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02 June 2009
Mutek 2009 Roundup
I think it can be said that our minds (and bodies) are all sufficiently blown out after this year’s fantastic Mutek festival. Thanks to all our friends who said hello, put us up, followed us on Twitter, gave us drinks, etc. We’re all already looking forward to going back next year.
It was hard to single out a specific performance as the highlight — the cliche of trying to pick your favorite child comes to mind — so I’m just going to give out the track I heard there more than any other.
Oda vs Elias
01 June 2009
Kitsuné: Maison 7 and ‘The Graduate’ FW09 Collection
It’s a wonderful time when Kitsuné brings fresh fashion and music into the world.
The FW 09 collection, fantastically inspired by one of my favorite films The Graduate, has classic youth style in abundance. Certainly a good look for any recent college graduate caught in an affair.
In addition to models playfully displaying the collection, the Kitsuné Maison 7 compilation provides quite the fun soundtrack to the video. Frankly, who doesn’t love to dance around to Lisztomania in new outfits?
29 May 2009
Hear Ye Hear Ye, Thomas Mars Questionnaire
As a follow-up to last week’s Phoenix post, this week marked a new installment for Opening Ceremony stores, which will rotate a different guest musician to pick their top ten records to play in the store environment and be available for purchase. Each feature will also come with a questionnaire on their blog. And to kick things off, their first edition is with Thomas Mars.
While some of the choices and tidbit information is surprising, it’s all nothing short of solid. From his favourite band tee shirt to his favourite guilty pleasure, check out Thomas’ music survery here.
28 May 2009
Cold Kids War: “I’ve Seen Enough” Interactive Video
In 2008, Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible interactive video was published on the web, indulging the user to control the video segments. Cold Kids War have achieved a similar approach by allowing viewers to manipulate the mix of each instrument for the track “I’ve Seen Enough.” Interesting to see where the direction of music videos are going.
Piknic Electronique '67
26 May 2009
More Proof @ Mutek 2009
That’s right folks, we’re packing up our magic bus and goin’ down the road to Montreal for some well-deserved drinks, dirty dancing and pounding, pounding techno music. Who could say no to Mutek this year? Have you seen the lineup?
If you decided to keep it local, don’t get your panties in a twist. @Jon Friis, @Dre-bans, and @myself are going to live-blog the whole damn festival via Twitter. Keep refreshing that smartphone to read up on our misadventures, blown minds, and (hopefully) pictures of dudes with devil sticks.
24 May 2009
John Daly: This Is A Lonely Beat
You know what I never got one little bit? That 80s pseudo-goth carnival scene that Marylin Manson eventually came out of. What was that? And why is it back in handbag form?
Deep House, though? That I’m down with. In fact, more organic dance music overall, please.
21 May 2009
New Video: Phoenix, “1901”
As Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix gets ready to assume an unfaltering position as one of this summer’s best releases, it was just as pleasing to see this week’s unveiling of the record’s second video for 1901 as it was to see the weather finally catching up with the claim.
Hopefully the two will be more closely in sync for when the record releases online on May 25th. Until then, you can count on some pretty cute tidbits showing up on the Phoenix blog.
Extraordinary Records
19 May 2009
Printed Matter: Extraordinary Records
COLORS Magazine showcases the beautiful and inspiring record collections of Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine, in this 432 page masterful book, Extraordinary Records.
It’s a fitting project for a publication whose founding editor-in-chief Tibor Kalman was a celebrated graphic artist, creating seminal album designs for the Talking Heads.
Oh yeah, Giorgio Moroder is the author with contributors Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine.
More images available via TASCHEN
18 May 2009
Snacking: Corn chips
Doritos is once again on top of the corn chip game with it’s recent unveiling of mystery flavour Scream Cheese. You can see contest-winner Ryan Coopersmith’s spot for it in the left column — it’s pretty obnoxious.
What I am more interested in, though, is getting my hands on a bag of Tacos at Midnight, part of a new series of Doritos flavours called Late Night. As far as I know, they are only available in the United States, so if anyone from there can hook me up I will reward you with a More Proof backpatch for your backpack.
15 May 2009
TGIF: Groupies!
With quotable lines like “and you just have to look past their ugliness and think: ‘you’re in a band, and you’re rich.’”, I pronounce this the joke of the weekend, to be repeated ad nauseam and forgotten about by Monday.
On the other hand, you follow these rules, you might just get backstage at Rollin’ tonight. Just remember: Colin’s tour manager hates “Try-hards”.
(via Rollie!)
