Tag Archives: Video

Fashion Video Wheels & Doll Baby Versus Ellen Von Unwerth = Pin-Up Perfection!

by Gala Darling
February 2, 2012 - 10:28 am

It’s a rare occasion that two of your favourites come together so wonderfully — & when it happens, it’s worth celebrating.

Wheels & Doll Baby was founded in Perth, Australia, in 1987. The label, with its quirky yet upscale retro vibe, quickly became a celebrity favourite, being seen on the backs (& fronts!) of the likes of Dita Von Teese, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue & Elle Macpherson. It’s utterly unlike anything else in Australia — or, for that matter, the rest of the world. Wheels & Doll Baby do sex-kitten vintage like no other.

So it makes perfect sense, then, that the illustrious label teamed up with famed fashion photographer, Ellen Von Unwerth, on their latest campaign. Von Unwerth started as a model, working the other side of the lens for 10 years before making the switch. Her provocative photographs celebrate the power & mystery of femininity, as well as the potential of the perfect pout!

Cast your eyeballs over the video & pictures below if you don’t believe me! I absolutely love this collaboration: it makes me want to wear red lipstick every day for the rest of my life!

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Music DJ Cam: The Return of the Native

by Rich Thomas
October 12, 2011 - 12:51 pm

A progenitor of the trip-hop movement, Laurent Daumail (a.k.a. DJ Cam) started putting out records in 1994, right around the time albums like Dummy (Portishead), Protection (Massive Attack), and Old Codes New Chaos (Fila Brazillia) were mesmerizing college radio DJs burned out on rap and alternative rock. More jazzy than Air and less housey than Daft Punk or Cassius, Cam was friend to the crate-diggers and head-nodders that gravitated to the smoker’s delights found in the back catalogs of Ninja Tune and Mo’Wax. Smooth, smooth stuff. Now Cam is back with his seventh studio album—not counting a slew of DJ mixes—and putting a fresh spin on a genre he helped foster.

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Music It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Blink 182

by Barbie Brady
October 5, 2011 - 5:31 pm

In case you missed it, last week Blink 182 released a new CD called Neighborhoods. Cleverly you can stream parts of the entire album off their site on the interweb and connect to other people in YOUR neighborhood who are also listening at the same time. Its a bit like when you are in a hotel room on chat and one of your unseen neighbors hits you up for random chat sex. Come on, I know that doesn’t only happen to me?

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Music Cloud Control: A Bliss Release From Down Under

by Rich Thomas
September 7, 2011 - 9:53 am

Whether they know it or not, every full-blooded child of the ’80s has a soft spot for Australian bands: Men At Work, INXS, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, the Divinyls. Pop and rock were seemingly effortless constructs, and if you listened close enough, you got little geography, history and vernacular lessons along the way. All these groups were favorites of mine, but as a child of the ’80s with deep family roots in the hollers of Kentucky, I gravitated to bands that showed a penchant for rural storytelling; naked harmonies, big hollow drums, songs about booze and mining. Cloud Control strike all those chords, and throw in a little backwoods psychedelia to boot.

Europeans have been feasting on Bliss Release, Cloud Control’s debut album, for over a year now, but the exceptional LP will finally get a US release thanks to Infectious Music. The album art—for this and all of Cloud Control’s various EPs and singles—comes courtesy of design group Greedy Hen, and jibes perfectly with the band’s future/pastoral aesthetic. Check the video for “Gold Canary” after the jump, or search for “Meditation Song #2” online. You might as well go buy a fifth of bourbon and invest in a rocking chair now, because both are required accoutrements with which to amplify your listening experience. Then pour a glass and check out our interview with the band after the jump.

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Featured Music NewVillager set-up Temporary Culture in LA

by Rich Thomas
August 2, 2011 - 10:25 am

NewVillager

Picture the motley imagination of Where The Wild Things Are mixed with the quixotic, avant garde world of Fischerspooner. Throw in the patience and immersion of a method actor. Then strip it all down and build it back up using a boutique, DIY aesthetic. This, in a nutshell, is how NewVillager have approached their craft. Are they artists? Yes, and not just in the musical sense. Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini—along with a cast of characters spread between San Francisco, Brooklyn, and all points in between—are just as keen on creating elaborate art installations as they are three-minute tunes. Are they musicians? Totally, yet their record is chock-a-block with big hooks and indie pop melody. Nothing is over your head, yet the band talks, almost reverentially, about a “mythology” they adhere to; something intrinsically connected to the way in which they form new creative ideas.

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Culture Pops Featured Culture Pops Gets Drunk at La Descarga

by Shop Keeper
July 1, 2011 - 12:15 pm

Culture Pops Gets Drunk

Way to start the weekend Vanessa! After watching this video I’m both jealous and thirsty. Join Cole and Vanessa as they head to downtown Los Angeles to a hidden gem of a bar called La Descarga. They stop and visit with Janet Varney and Samm Levine along the way.

La Descarga

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Culture Pops Featured Welcome to the ChinaShop Vanessa and Cole

by Shop Keeper
June 17, 2011 - 3:02 pm

Culture Pops

ChinaShop partnered with Pop My Culture’s Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland to create a new series of webisodes called Culture Pops. Join them in Hollywood at the legendary Roxy Theater. They get the inside scoop on the world of rock directly from Nic Adler, Owner of the Roxy. They also pop over to Montreal to see what TV’s Deanna Russo has to say. Watch it! It’s funny!

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