Raised-in-Carolina is a blog dedicated to music, film, culture, fashion, the arts and everything inbetween from the view point of two editors and guest writers.
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Breathless is timeless. It's sexy, energetic, unstructured and downright cool as fuck! A seminal film of the French New Wave, it was Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature. Back in 1960 (it's original release) it caused quite a stir and still continues to influence today...
On 28 August 2009 one of the worlds greatest rock’n’roll bands crumbled in front of the public eye and left a vacant hole at the top of the music industry pyramid. This was soon filled by almost the same band… Beady Eye was born...
On the 8th March 2010, one of our most eagerly awaited albums of the year was released. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has again, and to no surprise, created an era defining record, ‘Beat The Devil’s Tattoo’. A new line up with an existing sound that doesn’t seem possible, but it works perfectly...
It's no secret that I am a big Alison Mosshart fan. Everyone who knows me will vouch for this, I literally cannot get enough of her!
The leather jacket wearing, chain smoking, female counterpart to Jamie Hince in The Kills and part of supergroup The Dead Weather, she is currently one of the best front women out there. According to Jack White 'no one can touch her', and I'm not going to argue with that...
In the midst of 2009, rising from the ashes of rocks most important groups, The Dead Weather formed and they just happen to be one of the most important supergroups to emerge in the last year, maybe even in the last decade. Comprising of Alison Mosshart on vocals (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The Raconteurs and The White Stripes), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs)...
For our very first interview, we speak to a close friend and someone whose work we admire greatly here at Raised-in-Carolina, Martin Donnelly. Martin, aka Mezzetty is a small design project and a place to air his photographic skills mixed with typography and graphic design, to create a unique and personal body of work. Over the last 10 years, it has lead to a variety of exciting collaborations and has featured in many respectable publications, both online and in print. We talk to Martin about his work, the industry and what's next for Mezzetty...
(500) Days of Summer is not your typical rom-com…if you can
even classify it in that genre. The conventional boy-meets-girl formula is
traded for a more fractured look at relationships, and the result is bittersweet.
I instantly fell in love with it, so much so that it’s hard to know where to
begin...
On first listen, this album struck me as something I'd been waiting to hear in ages. Something immersive and enchanting that reminded me just how captivating 10 songs can be. One member of electronica outfit 'The Knife', Karin Dreijer Andersson returns under the moniker 'Fever Ray'...
Once again I am completely blown away by the British ‘real’ music scene. I’ve been eagerly awaiting for the new album from Kasabian for months (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, which is due out in all good record shops on June 8th) and I was not disappointed by the first installment of singles...