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MUSIC . FASHION . CULTURE THE SOUND OF ARROWS: Endless Nostalgia WILD BEASTS: The Genital Band with the High Voice THE DRUMS: Back to Pop FASHION: The Girl Who Fell To Earth CULTURE: Extreme Dressmaking N OTION 042 / 2009 / UK 3.65 US$9.99 / AUS $13.50 MUSIC . FASHION . CULTURE THE SOUND OF ARROWS: Endless Nostalgia WILD BEASTS: The Genital Band with the High Voice THE DRUMS: Back to Pop FASHION: The Girl Who Fell To Earth CULTURE: Extreme Dressmaking N OTION 042 / 2009 / UK 3.65 US$9.99 / AUS $13.50 WWW.PLANETNOTION.COM 003 Notion DARE TO TRANSFORM NEW STYLE CONNECTION surface shifting stylers Unleash your creativity. New Style Connection complements professional cuts through pioneering textures and high-fashion finishes. Cutting-edge products for surface transforming hairstyles. Do you dare? NEW VELVET GELATINE 07 cushioning blow-dry gel LIGHT, AIRY GEL METLS INTO HAIR FOR A CUSHIONED FINISH WITH A NATURAL SHINE All rights reserved. 2010 WWW.STYLECONNECTION.CO. GET INSPIRED. 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CULTURE THE SOUND OF ARROWS: Endless Nostalgia WILD BEASTS: The Genital Band with the High Voice THE DRUMS: Back to Pop FASHION: The Girl Who Fell To Earth CULTURE: Extreme Dressmaking NOTION MAGAZINE AVAILABLE IN PRINT FROM WH SMITH, MCCOL WHO THE FUCK THE DRUMS NUTS AND BOLTS: J ONATHAN P IERCE , J ACOB G RAHAM , A DAM K ESSLER , C ONNOR H ANWICK , STOMPING GROUND: N EW Y ORK , FORMED 2008 SET TO SOUNDTRACK: T HE BREAK - UP OF RELATIONSHIPS DESTINED TO UPSET: P ETER B JORN AND J OHN T HE D R UMS DO WHISTLING BETTER YOURE IN BUSINESS WHO THE FUCK GIRLS GY R AT O RY S YST E M TORO Y MOI NUTS AND BOLTS: C HRISTOPHER O WENS , C HET W HITE STOMPING GROUND: S AN F RANCISCO , FORMED 2006 SET TO SOUNDTRACK: L ATE NIGHTS WHEN RAIN PATTERS ON THE WINDOW NUTS AND BOLTS: A NDREW B LICK , R OBIN B LICK , L AURIE W ALLE , J AMES W EAVER STOM WHY THE FUCK CYMBALS EAT GUITA R S G E O R G E P R I NG L E R E I G N I NG S O U N D NUTS AND BOLTS: J OSEPH F EROCIOUS , B RIAN H AMILTON N EIL B ERENHOLZ , M ATTHEW M ILLER STOMPING GROUND: N EW Y ORK , FORMED 2008 SET TO SOUNDTRACK: T HE LIVES OF EVER YONE WHO LOVED LEF TF IELD ALT A MERICA IN TH H OT T IPS F OR H IPSTERS PUT ON YOUR (BREAK)DANCING SHOES ASICS is going back to the future, reviving their favourite eighties shapes and colours for their SportStyle trainers line: merging fashionable footwear with the latest in sports design technology. Launching with the trainers is ASICS own br PRINGLE x DAVID SHRIGLEY In the most magnificiently wtf-perfect collaboration we can think of in recent times, Pringle have had absolutely bonkers, sweet-side of Nihilism artist David Shrigley design them some prints. How can you not want one just by reading the title? WWW.PRINGLE.COM CK CLASSICS CO WHO THE FUCK A RT P E O P L E YO U S H O U L D K NOW A B O U T CV W H O ? J O H N BA L D E S SA R I A Californian-born conceptual artist, aged 78. W HAT ELSE ? Hes extraordinarily tall: 67. And hes friends with Gerard Richter. W HY ARE YOU TELLING US THIS ? Apart from anything else, Mr Baldessari ha DO THIS Ellie Rose and Lauren Barnes CV T HE V ULTURE S FOOTSOLDIERS HAVE BEEN CONSULTING SOURCES IN CAR PARKS LATE AT NIGHT , ROOTING THROUGH CURATORS DUSTBINS AND DEBATING LATE INTO THE NIGHT OVER CHEAP M ERLOT IN ORDER TO PROFFER PREVIEWS TO TANTALISE . A S ANOTHER MILDEWED SUMMER CONCLUDES AND CV DO THIS ROBERT KUSMIROWSKI: Bunker The Curve, Barbican Arts Centre / S e p t e m b e r 3 0 t h J a n u a r y 1 0 t h 2 0 1 0 While