Artist: Paul Smith

A Closer Look by Nick Parker For years now, my mother and I have often had arguments about about the value of the music video. The point she always makes is one I can recall many people worrying about around the time that MTV launched. You remember: before MTV was dismantled, leaving us with an enduring obsession with seeing directors' visions of the songs we would have 'just' listened to before. Simple put, mum says, videos only distort and distract from the experience of immersion in music. [...]

La última vez que escuchamos algo relacionado con Maximo Park fue en 2010 con el lanzamiento del álbum solista de su vocal, Paul Smith, sin embargo, hace ya tres años que la banda no presentaba nada nuevo, de ahí que esta es sin duda una muy buena noticia. Y es que la banda acaba de revelar los primeros detalles de su nueva producción. El cuarto álbum del grupo llevará por nombre The National Health y será editado de manera independiente el próximo [...]

La marque Paul Smith nous présente l'une des pièces maitresses de leur collection Printemps 2012. Deux t-shirts renommés Floral , ce qui n'étonne pas lorsque l'on découvre le motif fleuri de ces deux t-shirts limite kitch disponible en deux tons de couleur. Quand la mode féminine investit les rayons masculins, voici ce que ça donne ! Pour ce qui est de porter ces modèles, cela ne sera pas donné à tout le monde, tout comme le prix assez élevé. Modèles déjà disponibles dans la boutique en ligne de EndClothing .

Kristen Stewart loves fashion! Kristen (with noticeably darker hair) was spotted at London Fashion Week , sitting in the front row with Kate Moss at the Mulberry Spring-Summer 2012 Show at the Claridges Hotel. Stewart is in London while filming Snow White and the Huntsman , which explains the darker hair. According to the notes released by Mulberry, the collection is "inspired by the great British summer and [...]

by Paul Brown We've all probably seen the distressing scenes of the droughts in East Africa recently, and it's difficult to shake an over-riding feeling of helplessness. Recently, though, a collection of musicians in the North East of England have come together in an effort to provide some kind of help to those affected, by providing a series of exclusive songs to a stunning new compilation called North East by East Africa. [...]

"I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear. This man said, 'It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care.'" -- The Smiths, "This Charming Man" I've been called a lot of things in my time, but "under-dressed" is not one of them. If anything, I've tended to err on the side of dressing too formally. "Why are you so dressed up?" If I heard it once, I heard it a trillion times when I was living in New York City. "Let's go camping next weekend." That one [...]

On Further Review : Albums of Note by Nick Parker solo album from Maximo Park's Paul Smith: FROM THE UK - One of the amazing things for me about listening to new music is that feeling of slight bewilderment as you try [...]

• paulsmith - Our Lady of Lourdes
• paulsmith - While You're In The Bath

Photo: PJ Sykes I was intrigued by Lubec because they recorded their debut EP on a tobacco farm. Now, I don't know about you, but I find that to be pretty freaking awesome. Even more awesome, though, are the tunes found on the EP. Lubec's music is, according to them, what would be considered as "sculpt-rock". I'm not exactly sure what that means, but what I do know is that they are making some awfully catchy and addicting tunes. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, the 4-piece is gearing up to release that EP, "Nothing Is Enough!", on [...]

• Lubec - Your Magic Wand

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Subject of a recent CoS Where We Live feature, Bush Hall provided an admirable platform for Maximo Park's Paul Smith to air his solo work, encapsulated in the October release of Margins. There is nothing that marginal about tonight however. The snow currently paralysing much of the transport network outside London has reduced a sold-out gig to around three-quarters full, if that. The heavily coated and booted crowd though make up in warmth what they lack in numbers and there seem to be so many people here from North East England that it feels [...]

Shots from the launch party for his solo debut, Margins .

• Paul Smith - North Atlantic Drift

Hace ya un buen tiempo les venimos hablando de la producción como solista de Paul Smith que, para el que no lo conoce por su nombre, probablemente lo hará si les cuento que se trata del frontman de Maximo Park quien, además, tiene una rara teoría de los artistas solista que quizás les interese leer . El disco, que tituló Margins y que fue lanzado el 11 del pasado octubre, tiene un sonido fresco que por momentos me sorprendió gratamente mientras que en otros se torna monótono [...]

New Music of Note by Nick Parker Paul Smith - Our Lady of Lourdes NEW! It's no secret that Paul Smith , lead singer of Maximo Park , is a major figure in contemporary British songwriting. For the [...]

Am 11. November eröffnet im ehemaligen Zürcher Kino Plaza der "Kulturclub Plaza". Ratatat, Paul Smith und The Hundred in the Hands weihen die Stätte gebührend ein. 78s verlost drei Dreier-Packages. Das Plaza hat eine lange Geschichte hinter sich: 1923 wurde das Gebäude als "Lichtspieltheater" erbaut. Bis 1970 fungierte es unter dem Namen "Kosmos". 2001 wurde es umgebaut und nach kurzer Dauer von der KITAG übernommen. Nun will die neue Betreibergruppe, die unter anderem mit dem Mascotte einen weiteren geschichtsträchtigen Veranstaltungsort führt, das ehemalige Kino für Konzerte, Lesungen, Comedy-Shows [...]

Welcome to a new series of Mixtape Mondays by Mark Green I see it as a great way for new bands to introduce themselves, and for established bands to give you some favourite musical treats! You'll read a few bits, hopefully laugh at a couple, but mostly find lots of free downloads to stick on your iPod to get your toes tapping. Hope you enjoy, feel free to comment with suggestions for the exciting future! --- A... Read more..

Our Billingham born amigo, Paul Smith's new track 'Our Lady of Lourdes' was added to our 'Certified New' list upon creation. Well it now has a video! To see what we had to say about the track go here, and to hear another track, go here. But if you would like to watch the video, look no further than below....

In the past decade Maxïmo Park's fan base have found reason to both celebrate and doubt the band's ability to evolve. Debut A Certain Trigger raised the bar for contemporary art-rock, but follow up Our Earthly Pleasure s planted the Geordie troupe firmly on safe ground, and third album Quicken the Heart was a disappointing reflection of what came before. The band have found it hard to endure the test of time not because they lack the necessary skills to continue, but because they've failed to move away from the original sound that propelled them. [...]

Words: Gareth O'Malley So apparently Maximo Park aren't even on a break at the moment. (They're actually working on new material for album number four.) Most solo artists choose a point when their day job is on a hiatus or something similar (see: Bloc Party , Snow Patrol , Travis etc.). Not so for Paul Smith . Not content with coming up with 'Quicken the Heart' last year, he has been squirrelled away for a while since his 'other project"s third record came out, penning songs for his debut album, which is now [...]

Maximo Park front-man Paul Smith released his debut solo album this week and played an in-store at Rough Trade East. This was the first taste of Paul's solo efforts before his sold out UK tour in November/December. The Zane Lowe ' Hottest Record ' single ' Our Lady of Lourdes ' is released on November 1st backed by a cover of Arthur Russell' s 'A Little Lost' Read more..