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Looking Back at a Legendary UK Warehouse Party
Photographer Ben Rayner digs up his pictures from December 2006, including snaps from the first-ever Real Gold party, as well as pics from one of the Klaxons' first major gigs.
Photos of Adele, Dev Hynes, and The Horrors Before Their Careers Took Off
Photographer Ben Rayner goes into his archive to pick some photos that are ten years old to the month. This gallery features Adele while she was still in school and Dev Hynes's first show as Lightspeed Champion.
Photography from the UK
Photos by the guys that have been saving our arses on a daily basis, for the past ten years.
Brix Smith
In the 1980s, Brix Smith was best known as a guitarist in The Fall, and as the wife of its frontman Mark E. Smith, whom she divorced. Brix was one of very few women in British indie at a time when it was still any good. She brought fashion and glamour...
Literary
TATTOO MYSTIQUE Girls with tattoos are hot. Sometimes. Tattoos of girls, on the whole, are hot. And therein lies the key to Angelique Houtkamp’s unique niche of painting ladies that look like they
Goo In Your Hand!
This just in! Ben Rayner went to the My Bloody Valentine ATP in December and made a zine out of what he saw. He also partied with an obscure Canadian group called Fucked Up. Things turned funny during the taping of a new episode of the hit VBS.TV show...