Maxwell Maxwell is a music fella and sometimes DJ who is working on a fancy new project which is so secret he can’t tell you about it.

[1] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical
Apparently in the age of immediacy, when you take two years to follow up an album, people think your band broke up. Such is the case for Brooklyn/Philly band CYHSY. Guess what?! They never broke up! They just took some fucking time (2 years used to be industry [...]

MOVIES
A movie that should only be seen once isn’t necessarily a bad movie, just like the movies we watch over and over again aren’t necessarily good ones. All it means is that for some reason something about it makes for unpalatable second viewing, even if it might be an important film or one that we [...]

CARRY MOONBEAMS HOME IN A JAR
For years now Vancouver (and the surrounding areas of British Columbia) has been a bit of a melting pot in the Canadian musical landscape. Countless bands rehearse, record and perform in the venues in the region and every so often one of them gains popularity and they stretch beyond the [...]

RAF SIMONS #15
Should we talk about how cool embroidery is? Your grandma does it. We did it in kindergarten. It was awesome! André Azevedo fuses several artistic techniques; drawing, painting and even sewing over fabrics to build layered pieces. Azevedo’s work reflects his observations of the small gestures and actions of people and the manipulation [...]

SKA-NDINAVIAN BABES
Speaking to Razika’s lead singer, Marie Amdam, over a fuzzy phone connection to Norway, it is clear that something is amiss. Having stumbled from bed to make the early morning phone call without so much as checking the news headlines, it only becomes apparent towards the end of our call, that this day of [...]

GUNS BLAZING
During one of several opening shows for Florence and the Machine last year, Hanni El Khatib shared a revealing moment with his drummer.

THE COSMIC GUTTER
In the late 16th century it already had a bad reputation amongst moralists for being a shithole full of beggars, tramps, drunkards and thieves. Maybe that’s why Shakespeare loved it so much. Founded centuries before Brooklyn, Shoreditch is the world’s longest reigning “it spot”.

Our friends over at Toywatch have given us a couple of the Jelly watches to put on our readers wrists. With eight different choices for strap colour and nine choices for watch colour, you can create seventy-two different combinations. Just pop the watch right out of the strap to mix and match. What a [...]

BULLDOG SKIN
A name is important. Just like a good pair of jeans and a great haircut. They all have the potential to make you a star, or vice versa.
Case study: Chip and Pepper Foster, names with star power. So much so that I was convinced they couldn’t be real until I did my research, which [...]

LEEAY AIKAWA – Illustrator
Leeay is a Toronto based illustrator originally from Japan.  Her clients include The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Atlantic, and Walrus. For this issue, she illustrated the butt wiggling piece somewhere near the back of the magazine. Leeay without collage is like a summer without beer on the patio. Leeay [...]

POST-NORDIC CONTOURS
Icelanders are a rare bunch, and with a population just over 300,000, their global profile betrays their modest numbers. Said to be the most literate people in the world, they are a nation of over-achievers, but in recent years, the little green island’s capacity for the exceptional has been smothered under a blanket of [...]

If spring is signaled by the arrival of the birds and bees, it might not be a stretch to say summer arrives with beaches, bikes, babes and books. There are a couple of ways to approach summer reading. While some might look to blaze away the long days with an easy page-turner, others might find [...]

A REAL HORROR SHOW
An ELO record, a Prince record, and a New Order record… what do they have in common? Well, you’re extremely likely to find them sitting on the coffee table at Benjamin Plant’s home, the mastermind behind Melbourne’s four-piece electro-rock act, Miami Horror.