The vampire movie series Twilight has released the tracklisting for their ‘New Moon’ Soundtrack and its filled with indie goodness. Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li, Thom Yorke and a collaboration between Bön Iver and St. Vincent is just some of the artist featured.
November 17th is the release date for new art and design magazine Elephant. Elephant is a “direct, sincere and multi-disciplinary” look into the art-world. The art direction and design is made by Matt Willey, Studio 8 design
Vampire Weekend have finally given us a release date for their second album. After a busy year and a half headlining festivals around the world with their selftitled debut album, its time to hear something new from these guys. The new album titled, ‘Contra’ will be released on January 12, 2010.
Fever Rays next single from the album “Seven” is due for release October 5th. It will include remixes by Crookers, Martyn, CSS, Marcel Dettmann, Seth Troxler and Nick Chacona. A limited edition 7″ is also out. It contains two covers. “Stranger than Kindness” by Nick Cave and Anita Lane and “Here Before” by Vashti Bunyan.
Former Metronomy member Gabriel Stebbings left the band earlier this year to focus on his own band, Your Twenties. And it seems that he’s off to another direction. Your Twenties has a different sound than his previous electro-pop band. This is more straight up british pop rock.
It’s been pretty quiet around Metronomy for a while now, but it probably hasn’t been so quiet for the band. They have been touring the world with their “Nights Out”. and are soon to release new stuff, including a brand new new EP. Get a preview here!
Typographic clock? Yes, German designers Biegert & Funk has designed Qlocktwo, a gadget sure to make many designers wishlists.
Roland Tiangco has made this cool poster. This typographic spotvarnished poster gets your hands dirty. No need to explain really, take a look at this creative work.
Justin Vernon and his Bön Iver released one of the most memorable records in 2008. “For Emma, Forever Ago” had us all mesmerized with his emotional harmonies and amazing, yet puzzling lyrics. Now Vernon is teaming up with Collections of Colonies of Bees for his sideproject Volcano Choir.
IKEA, which has been adorned for their functional and to the point design in everything they do, have been on every designers lips the last couple of days. The reason for this is that, apparently, IKEA has anounced that they will change their fonts.
Röyksopp invites you to make your own remix of their hit “Tricky Tricky”. You can arrange, distort the synths and mess around with Karin Dreijers vocals. Great fun!
The Elliot school in London has given us Hot Chip, Four Tet and… ehm… Pierce Brosnan. But another band from Elliot, The xx has got the thumbs up from the likes of Pitchfork, NME ++ Their debut album, creatively called “xx” came out this august and they are currently touring with Florence + the machine.
The Londoners in The Chap and their experimental avant rock (as some call it) might not be the usual material for Vincent Moon and his popular take away show concept. But at this years SXSW in Austin he recorded The Chap performing “Fun & Interesting” from the “Mega Breakfast” LP.
AEG Live, the promoters of MJs london concert have now been kind enough to offer special lenticular printed souvenir tickets. In exchange for your expensive ticket of course, no refund.
Radiohead is currently working on some new material, and apparently their new song titled “These are my twisted words” leaked. That made Thom York and Co put it out as a download on their website, for free.
