Arcade Fire Wins FWA Website of the Year Award

Link: The Wilderness Downtown

Arcade Fire's interactive online film The Wilderness Downtown has won the FWA Site of the Year Award for 2010.

The site, which was created by director Chris Milk in collaboration with Aaron Koblin of Google Creative Lab and digital production company B-Reel, was made to promote the track 'We Used To Wait' from Arcade Fire's recent album The Suburbs. It was chosen by the judges as the best site of the year, from a shortlist of 12 sites, the favourites chosen each month on the FWA site...

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Concave Scream artwork

From: Junk
Date: 22/05/09

Singapore's much-adored band Concave Scream recently released their fifth album Soundtrack for a Book, and have literally taken packaging to a whole new level by attaching the CD to a second hand book.

The nine-track, 43-minute release is entirely instrumental, and all 1,000 copies will come in specially selected second hand books, including dusty old ones from Enid Blyton, with the CD secured somewhere within the book with a bolt and nut.

The album is priced at S$20, and is currently available through online orders via www.concavescream.com (where you can customise your own virtual book), or physically via The Esplanade Store or at 2 Leng Kee Road, #03-02 Thye Hong Ctr, Singapore 159086 (near RedHill MRT). The band are gearing up for an album launch on 18 September at The Esplanade. For more updates and info, visit www.concavescreamband.blogspot.com.

Warp.net redesign by Universal Everything

Warp has proved to be pioneering in the shift from more traditional media to the web. Its Bleep.com is a quality purveyor of forward-thinking music while Warp Records' own label site has been through a variety of different phases.

Previously Warp.net pushed an esoteric aesthetic perhaps in tandem with some of its potentially more difficult electronic listening material. However last year's redesign by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything brought in a more streamlined approach that reflects where the label is now: where its acclaimed independent film output is featured alongside a roster that has broadened well beyond its techno and electronica foundations. One important aspect was to increase the focus on the embedded media player while continuing the use of colour coded sections: a design mainstay throughout its various incarnations. Although this time it is a touch more subtle and the largely monochrome scheme only highlights the individual artwork from the various releases.