In talks with – Trevor Basset.


Trevor Basset is an illustrator based in Seattle, WA. His awesome work is simple, yet super effective. Combining image and typography, using various methods to create stunning and powerful pieces, from designs for Ride Snowboards to poster projects for Tenacious D & Washington States Sasquatch Festival. We caught up with Trevor to find out about how he works.

Skull Gang Foraging Club: Seafood STI’s


We had come for their oysters. Apparently Whitstable oysters are some of the best in the world. The only oysters on sale were Irish ones. Ireland is a long way from Kent.

Win Tickets: Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross, Halls, Raisa K at White Heat


We have a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for this Tuesday’s White Heat, featuring a line up of three of our favourite electronic artists, Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross, Halls and Raisa K.

Belly Kids: Hookworms


Call them freak beat, psyche, krautrock or any other twisted genre name, Hookworms are a band who love to pump out a serious jam. Belly Kids to talk pizza, ales, bento and cooking in the kitchen.

Interview: Virals


Virals is the new band from Shaun Hencher, the former singer in LOVVERS. It was very sad for everyone when they split up but with this and Sharm El Shakes we’ve still got music in our lives from the guys. Virals have had a 7″ out on Sexbeat and on May 7th their first EP drops on Tough Wax. Ahead of this and their live debut we caught a few words…

Mint Magazine’s Negative Vote Campaign for London Mayor


Our impartial, albeit harsh, take on London’s mayoral candidates. From Red Ken to Bumbling Boris, fame hungry Babylon and all the other extremists, zealouts, dreamers and no-hopers.

Lucid Birthday


Win tickets to Lucid’s first birthday at the Rhythm Factory this friday!

Alice P.S: New York Travelogue


After Alice’s awesome California Love Travelogue, where she travelled around the west coast meeting all manner of hip hop legends, we were stoked when she told us she’d be taking a little trip over to NYC.

Album Review: Lower Dens – Nootropics


Two years after the release of their debut album, Twin-Hand Movement, Lower Dens are back with a sound just as fresh.

Skull Gang Foraging Club: Horses, Horses, Horseradish


Horseradish can be found around London quite readily, but this horseradish was found near horses to take the equestrian vibes to unknown levels.

Best of the Blog


We’d hope that you are both aware of and regularly check the Mint Magazine Music Blog. If not here’s the best of last week…

Beer and Loathing


Jack oggles Bavarian birds whilst drinking beer from a giant glass.

Brighton Fashion Graduate 2012 Lookbook‏


University of Brighton MDes and BA Fashion with Business Studies students present a first glimpse of their graduate collections.

Belly Kids: La La Vasquez


Belly Kids catches up with sloppy post punk girls La La Vasquez for some dinner.

Preview: CAN – The Lost Tapes


The unveiling of three discs worth of previously unheard material from those magisterial German masters of the groove, Can.

CPH:PIX Film Festival: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser


Even with the involvement of American provocateur Vincent Gallo, visual artist David Manuli’s take on the fabled German tale is obscure, brash and, above all else, boring.

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Mixtape: Tommy Gun

This is indie-come-disco DJ Tommy Gun (aka Thomas de Moyencourt) from sunny Cape Town, South Africa. Tommy made his name playing at the weekly Untamed Youth parties on Tuesday nights,…

STUFF.

Take me to your dealer.

These shirts are EVERYWHERE in Kerrang endorsed hot-spots like Camden market, but you never see people actually wearing them, which is a shame.

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Photochat: Gabriela Rouiller

We chat to Uruguay's stunning Gabriela Rouiller.