Post Punk Pop Style Magazine
Fashioning The 8ties
The Streets, Ateliers et Séances de TravailSniffin' Glue
THE MAKING of ELASTEDINNER WITH ANDY
The King of Pop Art, our biggest inspiration, and the most enormous influence in contemporary art were coming to visit the Hinterland.
ALWAYS BE SKEPTICAL ABOUT SIMPLICITY
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Ping Pong With the Rolling Stones (Deutsch)Hero For One Day
Fool For a Life TimeP.L.O.
REBEL REBEL
VISIONS OF CHINA
Looking for the Thin White Duke
Joi Trouvé
DA DA DASounds and Vision
We are the Goon Squad and we're Coming to Town.
THE GERMAN DAYS
LOC/SHT
The Good, The Beds, The Ugly.
Ping Pong mit den Rolling Stones
Ping Pong mit den Rolling Stones„Ah, ein Konzert... Ach, die Stones... Okay, wir geh’n aber echt nur hin, wenn wir Pressekarten kriegen.“ – Als die Rolling Stones 1982 auf der Tour zum „Tattoo- You“ Album nach Hannover kommen, ist die Originalbesetzung von ELASTE...
Dinner With Andy
The ELASTE squad had two icons who stood the test of time: Andy Warhol and David Bowie. The King of Pop Art, our biggest inspiration, and the most enormous influence in contemporary art were coming to visit the Hinterland. Thomas loved his silkscreen prints...
Kraftwerk: Their 30 Greatest Songs, Ranked!
From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded. Kraftwerk in 1978, with the late Florian Schneider second from right. Photograph: Kraftwerk/Redferns 30. Expo 2000...
Depeche Mode before they were Depeche Mode
After their 1986 album Black Celebration, new wave legends Depeche Mode fully committed to being the most gloriously gloomy band next to The Cure to appear on stadium stages. Earnest pleas for tolerance like “People are...
STUMM433
Daniel Miller on Mute Records and his latest most ambitious project STUMM433. In 1978 in London the young musician by the name Daniel Miller recorded two songs, “T.V.O.D.” and “Warm Leatherette” under the moniker The Normal. He knocked on the door of Rough Trade...
“You know what I wouldn’t do? Launch another style, fashion or music magazine. If I see another independent magazine that is desperate for a Prada ad in it… please. Why? I love that the fashion industry has supported the new talent, but it seems to me that right now...
Two Scratchers, Beef Jerky, and a Power Ball
A rapper doing jazz, a rocker doing rap, a trumpeter doing electric guitar. There are no rules in the musical realm of trumpeter-turned-rapper Pan Amsterdam. After a persona shrouded in mystery, he revealed his true...
Keith Flint: RIP The Orginal Firestarter
By gleefully escalating the moral panic around British dance culture, Keith Flint, the Prodigy frontman showed that rave could be the true successor to rock’n’roll. With his punk aesthetic of piercings, spiked hair and intense stare, Flint became one of the UK’s most...
Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
While past studies have suggested that there is a link between creativity and fame, Ingram and Banerjee found, in contrast, that there was no such correlation for these artists. Rather, artists with a large and diverse network of contacts were most likely to be...
Of course we’re fucking relevant
Andy Warhol on Junk Food, Coca-Cola, Drugs, Painting, and God
by Christian Wegner This interview was conducted at the third Factory, at 860 Broadway, in June 1977. It took 90 minutes — or the time of one full tape. I had thoughts about some of the questions, but mostly the interview was improvised. Andy was really on that day....
Internationalists
If you believe you have an equal share In the whole wide world and all it bears An' that your share is no less or more than Your fellow sisters and brother man Then take this knowledge and with it insist Declare yourself - an...
Poundshop Kardashians
I drink and watch the zoo in motion Beautiful people devoid of emotion Sterilized, pedicured, pedigrees and mankind Thick as fuck and soulless And no longer fear genocide It’s gonna end from what I reckon As I puke my guts...
Ghosts Don’t Walk in Straight Lines
Opening next Thursday at Red Hook Labs in New York, “Ghosts Don’t Walk in Straight Lines” is a chronicle of the artist and model Saskia de Brauw’s slow, southward amble from Manhattan’s 225th Street to Battery Park over the course of a single day in May 2015. The...
A Very Los Angeles Welcome
Since leaving his native Australia in 1980, the musician Nick Cave has made his home in many cities, from London to Berlin to Brighton. But perhaps nowhere does his lushly dark aesthetic make more sense than in Los Angeles, where he now often spends time with his...
ST. VINCENT
'Savior (piano version)' performed live at The Belasco in Los Angeles with pianist Thomas Bartlett.
Love is Magic
A silly, smutty slice of arch brilliance that also makes room for quiet introspection, John Grant, the American musicians's fourth album is an accomplished balancing act. An epic of squelching synthesisers and breathlessly far-ranging lyrics – touching on everything...
