JUICE September

In your fresh JUICE:
We share sugar, spice and other things nice with Emmy The Great, folk singer, guitar player and our cover girl. Moderat yawn in our faces, Little Boots unburdens her life on us, Infadels invade our office and The Observatory show us their dark side. And as part of your style pie: we cop to the newest looks from Armani Jeans and DKNY Jeans, sit down with Christian Joy and browse the racks at DVLK. There's even an entire story on blogs, just so you always know where to turn to on your lunch break.

Pick up your free copy of JUICE at any of these spots.

Emmy The Great photography by Chuck Reyes.

Chairlift - "Ceiling Wax"

Interpretive dance routine - complete with garbage bags! that move! - from Brooklyn's indie pop tarts.



www.chairliftmusic.com

Surface To Air x Solve Sundsbo

The creative cats at Surface To Air have just touched hands with lens man, Solve Sundsbo, for another for their crisp collabs. This capsule collection sees the photographer's vibrantly and weirdly textural work splashed over tops, dresses and bags. Nice. Check it for a geometric and bizarre grace.

Get the Surface To Air x Solve Sundsbo collection at Asylum, 22 Ann Siang Road. Stuff's limited, by the way.
www.surface2airparis.com

Baybeats 2009

Uniquely and alternatively Singaporean, Baybeats returns for its eighth year running, with its ranks now swelling to embrace local, regional and international acts.

The three-day festival will see both new and established local musicians like The Great Spy Experiment, Barricade, For This Cycle, the Beat! crew, Jon Chan, West Grand Boulevard and Lunar Node; regional delights like The Philippines' The Ambassors, Indonesia's Homogenic and Thailand's Tabasco; plus, international stalwarts like Amberlin, Chris Collingwood (of Fountains of Wayne) and Ally Kerr. Put together, it's a whole load of genres, sounds and good vibes. Baybeats is also a free event, so there's no reason you shouldn't be here.

Baybeats happens from 28 to 30 August in and around the Esplanade.
www.baybeats.com.sg

Nirvana's 20-Year-Old Bleach

You know these guys, just as you should know about their sludge-y debut, Bleach - chaotically recorded in 1989 in 30 hours for only $606, gifting us grunge buttons like "Love Buzz", "Negative Creep" and "Blew". Since it's turning 20 this year, its mother Sub Pop is giving it the full reissue treatment. Bleach: Deluxe Edition will come re-mastered, in sweet-ass packaging (Double LP! White vinyl! 48-page booklet!) and bunched with a raw and rare live performance from 1990 at Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Relive it.

Bleach: Deluxe Edition gets a release on 3 November. If you can't wait, you can pre-order it by asking Sub Pop.

Very Wooonderland

You know Wooonderland as the spot to cop your fill of denim (Edwin, Dr Denim), street (RVCA) and other slick designs (Imaginary Foundation). Well, now comes Very Wooonderland, which racks up those same labels (and more!) alongside very mad-hatted fun and very bright lights. Come play.

Find Very Wooonderland at ION Orchard, B3-12.
www.very.com.sg

Radiohead - "These Are My Twisted Words"

Hot and fresh goodness from Radiohead's oven! Get it here for free - of course you want to!

www.radiohead.com

The Horrors - "Mirror's Image"

The Horrors, in all their art-schooled psychedelic glory.



www.thehorrors.co.uk

Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure

Somewhere between pain and pleasure lies Temporary Pleasure, a concept Simian Mobile Disco are exploiting to the max on their sophomore album. This one digs deep down into James and Jas' tech house and electro roots to emerge with more things for the dance floor. Cue:



Temporary Pleasure is at all good record stores.
www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk

Noise Singapore 2010

Noise Singapore basically does what it says on the tin in its efforts to create the biggest racket for our young and budding creative talents. An initiative of the National Arts Council, Noise hits the road for its fifth year to drum up entries for its 2010 edition. The new year will see Noise offering a Noise Singapore Prize of a $5000 grant to the top artist in each open category. So whether you're wielding a guitar, paintbrush or camera, sign up, make some noise and get yourself heard.

Youths under 35, drop your submissions for art & design, music and photography at www.noisesingapore.com from now till 1 November.

Also don't miss these upcoming Noise roadshows -
19 August: Lasalle College of the Arts
21 August: Republic Polytechnic
1 to 3 September: School of Art, Media and Design, Nanyang Technological University

For the scoop on Noise's other creative workshops, showcases and apprentice programs, check up on www.noisesingapore.com.

