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.
A new round of videos. With work from YouWorkForThem, Ross Cing, Esteban Diácono, Sebastian Lange and the design students at BYU the selection is a bit more artsy this time around in addition to a fair share of typographic goodness.
Generation Press are giving away a set of “Not For Commercial Use” posters. To enter the competition, follow Generation Press on twitter and paste RT #iwantNFCU in a tweet. The giveaway will be open through september. The “Not For Commercial Use” posters were designed by Generation Press and Build in limited editions and are, obviously not available through commercial retailers.
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.
Darren Solomon from Science for Girls made this clever website full of embedded youtube videos. “Play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order” and you can have controll over your own youtube orchestra. A fun and creative way of recycling online video sharing.
YouWorkForThem has released a digital pdf magazine about typography and design. “Lorem Ipsum Vade Mecum” is type-porn for everyone.
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.
With their long awaited fifth album “No More Stories Are Told Today / I’m Sorry / They Washed Away / No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I’m Tired / Let’s Wash Away” out in stores, the Danish dream-pop-quartet, headlined on a lot of international summer festivals this year. We caught up with lead singer Jonas Bjerre of Mew to talk about what it’s like to be in a band that plays by a different set of rules.
Friendly Fires released a new single and an expanded version of their debut album, “Friendly Fires”, yesterday. “Kiss of Life” is the single, and judging by its sound, Vampire Weekend and their heavily African infused Indie-pop has had a big influence on the Indie scene since last year.
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!
Moving Brands has decided to let everyone take part in their pitch for the re-branding of London, given by The Mayor.
