Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Friday, 24 November 2023
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How Palace Took Over the World
Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis have taken Palace Skateboards from a UK streetwear brand to a global phenomenon that counts Gucci and Formula 1 among its many collaborators. (GQ)
At 40, J.Crew Shakes Off a Midlife Crisis
After four decades of business and filing for bankruptcy in 2020, the American retailer is hoping for a renaissance. (NYT)
Nicole McLaughlin, Queen of Mocs
In an exclusive interview, the superstar up-cycler and designer tells Hypebeast about the full-circle nature of her “MocLaughlin” collection with Merrell 1TRL, her thoughts on sustainability, and her dad’s favourite sneakers. (Hypebeast)
Fits & Flows; How Tyler, the Creator Challenges Music and Fashion
We’re watching and celebrating the progression of Tyler, the Creator as an artist, musician, and fashion icon. (okayplayer)
Today marks 16 years since the Jodie Aysha-featuring bassline smash was officially released. Here, we get the in-depth backstory on how T2’s platinum-selling national treasure came to light. (Complex)
She's the best pop star on the planet: a rage-soundtracking, youth-code cracking, confidence-power packing backdrop to a million teenage lives. And jaw-droppingly, brilliantly, excitingly, the 20-year-old is just getting started. (The Face)
The legendary American photographer talks about shooting Olivia Rodrigo for our cover, how he once failed at being a monk and not naming the chickens on his farm. (The Face)
Edward Colver: Punk’s Most Beloved Photographer
In the early 80’s, when American Hardcore Punk began to take off in Southern California, photographer Edward Colver was attending live performances five nights a week while documenting the most iconic bands from the movement. (Monster Children)
How Futura Changed the Art World
On his birthday, the artist looks back at his singular journey from graffiti writer to industry game-changer. (i-D)
Sports figures are increasingly becoming serious collectors, helping drive interest in contemporary art and particularly in artists of colour. (NYT)
What Andrew Kuo Can’t Live Without
We asked artist Andrew Kuo, co-host of the podcast Cookies Hoops and co-author of The Joy of Basketball, about the induction burner that replaced his gas stove, the insoles that keep his feet fresh, and the stationary bike he credits with saving his life. (The Strategist)
If your only idea of a restaurant is as somewhere you enter, eat some food, and leave full, you’re missing the point. (Family Style)
“I don’t think I’ve ever left a fashion dinner being like, Wow, I just had a great meal.” (GQ)
In the '90s, John F. Kennedy Jr. founded and edited a revolutionary magazine called George, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it folly – or a glimpse of the Trumpian future? (Esquire)
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
MIKE TYSON
(Via Infinite Archives)
Friday, 17 November 2023
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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)
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
DIPSET: POWER IN NUMBERS
Monday, 13 November 2023
Friday, 10 November 2023
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How to wear cool clothes in unpopping places. (Blackbird Spyplane)
The podcast duo who have become tastemakers for a certain genre of extremely online, tapped-in people around the world give us their thoughts on the lucky country. (GQ)
A Pop of Colour, Bucket Lists, Puglia: Nicky Haslam’s Snarky Annual Tea Towel Is Back
It's the most wonderful time of the year. (Evening Standard)
The indie singer-songwriter on her favourite New York restaurant, Dave Chappelle on top form, and Tracey Emin up close. (The Guardian)
A Chance to See Daniel Arnold’s New York Life on Gallery Walls
Attuned to moments in the city that many fail to notice, Daniel Arnold documents the personalities who rush, stumble, and idle through every sidewalk, subway, bodega, park, beach, and ferry throughout the five boroughs. (Juxtapoz)
Photographing the Modern-Day Dolce Vita
In Sam Youkilis’ debut book, Somewhere, the photographer dials up the realness of everyday Italians in all their bronzed glory. (The Face)
The young London artist on painting the world around him. (Drake’s)
Notes on a painter. (Drake’s)
A Graphic Wizardry Journey With Will Bankhead
