Depeche Mode founders Vince Clarke and Martin Gore together in a new project

VCMG is the name of a brand new project formed by old techno pop masters Vince Clark and Martin Gore and which is there to rock the dancefloors worldwide. Both musicians have parted their ways 30 years ago after the first album "Speak and Spell" by Depeche Mode, the band they created together with Andy Fletcher and Dave Gaham. The album will be released in 2012 but there already an EP outhere. The sound is hypnotic by two of the fathers of electonic dance music.
Vince, who would be replaced in Depeche Mode by Alan Wilder, engaged in a career of his own forming bands such as Yazoo, Assembly or Erasure. Along with these bands he was also involved in further projects as it is the case of the brilliant "Pretentious", an experimental album he recorded especially with Heaven 17's Martyn Ware for the National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield.~
As for Martin, he became the band's main composer, the leading man in the band, having composed one of DM's best tracks, "Enjoy the Silence". In 2003 he released a solo album under the name "Counterfeit", 4 years after receiving the "International Achievement" award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.

Durutti Column - Friends in Portugal

Every now and then a band manages to put in a track the sound and the feel of a city. In "Menina ao pé de uma piscina" Vini Reily's guitar weeps like the gentle weeping of a fado guitar in a dark alley of Lisbon. The album was recorded in one night in a studio outside Lisbon and released in 1983 by the label Fundação Atlântica and has been reissued every now and then.
Vini Reily and Bruce Mitchel are the Durutti Column, an english band formed in 1978. and extremely famous in Portugal. The name of the band comes from Buenaventura Durriti, the men who led a column of anarchists fighters during the Spanish Civil War. Their first album received the name of "The Return of Durutti column" and was inspired by a poster from Situationist International featuring that phrase. Friends of Tony Wilson and of a number of people who contributed for the big revolution in modern musich in the eighties, from Ian Curtis to Morrisey, their's has been a quiet revolution through sound. For more insight on this band check also the albums "LC" or "The guitar and other machines".

Dkode shoes

Looking forward to the coming Spring to get the hand on these remarkable shoes by the Portuguese brand Dkode. And should you live outside Portugal do not worry. This brand is presrnt in most European countrirs.

Duran Duran - Girl Panic!

They've always liked girls on film... and on video. Thirty years after hitting the Tops, Duran Duran are now back with a smashing song that brings you back to their eighties sound always blinking at the fashion world and with this video featuring supermodels such as Yasmin le Bon, Eva Herzigova, Naomi Campbel and Helena Christensen. The boys that started the videoclip age with "Rio", the most expensive production at the time now come back with this smashing video directed by Jonas Ackerlund, conducted in collaboration with Harper's Bazar.

Buraka Som Sistema - Restless

They're the coolest act from Portugal and they are bringing their sounds to the dancefloors around the world. Here's "Restless", a tune which brings you back to the best electtonic sounds made in the past two decades. After hitting us hard with their hardass (kuduro) inspired sound they brought us to another dimension with their album Black Diamond and are now closer to some of biggest names in dance music. Some claim they are close to M.I.A.. After listening to this single I rather file them in the same record shelf right next to the second album of Leftfield, Rythm & Stealth.

Spanish footwear that rocks

You probably don't know but most of the footwear you see in the major rock events, both on stage and in the audience, comes for the Spanish brand New Rock which has been around since 1978. Trendenz came across this brand in one of the editions of The Brandery in Barcelona and had the opportunity to see the vast selection of footwear that delights rocks, punks and goths alike all over the world. The demand is so big that they now have exclusice stores and corners from Las Vegas to Madrid, Moscow and Santiafo de Chile, Sydeny or Vienna.
Besides their design catering for a whole generaltion of indie, alternative, punk and hard rock bands they are proud to use the latest technology and good manufacturing from comfort plus systems to 360º stitching or multipoint shock absorption.
Remember Angelina playing Lara Croft. Well, the boots she was wearing are from new rock.

The gorgeous voice of Marta Hugon

She's gorgeous, Portuguese and has a great voice. This Lisbon singer will be presenting her new album "A different time" tonight in Lisbon. Do not expect something completely diffferent from what she as done before, but rather a reinvention in this song album with her usual band. Marta had been swimming slow in the music scene and is here to stay.

"THE GREEKS" - Best Animation Video

award

The Video "The Greeks" by the band Is Tropical was awarded best animation video and best indie rock video at the recent music video awards in the United Kingdom. The video was shot in a french suburb and according to the band members quoted in Kitsuné's page, they have been wanting "to make such a video since the age of 6".

The beautiful world of Elisa Palomino

Trendenz was fascinated once again by the work of Elisa Palomino shown at Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week. This Spanish designer is a true world citizen who calls Marid, London and New York her home. Check out her gorgeous outfits for this Winter season.