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These days, musicians releasing new music do so not only by putting out a new album, but also entering a new era, one defined by the clothes, colors, and ephemera deployed during the marketing rollout. With style, specifically, an artist’s outfits can speak to the state of mind they were in while making the music—and … Read more

The saga of Djin Djarin comes to Marvel Comics! Kicking off in July, Star Wars: The Mandalorian will be an eight-issue adaptation of the Disney+ series’ first season, giving fans a chance to relive the events and characters of Season 1 through the lens of writer Rodney Barnes and artist Georges Jeanty! From the thrilling … Read more

Save for the “doctor is ready now”, do any four words inspire more trepidation—and less excitement—than “cocktail attire for men”? (We’re exaggerating, but only a little.) At some point over the last decade or so, dress codes and the guidelines that informed them started to feel like a framework of the past. But complaining about … Read more

Issued on: 19/05/2022 – 18:58 Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning ‘Chariots of Fire’ was one of the best-known film scores of the 1980s, has died at the age of 79, the Athens News Agency said on Thursday. Citing an announcemet from his lawyers’ office, ANA said Vagelis died late on Tuesday, … Read more

I’m Bobby Hundreds. I’m the co-founder of The Hundreds. I always say I do a little bit of everything and a lot of nothing. And today, I’m gonna take you on a tour of my collection. [upbeat music] As a designer and as a writer, I’m most inspired by drawing upon emotions, and nostalgia, and … Read more

Issued on: 19/05/2022 – 17:01 We take a look at some of the independent features in the sidebar sections of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Olivia Salazar-Winspear tells us about Philippe Faucon’s “Les Harkis”, which is screening in the Director’s Fortnight selection. Set in 1959, it shines a light on the Algerian men who were … Read more

Spoilers for What If…? Hey y’all, I’m back, and I’ve got another licensed game review for you! You may remember that last year I took a look at the HeroClix set based on Marvel’s recent Empyre event. Well, we’re once again diving into the world of Marvel HeroClix but rather than the comics we’ll be … Read more

La Luz have today released a new single called ‘Endless Afternoon’. According to the band’s Shana Cleveland, the song is a “California lullaby. The melody for this song came to me while I was hiking in the hills above the Yuba River. About the sweetness found in slow days close to home.” Check it out … Read more

Few artists have anticipated, or precipitated, the fragmented, heroically individualist, and purposefully oppositional art of modernity as William Blake, a man to whom the cliché ahead of his time can be applied with perfect accuracy. Blake strenuously opposed the rationalist Deism and Neoclassical artistic values of his contemporaries, not only in principle, but in nearly every … Read more

I first started going back to Moscow, the city where I was born and which I left as a child, in the summer of 1995, when I was in college. I had never seen anything like it. There were guys on the street wearing leather jackets over tracksuits. There were old ladies on the street … Read more