“31 RUE CAMBON” ZINE

The Tom Sachs “31 Rue Cambon” prototype_ zine, featuring photography by Mario Sorrenti and text by Naomi Fry, is now available here.

JOSHUA GORDON X BEAMS T

Irish-born, London-based photographer and art director Joshua Gordon has collaborated with Beams T on a capsule collection to celebrate the release of his new book, when was the last time someone held your hand. 

Beams T Harajuku will be hosting a launch party and exhibition this Friday, October 9th.

NEW THAMES SHIELDS

The “Gentlemen & Assassins” prefect shields, part of THAMES MMXX’s tribute to lan Dury, are available to purchase here.

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When Culture Becomes “Content”

Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetised attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale? (The MIT Press Reader)

Here’s Where Media Insiders Actually Get Their News

There’s a glut of information, entertainment, and everything in between out there. We asked 10 media-savvy people – all experts in their respective fields – how they stay on top of it all. (CULTURED)

How BrooklynVegan Went From Indie Rock Blog to Ghost Site

It started as an internet outpost for die-hard music fans. Then came success. Then came corporate ownership. (NYT)

The Afterlives of Okayplayer

The story of a message board that changed hip-hop forever. (Hearing Things)

Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black Revisited 35 Years On

Public Enemy’s fourth album is often overlooked but it’s a true killer. (The Quietus)

How Johan Duncanson Made Peace With The Radio Dept.’s Pet Grief

Twenty years after The Radio Dept. left their second album behind with mixed feelings, Pet Grief is returning to vinyl as the band find a new generation of listeners. Johan Duncanson tells Jack Le Feuvre how he finally learned to hear the record differently. (The Line of Best Fit)

When Vampire Weekend Met Haruomi Hosono

The Japanese music legend talks art, AI and his latest album with super-fan Ezra Koenig. (FT)

That New 300SkullsAndCounting and Jenny Sparks Song Is Good, Actually

These XL Recordings signees are not the new Brokencyde – they’re way better. (The FADER)

RADIO RADIO with Blondey McCoy (Mixcloud)

Foreplaylist: Blondshell 

Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum writes some of the sharpest breakup songs you’ll hear these days. With her third album, Violins, newly out, she spent some time selecting what she calls the sexiest songs ever made. (Playboy)

Herb Sundays 197: JP Haynie (Actual Source)

The co-founder of publisher/design studio/brand Actual Source, shares music that inspires his own recordings plus taste, shame and Nirvana. (Herb Sundays)

Bottega Veneta Made Mark Leckey Hardcore

British artist Mark Leckey curated the soundtrack for Louise Trotter’s latest Bottega Veneta show, drawing on his iconic video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. (AnOther)

The Graffiti Artist Top Brands Call On for That ‘New York’ Look

If the city had a font, would his lettering be it? (NYT)

Nate Lowman With Dan Cameron

On the occasion of Lowman’s exhibition at David Zwirner, the artist met with Dan Cameron to discuss his early life in California, the stories behind some of his new paintings, and what it means to make an artwork not only as a tribute, but as a way of learning. (The Brooklyn Rail)

David Shrigley: “Very Strange, Figurative, Slushy, Squishy Paintings – I Love That Aesthetic”

Lotte Brundle meets the visual artist at his studio in Brighton. (Country Life)

Scenes From Angela Hill (toBe)

The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola 

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace. (New Yorker)

Penn, Before and After

Penn & Fashion traces Irving Penn’s fashion and beauty photography over more than six decades. (NYT)

Secret History of Colour: Yves Klein Blue

The ultimate IYKYK colour. (The Rose Period)

Fitzcarraldo – Inside the Chicest Publisher on Earth

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time. (FT) 

Annabelle Selldorf’s Guide to the Frick Collection

The architect tours the Gilded Age mansion after its $220mn revamp. (FT)

Alvaro Barrington Talks Taste

The artist on 2Pac, new boxer shorts and ‘old’ New York. (FT)

20 Years Later, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Back at Versailles

Once criticised for its modern soundtrack and pastel aesthetics, the director’s portrait of royal ennui is now being honoured in the chateau where it was filmed. (NYT)

Night Bloom

For over five decades, David Lynch called Los Angeles home. After his passing, the late auteur remains a fixture in the city. (Family Style)

In London, a New Flagship for Alex Eagle

The designer signed on to creative direct the whole of 180 the Thames, a new lifestyle hub on the north bank of the Thames. Then she moved her own business there. (NYT)

The Complicated Comfort of London’s Bus Garage Cafes

Only a few depot canteens are still open to the public – and they’re like a “hidden level in the video game of city life”. (Broadsheet London) 

Moods September 2026 (Moodmail)  

THE LIFT TOWER

For the short documentary The Lift Tower, director Jack Orton captures the meditative, repetitive, and skilled art of shoemaking, tracing the labor that shaped his family, who worked in Northampton’s factories. 

Shot at the Tricker’s factory in the town’s shoemaking district, the film offers a close examination of British heritage, industrial labor, and contemporary craft, unearthing parallel events and histories within the process.

More here.

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How to Enjoy Yourself on the Internet in 2026

From now on, I only want to recommend or be recommended to. (Side Projects)

The Opportunity of Anonymity

How forums, blogs and faceless archive pages gave outsiders a way into culture, and quietly changed who gets to shape it. (HIDDEN.RSRCH)

From Converse to Ed Sheeran, Let’s End These Tedious Apology Tours

Converse, Oxford United, and Ed Sheeran all got dragged through the same ritual for mistakes that were accidental or not even theirs. (ADWEEK)

I Used to Get Paid to Hang Out With Famous People

Notes on a (dying?) dream job. (Blackbird Spyplane)

When Jonny Met Katharine

Cover star Katharine Hamnett meets Sports Banger’s Jonny Banger to talk four decades of political fashion, protest, and why she’s still fighting. (i-D)

Oi Polloi, One of the World’s Best Menswear Stores, Is Back

And oh, how we’ve missed it. (Esquire)

Must Dressing for Tennis Be So… Literal?

