The drums are the classic glass soda bottle in an isle of canned pops. Childhood friends, Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham, are the base of the catchy indie pop band The Drums. Since Summer Camp the band has not only added two new members, Adam Kessler and Connor Hanwick, but transformed every single one of their concerts into a 50’s dance party. Roll up your jeans, spike the fruit punch and get ready to wear out your oxford’s soles. Sputnik, who?

THE DRUMS

The London based brand Antipodium creates fashion for the fiercely individualistic, effortlessly cool and unapologetically confident crowd. Whoever that is. Antipodium’s Aussie creative director, Geoffrey J. Finch, has reflected his pop culture inspired surroundings, rural childhood and effervescent artistic neighborhood of Shoreditch into his creations. Antipodium is not only known for having on-point party wear and much needed basics with a twist but mostly for its playful use of Australian iconography and catchy garment names. Finch is infamous for his  ‘No Romance’ parties, but his A/W 10 “Brides of Christ” Collection with sheer fabrics, asymmetry and velvet bodysuits has managed to overcome it. Amen.

ANTIPODIUM

Behavior’s music is not only a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or internal reflection in a mirror or camera. It is a compound of bewildering layers of amplified murmurs, ghostly synths, stringed shades and chamberous drums. The native New Yorkers Bryce Hackford, Ian Campbell and L.A transplant Khira Jordan are the culprits behind the slow pop that will leave listeners in a state of stunned confusion and bewilderment.
Dazed and Confused yet?

BEHAVIOR

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Shabd Simon-Alexander’s line is a system of millions or billions of stars, together with fashion and edge, held together by gravitational attraction. The young Williamsburg designer translates her obsession with outer space and psychedelic prints into her tie-dye centric collections. Leggings, bodysuits, scarves and totes that could only blend in on a seventies inspired psychedelic wallpapered room. The craftsmanship of the line is utterly obvious in her attention to fabrics and compositions. Each piece is unique and varied in color and dye pattern, which are inspired by Hubble telescope photos of worlds being born and stars dying. Let’s talk about spaceships?

SHABDISMYNAME

Many collect records, some collect concert ticket stubs, and a few collect ex-boyfriends.  I just collect favorite songs, such as “Collector” by Here We Go Magic. Luke Temple’s newest musical project goes beyond my usual crushing on the “newest cool-band”, it rapidly expanded into a pure overt musical favoritism. The muted psychedelia of “Pigeons”, Temple’s second LP and first album as a full band, is textured over crumbs of folky guitars and technological beats. The band’s colorful haze of half-conscious sounds is the eccentric compounded result of an analog synth, a cassette 4-track and a SM-57 Mic. Is there such thing as a mild fascination?

HERE WE GO MAGIC

Photographer: Eileen Andrade

Stylists: Luiza Villar & Eileen Andrade

Model: Mariam Garcia

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Photographer: Nicole Irizarry

Stylists: Luiza Villar & Eileen Andrade

Model: Mariam Garcia

Diabetics beware, Twin Sister’s psychedelic cotton candy phonetics will sugar coat your ears. Although that might just be the object of my own perception. The Beat lyrics from the “Color Your Life” album are much like those unfinished letters with coffee mug stains that will probably never be sent. Andrea, Bryan, Eric, Gabel, and Udbhav are the dandy quintet with fully buttoned shirts and twee haircuts behind Twin Sister. The songs “ Ginger” and “All Around and Away We Go” are my latest addictions. My freckled heart skipped a beat.

TWIN SISTER

Dusen Dusen is a Brooklyn based brand that is so sweet it might as well be served on a wafer cone. Every season Ellen Van Dusen looks through her round sunnies and throws a dart at her music festivals map. The Dusen Dusen S/S 10 collection of graphic prints, cropped tops and acid-wash denim is the staple line for the kids with the neon wristbands and 60’s haircuts. Dusen Dusen is with the band.

DUSEN DUSEN

Pink Cobra has a typeface of thick strokes. Tania Martins is the dominatrix of fashion behind the hip fashion brand Pink Cobra. In the F/W 2010 collection the brand morphs classics into it-items, and the outcome is a contemporary LBD that is just as basic as Daisy Lowe’s outrageous outfits. Martin manages to give her clothes a subtle edge of  an unrefined style. The brand’s bold vision and cunning approach is reminiscent of a Charlotte Gainsbourg song, sans le french accent et le cigarette smoke. Pink Cobra is a gunmetal fist in a leather glove. Pull the trigger.

PINK COBRA