Jenny Holzer on the Power of the Word in Art
As her work goes on display as part of a new group show, the provocative artist reflects on a career making the written word an art form. In the beginning was the word, and the word was art – though rarely do we conflate the two. Image and text are largely considered...
David Bowie’s first demo track discovered in old bread basket.
Long before Aladdin Sane or Ziggy Stardust, a skinny 16-year-old with ambitions to be a saxophonist agreed to do lead vocals on a demo track, in a small studio in south London. Now the only known recording of the resulting session, with David Bowie singing I Never...
The Man Who Fell to Earth
It was Bowie’s most celebrated film – and photographer David James was on hand to capture the star at his intimate and engaging best.
Kraftwerk Drawings by Yosuke Kawamura
Kawamura became a leading force in the alternative movement known as “hetauma” (so bad that it’s good), which came to exert a powerful influence on the history of illustrative art, and he attracted widespread attention with his abundant output of works. He has been...
Joy As An Act of Resistance
Idles: Angular rage from Britain's most necessary band. Life at the sharp end … Idles Pop music takes us to some wonderful places in 2018 but, Sleaford Mods aside, doesn’t often reflect the sharp end of austerity, post-referendum Britain. But, 18 months after their...
Smoking on Airplanes
Madonna Revisited
In 1985, Madonna, on the precipice of stardom, chose to be interviewed by her friend, character actor Harry Dean Stanton, about her angsty childhood and her biggest influences. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone entered a new phase of life this summer when she married –...
New York City. 1981-1983: 36 Months That Changed the Culture
“Decades are like people,” writes Frank Bruni in his opening essay for T’s Culture issue. “Some take up more oxygen than others. The 1980s were that way, most notably at the start and especially in New York City … People lived louder and larger than they had just...
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Did dystopian science fiction and postmodern theory simply predict the decay of reality, or actually cause it? Lost in “the desert of the real” with Donald Trump: We all took the red pill, right? “Welcome to the desert of the real,” Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)...
David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia
His new album, “American Utopia,” portrays “the state of the country: who we are, who we hope to be, all this kind of thing.” David Byrne’s first album since 2012, “American Utopia,” explores “the state of the country: who we are, who we hope to be, all this kind of...
COOL BLEIBEN
Against All Logic
Nicolas Jaar’s latest official release was 2016’s Sirens, an ambitious and often song-oriented album that incorporated elements of avant-garde classical music and Suicide-style synth-punk. But the producer and composer has an omnivorous musical appetite, and recently...
New York, New York
From Americana to Gen Z, this is the definitive guide to NYC style. https://youtu.be/tGzCFcx_90A
Reasons to Be Cheerful
David Byrne: ‘I’m able to talk in a social group now. At 65, the phenomenally creative David Byrne is still rock’s renaissance man. As he launches his first solo album in 14 years, he reveals why he’s started collecting reasons to be cheerful. The first time David...
Important Listening
I compiled this non-definitive list of albums that young people should check out. A light education, a starter kit, a history lesson - not available on Soundcloud or Bandcamp. If you are older, add to this list and pass it along. If you are younger, put your AirPods...
Takashi Murakami & Virgil Abloh – ‘Future History’ @ Gagosian (London)
Coinciding with London Fashion Week 2018, Gagosian presents “future history,” collaborative works by Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh. Working together in Murakami’s Tokyo studio, Murakami and Abloh have produced a unique series of works in which their styles and...
China’s Youth Breaking
Through The Great Firewall. In the latest installment of Global Street Style, i-D gets to know Shanghai's bold new generation of artists, designers and musicians working their way around China's Great Firewall. With a strong focus on nurturing local sounds and...
CLUBBED
Rick Banks compiles a visual history of UK club culture Manchester-based designer Rick Banks has compiled three decade's worth of nightclub graphics into a new book. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out five of the most important examples and explains why they were so...
“Draw the Raised Bridge”
Redescovered artwork by Banksy. Hull, England.
Ma' Ma' Raschplatz Da
Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt, liegt meist ein kleines Kärtchen in meinem Flur. So auch diesmal »Basement« Hannover Raschplatz. Eröffnung Freitag 12.6.81 22h. Knapp am dreizehnten vorbei, dachte ich und lenkte meinen Wagen einige Tage später durch die trostlose Gegend hinter dem Bahnhof. Beinahe am Ziel angelangt ging ́s dann auch noch in den Keller. Gleißende Leuchtstoffröhren, Pirelli Gummi auf dem Boden, die Decke unverkleidet, hier und da ein bißchen Chrom. Der erste Blick signalisiert, hier wollte jemand der Café– und Diskothekenszene mit ihren pastellfarbigen, schimmernden Barocktempeln eine Ohrfeige verpassen.“
