Unlike the majority of pop releases, this album’s sentiment is far from mindless. MEN have wrapped their material up in issues concerning trans-awareness, sexual ambiguity and most importantly of all, liberation. TLOBF Recommended.
MEN

Museum of Bellas Artes – White Heat @ Madame Jo Jos, London 14/11/10
Set in the heart of Soho, the cabaret bar Madame Jo Jos plays host a very special Transparent curated White Heat Club with the London based purveyors of dream pop Echo Lake sandwiched in between Swedish dance pop trio Museum Of Bellas Artes and a secret guest slot from MEN.

Win! Tickets to see Museum Of Bellas Artes’ debut UK show
Museum Of Bellas Artes, the Stockholm based pop powerhouse make their inaugural UK appearance tomorrow night at White Heat Club in the heart of London’s Soho. The trio will be performing alongside TLOBF faves Echo Lake, Vondelpark plus a “secret” performance from New York based collective MEN.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 1
Straight from the frontline, Jen Long starts her daily SXSW blog in style. With words, videos, photos and music from jj, Happy Birthday and The Smith Westerns.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










