For anyone seeking to understand grime music's roots, it's an essential listen, and for everyone else, it's still one of the rawest hours of bars you're ever likely to hear. Pardon the photoshopped album cover... (TRENCH)
Rob Harvilla, ‘90s Authority, Picks the Best Rock Year of the '90s
In a Q&A, the podcast host and 60 Songs That Explain the '90s author talks about context collapse, shoplifting, what we as a society owe Britney Spears, and the improbable cultural endurance of Weezer. (GQ)
Slowdive: How Gen Z Became Obsessed With the 90s Shoegaze Legends
With sold out tours, their first Top 10 album and legions of new teenage fans, we find out what’s behind this surprising and overdue renaissance - 34 years after they originally formed. (Evening Standard)
Our Merch, Ourselves
What do the bands and brands whose merchandise we buy say about who we are and what we value? (NYT)
The Black Album Turns 20 (Stereogum)
Cam’ron and Ma$e: How Two Rap Legends Became Us Sports’ Unlikely Hit
The Harlem rap vets behind It Is What It Is are breathing fresh life into a hoary format with their chemistry, editorial freedom and unpredictability.
(The Guardian)
Metalwood Studio is an ode to golf in the ‘90s and some of the early 2000s - the technology boom is just starting to happen. Metalwood looks to engage with their visitors by creating a nostalgic wormhole via a collection that includes vintage-inspired clothing, accessories and golf equipment.
(Supply)
Chris Luu Turned a Barrier Into a Bag
We spoke to Chris Luu, who recently took the novel (and very skaterly) idea of producing a small-scale replica of a traffic barrier that doubles as a handbag and really, actually, legitimately made it happen. (Village Psychic)
Swedish Craft Companies Playing the Long Game: Svenskt Tenn and Märta Måås Fjetterström (Permanent Style)
The Very Stealthy Success of The Row
An exclusive interview with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. (FT)
For 25 years, Sofia Coppola’s films have served as a stylistic manual for how to be sad, or at least disaffected, in our modern age. (NYT)
An exhibition at Gagosian in London unearths a deathly yet exultant quality in the artist’s early photographic works. (Frieze)
The Revue: Jonny Gent
Our latest Revue, starring the painter, restaurateur and Renaissance man, Jonny Gent. (Drake's)
