‘The idea of a rock star is offensive’ – meet Shame, Britain’s most exciting new band. The shouty south Londoners write songs about politics, perverts, and their insecurities, and reject the laddism of the indie scene. But can they get big before...
Last week in Atlanta, Neville Brody announced “TCCC Unity: The New Typeface for Coca-Cola.” It may seem incredible that Brody, once the maestro behind The Faceand Fuse magazines and the emblematic types of the late 80s and early 90s is currently creating type for one...
For the 40th anniversary of DAF, a lavish biography of the electro band and its great era in the early eighties pays tribute. No, he is not a nostalgic, the Gabriel “Gabi” Delgado: “Unfortunately, it is unfortunately – I say sadly – that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yzrZfgQvI 40 years ago, David Bowie recorded “Heroes,” a song that tells the story of two lovers who embrace in a kiss by the Berlin Wall. How the song was recorded gets wonderfully retold by producer Tony Visconti, in a...
President Xi called on artists to promote socialism rather than be “slaves” to the market or chase popularity with “vulgarities.” China’s media regulators said “artists, film-makers, musicians and television personalities should spend time in rural areas to form a...
A$AP Rocky professes his love for Raf Simons. A$AP Rocky hasn’t been shy about his thing for Raf Simons. In his song “RAF,” an ode to the Belgian designer featuring Playboi Carti, Quavo, Lil Uzi Vert, and Frank Ocean, Rocky raps: “It’s rare Raf when I wear Raf, bare...
