MXMS, short for "me and my shadow", is the multimedia project of singer Ariel Levitan and pianist Jeremy Dawson. Describing their music as a combination of "Funeral Pop" and "Dead Western", MXMS made a vow to express their art as naked as it reads channeling artists like Johnny Cash, Nirvana, Serge Gainsbourg, Lush, Vast, and Enya. Collaborating with designer Asher Levine for a "funeral" inspired fashion show for SS 2014, A series of shows at NYC's immersive Sleep No More theatre, and playing LACMA's (Los Angeles contemporary museum of modern art's) annual Halloween Ball installation called "Haunted Screens" German 1920's Cinema are just a few of the many events & performances MXMS has taken part of in efforts to jointly focus on Music, Fashion, & Cinema.