The V Motion Project
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create a visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power…
Murkage
Having spent most of the past five years causing carnage and scaring the life out of students over most of Manchester, club promoters cum live band Murkage are ready to kick off the…
COGOO: BMX Turntable
COGOO have just created the world first BMX turntable. The COGOO turntable rider attaches to various parts of the bike, turning the handlebars into the crossfader, the wheels into the turntables and the…
New Blood: Toy Tigers
The latest signing to the flourishing Moda Music label, Toy Tigers is primed and ready. But in all truth he’s been hiding in the background the whole time. 1/4 Part responsible for the…
Palladium x Pharrell = Tokyo Rising
Tokyo faces a new reality after the tragedy of 3/11. While persistent challenges still lay ahead, the city’s creative class is hell-bent on making sure that their hometown thrives. Innovative and resilient, they…
Review // Rainbow Arabia – Boys and Diamonds
Some people might remember that Rainbow Arabia appeared a couple of years ago back at the height of Brooklyn-mania: those psychedelic, world music-inspired offerings helped to place Rainbow Arabia in some sort of…
Fringed Harmonies // #65
A musical guide through the week’s most exciting outfits from one our favourite sites, Lookbook.nu
Review // Chapel Club – Palace
Having a few brain cells and doing some genuinely intelligent referencing has been something of a dirty thing in recent British indie: okay, we’ve had Foals and their clever take on the genre,…
Review // Joan As Policewoman – The Deep Field
No-one can accuse Joan Wasser of not being dark – her last two albums were informed by death, and it showed in the sorrowful lyrics and, on To Survive, the haunting use of…
Review // The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
It’s been a few hard years in the making, but The Joy Formidable have finally released their debut album after periods of being a continual support band and numerous teasers on their MySpace…
Review // Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Britain has had its decent share of women dabbling in dark rock: Anna Calvi is just the latest in this line. With her debut album she treads ground that is familiar to fans…
Review // Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings
Dylan Baldi, the 19-year-old behind Cloud Nothings, is obsessed with 80′s UK indie bands, so much so that, like his US contemporaries The Drums, it’s hard not to hear the influences in his…
Music // Klaxons – Landmarks Of Lunacy
This Christmas The Klaxons decided it was high time to give you all a gift, a free EP of unreleased material. The EP ‘Landmarks Of Lunacy’ is available from Klaxons.net as a high…
Fringed Harmonies #56
A musical guide through the week’s most exciting outfits from one our favourite sites, Lookbook.nu
BOBCOM – Michael Feeney Callan
BOBCOM is a brand new musical social network, What? Like M-FLOW? No, more like an evolution of the only feature anyone still uses on Myspace, band/artist profiles with music hosting, crossed with a…
New Blood: Niki And The Dove
There are a handful of places in this world where musical talent practically flows on tap: one of these places is undoubtedly Sweden. From the early days Sweden has provided us with pop…