Will Bankhead is a name you probably already know and love. Head honcho of record/clothing label The Trilogy Tapes, DJ, designer and photographer for James Lavelle's record label Mo’Wax, co-founder (with Joy Orbison) of record label Hinge Finger, ex-sponsored skater for Slam City Skates, designer for Palace from the get-go, etc, etc. (Goodhood)
Faye Webster and Her Brother Luke on Creating Art With Your Family
The brother and sister duo talk their favourite Lorem artists, childhood memories and what it’s like working with your sibling. (Dazed)
Croaking Frogs, Buzzing Hornets, Squealing Dolphins: A Guide to Smithsonian Folkways’ Best Science and Nature Recordings
Celebrating the storied label’s 75th year with nine of their most unusual non-musical albums. (Pitchfork)
Talking to the band about their new album and the ones that shaped us. (Monster Children)
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place Turns 20 (Stereogum)
P‑rallel Is Fanning the Flames of London Club Culture
The Face speaks to the DJ/producer about his Movement mixtape and dance music’s multicultural legacy. (The Face)
The legend of DJ Kenn is a story of sheer fate. (sabukaru)
How Priscilla Made the Sickest Soundtrack of the Year – Without Any Elvis Songs
Thomas Mars of Phoenix talks to GQ about doing the music for wife Sofia Coppola’s latest film, and shares his favourite movie needle drops of all time. (GQ)
Sofia Coppola’s Best Needle Drops
Hear songs that memorably accompanied scenes in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Priscilla and more. (NYT)
Harmony Korine – An Unstructured Reflection of Life
For decades, the art of film has largely been bound to conventional structures, be it character or plot. One director who sought to completely disrupt this was Harmony Korine. (GATA)
Imagining the interior lives of those maligned, cancelled, and spurned, Emma Cline’s work as a writer is free of simplistic moralising, instead interested in the stories we all tell ourselves and how we create our own personal delusions. With her recently released second novel, The Guest, she delivers an already-classic exploration of class neurosis in late capitalist America. (KALEIDOSCOPE)
Amid historic disruption in the publishing industry, big questions are – rightfully – being asked. Here, experts weigh in on how books (and the ways we discover them) are going to change. (Esquire)
Is the Concept of Genres Deteriorating?
It's impact on culture. (Tower Records)
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
PENGUIN DONKEY
Publisher Allen Lane was an early fan of the design and since it was apparent that the shelves were perfectly sized to accommodate the newly launched, distinctive orange Penguin paperbacks, the Donkey was rechristened the Penguin Donkey.
The Penguin Donkey was launched just as World War Two broke out, with around 100 manufactured and sold before production ceased as a result of the war. Now reissued by Isokon Plus, this characterful design icon enjoys an enduring appeal.
(Via Atelier Éditions)
Monday, 6 November 2023
Saturday, 4 November 2023
Friday, 3 November 2023
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Jerks™ is the London-based vintage platform unearthing secondhand gems, tees and memorabilia from your favourite artists’ decades-old merch drops. (Crack)
The Rise of the Upmarket Greasy Spoon
Norman’s Cafe in London, the one that started it all, has led to new-age caffs cropping up around the country. Are they caricaturing working class culture or a giving a welcome spin on classic British food? (The Face)
Can You Get Good New York Bagels – In London? Mr Dan Martensen Says Yes
Barely open a New York minute and It’s Bagels has Londoners queuing around the block to sample its indelibly NYC menu of bagels, schmears, smoked fish and deli salads – which is wild. More so as it’s the brainchild of in-demand fashion and documentary photographer, Mr Dan Martensen. (Mr Porter)
With clothes inspired by Martha Stewart, heritage tools and colourful clogs, the couple behind Gardenheir cater to actual and want-to-be gardeners alike. (NYT)
A new exhibition highlights the images that saw the legendary “author photographer” elevate photojournalism to new heights. (Huck)
In the quest to preserve history, I'm far from the only one passionate about the past. (URB)
The Return of Anti-Matter, ’90s Hardcore’s Most Influential (and Emotional) Zine
Texas Is the Reason guitarist Norman Brannon on why he revived his beloved fanzine as a Substack. (Pitchfork)
