Archive for November, 2011

MAAD Pyjamas seems to be getting madder every month and after November’s 5000-strong showing at Red Dot, the creative party is looking to keep up the momentum with their December edition! All we can say is that it’ll be full of gift-wrapping fun that’ll maybe lead to prettier packages for our presents this festive season. [...]

Exchanging his crate of hip hop wax for a suit and tie, Mayer Hawthorne was the soul sensation behind 2009’s A Strange Arrangement, his Stones Throw debut that took modern-day liberties with yesteryear’s soul. And now, there’s more of Mayer Hawthorne to go around, him having landed a major label deal, decamped to Los Angeles [...]

Anyone who mines British subculture is a rich man, for in that evergreen heritage of teds, mods and punks is the gift of music, style, rebellion and teen spirit that will surely outlast even the toughest of Chelsea boots. Those youth tribes didn’t just offer a sensibility as a way of life, but also an [...]

Here stands a brilliant and unabashedly bucolic singer that’s surprisingly beat-literate as well. Woon is a BRIT School alum so his songwriting chops are impeccable, but it was his low-end electronic education that nurtured his nocturnal aesthetic. Call it dub, r’n’b or soul, the truth about Jamie Woon (and his beguiling debut Mirrorwriting) is that [...]

If there’s one thing we’re more stoked about than H&M’s recent collaboration with Donatella Versace, it is the Swedish fashion house’s newly announced capsule collection inspired by the David Fincher-directed version of cult film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And we have every reason to be this excited: judging by the preview alone, it [...]

Through the heights of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? to the lows of a messy split, one thing that will never change is the adoration fans have for Oasis and its founding brothers. Noel Gallagher was, of course, the band’s principal songwriter, but what was he to do once the sun set over Oasis? That [...]

Thai label Flynow has been soaring on the radars of many stylish folks for a long time now, and its upcoming Spring/Summer ’12 collection from its semi-couture and made-to-measure Gold line is just another reason why. In this collection, best described as a melting pot of textures and rich inspirations, Flynow Gold whizzes through the [...]

Swedish singer Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon has been lending her fabulous vocals everywhere lately and its the bass DJs of the world that seem to have benefited the most. Hot off her acclaimed guest contribution to SBTRKT’s “Wildfire”, Little Dragon returns to complement DJ Shadow on the track “Scale It Back” off his The [...]