Mia Michaels column for movmnt magazine. Mia is a world-renowned choreographer. She was recently awarded her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for Calling You, created in 2006 for Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.

Rogue Wave is the incarnation of singer and guitarist Zach Schwartz, a former member of the Bay Area band, the Desoto Reds. When Rogue lost his job as a dot-comer, he headed for New York to team up with producer Bill Racine and lay down the tracks for Rogue Wave’s debut album.

Movmnt Magazine pays tribute to these Pop artists that continue to inspire fashion everyday even though they almost all died like 20 years ago!

Moscow, Russia
In a land as rich with art and literature as Mother Russia, and in a political environment that goes out of its way to suppress free speech, it is no surprise that the dark intensity of the Russian people flourishes on the streets of St. Petersburg and Moscow in the form of graffiti.

New York, USA
Wake Up Call: Movmnt investigates a few cities around the world where graffiti means so much more than just spray paint on a wall.

Movmnt talks with Blake Bashoff castmember of the Tony Awards winning sensation for a generation: Spring Awakening.

They come from Bushwick, Brooklyn, but their sound is pure Nigeria circa 1960. This makes sense, considering Antibalas – whose name means “bulletproof” in Spanish – uses Afrobeat as the template for their diverse world sound. For those of you not familiar with Afrobeat, here’s a quick rundown: A really cool Nigerian dude named Fela [...]

If you haven’t heard NY indie math-rock outfit Battles, imagine a trigonometry-laced rockopera where digitized munchkins roam free and drums beat with machine-like precision. Containing four men who are no strangers to the music scene (members of past groups Helmet and Lynx), Battles forge a unique fusion of futuristic indie rock and digitally tweaked, mathematically [...]

Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst left his “pine on the west coast” to explore the less sentimental terrain of the greater United States for the bands’ newest studio album, Cassadaga, released April 10th. The title is an obscure homage to a community of psychics in central Florida, visited by those who wish to “commune with [...]