were on the subject of iconic spaces, Polish artists and World War II, this exhibition ticks all three boxes. If Balka at the Turbine Hall whets your appetite for ea CREATIVE SHOWCASE HIDDEN AGENCY Our very own Art Director, Liam Gleeson, the co-curator of this page, done has his own studio! And he did a very good thing on his summer holidays: this absolutely jaw-dropping creative campaign to launch Spanish brand and Zara-stable mate Pull and Bears Oxford Street ITS WONDERFUL TYPE TIME! CS Tits A celebration of the humble tit. My favourite variety of British garden bird. SEB LESTER Youre going to be seeing Seb Lester on billboards across the land soon, you mark us. We found his magnificent type illustrations at his solo show in Newcastle recently. Heres som S AGAT It wasnt always this way for Sagat. In the first Street Fighter way back in 1987, this hulking 7-foot Muay Thai champion held the position of uncompromising final boss. Upon being pummelled NUTS AND BOLTS: V ICTOR S AGAT STOMPING GROUND: T HAILAND SET TO SOUNDTRACK: I NAPPROPRIATE SQUELCHY DI SOUND OF ARROWS ENDLESS NOSTALGIA THE SOUND OF ARROWS HAVE THE BEST SONG OF THE YEAR, THE BEST WORDS / MICHAEL C LEWIN PHOTOGRAPHY / TSOA VIDEO OF THE YEAR, THE BEST BAND NAME AND ARE BASICALLY THE BEST THING. THEY ARE MAKERS OF WIDESCREEN POP NOSTALGIC, VITAL, MAGNIFICENT, VERY BRILLIANT POP. THEY / LAYO & BUSHWACKER S O A / Notion MUSIC It is with the lexicon of battle that we most often turn to in describing love: a capitulation, a submission, to conquer, to pillage; to be overwhelmed, vanquished, and then subjugated. I neverbut neverhit repeat on a song more than twice. It is wasteful. It SOUND OF ARROWS LET US TELL YOU A SECRET: WEVE NEVER ACTUALLY REALLY LISTENED TO PET SHOP BOYS. EVERYONE HAS TALKED ABOUT US BEING then the sentient light shoots back into the box whoosh and everything stops and Im dead again. PSB-Y, BUT THEY ONLY SAY THIS BECAUSE WE LOOK GAY AND ARE TWO GUYS MAKING / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion MUSIC BUZZROCK WARRIOR BY JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE IS AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH GOLD DUST/!K7 therefore death, an inability to excite or challenge. A rip-off, in other words, like La Roux. I honestly dont believe our album will sound like a rip off of anything, Stefan says. It bo A SOUND OF ARROWS MIXTAPE FOR YOU: WE ARE BIG MUSIC CONSUMERS. ON TOUR WE USUALLY BRING AN EXTRA BAG WITH US, JUST TO BE ABLE TO BRING HOME ALL OUR MUSICAL FINDINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HERE IS A COLLECTION ENYA / STORMS IN AFRICA OF TRACKS THAT MEAN A LOT TO US, AND OUR SOUND. ITS NOT SPECIFICA PHOTOGRAPHER / MARK CANT STYLISTS / MARSHALL JOHNSON & ALEXIS KNOX HAIR / YOSHIYAKA MIYAZAKI USING BUMBLE & BUMBLE MAKEUP / MIA YANG PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSNT / CAROLINE NERBOVIK - A WORDS / MICHAEL C LEWIN ANNIE WEARS TEE SHIRT / LAZY OAF OVERALL SHORTS / EMMA BELL GLASSES NECKLACE / LAZY OAF SONGS REMIN ANNIE WEARS JACKET / EMMA BELL DRESS / TROLLIED DOLLY AT THE LADEN SHOWROOM / Music ANNIE ANNIE WEARS BOW: J SMITH ESQUIRE DRESS: GEORGIA HARDINGE A Dont Stop is a very good album. It is amazing. It is truly magnificent. If you caught me in an expansive mood, asked me to consider its subtletiessuch as when, at 3.40 into Annies paean to emotional and musical masochism Bad Times, the chorus is suddenly complimented by the fey-faint distant memor T IKE ITS LIK THE IT S L IK E TH E FEEL ING FE ELIN G OF CO SCOV ERIN DISC OVER ING DI SC OV ER