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Little Boots has graced more 2009 magazine covers in the UK than any other pop artist. She got a lot in 2008 too. But 2009 was especially teeming. “The sound of 2009 and the potential saviour of pop,” bellowed NME on its predictions page, gushing about her acidic futurepop, her computer beats saturated with blips and twerps produced by Hot Chip honchos. Mooks meets up with the woman who came top of the BBC’s Sound of 2009 to see how she intends to continue her success throughout 2010.
…a raging repertoire of skinny jeaned indie kids, corps. moguls, boho hippies, the young, the old, the camera-happy, the ignorant and the wise. Alive, indeed. The Street Scene in Cape Town is as eclectic as it is charming, its labyrinth-like composition decorated with the macabre and the bizarre. Long Street needs no introduction. Where time and space have no meaning, it’s a myriad of colours and cultures, of energy and life. Bonjour, Adiós, Xie Xie Ni. Human exchanges become the music of the streets, playing a new tune every day. In February of this year, for the first time in its 25 year history, the BFC announced a MAN day at London Fashion Week. A day devoted solely to the glorious London fashions for men, and with it, at the LFW finale, it introduced an accessible art-inspired sports collection called New Power Studio. Nearly seven months on, NPS founders, designer Ebru Ercon and menswear stylist Thom Murphy, muse on their role in 2010’s fascination with all things sport.
Whilst the rest of Berlin are eating ice-creams and hanging in parks, soaking in the final weeks of summer for the year, we here at Easy HQ have been inundated with friends and family and therefore repetitive and robotic trips to Check Point Charlie, The East Side Gallery and one of the “you know, BIG clubs,” etc. Why are we telling you this? Well, because we ran out of time to attend something that would appeal to the MOOKS team, so here we are, writing about one of our favourite low-key past times – sitting on a bridge.
They came from Osaka, Japan! Japanese super girrrrly pop & rock band group, Shonen Knife, (which translates to ‘Boys Knife’) formed in 1981 in Osaka, will be releasing their latest album Super Group, out in the fall 2009 in the US, 2 years after their last album fun! fun! fun! in 2007.
“I love dachshunds,” Brooklyn-based Nikita Shoshensky declares. But that’s not the main (nor only) reason why you should get to know him. Clocking in as the fourth generation in a line of artists, Shoshensky is, plainly put, an incredible talent. He grew up in his father’s studio and has been making art for as long as he can remember.” I recall when I was five years old,” he says, “[and] never feeling like I didn’t know what I would be doing with my life.” |
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