Natasha Stagg on Gatekeeping, NYC Supremacy, and the Decline of Criticism
“People used to say, ‘Everyone’s a critic.’ Now, no one’s a critic,” the writer tells GQ columnist Chris Black. (GQ)
The Brooklyn-based artist is finding creative independence in making new cultural artefacts that relate to personal style, identity, and the era of self-commodification. (Byline)
Efron Danzig and Kade Holt on Making Art and Being Best Amis
They met in the City of Brotherly Love – here’s how their friendship has stood the test of time. (SSENSE)
Monday, 23 October 2023
ARPANET LOGICAL MAP, 1973
(Via Noah Johnson)
Friday, 20 October 2023
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In the mid-aughts, Justin R. Saunders pioneered the internet mood board: an endless scroll of aspirational images that helped define (and democratize) cool for an entire generation. And then he set about turning his discerning eye into a very 21st-century sort of clothing brand. (GQ)
Instead of ‘grindset’ guidance, the booming “bi-coastal elite” podcast excels in sh*t-talking with guests like Charli XCX, Mark Ronson and Bret Easton Ellis. (Hypebeast)
As writer and podcast host Chris Black tells it, he sits at the heart of American culture. “The bridge between the high and the low; the very high and the very low.” This is a very good – and often entertaining – place to live, and in this episode we get to know Chris a bit better through his particular takes on restaurant culture, home cooking, cookbooks, and the two cities he spends the most time in: New York and Los Angeles. (TASTE)
Our resident foodie and writer, Jayson Buford, weighs in. (Byline)
The celebrity chronicler is working to bring back R.O.M.E., his dishy zine of pre-internet New York. (NYT)
Founder and creative director Carter Altman is bringing “flyover state” workwear to London – and he’s setting up base camp in the UK. (GQ)
The Lo Lifes: The Hip-Hop Shoplifters Who Birthed Street Culture
In this excerpt from Fashion Killa, Sowmya Krishnamurthy remembers the pioneers that made Polo Ralph Lauren hip-hop’s favourite brand. (VICE)
Artist Series: StorageBased
Designer, curator, illustrator are some of the titles you can share that describe Storagebased founder and New York native, Denzel Simmons. Born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Denzel has established himself within the New York fashion scene as a go-to curator and designer for all things authentically early ‘90s to late ‘00s. (Only NY)
Sports Banger: “T‑Shirts Don’t Change the World but They’re a Good Start”
From “Free Tulisa” to “Fuck Boris”, Sports Bangers tees have always said what we're all thinking. As the brand turns 10, its founder Jonny Banger has released a book recounting its accidental rise to fashion week, via cease and desist letters from the Tories. (The Face)
Censoring Black Literature: Six Banned Books You Won’t Find in Classrooms
Thurston Moore’s Electrifying History Lesson
As we kick off Banned Books Week, here are a few banned books by Black authors that you can pick up to “Let Freedom Read”. (okayplayer)
He helped change the trajectory of rock music with Sonic Youth. But in his new memoir, Sonic Life, he’d rather talk about the musicians who enriched his world. (NYT)
Compton Rap Duo Paris Texas Are Making Movies and Filling Mosh Pits
Ahead of their London show, they tell us about cinematic ambitions, boring studio sessions and embracing UK culture. (i-D)
Dion “No ID” Wilson has made headline-grabbing music with some of the most famous rappers in the world, but you might not know who he is, and he’s fine with that. “I’ve always shunned a lot of things in my life as far as the limelight” he says. (Stereogum)
October Radio + Mood (Corridor)
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Friday, 13 October 2023
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Juxtapoz Presents takes a look back at Public Discourse on its 20-year anniversary. The groundbreaking film was one of the first to take an in-depth look at the illegal installation art movement that would become internationally known as “Street Art”. (Juxtapoz)
In this excerpt from his new memoir, Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, remembers life in Alphabet City, 1978. (Esquire)
A book that Chris Black wrote in 2015 is making the rounds on TikTok, thanks to a British influencer. I Know You Think You Know It All was originally geared towards the guy who’s easily swayed, not quite discerning, and delusional about his own impact. (East Room)
