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• Cross-country: Alberta Cross

  October 21, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  The searing gospel, gushing organs and straight-up Americana of Alberta Cross cries out ‘Nashville’ or ‘Neil Young protégés’, and the last thing you’d expect to find behind the bluesy swagger of tracks like The Thief & The Heartbreaker is a band of straight-talking Europeans.
  But that’s how it is. Swede Petter Ericson Stakee and Londoner Terry [...]

  
  



• Interview: Scott Hutchison of FRIGHTENED RABBIT

  August 11, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  Technically speaking Frightened Rabbit are a band comprising Scott Hutchison (vocals/guitar), Grant Hutchison (drums/vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar) and Andy Monaghan (keyboards), but put them in context and you have one of Scotland’s finest indie exports. Like fellow Glaswegians Shitdisco and Franz Ferdinand, the band are the next in line of students of the Glasgow School [...]

  
  



• TEN KENS: Interview & video for Bearfight!

  July 25, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  PICTURE: [TEN KENS: Dean Tzenos (guitar), Dan Workman (vocals), Lee Stringle (bass), Ryan Roantree (drums)] VIDEO: [BEARFIGHT! PROMO VIDEO]

  Meet Ten Kens, fresh out of Toronto, Canada. They want to avoid being stuffed in a genre pigeonhole, but for sake of explanation, their sound translates roughly as intelligent indie-punk, loaded with crunchy riffs, ethereal vocal [...]

  
  



• Design Q&A Part 2: NOPATTERN

  July 22, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  For the second and final part in our series talking to young graphic design geniuses [link to part one- an interview with Diftype] we caught up with illustrator, photographer & photoshop trailblazer Chuck Anderson, known mostly to the design world as NOPATTERN. With a resume of clients that would make even the most established designers [...]

  
  



• Design Q&A Part 1: Diftype

  July 18, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  In part 1 of this series of Q&As with talented young designers we spoke to Niklas Lundberg- better known to the world as 20 year old graphic design prodigy Diftype. A self-taught freelancer Based in Umeå (Sweden) Diftype- like the other artist in our series- has built a fierce reputation for his work through the [...]