First Aid Kit Debut Album

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on November 5th, 2009

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Swedish folk singing sisters in First Aid Kit has announced the release of their first album named The Big Black & The Blue. The album is due January 25th.

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Amazing Jazz Posters

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on November 2nd, 2009

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Portuguese/Chilean design studio Martino&Jana Design, consisting of João Martines and Alejandra Jaña, has made a series of incredibly beautiful posters for Guimarães Jazz 2009.

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Merry Discofied Christmas

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on October 30th, 2009

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Christmas is just around the corner, and I guess Hans Petter Lindstrøm is getting in the christmas spirit. Pitchfork announced a couple of days ago that Lindstrøm is to release an 40 minute long epic space disco rework of ” little drummer boy”.

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Neon Indian

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on October 29th, 2009

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Texan Alan Palomo and his Lo-Fi Synth pop project Neon Indian released “Psychic Chasms” mid october to great reviews. The heavily 80’s influenced album can be mentioned alongside the likes of Cut Copy,Chromeo and MGMT.

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New Indie Pop Princess Hype

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on October 20th, 2009

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British songwriter Ellie Goulding has been circulating the blogosphere for quite a while now. Following the footsteps of fellow brit girls in Little boots, La Roux and Bat for Lashes her infectious electro pop is set to be the next indie favourite.

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Nice Type Videos

Posted by Aleksander Vindenes Dahl on October 17th, 2009

Nice Type must be one of the most beautiful channels on Vimeo. A channel dedicated soley to typography related videos. Matthew Buchanan is the man behind the 251 strong selection of videos. A great resource for inspiration.

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New LCD Soundsystem track

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on October 16th, 2009

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Finally we can hear something new from James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem.Their new track “Bye Bye Bayou” is a cover of Alan Vega/Suicide and its not going to be on their new album set to release early 2010. However it might be a taste of what to come.

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Noisy Companions

Posted by Einar Stray on October 2nd, 2009

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There were many music hearts blown away by the English two-piece, Benjamin John Power & Andrew Hung’s debut album last year. Experimental electronic noise has never felt so catchy. Fuck Buttons are now ready to let their second noisy baby into our ears. One half of the band, Andrew, answered some of the things we were wondering.

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Q&A with Peter Saville

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on October 2nd, 2009

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Legendary designer Peter Saville talked about Banksy, St Martins and designing for kate moss at the D&AD presidents lecture this march.

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Videos that caught my attention pt. 3

Posted by Aleksander Vindenes Dahl on October 2nd, 2009

The third part of this more or less regular column. The videos that caught our attention since the last collection includes a bit more varied stuff. The new Kings of Convenience video, a bit of animated identity work by Buro Knapzak and lots of other inspiering and cool clips.

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The D&AD Annual 2009

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on September 24th, 2009

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D&AD has made a bold move with this years D&AD annual. Luke Sanders, a recent graduate was given the task to design it. He created the members limited edition together with Peter Saville, who art directed.

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The Mixtape Club

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on September 23rd, 2009

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NYC based designer Brian Thomas has just launched The Mixtape Club whose goal is simply to share and discover good music.

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Twilight: The indie soundtrack

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on September 22nd, 2009

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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.

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Elephant Magazine

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on September 21st, 2009

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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

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The Vampire Weekend Discovery

Posted by Magnus Vindenes Dahl on September 16th, 2009

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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.

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