In Conversation; Transparent Records
As tomorrow’s Independent Label Market fast approaches and details of über-exclusives – XL Records’ “Record Label Starter Kit” for example – continue to emerge, we wrap up our series of chats with some...
View ArticleDavid Marsh’s Pantone Album Covers
Hugely original, strangely beautiful – and massive fun (especially for those who love to test their music knowledge), David Marsh‘s Pantone Album Covers have been causing somewhat of a stir since they...
View ArticleCreate GB; Trevor Jackson
Graphic designer turned musician, turned DJ, turned record label owner, turned artist… Trevor Jackson is the dictionary definition of the word ‘creative’. He’s a laid-back design-slash-music legend...
View ArticleCreate GB; Jiro Bevis
Naked women, zombies, pizza, punk rock, drugs and the occult; artist/illustrator Jiro Bevis‘ work is the stuff of children-of-the-80s’ straight-to-video wet dreams. Often imitated, never bettered,...
View ArticleDR.ME
DR.ME is Ryan Doyle and Mark Edwards, a “multi-disciplinary creative studio” – but, in reality, DR.ME is much more than that. DR.ME is an unnatural force, an uninhibited torrent of imagination,...
View ArticleSo Me, Travail Famille Party
Ten years old already hey? How quickly they grow, it only seems like yesterday since…. yeah all right, you know where we’re going with this; and if you’re ageing as quickly as some of the […]
View ArticlePie & Vinyl
The folks at Pie and Vinyl have got more sides to their business than the vinyl selection they stock – the sleevenotes alone would run to novella length – but the two main tracks, music […]
View ArticleEnjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992
These days any old Tom, Dick or Harry can foist their dubious artistic talents onto the unsuspecting general public. If you’ve got enough patience to write 90,000 words that more or less relate to one […]
View ArticleThe Strokes Pop-Up Shop, New York
IMHO, The Strokes get a raw deal. Truth is, Is This It was impossible to top, so why should they? Remarkably for a guitar band, they haven’t grown into a lighter, lighter version of themselves […]
View ArticleOld St. Records, Shoreditch
With two successful vinyl-related venues to their names — Venn St. Records and Northcote Records — indie muso cocktail bar chain, Rocket Leisure (run by brothers Russell and Howard Taylor, and Tom...
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