass), Ken Bull-Smith (on the beat), Shaun Ponting (on the Six String) and Cami Scoundrel (on the Bag of Tricks). Their Facebook description claims that they have...

Coarse Presents “A Voyage of No Return”

On July 6 2013 Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk aka COARSE will release their latest creation ‘The Passage’ through Coarselife.com, a new and never-before-seen sculpture, which boasts a total length of 16” [40 cm] and height of 11” [27.5 cm]. The characters in this figure group include the catch Ruth, the seducer Void, and an...

#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER | RECENT RELEASES

Every week we compile a selection of music to sing you into the weekend and list them in a post called #bottomrightcorner. Sometimes new tunes, sometimes themed tunes and sometimes we ask a music aficionado to choose the tunes for us. This time two of our staff members each picked three songs that were released...
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