Kisses in Bermuda
Kisses in Bermuda
Vaniloquence // FAJ AW '10
Vaniloquence // FAJ AW '10
Tremel by Glasser
Tremel by Glasser
Nestor's Sky Larkin in Seattle Diary
Nestor's Sky Larkin in Seattle Diary
LOCAL NATIVES - GORILLA MANOR
To say that Local Natives are this year's Fleet Foxes isn't wrong, but not that right either. Local Natives are softer, brighter and lighter than their widely critiqued sort-of-counterparts. Gorilla Manor is a delicious debut that should be listened and loved for its own merits and there are 12 of them here; from the beautiful single 'Airplanes' to the epic journey of 'Stranger Things'. For fans of harmonic vocals, delicate guitars and gorgeous layers (and I bet there'll be a lot of you).
FAJ
You know about FAJ right? That's Fanny and Jessy as they are also known, and this duo have one of the coolest young labels coming straight out of London. They debuted their first range last year entitled 'I Hope You Die Soon' and they're also responsible for the infamous tee of the same name (and it's sibling, 'Suck It You Fuck') which I actually often find gets quite a warm reaction despite it's sentiment. This month they're showing their hotly anticipated sophomore collection for AW 2010 which no doubt will be full of their trademark wicked humor and edge. Definitely ones to watch.
LOST

Honestly, who isn’t? The sixth and final season of Lost, one of the best series ever created, just started and we are sure spending more time talking, reading and thinking about it than watching it. Well, from what we read some mysteries won’t be answered (the real meaning of the numbers, anyone?), but if there's something we've learned from accompanying Locke’s island friends (and enemies) is that the travel is always more enjoyable than the actual place it’s taking you to. Well, not if the smoke monster is trying to kill you.

Slow Blow
The latest station on the Drunky Town train line is in Sydney, Australia at a little club in the Spanish Quarter (actually it's just two Spanish shops next to each other on the same street or something like that in the CBD) called GoodGod, which plays host to soirée of the moment, Slow Blow. Word has it that in January, Karen O crashed Sydney's current cool kids party, but to be honest by that time everyone was too busy dancing and cutting loose in D-Town to care. And that's the true mark of a good time - when you find yourself twirling about without a care in the world. Or it could just mean you're trashed. Heh.
David Mitchell
You know those films where there are all these supposedly 'intertwined' stories and lives? Quite a cliché concept for both books and movies I suppose, but rarely does it really resonate in either medium. David Mitchell though (not the Peep Show one) manages to spin tales into tightly woven rugs that are quite fantastical yet believable, moving without being overly sentimental, eclectic and incredibly entertaining. He also writes straight narratives too, with just as much panache and verve. I just (re)read Number9Dream though any and all of David Mitchell's books are highly recommended...and he's got a newie coming out this year. EXCITEMENT.
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson // Interview
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Say hello to Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.

 

Here at IM//UR we prefer to do interviews the old fashioned way; face to face. But in this international day and age, with the internet at your every convenience and inconvenience, it simply must be used. So I'm putting this interview down to virtual (mis?)communication. Daaaaang I must have been in some kind of wonderful mood when I wrote these questions. Maybe I'd taken too much in of his press bio and the interviews I'd read. Maybe I was just in the mood to provoke. Either way, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is most definitely an entity to be reckoned with, musically and, well, email-ably.

 

With a wry grin and a somewhat weary shrug at life, a devil may care kind of whimsy in a musical smirk, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson is full of a shuddering kind of strength and a tough tenderness. So we rumbled via email.

 

In a nutshell, what exactly is your damage? I wish I could have met you face to face to check it myself, well, according to your press release that is (yes yes, I've read about your ire with it)

 

I have decided that the journalisitc depiction of my life as tragic is in actually an expression of profound jealousy by people who have never done anything even marginally interesting in their own (lives).

 

I moved to New York in 2000 when I was 17...I saw some of the first Strokes shows...I lived nine blocks from Ground Zero on September 11th...I partied, a lot. My best friends happen to comprise two of Brooklyn's most critically celebrated music groups. The album is neither about homelessness nor drug addiction. I was off hard drugs and engaged when I recorded it. I spent the next three years getting up at five in the morning to cut wood, build things, and wallow in bitterness and disappointment. It is profoundly tiresome to talk endlessly at age 26 about things you did when you were 19.

 

What do your friends call you? And did you ever think to shorten your quadruple barrelled moniker?


My friends call me Miles.  My family calls me Ben.  I've always found those two fairly manageable.

 

Are you named after anybody besides your father?

 

I am not named after my father, my father is named after the murderer Miles Terry Anthony Robinson. I am named after Miles Davis.

 

I read somewhere you said "...but after learning about the industry...you have to keep a small degree of naïveté. You have to keep on believing the lie to some extent." What exactly is that lie and why is it you feel you have to keep believing it to a point?

 

Apparently what I meant at the time of that interview was that I wished I was able to not resent and sonically punish my audience for wanting me to perform an album that I had recorded three years prior.  'You' in that instance was directed at someone both more professional and more hypothetical than myself.


I feel your music actually sparkles with a wry kind of humor; some of the time I can't really understand what you're singing, but I can feel it that's for sure. Are you at peace with where you are right now life wise?

 

Thanks, I feel like too many people miss the humor.  I am more at peace than I ever have been.  I'd like to be recording the album i wrote last year instead of promoting one from four years ago and gearing up to release one that's been done for two, but worse things have happened to better people. You can read the lyrics on the myspcae page if you're interested in how at peace I was at 20-21.

 

Have you ever been formally trained in music?

 

Nope.


Musically speaking, are you satisfied with what you've produced so far?

 

Not at all.

 

What advice would you now give to the you of ten years ago?


Be more sexually irresponsible.

 

Would you say you are better behaved nowadays?

 

Immeasurably.

 

Where in the world do you want to be right now, doing what? And in ten years time?

 

I want to be touring right now.  In ten years I want to be touring in a hybrid bus.

 

PS I love your music

 

Thanks.

 

Woodfriend by Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Comments // 1
Gustavo Abreu
Gustavo Abreu
Wednesday // July 31, 2009 at 17:40 // #1
and he's kinda hot (in a weird way), dont you think?
heart you too, benji
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