Crystal castlesAnd their unwanted fame

A fashion trend becomes too risky

A look back on original trends of 2010

Interview with the one and only

.....

, NyaKey

Being only sixteen sometimes people don’t realize what you are

capable of, how receptive you are to the culture around you

and how highly under-rated your thoughts can be. For a while

now I’ve just wanted my thoughts to be know to people who think

the way I do, for people to realize that everyone has opinions

no matter what age, race, ,size, or you are. Pop culture

is so followed but what about the other things in life. That

is why I chose indie pop culture. For the other things in life

that are important to a small majority of us. I live in a world

of popularity drive culture but, I want to see the other side

thrive. To show that its okay to accept difference, that not

everyone has to be a size 0 to be pretty and that its okay if you

cant afford to buy those jeans. To love who you love and be

who you want to be. Become your own muse, thrive to be yourself.

If we all highlighted each other differences instead of shun them

the world would be a happier, more open place.

Table O' Contents

Fresh Beats Crystal Castles interview..page 12-14Rise and Shine......page 16-15Man on the Moon...........page 18-19

Fashion Thirsty Hey,Hey,Hey,Goodbye........page 4-5Heroin Chic....page 6-8Label of the month.....page 10

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Candy red hair

Sheer tights

Vintage f oral tee

Tribal print sweater

Thigh-high socks

Thick-r

immed glasse

sAnimal sweatshirt

Penny loafers

Thrift store blazer

Rasor-

cut bangs

Big leather bag

Loose skinny jeans

Bright colored f annel

Fur hat

Broken- in leather jacket

Rockstar hair

Fitted ball

cap

Pastel cardigan

Jean jacket

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The 1990’s, fashion had some crazy firsts. From crazy print sweatshirts to high waisted jeans and high tops, that’s one fashion decade that will never be forgotten. Another fashion trend that dominated the 1990s was heroin chic. The idea of looking as junkie as possible with high end designers name on your labels was seen frequently on the red carpet. Heroin chic and Poor chic made a run for it a little after grunge music was born. Kurt Cobain’s ripped jeans, over sized fannel and old combat boots made a statement and was on everyones shopping list by the new year. His style was idolized by fans but shunned on by fashion designers. Kurt Cobain’s tragic death in 1994, alerted adults that young people needed to be aided about the dangers of cocaine. Highly respected people at the time like the president Bill Clinton had their say on heroin chic too. He stated that it was unnecessary to glamorize addition to sell popular clothes.

In 1996, Calvin Klein came out with the fragrance to be, the ad campaign featured well-known models like, Kate Moss, Felix DeN’Yeuert, Vincent Gallo and a few others. The models were portrayed as sick, dirty, pale, tired, paranoid, starved, pierced and tattooed, and strung

The plague-like trend is back for more

By: Nya Key

Heroin chic was in the past and many hoped it would never come back.

out. Especially after the beloved lead singer of Nirvana died this was extremely unexpected for such a high end fashion firm. With the slogan “just be” it almost made it seem like it was needed to become addicted to heroin to fit in with society.

A few months past and there was a great change on the size of not only the models but musicians and

actors too. You started to see the red carpet go from elegant healthy people to sickly bimbos. The image of being the perfect person is always on peoples minds. Some people will do what ever it takes to be like the celebrities. It is especially hard for younger girls to be different. Girls

that looked perfectly fine were taking drastic measures to become heroin chic and look like Kate

moss. A society where girls cant be comfortable with them selves isn’t right. The daring trend slowly died as the millennium approached. While grudge music, combat boots and ripped stockings were being thrown away. Brittany

Spears albums, boy band tickets and tamagotchis were slowly making their way to the top of everyones bill. Fashion was becoming

sophisticated and plastic surgery the new trend. Heroin chic was in the past and many hoped it would never come back.

At the start of every decade old trends come back. In the 80’s it was popular to wear you dad’s old button down and the 90’s it was crazy printed anything. 2010 was almost like a melting pot for fashion. There was a little bit of every know fashion hi-light in this years wardrobe. That meant yes, heroin chic came back. Its not as strong as it was in the 90’s. Heroin chic has become on the trendy unknown for many female hipsters. Celebrities like Alice glass, Karen O and Lindsey Lohan have all appear in heroin chic-esk outfits this year.

The models were portrayed as sick, dirty, pale, tired,

paranoid, starved, pierced and tattooed, and strung out.

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So is this the start of the phenomenon all over again? While most critics bash celebrity for trash ways, other people crave it. Teens and young adults follow there ways to be know just like them. Their mistakes and drunken public appearances are applauded by fans. Alice glass gets high and brings a bottle of whiskey on stage and the crowd goes crazy. Her leather coat, tank dress and ripped tights she materialized are worn by a young fan the day after. Maybe they just don’t realize how much their behavior effects the people around them. The thing is, its because their young adults that what they do is so important. You can look grungy without all the drug-use and bad lifestyle that’s attached.Heroin-chic is a ballsy fashion statement pulled off by many of today’s fashion icons. If its done right we wont have to worry about seeing more young people in rehab or learning about Lindsay Lohans new court date. Sure Ke$has says shes wakes up in the morning feeling like P Diddy but we all know with a life style like hers, her morning is accompanied by a head ache and many regrets. The truth needs to be said. Before people find out themselves. Don’t blame a fashion trend blame the people that did it wrong.

Ways to look herion chic without hurting

you selfthere is always a way to do something you saw that you liked with having to have the image that who are associated with that trend have, herion chic is the same way. you dont have to do drugs to dress herion chic, you dont have to be a size 00 either. this trend can be done fairly cheap. all you really have to do is look in you closte for old cloth, preferable

dark and eath tones. you can find a good pair of doc martins or leather boots at most thrift stores. old tights were runs down the side create more and pair them with that little black dress thats a tad to short to wear to school. raid your parents closet to, hit the clearnce rack and places like good will before spending big bucks at places like urban outfitters. you dont have to wear dark makeup, but that would be a nice touch. a black lighte eyeshadown and minimal eyeliner is best. don’t start doing drugs or start trying to lose alot of weight, theres no need to look sick for this trend. good

luck on putting your own spin on it.

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Label of the month.....

Edgy, statement pieces are a must. If you want to draw you walk down the street check out label of December,Stolen

Girlfriends Club. They started off as a psychedelic art pop band from new Zealand, their band sucked and no one came to their shows. They moved onto art, but were sued for “copying” famous artist, Basquiat. In a final attempt to make it big, they started a fashion line. Now, you can buy their stuff

globally. Pieces from their collection are a bit pricey, but totally worth the broken piggy bank.

Stolen Girlfriends Club

Images courtesy of

ihatemondays.com

http://www.stolengirlfriendsclub.com/

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Even though she has been battered, she is still standing

and staring defiantly.

Continued on page 14

part of what was going on there, so we do feel rootless. It is just how things happened. Crystal Castles are often included in cool lists in magazines such as NME, and on teen TV shows like Skins. That lays them open to the charge of being mere fashion accessories for hip kids, and comment on the band is often laced with scepticism. Controversy seems to surround them. This year, the Castles have been accused of using an image of a black-eyed Madonna on merchandise without the artist’s permission, and using samples without proper clearance. At Glastonbury, the stage antics of Glass, climbing the rigging and stage-diving, led the organizers to cut short their set. In March, Glass broke her ribs in a car crash. Crystal Castles are the Canadian duo, Ethan Kath and Alice Grass. Their

nightmarish cyborg punk, encapsulating noise and warped melodies have captured the hearts of club kids around the world. Their self-titled debut album is filled with futuristic electro noises, holding moods and sensations that leave the listener spellbound but are sketchy on autobiographical detail. Crystal Castles are wreathed in mystery; they have given only a handful of interviews and agreed to few photoshoots – even fewer where they reveal their faces.

Courtesy of British magazine The Independent and Gavin Cumine

interview with....

