“I’ve never been the guy to pal around and take the pictures with all the guys. I’ve only collaborated with the best.” (GQ)
As it celebrates its 50th birthday, hip-hop is a global, mass-market phenomenon. But to map its true impact, you have to consider its music at city level. (NPR)
With their just-released album, MID AIR, Louie Pastel and Felix threw genre caution to the wind - giving way to one of the year’s greatest albums. Just please don’t call them “rap-rock". (Esquire)
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy? (Big Think)
Also! Minor Threat! Rites of Spring! Embrace! And…emo. (The Ringer)
Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground, playing in revered bands and recording albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana. He also often seemed determined to offend as many people as possible. What led him to reassess his past? (The Guardian)
After we saw a post by Tom Karangelov breaking down details of a spot in Orange County with supposed ties to Satanism, we got to digging. (Jenkem)
"I just think that with any capital city, Japan is the strongest with subculture. It feels like New York in the 80s. Every subculture is represented so well there." says Joshua Gordon in this interview with Paige Silveria, where the two discuss Gordon's current fetish-centered photography project, watching Korean Children Eat American Snacks, and his decision to leave the past behind. (032c)
Tria Giovan spent six years photographing the area of downtown Manhattan’s fights, feasts and family gatherings before gentrification changed it for good. (The Guardian)
Before TikTok, there was the Quilted Giraffe. (Grub Street)
There’s a thing us young-at-heart American folks do where we sit around and sentimentalise dead retail stores and defunct restaurant chains. (Bobby Hundreds via [SIC] Weekly)