Notions on taste, convention, and bringing the outside in. (Court Date)

Inside the Bag: The History of Yoshida & Co.

We take a look at Yoshida & Co., a Japanese bagmaking powerhouse known across the globe for its iconic Tanker bags and other accessories. (Heddels)

Service Projects Wants to Make Everyday Objects Better

From brushed stainless steel mugs to American-inspired diner cups, founder Philip Seerup is rethinking the objects we use every day. (Sprezza)

Inside the Plywood and Lego Chanel Boutique Created by New York Artist Tom Sachs (Vogue) 

Lock It In

Oftentimes the smallest objects have the greatest significance. For artist Nate Lowman, it matters where you look. (Family Style)

Arthur Jafa, Art’s Great Disrupter, Readies a ‘Big Bang’

“I Am Tony,” the artist’s largest museum survey to date, carries a powerful message about identity “forged in the holds of slave ships”. (NYT)

“It’s Weirdly Helpful to Get Lost Along the Way” – How to Make a Film With John Wilson

The director chats to It’s Nice That about his first feature film, The History of Concrete, and the process by which his comedic explorations of the banal become so beautiful. (It’s Nice That)

The Raw, Fledgling Intimacy of Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets

A new photobook highlights the process of the legendary queer photographer, and his process of growing into the artist he ultimately became. (Huck)

In the Swiss Alps, a Sprawling Chalet That Still Feels Cozy

For his first European project, the American designer Billy Cotton recast a home in Gstaad as a vibrant family retreat. (NYT)

An Evening at Chez Paul

Faced with a spare evening in Paris, we could think of nothing more suitable than a decadent and indulgent trip through French cuisine. (Drake’s)

Jago Rackham Wants His Food Wet and Juicy (Interview)

The Chris Black Questionnaire

On peptides in the film fridge, “Chris vitamins,” and the loneliness of Lanserhof. (Magasin)

Roxy’s Tales – Chrissie Miller: The Downtown Cool Girl of Y2K New York

“This week on Roxy’s Tales, we’re sitting down with Chrissie Miller. Founder of the Y2K-era clothing brand Sophomore and the very definition of downtown cool. Chrissie didn’t just participate in early 2000s New York fashion, music and nightlife; she helped build it. And it all started with a handful of cheeky graphic tees.” (Spotify)

These Photos Offer a Rare Glimpse Into Grime’s Early Days

Featuring red-eye flights with Wiley to clashes with Skepta, D Double E and Dizzee Rascal, photojournalist Jamie-James Medina unpacks his new photobook, Hate Is a Strong Word – and solves one of grime’s most enduring mysteries. (Dazed)

35 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory Revisited

Angus Batey revisits the history and lasting legacy of A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory. (The Quietus)

A History of Hip-Hop’s Obsession With Lean

An in-depth look into the past and present of rap’s favourite drug. (Hearing Things)

Deep Cuts: How One Londoner’s Fake Vinyl Empire Sheds Light on ‘Industrial Scale’ Fraud

Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings. (The Guardian)

Jacques Greene Picks Out His Sonic Inspirations (CLASH) 

Blondshell Works Out What She Wants by Saying It Out Loud

Three albums in as Blondshell, Sabrina Teitelbaum keeps transforming grievance into forgiveness, and handing some of the blame back to herself along the way. (The Line of Best Fit)

Chad Gilbert, New Found Glory’s Founding Guitarist, Dies Aged 45

Gilbert’s family says he died “peacefully in his sleep” months after ‘My Friends Over You’ musician shared stage four cancer diagnosis. (The Guardian)

PASSPORT

For the short documentary Passport, director Glenn Kitson explores Stone Island’s living archive and collector community, from London to Seoul. More here.

LEDBYHER – DIRTY RUMOURS

Featuring production by Clams Casino.

DENIM TEARS FROM THE POOL OF BLACK GENIUS

Tremaine Emory’s Denim Tears From the Pool of Black Genius is now on view until January 11th 2027 at the SCAD Museum of Art.

“Denim Tears founder and creative visionary Tremaine Emory highlights his sources of inspiration from the “Pool of Black Genius” featuring works by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Faith Ringgold and others from the SCAD Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection, as well as an extensive display of contemporary works by his collaborators and other artists he is in dialogue with, including Arthur Jafa, Hank Willis Thomas, David Hammons, and more, shown alongside his designs and works from his personal archive.”

“SHIRT LOOKS LIKE LAFFY TAFFY”

Absolute fire from The Pale Girls. Get yours here.

HATE IS A STRONG WORD

“Between 2003 and 2006, photographer Jamie-James Medina documented the emergence of a new era of music born in London, one that would go on to become the defining sound of a generation: grime. From early raves with Wiley and Skepta to scaling tower blocks for now iconic death-defying shots, Medina was always present to capture music history as it happened. 

Produced in collaboration with WePresent, Hate Is A Strong Word brings all his photos together for the first time, while an exclusive digital download of the book also includes essays by Wiley, Slimzee, Lethal Bizzle and Crazy Titch.”

More here.

POPEYE: THIS IS LONDON

The October 2026 edition of POPEYE magazine explores London’s new brands, shops, skate culture, South London jazz, music bars, fashion and everyday city life – all through POPEYE’s unmistakable “Magazine for City Boys” perspective. Available here.

KINGSLEY IFILL FOR HTSI

The HTSI autumn menswear special, photographed by Kingsley Ifill. More here.