May 1, 2008 | Music | 
by Francis Andrews |
We wrote about hot Swedish electro duo The Tough Alliance a little while back, so we thought it was time we had a chat with Eric Berglund, one half of the group. Read more
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April 30, 2008 | Events | by Francis Andrews |
Whether a torrent of abuse flows in my direction or not, I’ll bite my lip and say that Four Tet’s Rounds is perhaps the greatest electronica album ever released. Read more
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April 25, 2008 | Music | 
by Francis Andrews |
Austin band The Low Lows are one of my most prized finds of the year so far. It’s fairly introspective music, comprised of staggered harmonies and delivered by a distant, agonised voice that filters through a wall of tranquil guitar distortion and measured drumming. Read more
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April 25, 2008 | Websites | by Francis Andrews |
I was nudged in the direction of this little gem of a website, especially for those partial to a bit of a knees-up, pipe on the porch every now and then. Read more
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April 23, 2008 | Events | by Francis Andrews |
Gypsy music — in all it’s mutations — seems to be the new fad in London. Whether mixed with a bit of punk, jazz, classical or even breakbeat, it’s seeping into every nook and cranny in the city, and whatever the cocktail, the pace and eccentricity of the original sound means the sheer energy is inevitably retained. Read more
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April 16, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
We’re big fans of Texas-based group, Midlake, whose melodic indie-rock is deliciously produced. We interviewed guitarist Eric Pulido. Read more
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April 15, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
We love the incessant rumble and roll of London’s The Duke Spirit. So we caught up with the group for a chat. Read more
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April 3, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
We name-checked them as having one of the top five albums of 2007, and with good reason. I speak of Nashville band, The Silver Seas. Read more
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April 3, 2008 | Events | by Francis Andrews |
Some fans may have sat through the support acts for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s London gig in March with nervous anticipation. Read more
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March 29, 2008 | Video | by Francis Andrews |
Those bowled over by Yeasayer’s debut, All Hour Cymbals, would take a true battering at one of their live shows. Read more
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March 28, 2008 | Music | 
by Francis Andrews |
We featured White Williams on Lost At E Minor recently, so we thought it was time to pin him down for a chat. Metaphorically speaking of course. Read more
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March 6, 2008 | Websites | by Francis Andrews |
If you dug deep and mixed it up a bit, you might see Lost At E Minor as just a ‘toilsome rant’, churning out ‘radiant scum’ (music and art) on a daily basis. Contributors such as Gerry Mak (nothing but a ‘grey mark’) and ‘teeny hunk’, Kenneth Yu, are fuelling ‘the eminent rattling’ (light entertainment), so attractive to the ‘lonelier man’ (online realm). To discover your true self, hit the Anagram Genius website and mix it up. [illustration via Say No To Crack]
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March 5, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
According to his biography, Orouni is the name of a parasitic plant that lives in damp woods, dependent on a host tree for its nourishment. Quite what the artist behind the name is feeding on at the moment is open to question. A listen to his album, A Matter of Scale, triggers memories of early Velvet Underground brought back down to earth a bit: that drifting, almost dreamlike, narrative, this time influenced by pure nature rather than the manufactured products of it. Read more
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February 19, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
The Concretes are just that — this great slab of talent, impenetrable and unmoving. We spoke to them recently: How is that collective energy - so important to song writing - maintained when your lead singer lives in England and the rest of the band live in Sweden, with song ideas sent via email to one another? Lisa: ‘It’s always quite intense when we meet up as we have to fit a lot in to a short period of time so afterwards there is usually enough collective energy to last us for years. I miss them like crazy sometimes though but creatively it’s a lot easier than you would think. I got four song ideas via email yesterday and I seem to spend most of my time these days humming’. Daniel: ‘It can also be easier to work e-mailing songs back and forth because you have time on your own to think things through. You don’t really get that when you’re eight people in one rehearsal room’. Read more
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February 16, 2008 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
There’s not just an urgency about the Die! Die! Die! band name. Their music too is an insurgent mix of riffs and melodies. We spoke with the New Zealand group to get the lowdown: While your music is deliberately loose and abrasive, there’s something incredibly appealing about it. How do you maintain this sheer energy without striding too far into the obscure? ‘We always try and make sure we are not being too indulgent when we write songs. We come from a very “noise” background of just jamming and whatever sounds best turns into the song. So we try and make sure there is at least something which sort of resembles a hook of some sort. We also try and make sure that when we write songs there be a vibe and something exciting happening in the room. We like having fun’. Read more
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Martin Parr took the photographs for my latest album, Lady’s Bridge, which was a real surprise as he’s a name photographer who does exhibitions rather than album pics. Read more
Have you ever felt engulfed by a strange mix of emotions, ones which make you feel all giddy? Well, that’s what this track — Not For All The Love In the World — does to me. French pop-folk extraordinaire Sebastian Tellier remixes Irish pop band The Thrills. Totally luscious and dreamy, especially the glockenspiel sound. Beautiful stuff.
It looks like the New Rave movement is making a big comeback thanks to Carrie Mundane, designer of the UK-based fashion label, Cassette Playa. Read more
Each room in Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox is an individual piece of art. 21 international artists descended on the hotel to turn each of the 61 rooms into a unique space, featuring creative artwork ranging from Japanese manga to fluid graphic design. Read more
Many moons ago, when my hair was longer and my eyes were wider, I played guitar in a Sydney rock band. Over a period of several years, the four members in the group went from relative normality to the very personification of imagined rock glory. Read more
‘Lost’ is the most recent film production in the urban art series produced by Tokyo-based art crew Rinpa Eshidan. Read more
I’m enjoying reading the insight and witticisms of the Indie Breakfast Club blog, which casts a wide net over entrepreneurship and what it means to be one and still have a conscience.
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If I was a fashion photographer instead of an illustrator, I would probably be Maki Kawakita, or at least be like her. Read more
Things are happening almost too quickly for Sally Seltmann, the bashful Melbourne balladeer who plays under the guise of New Buffalo and who wrote Feist’s 2007 hit single, 1,2,3,4. Read more
Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more
New York and Connecticut based Brio54 have just added this design to their range of prefab houses. Read more
There’s a lot I could say about South African artist Robin Rhode, whose work is currently part of Street Level, a traveling group exhibition now at the ICA, Boston. Read more
To tie in with the release of the new Raveonettes album, Lust Lust Lust, we have four [2 small, 2 medium] Brett Rubin screen-printed t-shirts to give away to randomly selected new subscribers to Lost At E Minor. Read more
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