Yasi Salek is a podcaster and writer. She is the creator, host, and executive producer of two shows on the Ringer network: Bandsplain, a deep dive into an artist’s entire history and discography, and 24 Question Party People, an interview show. She lives in Los Angeles. (The Creative Independent)
Herb Sundays 93: Sami Reiss
Vintage furniture finder and design / health writer brings the goods. (Herb Sundays)
Zadie Smith Hats, Fellini Tops: The Rise of Litcore
Cerebral types are wearing their literary and cinematic pretensions on their sleeves, quite literally. (The Guardian)
It's refined. It’s exclusive. It’s... not real? (Tone of Voice)
The Meme Accounts That Came to Define London Culture
In an era where we turn to social media for nearly all our information, meme accounts have become local message boards for young Londoners. (Evening Standard)
An evening stroll in Tokyo with the British-Jamaican artist. (VICE)
“This Album Is Actually the Self”
Jonny Pierce’s incredible new record is one of hurt, joy, love, abuse, trauma, gentleness, isolation, transcendence. (Hero)
A dreamy, gauzy reflection on the summer past, from Maara to Mazzy Star. (Resident Advisor)
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Friday, 6 October 2023
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The art business can be unpredictable, especially in New York. We asked several art dealers how they stay afloat – and how much it costs to do so. (NYT)
From Jackson Pollock’s solo debut to Philip Guston’s recent retrospective, a look at the exhibitions that have shaped the city’s art scene and the culture at large. (NYT)
A Spike Lee Joint via Movie Posters and Sports Jerseys
Lee, the director of Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X, provided more than 400 items for a Brooklyn Museum exhibition. (NYT)
US Senior Director, Courtney Willis Blair, curates a powerful inaugural exhibition. (Cool Hunting)
The Global Poster Gallery will feature work from London Transport Museum’s collection of around 1,000 original artworks and 30,000 posters, as well as loans from external archives. (It's Nice That)
The former football casual who had been up in court three times found an escape in art and the YBAs. He talks about his new work – about seaside towns and funfairs – and a group show imagining the near future. (The Guardian)
“There's a greater chance of feeling irrelevant if you get what you think you want,” says Hundley, who talked to GQ columnist Chris Black about making “dumb art” and staying out until six a.m. in his 50s. (GQ)
On My Radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Cultural Highlights
The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviar. (The Guardian)
Mike Skinner on Making a Film – and the First Streets Album in a Decade
The era-defining rapper and producer has spent the last ten years making his first feature film, The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light, almost entirely by himself. He discusses creativity, avoiding musical nostalgia – and why he loves the National Trust. (The Guardian)
The 100 Best Drake Songs
In advance of Drake’s eighth album, For All The Dogs, these are his best songs (so far), from ‘TSU’ to ‘Tuscan Leather’ and ‘Crew Love’ to ‘Controlla’. (The FADER)
Top Boy’s Style Legacy – How It Mastered London’s Street Uniform
Getting streetwear spot on was essential to the show’s authenticity. Hayley Spencer speaks to the stylists and obsessives to uncover the real-world impact of its aesthetic. (Evening Standard)
If You’re Talking About His Hair, This N.B.A. Star Is Winning
Jimmy Butler’s emo persona was as short-lived as it was spectacular. Regardless of his motivation, it kept the Miami Heat’s media day decidedly off-topic. (NYT)
The Culinary Collective Disrupting the Scene and Building Community
Bronx-born Ghetto Gastro talk about their new cookbook and the power of food to transform lives, create political discussion, and nourish communities. (Huck)
How Long Gone Partner up With Pacific Tote Company for Bag and Pouch Collaboration
The cult podcast presents an all-new Big Sur Tote and Zuma Pouch designed for everyday, on-the-go use. (Hypebeast)
How Do You Describe Are.na at a Party?
Are.na co-founder Charles Broskoski and editorial director Meg Miller make a case for using the tool to hack creativity and conversation. (Byline)
Monday, 2 October 2023
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