"EIN JAHR (ES GEHT VORAN)."
Not as a revival act. Not as an archive sealed in glass. But as a living magazine—once born in club nights, Cold War Germany, oversized layouts and restless curiosity, now returning with the same appetite for culture in flux.
This is where fashion meets theory, where images argue with politics, where style is treated as a system rather than a surface. Where new work sits next to old instincts. Where rebellion has aged into something sharper.
ELASTEMGZN is not interested in trend reports.
It prefers aftershocks.
Essays, visual archives, manifestos, forgotten futures, and contemporary signals—all running in parallel. Past and present in conversation. No nostalgia. No obedience.
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...
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...
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.
Lotic is Using Their Voice
A candid conversation with the artist about their debut album, using their voice, and watching America from afar. One of many terrible things about technology is that it conflates connection and intimacy but J’Kerian Morgan, the...
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...
Aladdin Sane
A photograph from the photo session for David Bowie’s 1973 album Aladdin Sane has been gifted to the V&A as it announced record visitor figures for its world-touring David Bowie is exhibition. The V&A said on Wednesday that the...
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I was very optimistic when I was young
– now I'm the opposite'. The singer and songwriter has been curating the Meltdown festival, and is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years. But will it be fuelled by magic mushroom tea? The first thing Robert Smith does is...
Chemical X turns ecstasy into art.
He shot to national prominence with an artwork that depicted supermodel Cara Delevingne in an arrangement of 7,000 ecstasy pills. Now Chemical X, the anonymous artist credited with designing the Ministry of Sound logo, is revisiting...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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“Street Power”
Ho99o9 is pronounced horror, and no, the band is not demonic or satanic. “Most people are like, 'Isn’t that 666?' I’m like, 'It’s clearly a f---ing nine!'” said theOGM, who makes up the group with his bandmate, Eaddy. (Those are their...
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...
New York, New York
From Americana to Gen Z, this is the definitive guide to NYC style. https://youtu.be/tGzCFcx_90A