Having had this album bubbling away for a while, it is obvious that a lot of time, care and creative energy went into this record. Also, no-one really knew what quite to expect from it. Having already executed a hip-hop based record and a soul based record, the question was: what would Mark Ronson do next? Read the rest of this entry »
Charles Darbyshire caught up with a third of the Swedish House Mafia, superstar DJ Axwell, to discuss his music, his latest single ‘Nothing But Love’, the current kit in his DJ booth & of course… ‘sexy parties’ in Ibiza. Read the rest of this entry »
The Last Exorcism is a new fake documentary horror film directed and edited by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary death) & produced by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Inglorious Basterds). Read the rest of this entry »
The weather forecast looked bleak but with a line up of Guns N’ Roses, Blink 182, Arcade Fire and The Libertines, it hardly seemed to faze the 70,000 revellers. So out came the wellies for another bank holiday weekend at Bramham Park and boy was it a smasher. As 2010 saw reunions, amazing covers, artists of the future and River Cuomo (Weezer) in a wig, it had it all! Read the rest of this entry »
The Runaways is based on Cherie Currie’s book ‘Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway’ which chronicles her rock star lifestyle whilst being in the band, The Runaways. Currie, herself promotes it as a strong anti-drug warning to teens and others alike. The story chronicles the band’s progress through years 1975-77 where they became the first all girl rock band to in an era where people were listening to the likes of David Bowie, The Doors, The Stooges & The Sex Pistols. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s the inspiration for the jewellery line?
The jewellery line was inspired by our affinity towards unbranded fashion. It compliments the line of HNDSM clothing we’re working on while branching out into some new territory. We have a lot of ideas that are best expressed in different mediums, jewellery was a logical next step for us.
Who can you see wearing the pieces? Who do you want to wear them? They’re neither feminine nor masculine? Is unisex jewellery important for the HNSM brand?
We didn’t want these pieces to be gender specific. They’re simple, minimalist and understated so that anybody can wear them. It does seem that girls are the braver of the genders, so keeping masculine comforts in mind is usually a safer option when catering to a unisex audience.
Why launch a jewellery collection now?
Jewellery complimented what we’re trying to achieve aesthetically with HNDSM.
With HNDSM we wanted to make a few understated pieces. In the works right now are a crew neck t-shirt, v-neck t-shirt, crew neck sweatshirt and the jewellery. All of them use high quality materials, are well-tailored, and manufactured in Canada. It’s a chance to take our designing in a more refined direction and focus in on finer details for the increasingly educated consumer.
What do you want your jewellery to represent/mean?
Each jewellery piece that we’ve made so far has been more conceptual. They have meaning beyond their form, which we will provide some insight into and let the customers decide the rest. For example “The Strong Silent Type” is a piece containing two keys. One is cut like a hunting knife and the other is uncut. One may interpret the knife as representative of a more fear-induced approach to progress while the uncut key is more tactful and creative.
Do you see your jewellery being just an accessory to an outfit or do you see your pieces making the outfit?
One thing we’ve been able to witness with our previous fashion ventures is the diversity of our customers. Customers continue our creative process once the pieces are in their hands and are free to wear them with whatever vision they have.
I think personally we’d see them as another subtle detail of what you’re wearing. Able to blend in or stand out depending on the desired look. To a trained eye we’d hope they would appreciate the details of the jewellery like the deliberate cut and stitch of one of our shirts.
Handsome Clothing launch their HNDSM range, starting with jewellery but expanding to clothes and other products as well, in the coming months. You can see Handsome Clothing shirts featured in Faux 1.5, out mid-July. For info on HNDSM and Handsome Clothing, check out their site here.
By Erin Kubicki
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Photos by James Arnold.