Know It Nothing End-Of-Season Sale

Especially for the well-dressed lads amongst us, Know It Nothing's end-of-season sale begins today. And you couldn't get a sweeter deal: labels like Nakkna, Julian Red and Wood Wood are going at a 30% discount, while the likes of Maiden Noir and Perks & Mini have been slashed by 50%. There's even a clearance couch, upon which lie items that cost no more than $30. Go get it, boys.

Know It Nothing's end-of-season sale runs from 14 to 31 August at 51 Haji Lane.
www.knowitnothing.com

Home Reinvented pres. Lo-fi feat. One Man Party

Do you like to party? Steve Slingeneyer does, even if he's just the one man. When he's not hitting the drums for the almighty Soulwax, this fella turns up at everyone's party with his record bag full of rave, disco and electro (alcohol sold separately). Home Club will be his next stop and very likely, he'll be blowing the roof off with some mad-ass mixing and down-&-dirty dancing. And that, is how this one man parties.

One Man Party comes to our Home on 15 August.
www.myspace.com/onemanpartyisadj
www.homeclub.com.sg

New World: A :Phunk Studio Exhibition

Singapore's foremost cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary art/design collective is :Phunk Studio, four local guys on an undying mission to communicate all that's vibrant in the universe. Starting 29 August, :Phunk will be putting on New World, a showcase of the quartet's own fantasy theme park and wily imagination. Save the date for these local visionaries.

New World will be held from 29 August to 27 September at Art Seasons Gallery, Kaki Bukit Road 1, Eunos Technolink, Blk 7, #02-12.
www.artseasonsgallery.com

Scenes From Summer Sonic '09

We went there and saw these things.

Soulwax, live and dangerous

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, 4eva

The Flaming Lips' stage set

More Sonic Youth, from the back this time

"Death Valley 69", followed by this

No Age - Losing Feeling EP

The LA noiseniks who gave us last year's triumphant racket, Nouns, are sneaking back with their Losing Feeling EP. There, you may find more pre-recorded arrangements, samples and other magic moments like that. This stuff is due out in October, but if you leave your email at the Sub Pop website, you'll get to hear all of it now. You might like that.

www.myspace.com/nonoage

Readyset Glo with Brodinski

Wahey! It's National Day and if you'd like to party hard, there's always Readyset Glo. This patriotic edition comes with hot Frenchman, Brodinski, who has been laying his hands on everything from the minimal grooves of techno to the bass-heavy end of electro. A-trak, Annie Mac and Tommie Sunshine all approve of this. And you probably will too.

Brodinski hits the Readyset Glo decks tonight. See you there.
www.readysetglo.net

Royalefam FW 09

The latest word on the street comes from the mint Royalefam's F/W '09 collection. Resurrecting their iconic classics, the range sees tees pressed with logos and taglines like "Varsity Bones" and "Ashes To Ashes", and otherwise, a whole load of urban cool - check them out and put them on.

www.royalefam.com

Muse - The Resistance

Muse is back, y'all! Oh yes, these wielders of epic chords and chops have lined up album number five, The Resistance, and you can already view its artwork up there. Get ready for more space rock symphonies and stadium-sized wails, all finely and loudly produced to set your emotions on the edge. And resistance will be futile, haha.

The Resistance drops on 14 September.
www.muse.mu

Blackmarket Sale

In the spirit of our independent nation's 44th, local retailers Blackmarket will be slashing their prices by up to half. Plus, spend $440 and above on a single receipt and you'll score yourself one nifty SG pin! So go dig into their stash of Singaporean and regional labels on the cheap, steal a peek of new collections from Proudrace and Reckless Ericka, and say yes to this bit of lovin' local.

Blackmarket is located at 19 Jalan Pisang.
www.theblackmarket.sg

Gossip - "Love Long Distance"

Gossip, high on helium and on skates.



www.thegossipmusic.com

It Might Get Loud

In view of the dearth of Jack White news on here, check this: he, along with The Edge (U2) and Jimmy Page (your grandfather), will be the subjects of It Might Get Loud, a documentary that traces their various inspirations and learning curves. These guitar virtuosos will be waxing lyrical on their weapons of choice and how they each developed their own sounds and styles, with the whole thing culminating in one big guitar jam - of course.

Keep your fingers crossed for a local release! But for now, you can view its trailer and be its Facebook friend here -
www.itmightgetloudmovie.com