18th Dec | Cone Magazine 1st Birthday @ The Island
Next Month Cone Magazine will be celebrating its 1st birthday with an evening of carefully curated events that commemorate the very ethos of the magazine – to inform, educate and entertain. December 2014, and sat in a cafe located in Bristols underbelly Stokes Croft an idea was born. Having just left an office job, the founder […]
The Deejay Fast Eddie releases My Melody EP
Chicago born veteran of the 80’s house music boom today presses the extremely rare ‘My Melody’ onto 12″. Fast Eddie was an integral part of the early house movement in Chicago during the 80’s. Alongside hosting on radio stations WGCI and WBMX for a short period, it was his productions that gained him notoriety. With the early success […]
On its 15th anniversary Discogs reports $43.5 million of sales
Having recently submitted data to Billboard, online music auction place Discogs has reported 2.5 million record sales, 550,000 CDs and about 50,000 cassettes in 2015 alone. With records sales in the US at a 26 year high, the last time figures were this high was 1989 (before the compact disc entered the market in ’90). The […]
Parlez AW ’15 lookbook
Bristol based Parlez Clothing continues it’s aesthetic marrying of the rich heritage of sailing and streetwear culture in their Autumn/Winter ’15 collection. Established in 1989, Bristol based clothing company Parlez draws inspiration from elements of sailing attire and streetwear design. It’s this combination of high build quality and durable materials, with a stripped back and tasteful approach to tailoring […]
Shapes celebrate 4th years w/ Hypercolour @ Motion
The Shapes crew celebrate their 4th birthday by joining forces with In:Motion and Hypercolour, and bringing some of the label’s premier artists to the Marble Factory on the 14th November. Axel Boman, co-founder of the superb Studio Barnhus, has released on both Hypercolour and its offshoot label Glass Table, and is widely regarded as one […]
Review /\ Simple Things festival 2015
Last weekend Simple Things celebrated its 5th year of the multi-venue, city-wide commemoration of left field music, covering a diverse spectrum of genres and disciplines. Simple Things has cemented its reputation as one of the most forward-thinking festivals in the Bristol and Southwest circuit, with a fantastically well thought-out lineup that included a mix of well-known […]
Review /\ Simple Things festival 2015
Last weekend Simple Things celebrated its 5th year of the multi-venue, city-wide commemoration of left field music, covering a diverse spectrum of genres and disciplines. Simple Things has cemented its reputation as one of the most forward-thinking festivals in the Bristol and Southwest circuit, with a fantastically well thought-out lineup that included a mix of well-known […]
We’ve launched Cone TV with a short documentary on Moxie and NTS Radio
Today we launched our visual media channel Cone TV, a platform for researched documentary style features, journalistic content, stories and other visual media. Next month Cone Magazine will be celebrating its first birthday in Bristol, and to mark this milestone we decided to launch a TV channel alongside some distinct re-branding. Cone started life as a […]
Beach House announce further tour dates
Beach House have announced the first round of 2016 tour dates for North America in support of Thank Your Lucky Stars and Depression Cherry. The Baltimore duo released albums 5 and 6 within just a couple of months of each other, subsequently bewildering and electrifying fans in a heartbeat. Their intention has been something of […]
Sara Lov releases third album ‘Some Kind Of Champion’
Known perhaps more as the former of 90’s indie rock band Devics (Bella Union), Sara Lov has joined up with fellow band mate Dustin O’Halloran, among many others, to complete her third album ‘Some Kind Of Champion’. O’Halloran has since gone on to have quite the fruitful career, adapting his celebrated pianist compositions to film […]