IN G EA TEAR IN A TE AR I N A YOU DRES S DR ESS AS Y OU K PUT IT BACK ON, AL WHICH YOU HALF- REME MBER ED RE MEMB ERED N HAPPENING IN MOME NT OF A MO MENT O F PASS ION THE PA SSIO N TH E NIGHT BEFORE. CAN HAT / J SMITH ESQUIRE SHIRT / ANTONI AND ALISON JEANS / TOPSHOP SHOES / ARTISTS OWN ANNIE WEARS ANNIE Music Music ANNIE ANNIE WEARS HAT / PIERS ATKINSON DRESS / EROTOKRITOS A POP IS OBVIOUSLY A STRANGE, AWKWARD GENRE. You can look at it in two ways which Pitchfork and Popjustice cover nicely, actually. The former is cod-Marxist critical, defining it according to an eras dominant commercial sensibility dissected via production techniques. The latter lives perpetually i A So, Annie, WTF? Well, maybe much more than on the previous album, here it was really important for me to have a complete record. Of course, it was my songs, my package, but it wasnt perfect. The artwork was wrongit was a little lame. They have some ideas, I have othersultimately, its hard working LEOTARD / MANJIT DEU LEGGINGS / MANISH ARORA ANNIE WEARS JACKET / JONES AND JONES AT THE LADEN SHOWROOM NECKLACE / TATTY DEVINE JEANS / TOPSHOP SHOES / ARTISTS OWN ANNIE WEARS Music ANNIE JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE WORDS / JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE PHOTOGRAPHY / PETER DRESSLER RIGHT NOW, JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE IS THE HOTTEST THING IN THE HOT BED OF THE HOTTTNESS, BROOKLYN NYC. YOU MIGHT HAVE KNOWN HIM FROM COLLABORATIONS WITH AFU RA, DEAD PREZ OR THE MAJOR LAZER TINGBUT HIS DEBUT SOLO RECORD, BUZZROCK / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion MUSIC planetnotion 000 WILD BEASTS THE GENITAL BAND WITH THE HIGH VOICE ON TRYING TO UNDERSTAND JUST WHY WILD BEASTS SOUND THE WAY THEY DO. I FIND WILD BEASTS A DIFFICULT BAND TO PARSE. I KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS THING OF THEIR AESTHETICS. OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE A LOT OF MEANINGS FOR THE WORD, ALL AROUND AN IDEA OF A VALUE S / LAYO & BUSHWACKER / Notion MUSIC Whether as creators or receivers of a Music, were making choices about how we digest it. In part, thatll be based on what weve experienced before. How this relates to the Wild Beasts is, why to God do they sound the way they do? Why have they made all these choice B 060 / Notion 000 planetnotion I REMARK THAT THE RHYTHMS ARE PRETTY SEXUAL. TOM SAYS, THATS A GREAT COMPLIMENTWE REALLY WENT FOR THAT. WILD BEASTS overall aesthetic. If you want that less overblown, Hayden says simply: Everything has to have a purpose and a place. Thats also why the lyrics, vocals EXTREME DRESSMAKING THE CHANNEL ISLAND OF GUERNSEY MIGHT NOT SEEM THE OBVIOUS LOCATION FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ART HUB, BUT ITS BEEN HOME TO RECENT EXHIBITIONS BY ANTONY GORMLEY AND PETER BLAKE; NOW THE UNLIKELY ISLAND SEEMS TO BE ATTRACTING A NEW BREED OF YOUNG ARTIST. ELLIE ROSE BRAVES THE GALE FORCE CV It is a punishing project. Macleod is shattered, and Im trying to gauge why a woman as successful and self-possessed as she obviously is should partake in such a masochistic act of madness. Is she following in anothers footsteps, perhaps emulating an admired artist? Apparently not, for when I as WHO THE FUCK D E S I G N E R S YO U S H O U L D K NOW A B O U T NUTS AND BOLTS ASGER JUEL LARSEN STOMPING GROUND LONDON, SINCE 2007 DALSTON KNIGHTS SET TO STYLE RIDLEY SCOTT FILMS, UNAPOLOGETIC MASCULINITY Hoods of chainmail, square shouldered tunics, leather boots, and flip up sunglasses, just when ANTLER HELMET / STYLISTS OWN NECKLACE / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ JEANS / LEVIS BELT / LEVIS HELMET / LITTLE SHILPA FUR COAT / REEM NECKLACE / STYLISTS OWN BRA / STYLISTS OWN BELT / RANDOM BANGLE BELT ON KNEE / BEYOND RETRO LEGGINGS / SLASHED FALKE TIGHTS SHOES / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ CHAINMAIL HOOD / STYLIST WAISTCOAT / RANDOM BANGLE BRACELET & BELT / CYBERDOG TROUSERS / LEVIS NECKLACE (WORN AS HEADBAND) CHRONICLES OF NEVER SHOULDER PADS / GEMMA SLACK TROUSERS / IOANNIS DIMITROUSIS GLOVE / GLOVED UP LEATHER TOP / STYLISTS OWN GLOVE / STYLISTS OWN HEADDRESS / STYLISTS OWN NECKLACES / CHRONICLES OF NEVER WHO THE FUCK D E S I G N E R S YO U S H O U L D K NOW A B O U T NUTS AND BOLTS JASON MUI MUI STAFFORDSHIRE, UK STOMPING GROUND SET TO STYLE BJORK, TERRENCE KOH, ANDROGYNOUS CATWALK SUPERSTARS DESTINED TO UPSET PETA, SUN WORSHIPPERS, THOSE SCARED OF ROCKING AN UNCONVENTIONAL SILHOUETTE YOURE IN THE B THE GIRL THAT FELL TO EARTH PHOTOGRAPHER / MARK CANT STYLIST / ALEXIS KNOX HAIR / RACHEL WOOD USING A LA CARTE MAKEUP / RACHEL WOOD USING BUMBLE & BUMBE STYLISTS ASSISTANT / MARSHALL JOHNSON MODEL / KSENIA AT STORM - JACKET / ZIAD GHANEM TROUSERS / IOANNISDIMITROUSIS BOOTS / STYLISTS OWN GLOVES / GA 070 / Notion LEFT COAT / JASON MUI MUI LEGGINGS / KOKON TO ZAI SHOES / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ CUFF / STYLISTS OWN NECKLACE / STYLISTS OWN - RIGHT JACKET / GEMMA GARNHAM SHORTS / CYBERDOG ARMLETS / CYBERDOG CUFFS / CYBERDOG BOOTS / STYLISTS OWN 072 / Notion LEFT DRESS / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ SHOULDER PIECES / LOUIS GOLIGHTLY GLOVES / BERNARD CHANDRAN NECKLACES / MARIA FRANCESCA PEPE EARRINGS / MARIA FRANCESCA PEPE BOOTS / STYLISTS OWN - RIGHT DRESS / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ SHOULDER PIECES (BLACK PATENT) / LOUIS GOLIGHTLY SHOULDER PIECES (JEWELED LEFT JACKET / GEMMA GARNHAM SHORTS / CYBERDOG ARMLETS / CYBERDOG CUFFS / CYBERDOG BOOTS / STYLISTS OWNLEFT - RIGHT TOP SHOES / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ TROUSERS / ROXANNE PITTEWAY ANKLETS / MARIA FRANCESCA PEPE HELMET / G-STAR RAW GLOVES / STYLISTS OWN - RIGHT BOTTOM JACKET / ROXANNE PITTEWAY RINGS / CHRO JACKET / ROXANNE PITTEWAY TROUSERS / ROXANNE PITTEWAY BRACELET / CYBERDOG GLASSES / ASGER JUEL LARSEN GLOVES / STYLISTS OWN 077 Notion RIGHT JACKET / ZIAD GHANEM GLOVES / GABRIELLA GONZALEZ NECKLACE / CYBERDOG - GAS MASK / CYBERDOG 078 / Notion TEST DRIVING EXCITE! WEVE GOT MUSIC PICKS FOR EVERY PERSUASION, ORIENTATION AND DEVIATION RIGHT HERE. A COOL, FAR-OFF VOICE CALLS FROM THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN TO GET DOWN TO TUMBELE; MIX ALBUMS AHOY FROM MODESELEKTOR, PETER HOOK AND ANNIE MAC BATTLE FOR A PURPOSE; AND THE FOLK-Y FEY FOLK GET FEISTY. RE COMPILED BY HUGO MENDEZ SOUNDWAY RECORDS AFRO-RHYTHM Tumbélé It would be too easy to like this record simply out of a sense of exotic escapism, or out of an affected anthropological interest. It would just be anal to like it because its construction prefigures the forms of the modern dance music. H A Dancing Beggar GRAND INDEPENDENT MUSIC / FOLKTRONICA WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND Warps latest signing, Bibio, recently told a journalist on a press junket that Nostalgia is a very powerful, wonderful thing. It can be woven into music so well. Twenty one year old Brighton resident, James Simmons, creates a Gary Higgins SECONDS DRAG CITY / FOLK Theres hardly been a buzz about this. 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