IM // UR | All For The Ambling Alps

This is probably the most exciting album we've heard in a while. Can you imagine a metal band not made by (and for) teenagers who worship Iron Maiden like their sisters worship Miley Cyrus? Invasion's The Master Alchemist is a compilation of 12 songs created with noisy guitars and fearless female vocals that will teach future generations about the emerging punk attitude; all with a metal sound and new rave style that might actually be the future of hairy metal. And we all thought heavy metal had no future...

WE // R \\ WEARING

No matter what part of the world you live in, you really can't ever have enough tees. Specially white ones. And black ones. With cool graphic prints on them. Meanwhile, in hipster-dom, crystals are still an ever popular theme, but in this case, we prefer this one in particular from Canadian based operation Handsome Clothing, christened the 'Lunar Crystal' (//Christel) tee. 'Handsome', despite being a kind of old school, highly civilised type of word, does describe this tastefully hip label justly. They also have a darn good-looking blog too, so go check that out while you're at it.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

Burn Notice is a USA Network series about a spy who got burned - which they remind you of in every scene. Although following the
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.

WE // R \\ GOING

Imagine a youth house transformed into a club. Now charge 4 reais for a (long neck) beer and from 10 to 15 reais to get in. If you did it all right this would be called Neu (read in German) and actually already exists in São Paulo. My favorite night there is Friday, when they host Explode, a party where they basically play third world inspired songs (from Vampire Weekend to the whole club rap scene from Baltimore). Some great underrated DJs play there from time to time, and when you least expect it, you might find yourself laying on the dancefloor busting out some drunky town moves.

WE // R \\ READING

So yes, we've been wayyyy slack in updating the We//R\\Stuffs, which is why I'm going to say now that we began and finished Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray well before we knew it was a film. This is a classic novel about art, vanity, beauty and the consequences of such. 'A Picture of Dorian Gray' is brilliant; exploring and exploiting the potentially corrosive characters of beauty and what beauty can do to a character. Navigating through the deeply dark and light sides of human nature, Wilde's novel is a wickedly good study of society, and echoes with a cackling delight (and despair) at humanity's foibles.

All For The Ambling Alps

Friday // November 06, 2009 at 03:00 // filed under Music // Fashion

All For The Mountain

I'm never normally one for *jewellery* as such; preferring one big statement piece over lots of shiny trinkets, but All For The Mountain manage to do super cool statement pieces in shiny little trinket form (which, in my humble opinion, jewellery designers rarely do well). Plus they do these look book shots that feel all esoteric-hipster, which I actually dig; kinda making me feel like listening to Yeasayer or something.

Speaking of which, whilst you check All For The Mountain out, do it listening to Yeasayer's new track, 'Ambling Alp', being their deepest foray into 'pop' to date. All versions of the track I've heard make me a little uncomfortable; the Memory Tapes remix shows a darkly twinkly version of the track, whilst I prefer the DJ Rupture remix best, showing the more familiar sound of dark and brooding Yeasayer, that's not a little woozy. But here's the single and the Memory Tapes remix for you to put on whilst you check All For The Mountain's stuff out:

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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp [mp3]

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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) [mp3]

So anyways. The Sacred Mystical Mountain Ring below almost makes me want to relinquish my life long ambition for the perfect pair of knuckle dusters. Imagine punching someone with this baby: