Founded by Fernando Akasaka in 2006, FAKASAKA is dedicated to making innovative, conceptual and exclusive design objects for the home — the coolest being these stunning Frankie Skull Lamps. They look like they’d be perfectly at home in the living room of high-caliber mortality obsessed aesthetes like Alexander McQueen, Damien Hirst or Masaaki Homma (and […]
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Apr
FAKASAKA's high design bronze odes to life & death
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Jan
Pulp frontman goes disco in debut video
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker jumps on Discodeine‘s lead single “Synchronize” from their self-titled debut full-length album (out February 14th on D-I-R-T-Y / Pschent). Comprised of Parisian producers Pentile and Pilooski — the latter who’s best known for his massive re-edits of tracks like Frankie Valli’s “Beggin’” — Discodeine convinced the Britpop legend Jarvis to go […]
22
Jul
Former Vivian Girl turns it to 11
Although Frankie Rose is best known as one of the original founders of Vivian Girls, the sound of her new project, Frankie Rose and the Outs, has taken on a decidedly more shoegaze, slightly noisy direction. The Brooklyn stalwarts have taken their lo-fi garage sonics and penchant for rich melodies and upgraded the production, dousing […]