When I meet Kath, the band’s multi-instrumentalist and producer, his eyes are drowsy and almost concealed behind a black hoodie. It’s been a summer of constant travelling, and it looks to be catching up with him. But he’s not lost sight of why they’re doing this. “Alice and I are focused on writing songs and playing live, and anything else around that doesn’t matter,” Kath says. “We say no to a lot of stuff. We just played a festival and every band was complaining they had two hours of press to do, but we just say no. If you don’t want to do it, just say no. Alice and I have created a band to make music, not talk about it. “To be honest, we are shocked by the attention we are getting. We never saw it coming. Our favorite bands are noise bands like Health. We were planning a basement tour together to play at parties. Health had the idea of doing a joint seven-inch where they covered us on one side and we sampled them on the

other. That’s what ‘Crimewave’ is. Next thing, it’s all over the internet and this label from London want to release

it. It wasn’t meant to be a big thing.”Almost overnight, Crystal Castles

were in a music scene they had never been a part of, in a country they’d never been too, far removed from their hidden existence in Toronto. “We skipped the Toronto scene. We put the songs together there, but we never played any songs or gave out CDs. We make music for ourselves. It’s a big surprise that anybody is listening.” “When ‘Alice Practice’ came out, everything changed. It sold out 500 copies in three days. When they said they wanted to make it the A-side, I told them it isn’t even a song, just Alice testing the microphone. The next thing we are fown to London, we’re sleeping on the Klaxons’ foor and we only had a couple of songs to play. Coming here opened up the world for

us.” Crystal Castles are a challenge for the listener, with myriad sounds crammed into their record, each song an attempt to do something new. From the twisted vocals of “Untrust Us” to the soothing sparseness of “Tell Me What To Swallow”, Kath’s approach to music is minimalist and organic. “I use a 1996 desktop PC to record all the music, so it’s a massive set of waves, and then I just chop them up. The equipment is old, but it’s all I need. It’s about the idea. You need to keep it simple. Once I have my tracks I’ll go to a studio to record Alice’s voice, but I take it back and mess around with it. Everything is lo-fi, but I want her voice to sound of a higher quality.” There’s a sense of freedom in both band members, which seems to stem from a love of punk. “When I met Alice, she was a 14-year-old squatter living in an abandoned house with crusties. She lived and breathed Seventies and Eighties punk bands. I thought it would be interesting for her to write over these tracks. She loves what we do, but she doesn’t even listen to electronic music, except for New Order.” Both Kath and Glass seem rootless, removed from any city or scene or indeed any sound that’s around at the moment. It makes them seem entirely unpredictable, totally original – something the band enjoys. “A lot of people want to tie us to a city,” Kath says. “Yeah, we met in Toronto, found a room, made some songs, but then we disappeared. We left. We didn’t play there, we were never

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“Things are always getting out of control. There are always problems,” Kath says. “We liked the Madonna image because we thought it was a symbol of a strong female, and that even though she has been battered, she is still standing and staring defiantly. Nothing is going to knock her down. It’s a perfect symbol of a strong female. All of a sudden, people think we are for battering women and it is all based on people’s perceptions. “We love when people dissect things and make their own meanings. It’s just funny. Because our favourite bands were punk bands, those bands were either loved or hated and we see that happening to us now. “At a festival in Brighton, they called the cops on Alice for riling up the crowd. After our show, the promoter said the police were there to arrest her and we needed to disappear, so we had to get in a getaway car. The live experience is all about Alice; she is a mental case on stage, and is just uncontrollable. She loses herself in the music. After the show, she is covered in bruises and she can’t remember how they got there.” Indeed, if there is a star in this band it is, rather reluctantly, Alice. When I meet her she’s sitting quietly, cigarette dangling from her hand. Tall, stick thin, with ashen skin and eyes scorched by thick black mascara, she looks as if she could have crashed to

Interview continues hereearth through a black hole from another galaxy. Her lyrics conjure up visions like something out of a David Cronenberg film, a seemingly placid surface hiding a surreal darkness. “I wanted to say things I haven’t heard anybody say before,” she says. “There are a lot of bands where the music is all right but the lyrics are crap. I didn’t want to be like that. I think everyone is a little psychotic, so they can be a little messed up.” You could say that: “Courtship Dating”, for example, is about human taxidermy, the idea of preserving the beauty of a lover the way you would an animal. It’s this dark element that sets Crystal Castles apart right now.

