Wonderland.
Who Could Ask For Anything More?
With A-list collaborations and club-filling anthems under her belt, this year singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha is taking centre stage.
Editorial: Summertime Sadness
Photographer Ben Rayner and stylist Dianna Lunt take us to the seaside in their editorial for Wonderland Magazine.
AUSTIN BUTLER; AN EX-DISNEY KID FIGHTING HIS DEMONS
There’s a certain image associated with young Hollywood actors -especially when you consider that this particular one got his start playing hunky love interests in Disney and Nickelodeon tween shows like Hannah Montana and Zoey 101.
Flashback to Florence + The Machine
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE by Ben Rayner from Wonderland Magazine on Vimeo. In 2009, Wonderland released the British Talent Special issue featuring cover stars Alexandra Burke and DIzzie Rascal. We also created a shoot and interview with the incredible Florence Welch where she discussed witchcraft, family life and (of course) music. A behind-the-scenes video from […]
The Maccabees
Lazy entertainers are not something The Maccabees can be guilty of being slandered of – but fans of poi and juggling had better look away now…
Friendly Fires
Aged 14, St Albans school friends Ed Macfarlane, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge formed First Day Break. “It was all guitars, no vocals… far too serious,” says Gibson. University changed all that. Thanks to a student diet of German techno and Prince, in came romantic melodies, propulsive drumming and rib-rattling bass. In 2006, three months […]
Black Mountain
Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Josh Wells are five longhaired Canadian stoners on a crusade. When they’re not unleashing epic psychedelic rock on bleary-eyed revellers as Black Mountain, they’re busy helping out at Insite – a Vancouver-based charity for the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill. Not many bands can […]
Black Mountain
Stephen McBean, Amber Webber, Matt Camirand, Jeremy Schmidt and Josh Wells are five longhaired Canadian stoners on a crusade. When they’re not unleashing epic psychedelic rock on bleary-eyed revellers as Black Mountain, they’re busy helping out at Insite – a Vancouver-based charity for the chronically poor, drug addicted and mentally ill. Not many bands can […]
Quiet Village
Joel Martin, aka DJ Zeus, is a former film editor and one of London’s best respected record collectors. Matt Edwards is the man behind the moniker Radio Slave and Berlin-based label Rekid. The pair met at Sir Dunstan’s College in South East London but it took a car journey to drum’n’bass club Metalheadz one Sunday […]
Black Lips
Black Lips call their sound “flower punk”. Live on stage, however, there is not much that’s flowery about Cole Alexander, Jared Swilley, Joe Bradley and Ian Saint Pé. Antics include vomiting, inter-band tonguing, pissing in their own mouths, spitting in each other’s mouths, fireworks, nakedness and a dancing chicken called Popcorn. These boys are smart. […]
The Teenagers
Boxing Day 2005, Paris. Quentin Delafon, Michael Szpiner and Dorian Dumont are eating frozen pizza and getting drunk on vodka. They decide to set up a MySpace page for an imaginary band. A random girl called Nicole sends them a comment… The Teenager’s first song, “Fuck Nicole,” is born. Within eight months the French trio […]
MGMT
Singer and guitarist Andrew VanWyngarden is an excitable puppy in human form. Bearded keyboard-player Ben Goldwasser is reserved. Sardonic, even. Together they are MGMT, pronounced ‘management’. The 25-year-olds met in 2002 on the campus of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. United by a love of mysticism, psyche-rock and Technicolor, they plugged in some computers, threw on […]