Absolut is all about honing creativity and here they celebrate the rise of upcoming fashion illustrators who not only draw their own path in life but are creating masterpieces with it.

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Bedroom DJs, pay attention. Here’s an opportunity to transition from holding a podcast with little to no listeners to actually playing live to a crowd of thousands, Heineken is holding another Found @ Thirst DJ competition! With reputable alumni that range from the now ubiquitous DJ Blink to last year’s Phil K Lee, the competition has proven itself as the easiest way to cheat your way to fame (provided you have the talent).

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Our little bi-annual sis HANGER is back better than ever! The A/W11 edition dropped on Halloween 2011 at all major bookstores and newsstands! You’ve got to get your hands on the ‘Culture Issue’, inside we feature our cover boy that graces our cover KL-based Japanese hip hop MC Shinji Moriwaki aka Figure of Speech as he talks about the Levi’s Go Forth Campaign. We’ve also got interviews from our very own Dato’ Bernard Chandran to Verbal, MC of the Teriyaki Boyz and Japan’s most well known style icon.

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In this final instalment of the feature, Liyana Fizi gives us an intimate acoustic performance of ‘Light Writing’ at Artisan Roast before revealing to us her ultimate idea of chilling out in the city - the privacy of being at home.
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We saw the likes of indie heroes Ladyhawk, Holy F*ck, !!!, Temper Trap, Warpaint and Yeasayer earlier this year. So what has Laneway 2012 got in store for us? Well, zip up your pants and get some tissues because this lineup is a music lover’s wet-dream!

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Ahh, love. Doesn’t it just give you a boner? It’s the same as having the warm fuzzies right? What happens when the subject gets the Spike Jonze treatment? As some of you might know, we all love some cray cray every now and then.

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With almost an unlimited amount of good food around town, us KLites are always spoiled for choice. Get inspired in this second part of our Chilly Fizi feature as Liyana Fizi names some of the restaurants she’d frequent to nourish herself after a tiring gig.
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#nowplaying John Coltrane – Greensleeves
I don’t understand why so many KL-locked people buy fast cars. You can’t really drive fast here. Luxurious, ludicrously expensive rides I can get behind (literally), but a muscle car with more torque than sense is just a really loud, heavy chunk of metal stuck in the middle of the SPRINT (ha!) jam at 5.30pm. Get a Perodua and install a decent sound system; you’ll live longer for less.

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There’s a unique, almost ineffable, quality to Liyana FIzi. The girl-next-door demeanour she exudes both on stage and in person and her coy silliness in conversations give the impression that Liyana is perpetually laid back. It’s almost as if she’s unperturbed by the stress of modern living whereas urbanites can attest to how suffocating it can get to live in the hustle and bustle of Kuala Lumpur. With constant traffic congestion, growing smog, increasingly cramped space and the boorish KLites that come with living under those conditions, it makes us wonder just how Liyana manages to have her peace of mind here. JUICE speaks to the effervescent ex-Estrella vocalist to find out just what keeps her chilled out in Kuala Lumpur while the rest of us struggle with our sanity. [more »]

Jared and Michael Bell have seen their sibling tag team grow from a playful childhood project with toy instruments into a hugely respected ambient outfit, touring the world and earning flattering (but deserved) comparisons to names like Four Tet and Tortoise. Their meld of electronic and acoustic is a delicate balance that steps into post-rock borders but their resistance to indulgence makes them one of the few instrumental acts out there that embraces the value of brevity. Akin more to a polaroid that an opus, Lymbyc Systym’s releases from Love Your Abuser to Shutter Release also transcend the quite/loud ambient dynamic for more upbeat sounds and although they thrive under wordless conditions, the brothers had a few insightful ones for us during our tête-à-tête.

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