The Capstan Shafts: Sleepcure Theory Advancer

Despite creating beautiful and creative music, Dean Wells, the talent behind The Capstan Shafts has played only a handful of live performances over his near decade-long career. It's all about building that sense of mystique about his work. In fact, his MySpace page is only updated once in a blue moon, which means that arguably some of the finest songwriting around today is left in …

Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson just did the latest cover for The Fader magazine which really caught our eye. Fader's art director (and occasional Lost At E Minor contributor) Phil Bicker led us to Wilson's website. We're really impressed with how prolific he is and how he's created his own style that looks a bit '70s mixed with right now.

Hong Hao

Working out of Beijing, Hong Hao is known primarily for his laser scans of the ephemera accumulated in his lifetime. Each piece is an aggregation of items—passports, cosmetics, coins, Mao kitsch, all and sundry plastic knick knacks—that individually are unremarkable, but together tell the story of a person's life.