MUSIC FEATURES.
Seven Deadly: Crap Protest Songs
There are protest songs that move people to a fundamental change of perspective, protest songs that move people to action and then there are protest songs that make you want to plug your ears with concrete. These are the Latter.
The Rehabilitation of Whitey
The story of Nathan White, AKA Whitey, and his music career is a complicated and often frustrating one. A lot of what I’ve heard and learned over the years owes a lot to hearsay and fabrication.
Mint Magazine Podcast #2: Close Encounters of the Heard Kind
This week we shoot the breeze about the evil forces of Lana Del Ray, the death of the CD and Skins (the TV show). There is also some great music in there too.
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This week’s vinyl releases, including Blue on Blue, Trailer Trash Tracys, Bo Ningen and Friends, from Tom Hinton
Night Plane. An Interview.
CCC are a project group with a printing press and a record label, as well as artists (collectively titled CCC), made up of three old Texan friends living in Brooklyn. Most interestingly however, the group has spent the last year and a half curating the Acid Age Blog, which is a celebration of drug culture as Night Plane explains…
Solar Bears Video Wall
Solar Bears are a complex web of sounds, styles and influences, we were lucky enough to witness those various layers first hand at our No Dayze party. So impressed were we by the extensive soundscapes, taking their influence from as far afield as electronica to the sountracks and compositions of world cinema, that we asked them to curate a video wall for us once a week outlining those influences.
No Dayze: The Mint Magazine Party//WIN TICKETS
On Saturday come celebrate with us the first Mint Magazine mini-festival, there will be our favourite bands, the best DJs playing their extensive and weird record collections, a BBQ and a whole day-long extravaganza of partying it up at The Macbeth. We have teamed up with micro-publisher, label and bloggers Belly Kids and upstairs will be curated by Beach London to give you a night out for the day.
WIN Tickets: Miracle Fortress + Basstronaut + I ching
Mint favourites Miracle Fortress play White Heat London on Tuesday, this is how you can win a couple of pairs of tickets!
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A round up of the last couple of weeks in terms of vinyl releases from the one and only Tom Hinton.
Soundwave Croatia 2011.
It’s a time honored tradition that when the British travel abroad and gather in large groups the result is embarrassing. Think Malia, think Majorca, hell even the French alps has become a hot spot for loutish behavior. However, there is a renaissance happening in British party culture, and it’s happening in Croatia. Rich Ewbank gives us a run down of the recent Soundwave Festival Croatia….