During the pandemic, art, culture and music were pretty much stuck in the detention room, the last things on the political agenda over here in the Benelux. The notion that it’s all just recreation, something elitist to help satisfy cheap hedonistic thrills is swiftly debunked yet again by the dynamic…

Ela Minus on “acts of rebellion” (The Extended Interview) No Longer Bored Photography by Juan Ortiz-Arenas Issue #68 — Japanese Breakfast and HAIM (The Protest Issue)

Today, more than any other day, I’m excited to write about Ought. That this excitement comes in the wake of the band’s recently announced breakup may be considered a bit, well, insensitive. …

Most people you pass on the street have learned to put up a front informed by their life experience: a default state that doesn’t show their true nature, their desire, or their innermost thoughts. But the truth is, it’s exactly that: a flimsy front. None of us have this thing…

The horrors of reality tend to eclipse whatever fictional horrors a person can dream up. Under their twisted outlaw alter egos Dark Mark and Skeleton Joe, Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone survey this notion with an infectious spirit of inquiry. Sonically, their synthpop-based debut album often calls to mind a…

Sometimes Zoom conversations with artists have a way of unintentionally demystifying their art. The rigid, clumsy means of trying to communicate through a computer screen miles apart, with faint glimpses of the subject’s homely surroundings, can have a sobering effect. …

“Martijn Tevel, Alicia Breton Ferrer and Sven Engelsman’s friendship started at high school in Spijkenisse, a suburban town just beyond the southwest corner of Rotterdam. It’s also the place where Erik de Jong (Spinvis) and Afrojack were born. When you bring up Spijkenisse around The Sweet Release of Death however…

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I imagine Chicago winters to be both majestic and merciless. Outside, from the windowpane of some warm sanctuary, everything is coated in gorgeous, glimmering pale white, even the darkest of night skies. Once you’re compelled to step outside, the bitter frostbite seizes your exposed nerves while thick cascades of snow…