Hedi Slimane has a really simple website where she takes one photograph a day and lays it all out vertically — one giant black-and-white photograph at a time. Most of the shots are portraits, and the best part of this layout lies in the fact...
I have nothing against Cappadonna. I respect his skills as an emcee and consider him a real part of the Wu-Tang Clan. Even though Wikipedia calls him a quasi-member. Even though he was in prison when they signed. Even though he doesn’t really...
For the duration of their 7-year career, CocoRosie have been criticized and loved with equal fervor. To some, everything about the sisterly duo reeks of art school pretension, from their lyrics to the images they conjure of feathered hairpieces and...
Eskimo Snow is an album full of what I would call “unseeming pop songs.” WHY? have managed to craft an album of songs that aren’t particularly graceful or classically poppy, but somehow, it works. A couple lines from this song or...
Joint video for “These Hands” and “January Twenty Something” off WHY?’s latest album, Eskimo Snow. To me, “These Hands” was just about a perfect intro to the disc, and I’m glad that its nostalgic tones...
"What I want to have is different people to come together -- [to have] different styles and fashions to come together and feel the music itself... That's my ultimate happiness." -- Richard Spitzer
Last year marked the first year in which we compiled a top five albums of the year, as deemed by nine Redefine staff writers. Remarkably, no albums were doubled up. It proved that Redefine staff writers have diverse tastes, and that their tastes run...
Denmark/USA 2006, 88 minutes, 35mm English, Crole, French (w/ English subtitles) Most of us have heard about the political turmoil in Haiti, but news reports are always very disconnected from reality. They are incapable of ushering forth a realistic...