• Under Cover: M&E

    In this special installment of Under Cover, Loreana Rushe chats to Matthew Bolger and Emelie Lidström AKA M&E on the eve of their first exhibition about their stunning artwork and how they create it. ‘Four Eyes’ is currently exhibiting  in Malmo and our photographer Ian Pearce was there to capture all the fun on the launch night. Hi Guys! Can you tell us a little bit about yourselves? We are an Irish/Swedish creative duo who inhabit a place between art and design. How long have you been working together? The first record cover we worked on together was Jape’s first album Cosmosphere, which…

  • The Thin Air Launch Party

    Belfast-based photographer Diarmuid Kennedy was there to capture our launch party at Belfast’s Voodoo on Saturday, May 18th, where Mojo Fury performed their debut album Visiting Hours of A Travelling Circus to a packed room of hardcore fans. The band were supported by PigsAsPeople, Vanilla Gloom and Blue Whale. Thanks to everyone who made it down on the night!  

  • The Good Music Club

    Featuring Obscured By Echoes, Kay Leotard and The Wolf, photographer James Goulden captures the scene at one of the monthly, live concert tapings of The Good Music Club; a series of intimate showcases taking in Austin, Texas.

  • Under Cover: Sonny Kay

    In the first of our regular features on the importance of  cover artwork, Loreana Rushe talks to L.A based visual artist Sonny Kay about the work he did on Street Meat by No Spill Blood and gains some insight into his creative process and inspirations. Hi Sonny. Tell us about this cover. It’s a digital collage created in Photoshop from photos I found online as well as some textures I made on paper with india ink and water, which I then scanned. Can you describe the process?  I began with the frame since I knew I wanted something that felt…

  • Sgt. MCA’s Lonely Beastie Boys Club

    A year on from the tragic, altogether untimely death of Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch aka MCA, the boundlessly creative, wonderfully thoughtful Dave Frecknall has only gone and re-imagined Peter Blake’s legendary cover for the Beatles’ 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to feature characters associated with the Beasties Boys or referred to in a whole host of their songs. Awesome. Check out Dave’s frankly ingenuous creation and reference guide below! R.I.P. MCA.