Martin Parr’s Best Photo Books of the Decade
“The whole renaissance of photography continues - there's now more photographers round the world than ever before.” - Martin Parr
A Man of Letters: National Print Museum Keeps Its Craft Alive
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Life Expectancy: Tips For Turning 100 From One Damn Cool Centenarian
Navajos, train-jumping and iPads with a man four times your age. A few months into his 100th year on Earth, Truman tells an unimaginable tale of a life lived, from…
Friendly Fires
Like cut-offs or longjohns, some bands are tied to particular seasons. Friendly Fires are St. Albans summer boys, as their second album, the poppy Pala, will testify. Despite the Balearic
Interview: Junior Boys
Don’t call it a comeback. Because it isn’t really. That said, the critical response to Junior Boys’ third album, 2009’s Begone Dull Care was markedly less enthusiastic than that of
Justice – Interview
It’s only five years since Kitsuné and Ed Banger ran the world. Fuelled by a hybrid nostalgia for rave fashion eccentricity and that exact moment disco morphed into house, French
TD’s Picks For HWCH 2011
On top of providing a chance for brand new bands to find a following, an advantage of Hard Working Class Heroes is that it gives the casual observer a chance
The Rapture
Philosorapture. The perma-cool New York label DFA Twitter-quipped that Harold Camping was not so much wrong about his prediction that the Rapture was coming – his estimations were just three
Best Coast Cooler
Of the generation of (predominantly West Coast American) indie-pop bands fixated on reimaging the sound of surf-pop through their own sandy-shoed, weed-hazed filter, Bethany Cosentino is undeniably the queen of
Martin Parr’s Best Photo Books of the Decade
If there’s a man who knows a thing or two about scuzzy seaside resorts it’s Martin Parr. His omniscient lens rose to fame (or perhaps infamy) back in the eighties,
Interview: Luke Vibert
With his first release dating back to 1993, Luke Vibert is undoubtedly a member of the old-guard of British electronic music. With Roland synths as his muse, the man also
Washed Out Interviewed
Ernest Greene began his Washed Out odyssey in when he was fresh out of college in 2009 when his lo-fi tracks were thrown into the relative limelight by powerful American
An Interview with Ines & Ana Novacic: Founders of Tokyo Blue
Ines and Ana Novacic, two Serbian-born, Dublin-dwelling sisters who founded Dublin’s newest production company, Tokyo Blue, are alluring, debonair, and just plain cool. With dark hair, striking features and effortlessly
Interview: Jimmy Edgar
Two minutes and thirty-six seconds into our very first conversation, and Jimmy Edgar’s talking about his sex life. I kind of am too. Rather than social perversion though, it would
Skying The Limits – The Horrors Interviewed on Their Return
After the screeching psychedelia of 2007’s debut Strange House, the Horrors shocked listeners with a luscious and moody follow-up, Primary Colours. They still wore skinny jeans and sported teased hair
Translations: an Interview with Actor Rory Nolan
Rory Nolan embodies everything that is right about the acting profession. His passion and dedication to his craft shines through with every word that he speaks, and though he has