Volume 14 Issue 2
Malcolm Mclaren Invented Everything
Malcolm McLaren began to design clothes in the early 70s, after he quit art school. In 1971, along with his then girlfriend Vivienne Westwood, he opened a boutique called Let It Rock.
Ginga Fever
You might think that the Brazilian favelas are no fun. The houses are built from rubbish and it smells of diarrhoea and deprivation.
Nice Shoegazing
Oslo based Lionheart Brothers play the psychedelic, slightly unfashionable indiepop of bands like Ride, Ultra Vivid Scene and Galaxie 500. Ironically, exactly the kind of band that Sofia Coppola would pay one of her French buddies to discover for her...
Vice Fashion - We Run This Town From The Underground
Photos by Larry LeongStyling by Jonathan Tillet DeMallory
China World - A Bootlegger Speaks
I am 21 years old and just graduated from university. I was born and raised in a small city in Hunan with around 40,000 people. Now I am living in Shenzhen, a modern city in southern China, not so far from Hong Kong.
Doomsday Metal
Style is an important part of music. This is especially true when it comes to metal. It's not about profit or playing charades, it's about making music for the sake of music and being yourself. Fuck the posers, so to speak.Marduk is one of Sweden’s...
Comme Des Power Electronics
Luke Younger and Steve Warwick met six years ago at a Trans Am show in London where a shared a love of hardcore and harsh power electronics led to them moving around the country performing together in various weirdly-named outfits but eventually...
Clothes
We asked Sarah and Chloe here to walk the course of the New York Marathon in Bruno Magli heels. They made it about ten miles, then they punked out.
Labels Shmables
Visit Beach House's MySpace page and two things immediately become clear: they don't use drum machines and they don't like labels. Especially gaylord ones like "folktronica". Beach House, aka Baltimoreans Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, give a shit...