Tuesday, 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.
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Friday, 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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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Moray McLaren – “We Got Time”
Directed by David Wilson
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
We’ve got our hands all over Five Dials. Well, not literally; this understatedly hip little lit journal only distributes online, through PDF. But don’t be fooled by the low-maintenance distro: Five Dials pulls in some pretty big names. The most recent issue, themed around Paris, features writing from the likes of Ali Smith and John Updike; an “addendum” to the issue, posted today, centres around Guy de Maupassant. Previous issues include writers such as Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Safran Foer.
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THE BLOCK MIXTAPE
by Young Empires
Mixtape: Young Empires
Toronto's Young Empires send us straight to the dancefloor with this mixtape for The Block.
www.myspace.com/youngempires
01. Sabali (Vitalic Remix) - Amadou & Miriam
02. Lies (Herve Remix) - Fenech-Soler
03. Hour of the Wolf (Lifelike Remix) - Adam Kesher
04. Dance the Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Remix) - Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
05. Snake Charmer - Bag Raiders
06. Wait & See - Holy Ghost!
07. All Night (Azari & III Remix) - Voltage
08. You Know I Know It - Tensnake
09. La Mezcla - Michel Cleis
10. Rain of Gold (French Horn Rebellion Remix) - Young Empires
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