Black Fondu – Explosive forthcoming EP ‘Blackfonduism’
BLACK FONDU doesn’t want to be your next genre-blender. He’s not “the future of British rap” or “London’s latest export.” He’s just BLACK FONDU — 21, Accra-born, Peckham-based, and operating somewhere between chaos and control. His new video, “holla back girl”, is all...
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac: imagination at full volume
This winter, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse turns technicolor. Beneath its industrial arches, banners sway like pop flags — printed, cut, stretched, loud. It’s Imagination at Work, a full-blown celebration of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, the fashion rebel who’s been...
‘Birkenhead Day of the Dead’ Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond
Next month, in Birkenhead Park — a Victorian green space best known for its ducks, dog walkers, and architectural influence on Central Park — a small crowd will assemble to build a pyramid out of human ashes. The occasion, called The Birkenhead Day of the Dead:...
‘GAME’: rave-soaked thriller starring Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson
Invada Records, the Bristol label founded by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and known for its darkly cinematic soundtracks to cult favourites like Ex Machina, Drive and Stranger Things, is stepping into a new world. This November, Invada Films makes its feature debut with...
Sébastien Tellier releases album ‘Kiss The Beast’
For more than two decades, Sébastien Tellier has stood at the crossroads of sincerity and spectacle. With his long hair, beard, and tinted glasses, he looks like a mystic misplaced in pop culture—a figure both in on the joke and utterly devoted to it. Well, now he's...
Haderlump label – carving out a piece of Berlin
Since its inception, HADERLUMP has carved out a distinctive place within Berlin’s fashion landscape—raw, cerebral, and deeply human. Under the creative direction of Johann Ehrhardt, the label treats clothing as a language of movement and identity, translating emotion...
Roxana Savin ‘On Heaven’s Doorsill’ book
In On Heaven’s Doorsill, Roxana Savin turns her lens toward the porous edge between the living and the dead — a threshold she has known, in one way or another, since childhood. The Romanian-born artist’s new photographic series and monograph emerge from a deeply...
‘Still Pushing Pineapples’ film – the world of ‘Agadoo’
You’ve been good. You’ve kept your alcohol level low. No embarrassing mishaps, no incidents to regret in the morning. You ease off the pedal. A large whisky—why not? Then it happens: the unmistakable, faintly sinister opening bars of “Agadoo.” Before you can protest,...
The Illustrated Woman by Howard Schatz
It is easy to create (make something that has never existed before) anything, including photographs. It is next to impossible to create miracles. I work hours striving to develop images that surprise and delight……me. I fail almost all the time. However, by tenaciously...
Thee Marloes release ‘What’s On Your Mind’
Gentle soul that’s got the game in a chokehold — and Thee Marloes aren’t loosening their grip anytime soon. Fresh off wrapping summer in the silken sway of “I’d Be Lost,” the Indonesian trio return with “What’s On Your Mind,” a smoky, slow-burning confession that...
Drawing a line under torture – Art Auction
Later this month, an unusual art auction opens online. There will be no packed sale rooms or raised paddles—just two weeks of quiet bidding for works that carry a different kind of weight. The event, Drawing A Line Under Torture, is organized by the British charity...
David Lynch: Up In Flames – The Exhibition
Diving into the creative world of David Lynch, the Up in Flames exhibition showcases his drawings, photography, lithographs, watercolours, and a mix of short experimental and animated films. Opening in Prague in June, it will give visitors a chance to explore his work...
BEX says the angry part out loud with new single ‘silence’
It's biting. It's cutting. Nice cheekiness to the lyrics too. BEX seems like a girl you would mess with at your peril. This track really hits into your skull no doubt about that. Nu-punk powerhouse BEX wraps up a huge year with her final release of 2025: ‘silence’....
A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE & Artist Eugene Kangawa
Japanese artist Eugene Kangawa (b. 1989) and A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE unveil a new collaborative project born from a three-year creative exchange between Kangawa and designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae and his team. The partnership began when Miyamae saw Kangawa’s Light and...
Tessa Boffin – ‘horny daydreams and tattered photographs’ – new book
“If we choose to forget the role transgressive fantasies play in shaping sexual identities, we leave our sense of selves and our imagery wanting. Maybe it is time to remember how we model ourselves on horny daydreams and tattered photographs.” — Tessa Boffin In the...