February 5th, 2010
Opposites: fascination and repulsion, physical and emotional, personal and mythical. Exhibiting at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal are a trio of Canadian artists – Marcel Dzama, Etienne Zack, and Luanne Martineau – whose latest works explore complex human dichotomies.
January 21st, 2010
Issue 20 of The Block features a photo shoot by ioulex of costumes designed by Christian Joy, or CJ (as she’d rather be called). The interview accompanying the shoot covers a lot of ground, from CJ’s past in fashion retail to her ascent to indie fashion It Girl while costuming the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O. We talked so much, in fact, that we couldn’t include everything in the magazine.
These are the outtakes.
January 21st, 2010
Meet CFCF, AKA Mike Silver. By now you may have heard his lush disco-textured debut album Continent; if not, you’re missing out on a lot of time you could be spending lying on your duvet thinking about twinkling stars, raindrops sliding down panes of glass, and people running slow-mo through sun-dappled meadows. (It’s dreamy stuff.) But before CFCF was making his spacey, atmospheric electronic music, the 21-year-old Montrealer was remixing other people (including Sally Shapiro, The Presets, HEALTH, The Teenagers, and Hearts Revolution). That’s why, for our Fame Issue, The Block asked CFCF to create a custom mix tape. Check it out, and just try to keep a grip on reality.
January 14th, 2010
You don’t need thousands of dollars and big-name directors to make a hot music video when you’ve got a hundred bucks and a Macbook – if you’re M.I.A., anyway. Check out this dreamy made-at-home video for her brand new track “There’s Space For Ol Dat I See (Space Odyssey),” which M.I.A. dropped via her Twitter account. Her new album is out sometime in Summer 2010, and we can’t wait.
January 12th, 2010
Maison Martin Margiela: Atelier Artisanal from Materialiste Paris.
January 11th, 2010
The Force is strong with this one: the Star Wars legacy has lasted over four decades, with incarnations of the franchise from stop-motion series Robot Chicken to the formation of Jediism (no joke, it’s a faith based and dedicated to the practice and philosophies of a Jedi knight). This month ushers in the most coveted Star Wars item yet: adidas Originals x Star Wars sneakers.
January 7th, 2010
December 29th, 2009
It was pretty good year for music in The Block. We chatted with Passion Pit and La Roux (and got stood up by Florence and The Machine), but loved every minute we spent backstage and on the dancefloor. From the lush melancholia of Fever Ray, to Calvin Harris’s booty-shaking collaboration with Dizzee Rascal, check out our favourite songs of 2009 on 8tracks.com.
December 18th, 2009
This isn’t a coffee-table book inspired by Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill, instead, the likes of Richard Avedon’s photograph of China Machado to Catherine Deneuve’s Belle de Jour, are a few of the likely inspirations taken by François Nars for Nars’ 15 x 15 anniversary book. Celebrating 15-years in the industry, Nars has published a book dedicated to its successful line of beauty products and the icons who inspire the label; and The Block is madly in love with all 40-pages of it.
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THE BLOCK MIXTAPE
by CFCF
CFCF Mixtape
01. Nacho Patrol - Mind World
02. Mr. Fingers - Waterfalls
03. Arthur Russell - In the Light Of the Miracle
04. Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina
05. Dungen - Det Tar Tid
06. The Prime Movers - Strong As I Am
07. Michael Shrieve – Communiqué: “Approach Spiral”
08. Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
09. Popol Vuh - Aguirre III
10. Oneohtrix Point Never - Format & Journey North