The acclaimed critic of Downtown New York’s avant-garde, Tom Johnson, has died aged 85. (Crack)
Your Favourite Newsletter’s Favourite Newsletters
A chain-letter love note to an expanding multiverse. (Links I Would Gchat You if We Were Friends)
The Gamification of Pop Music
With the rise of streaming - and a fantasy football–style approach to chart analytics - fandoms are working the system for their favourite pop stars. (The Ringer)
Erol Alkan Marks 18 Years Since TRASH Closure With 2002 DJ Set Recording
The London DJ looks back on a decade of his iconic club night that propelled the electroclash sound to the top of the city's 2000s party scene.
(DJ Mag)
Cold Cave’s ‘Life Magazine’: A Haunting Tribute to Nostalgia
In 2007, the band Cold Cave wrote the song ‘Life Magazine’ shortly after learning that the iconic publication had ceased printing. “The notion that something called LIFE had died, after decades of being so iconic…was just too existential.” (LIFE)
Kate Bush With Geoff Campbell - The Eleven O'Clock Number
Geoff Campbell talks about Kate Bush's music in his own videos, alongside Nick Jensen in Eleventh Hour, in the first episode of a new series about the sleeve-notes of skate video soundtracks. (Skate Bylines)
Offerings: Gino Iannucci
We are excited to start our year off in the strongest way possible by publishing an “Offerings” interview with Gino Iannucci. It was a privilege to connect with someone who has long been an inspiration to all of us. Find out more about his selection and much more… (Slam City Skates)
Going to the Match - In the 1991/1992 season, photographer Richard Davis set out to understand how the sport’s supporters were changing, inadvertently capturing the end of an era. (Huck)
Don’t Call It a Gym. It’s a Sporting Club
Some fitness centres are trading in the minimalist industrial aesthetic for midcentury nostalgia and country-club preppiness. (NYT)
A Japanese Oasis Grows in Brooklyn
At Chowa Library with Ray Suzuki and Yudai Kanayama, the friends behind a radical new approach to design, craft and not being on your phone.
(Drake's)
Five Fits With: Porches, Who Likes to Express Himself “Almost Too Much”
“The clothes and the fashion and the music, they’re sort of inseparable,” says the New York–based songwriter. (Esquire)
How do you follow up a couple best-selling books? If you’re Patrick Radden Keefe, you star in a J.Crew ad. (NYT)
