Ok, folks. The votes have been cast and counted and the winner of our Best Subbacultcha! show of 2011 poll is once again NO AGE. We know it's not very exciting to have the same winner as last year, but hey, who are we to overule the opinion of the majority. And in all fairness, the show was pretty ecstatic. So there you have it. We also gave away a free year membership to one of the voters and the winner is: Malou van Doormaal. Enjoy! For those who are interested, check out the top 5 below.

Poll Results - Top 05
01. No Age @ OT301 02. Austra @ OT301 03. Male Bonding @ OT301 04. Vivian Girls @ OCCII  05. The Soft Moon @ OCCII

Interview by Johanna Valdés. 
Photos shot by Bobby Doherty in Daniel Martin-McCormick’s 
loft in Brooklyn.

Since the audience - or rather, their clothes - at one of Ital’s shows inspired us to make the Fashion Issue, we thought it was a good idea to spend some time with Daniel Martin-McCormick to chat about fashion. Turns out he used to wear the same shirt for six months on end. The chic, the dirty and the absolutely necessary with Ital.

Scandinavian punks Iceage played an energetic and confrontational show at OT301 last week. Bauke Karel was there and took some gritty black and white photo's, and Kasper Vogelzang made some videos, check them out here.

Brooklyn’s The Men are as virile and no-frills as their name implies, playing hardcore post-punk that’s melodic, distorted and extremely loud. One night, after a show in New York, photographer Christopher Schreck went running up and down the streets with them and took some photos while they were climbing on window grating, jumping into garbage piles, lifting each other up and grabbing people on the street. He tried capturing it all using some double-exposure and thinks the shots reflect the band’s overall tone. We think so too.

Photos by Christopher Schreck

Interview by Brenda Bosma. Images found on iceagecopenhagen.blogspot.com

The Danish youngsters from blog buzz band Iceage are hailed as the saviours of punk. With their debut album New Brigade being economically short and their live shows notorious for being fiercely energetic (frontman Elias often sings with bloodied gums), you’ll never know what just hit you. We phoned Elias (19) in his hometown Copenhagen and learned that he has a pretty down-to-earth composure.

‘I don’t think you should really believe anything you read about yourself.’

Our very own review editor Carly Blair put together a fine selection of her favourite songs of 2011 featuring bands like Wu Lyf, tUnE yArDs, Future Islands, Korallreven, Colin Stetson, Youth Lagoon, Blouse, Widowspeak and many more.

By Carly Blair. With insights from Mike Sniper (Captured Tracks), Amanda Brown (100% Silk), Derek Evers (Impose Magazine), and Justin Gage (Aquarium Drunkard) Illustrations by Geoff Kim

When it comes to music, mp3 blogs help us navigate the internet's unfathomable depths. But where everyone has an opinion, whose do you trust? There's no dying that the internet is a useful tool for finding new music. But if we have to consume information faster and more efficiently to avoid drowning in a sea of information, do we put ourselves at risk only skimming the surface of things? We ask online music experts for their take on the situation.

Skype interview by Zofia Ciechowska. Photos by Ye Rin Mok

We had a little chat with the pixelated online faces of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson of High Places. We talked about rattlesnakes and worldwideweb stuff, and then our webcams froze and we resorted to emoticons. Online dating’s finest moment.

Questions emailed by Bas Morsch. Photos by Nuno Barroso

Estonian dreamgaze girl Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva is the perfect product of the modern-day music industry. Maria is riding the musical wave of the progressive retro generation, who crystallise information overload into reverb-drenched, nostalgic and personal documents of time and sentiment. Crucial instrument... a Macbook. Or is it?

Words by Brenda Bosma. Photos by Nuno Barroso

Panda Bear released his fourth solo album Tomboy at the beginning of this year. It got great reviews, some even quite wordy. We called him on an off day in his house in Portugal and talked about Fado and juxtapositions. And we finally cleared the adobe slab-thing!

Back for a fifth celebration of independent music in Utrecht, venues and clubs are uniting to open up this quaint city to a world of beats, bleeps and bawling. Across four days, representatives of the new audio underground will be showcased alongside some of the elder statesmen (and women) who originally inspired them. Highlights include: Shabazz Palaces, Bill Calahan, Suuns, Gang Gang Dance, Panda Bear, John Maus, Gary War and Givers. Read more after the jump.

Interview by Brenda Bosma. Photos by Christopher Schreck

We called Suuns synth maestro Max while he was sitting in the back seat of a car headed to a show. We talked quite openly about intimacy. Did you know there were at least five types of intimacy? Of course, the anecdote about groupies was the most revealing, sobering even. The thing about the Mars bar was also pretty honest. Go see them live and don’t be afraid to get intimate. You know there are at least five types of intimacy, right?