It’s weird to think that Marina & The Diamonds have been performing live for well over a year now. First witnessing Marina’s incendiary live show at Camden Crawl 2009, I’ve frankly been hooked ever since. As far as live performers go, she’s one-of-a-kind, a combined whirlwind of energy, emotion and dynamism that truly defines the live experience. Having said all that, she’s now a year into a pretty heavy touring schedule, arguably struggling to escape the shadow of friend and BBC Sound Of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding, but already piecing together her second, darker LP. Would Marina manage to stun a packed-out Leeds Met?
First however, was much-hyped support act Spark. Gaining a credible following through her slots on the rest of the tour, by this, the last date, her show was really showing polish. For a girl that finished college only a few weeks before, she performs astoundingly, flaunting herself in the way that only a future pop temptress can. The songs themselves are glorious cascades of pop, taut and writhing beasts that manifest themselves as future radio smashes at each and every turn. Managed closely since 2008, she’s clearly destined for a bright future.
And so it begins. Swathes of smoke, overly atmospheric intro music, projections onto the back of the stage; it’s a much more full-blown affair than previous show, but then this is a Marina Diamandis riding the back of glowing album sales and press, ready to blow Leeds away. And blow she does with set opener Girls, a stomping storm of agitated instrumentation and equally frentic dancing. Launching from standout album tracks such as ‘Obsessions’ through to the pure-pop energy of ‘Hollywood’ or ‘Oh No!’, Marina shows all the charisma, energy, vibe and vitality of a pop princess. There is, for me, no denying the fact that she is one of the stand-out performers of the last few years, if not the decade. There, I’ve said it. That effortless combination of charisma, confidence, and unabashed showmanship is utterly infectious, deliciously organic, and brilliantly excecuted. If pop wears a crown, it’s Marina’s for the taking.
Marina’s debut album The Family Jewels is out now on 679/Atlantic with her next single, ‘Oh No!’, featuring remixes from Faux favourites Andy George & Jaymo among others out July 26th. Spark releases her debut single, ‘Shut Out The Moon’, on 12th July.
By Liam Haynes.
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Rushed to release in typical Jack White style, the second coming from his other other band has crash-landed with barely enough time for the media hype machine to start it’s cogs turning, which can only be a good thing. Also in typical Jack White style, in a time where every band is trying to surprise with each new album, Sea of Cowards is pretty unsurprising. It’s more of the same, but much, much better.
While Horehound was far from bad, it had a habit of losing itself in a haze of muddled ideas and scuzzed out guitars. From the opening notes of the swaggering riff of the killer opening track ‘Blue Blood Blues’ it is clear that if their debut was a drunken brawl, Sea of Cowards is a clinical and brutal attack going straight for your vitals.
Building on the principles laid down with Horehound; Fertita’s guitar and Lawrence’s bass are more considered yet just as effortlessly awesome. Mosshart meanwhile is more deliciously menacing than ever, her sexually-charged voice alone enough to send thousands of male skinny jeans-wearing listeners running sheepishly for the nearest bathroom, while Jack White proves that Meg, with all due respect, isn’t even the best drummer in The White Stripes.
The aura of insanity is also back with a vengeance, and from Jack preaching such demented-genius lines as “shake your hips like battleships” like a madman, to Mosshart’s consistent psychotic freak-out, particularly potent on album highlight ‘I’m Mad’, it’s all delivered with a tangible conviction and kept afloat on the layers of heavy as hell guitar/bass double attack.
Acting as an excellent counterbalance, the record’s more chilled (yet still murderously visceral) moments come in the form of the reggae-tinged blues flirted with on Horehound, cultivated and refined on tracks like ‘Hustle and Cuss’ to be worthy to stand up next to angrier tracks, such as lead single ‘Die By The Drop’.
By improving on every flaw of it’s predecessor, Jack White might just have made one of his best albums yet with Sea of Cowards. As he beats the hell out of his drum kit, and screams along in each disturbingly beautiful duet with Mosshart, it is almost too easy to forget that White even has another band. Meg White be afraid.
Sea Of Cowards is out now on Warner. You can view the video for ‘I Can’t Hear You’ below, taken from the new album.
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