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Rise N Shine1.18.11

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1.18.11Most Looked forward Music Relleases of

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At the beginning of the year, Kid Cudi threatened to quit the music industry because “the drama that comes with it is more

overwhelming than the stuff I was dealing with when I was broke,” he wrote on his blog. He says he felt pressured to top the success of his introductory single, “Day N Nite,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- and the expectations weren’t helped by reports of a beef with fellow rapper and label mate Consequence. But times have changed. On the eve of the release of his debut album, “Man on the Moon: The End of Day,” due Sept. 15 on G. O. O. D./Universal Motown, Cudi, born Scott Mescudi in Cleveland, has made peace with his situation by putting his frustrations down on vinyl. “Early on, before I even had a deal, before it was poppin’ for me I felt some pressure,” Cudi says. “But after people started responding to my mix tape, it made me more confident. When you see you have people supporting you, it makes

Man On The Moon

Courtesy of billboard magazine and author Mariel Concepcion

you comfortable. Fans really helped me open up a lot more than I thought -- they are

who really gave me the confidence to do what I do. I could’ve just made another ‘Day N Nite,’ but they gave me the confidence to tell my story instead.” With the help of producers Plain Pat, Ratatat, Kanye West and Emile and collaborators like Ratatat, West, Common, Chip the Ripper, Billy Cravens and MGMT, Cudi takes his listeners through a dark, ambitious, self-refective

15-track set -- broken down by acts and narrated as

dreams and nightmares -- revealing his deepest fears, hopes and dreams. “I really wanted creative records. I knew what I was looking for when I listen to beats. I knew what I needed and how many tracks I needed just like that,” Cudi says of the

“nice collection of new-sounding stuff,” as he refers to the album. “I went off instinct a lot, which made it easier for me to put together. This album wasn’t hard at all.”

The best examples of his storytelling ability come courtesy of tracks like “Heart of a Lion (Kid Cudi Theme Music),” which finds Cudi rhyming, “At the end of the day, my momma told me/’Don’t let no one break me,’ “ over drums and synthesizers; “Cudi Zone,” on which he raps, “When I’m zoned, I’m feeling all right/I forget about it all,” over violin strings; and “Pursuit of Happiness,” with lyrics like “I’m in pursuit of happiness/I’ll be fine once I get it/I’ll be good,” atop electric guitar riffs. “Pursuit” is slated to be the third single off the album. Other standout tracks include the piano- and drum-laden “Enter Galactic,” the bass-heavy “Sky Might Fall,” the anxious “Solo Dolo,” the thoughtful “Sound track 2 My Life” and the second single “Make Her Say,” which reached No. 43 on the Hot 100. Cudi recently wrapped the Great Hangover tour with Asher Roth and is slated to start filming the HBO show “How to Make It in America,” executive-produced by Mark Wahlberg (“Entourage”). Additionally, Cudi is set to host a listening at the Bape Store with designer Nigo (Bathing Ape) during fall fashion week a collaborative shirt design is in the works. Online, according to Universal Motown Records Group senior director of marketing Bill Zarro, Cudi recently unveiled the artwork -- which he personally sketched -- and the track list to the album on his Twitter page. As for the album itself, there will be a deluxe version available with a DVD containing concert footage, a poster and lyrics, Zarro says. Cudi is also involved with Activision’s upcoming “DJ Hero” videogame. Yet with fame comes not only drama, as Cudi says, but comparisons. So far, “Man on the Moon” has been compared

to West’s “808s and Heartbreak,” while Cudi has been likened to West and another newcomer and labelmate, Drake. But Cudi takes the assessments in stride, calling them “a compliment.” He says, “To be in the same category with great people of great talent is amazing. But, my mission statement is to change things and make stuff better. I want to make music that inspires people to feel like they are me, that they can do what they want if they believe in themselves. I don’t know another artist that makes music with that type of motivation.”

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