#34 (May/Jun 2008) Music Special

The objective of our tight-knit staff at Anthem has always been connecting dots, surveying what everyone is talking about, and combining that with our own tastes and biases and obsessions. It’d be pure hubris to aim at comprehensive coverage of the music world, but every now and then, we like to pat ourselves on the back. Last year’s New York music special is a case in point; we happily watched Dirty Projectors, Yeasayer, MGMT and company catapult to indie fame in the months following. Hopefully you’ll uncover a few similar gems in our annual Music Special’s Bands to Watch spread—and don’t miss the additional fifteen artists featured on anthemmagazine.com. And as always filling out the rest of the issue are the things we’ve found most intriguing in the worlds of art, film, fashion and culture.

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ISSUE 33

Anthem's 2008 Masculine/Feminine issue featuring Santogold, Crystal Castles, Damien Hirst, and Clémence Poésy.

ISSUE 32

It’s a new year with fresh challenges, even if it sometimes seems like independent publishing is being killed by corporate cash and our shared hype machine.

ISSUE 31

Sigur Rós are a reclusive bunch—they’re not too fond of the press, they say, because in their native Iceland everyone tends to leave you alone. It must be easy to disappear in a country whose (read more)

ISSUE 30

It's that time of year again, when always-fashionable Anthemites feel compelled to take things up a notch. The fall brings crisper weather and a parade of fashion weeks from New York to Barcelona. To (read more)

ISSUE 29

Over the past years, we’ve surveyed the Danish creative scene, dodged bullets in the former Yugoslavia, and caught the hustle and flow of South Africa’s hip-hop movement. If you’re anything (read more)

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