A behind the scenes look at the photoshoot for the February/March 2011 Issue fashion editorial Harlequin Valentine. Styled by Auxiliary’s Pretty Deadly Stylz, shot by Stephanie Bell of Emerging Design, and featuring designers Betty Monroe, Ego Assassin, Karen von Oppen for KvO Designs, Purrfect Pineapples Lingerie, and more! See the end result in our February/March Issue out in just a couple days!
RockLove Jewelry’s Love Tokens
image source rocklove.com
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and RockLove Jewelry has a unique way of declaring your love with a centuries old custom of giving love coins as tokens of affection. RockLove has revamped this tradition and is introducing their love token coin necklaces in sterling silver and 14k gold. The token’s come hand engraved on a hand cast recreation of an antique coin that is hung on a chain to wear around the neck. These are a great gift to give to your mother, friend, or lover. You can read more about the interesting tradition of the love token on RockLove’s website. Hurry now, as there is free shipping on these beauties until February 1st!
The Love Tokens are available online at www.rocklove.com.
- Meagan
The Dec/Jan 2010/2011 Issue saw the final installment of My Life as a Goth Girl, an article that has been in the magazine since the first issue two years ago. Mlaagg, by Vanity Kills, is the fictional stories and dramas of Kimmy, the subculture-elitist, fetish-fashionista, yet sweetly endearing queen of the goth scene that everyone loves to hate. In honor of its end we will be posting all the illustrations done for the reoccurring article over the years. Read the final chapter of Kimmy’s story in the December/January 2010/2011 Issue out now!
October/November 2010 Issue
illustration : Maki Naro
December/January 2010/2011 Issue
illustration : Harley Sparx
Read the articles in the October/November 2010 Issue and the December/January 2010/2011 Issue!
Jack Dangers has been making music for over twenty years. His pioneering work with Meat Beat Manifesto continues to inspire and fascinate. With the new album Answers Come In Dreams released in October 2010, Mr. Dangers shows no signs of slowing down. The album is a dark excursion into dubstep, electro, and ambience. I caught up with Jack Dangers to ask him about his work and his enthusiasm for electronic music history.
interview by Mike Parker
There has been a transformation in the sound of Jack Dangers and Meat Beat Manifesto. This process can be traced over the years. Recently, you acquired a Synthi 100, which is a rare and vintage synthesizer from the early 1970s. Can you share with us your thoughts on the role of the Synthi 100 Synthesizer in this transformation?
JD : I’m looking at it now! Well, something this big coming into the studio is going to make its presence known and demand attention. [writer’s note : The Synthi 100 is a massive instrument. You can see a picture of one HERE] It can be so many different things. A synthesizer with 7200 control points available at your disposal makes it difficult for me to know where to start, really. I’m still learning how to use it. I think I always will be. It’s so vast, what you can do with it. Even if someone came up with a digital version of it, a software version, you wouldn’t be able to fathom what to do with it without being able to stand in front of the thing and start throwing pins in the patchbay grids to route the signals. The people who designed it bordered on the eccentric. It’s quite unlike anything I’ve ever used. I’ve got a bunch of different modular synthesizers and they’re all pretty easy to grasp, but this one I am still learning.
When did you become comfortable with the Synthi 100?
JD : Probably after about three months of just playing with it.
When did your first recordings with it appear?
JD : I purchased it back in the late 90’s from the University of Adelaide in Australia. I think there were only about 27 of them ever made. Afterwards, I sent it away for almost a year for repairs and modifications. My first recordings with it appeared in 2002 [on the album RUOK?].
I’m beyond over joyed that one of my favorite bands, Cult of the Psychic Fetus, has released a video to their song, “Out of the Grave”. The video shows film images from the 1922 horror classic, Nosferatu that are perfectly synced to the rhythm and lyrics of the song. If you’re not familiar with COTPF, they are an amazing four piece Cleveland, Ohio based band that really forged their own sound infusing gothic sensibilities into the rockabilly genre. “Out of the Grave” is one of the newest songs from COTPF that was released on their Facebook page in 2010. I’m hoping that a full length album will soon follow as their last album, Funeral Sessions, was released in 2004! If you like a band that is all horror with haunting guitar rifts, voodoo drums, and howling vocals, check these groovy ghoulies out on Facebook and www.myspace.com/cultofthepsychicfetus.
- Meagan
The Dec/Jan 2010/2011 Issue saw the final installment of My Life as a Goth Girl, an article that has been in the magazine since the first issue two years ago. Mlaagg, by Vanity Kills, is the fictional stories and dramas of Kimmy, the subculture-elitist, fetish-fashionista, yet sweetly endearing queen of the goth scene that everyone loves to hate. In honor of its end we will be posting all the illustrations done for the reoccurring article over the years. Read the final chapter of Kimmy’s story in the December/January 2010/2011 Issue out now!
April/May 2010 Issue
illustration : Jinx in the Sky
August/September 2010 Issue
illustration : Harley Sparx
Read the articles in the April/May 2010 Issue and the August/September 2010 Issue!
Gloomth’s Dorian Mens Shirt
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Gloomth has now introduced their men’s clothing line to their catalog. The Dorian by Gloomth is a romantic medium weight cotton button up shirt that is available in white or black. The shirt is adorned with a front ruffle with a raw unfinished edges that gives the shirt a distressed touch. The buttons on the shirt cuffs and elastic sleeve garters give the shirt an aristocratic edge that can be dressed down with a pair of black skinny jeans or paired with a bow tie, pinstriped slacks, and a waistcoat for a more dapper appearance.
The Dorian mens shirt is available online at www.gloomth.com.
- Meagan
The Dec/Jan 2010/2011 Issue saw the final installment of My Life as a Goth Girl, an article that has been in the magazine since the first issue two years ago. Mlaagg, by Vanity Kills, is the fictional stories and dramas of Kimmy, the subculture-elitist, fetish-fashionista, yet sweetly endearing queen of the goth scene that everyone loves to hate. In honor of its end we will be posting all the illustrations done for the reoccurring article over the years. Read the final chapter of Kimmy’s story in the December/January 2010/2011 Issue out now!
December/January 2009/2010 Issue
illustration : Alec Lewellyn
February/March 2010 Issue
illustration : Maki Naro
Read the articles in the December/January 2009/2010 Issue and the February/March 2010 Issue!
photographer : Luke Copping
makeup artist : Stephanie Signorelli
hair stylist : April Grigajtis
models : Alexa Martino, Tina Fekht, and Rachel Stephanie
San Fransisco CA, January 21-22 and Los Angeles CA, March 5 – A west coast event not to miss is The Edwardian Ball. The San Fransisco edition is this weekend and promises to be an, “extraordinary two-day festival of petticoats and corsets, hairpins and top hats, where Edward Gorey macabre meets Edwardian-era panache at the transformed multi-level historical Regency Ballroom.” If you’re not making it this weekend you can start planning your trip to the LA event now! And keep an eye out for an article on The Edwardian Ball in our upcoming Feb/March 2011 Issue!
For more info visit, www.edwardianball.com.
