JUICE is 11 years old! We’ve seen too many Editors, Writers, Designers, and Interns come and leave the office since the inception of the mag, but what comes after JUICE for them?
“I hope [Britrock isn’t coming back] because I think people have a different view of what it actually was. I don’t think it was a great celebration of British music.” – Graham Coxon
This month, noticing a new zeitgeist afoot in the bigger world of music – the kind with a focal point in electronic instruments – we decided to take a wider look into 5 acts (most already covered by us in microcosm); +2dB, Adam Kasturi, MOIST, MUSCLE//MACHINE, and Stellar Dreams.
The Drums, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED), Twilight Actiongirl, The Deer Society, and Darren Ashley — together with Heineken — gave us one of the funnest nights this year.
“People like going crazy about big music. It’s always been that way. [Swedish House Mafia] are just a couple of douchebags making crappy dance music.” – Martin
Our vision of a band of deep thinkers who engulf themselves in privacy to share some sort of Jim Morrison moment is shattered once we gain backstage access to them right after their set at Tokyo’s Hostess Club Weekender.