Interview: Museum of Love

Longtime friends Pat Mahoney (of LCD Soundsystem) and Dennis McNany on their new band and very "un-DFA" record

While the much-loved LCD Soundsystem disbanded in 2011, drummer Pat Mahoney has hardly remained idle. In fact, the DFA veteran has literally become even more more vocal in his new collaboration with longtime friend Dennis “Jee Day” McNany (founder of Run Roc Records), going under the moniker Museum of Love. They’ve teased us with the release of their first single—the gritty yet effervescent “Down South“—nearly …

Gambles: You Won’t Remind It

A music video capturing life through the eyes of a homeless man

Since their inception—and later rampant explosion as both an artistic endeavor and a promotional tool—music videos have become an important medium for channeling new messages and additional layers to the tracks they accompany. With “You Won’t Remind It,” NYC-based band Gambles delivers upon this with an insider eye. Chris, a homeless man befriended by Gambles’ frontman Matthew Daniel Siskin over the last three years, dons …

FEIT Shoes

The handmade leather shoes from Sydney have landed stateside at Dover Street Market and now Assembly New York

Founded by the Price brothers, FEIT has been admired for some time—not only for their minimal design aesthetic, but also their dedication to “fighting” the retail system and swimming against the current. This battle includes having craftsmen sew and last each shoe, using only biological materials (from their vegetable-dyed leather to soles made from milk from the rubber tree), banning harmful chemicals and making (in …