The Sound & The Furry
Will Toledo is a furry. He came out onstage in Brooklyn, dressed as Mortis Jackrabbit, a gasmasked mammal with a coat like an old fox. His eyes glowed, plucked from a Fallout dream. Limbering up to ‘Bodys’, one of the best songs by his quite good band, Car Seat Headrest – and we can only assume with a smirk beneath the mask – he looked as if he was just getting used to himself at last. “Do yo...
What's The Deal With Hip Hop Sequels?
“Fast.” That’s how Eminem described the making of The Marshall Mathers LP 1 in 2013. He was on Big Tigger’s guest chair for another edition of Rap City, rap’s longest running hip hop TV show. Its jovial host, sitting forward with cue cards in his lap, asked Em for a single word on each of his albums – how he was feeling and how he may’ve laid it down. And he just says, “I almost didn’t feel in...
Opinion: How Fast Fashion is Destroying Our Planet
It’s fast because it is churned out to the lowest production quality with the cheapest methods at its heel. Countless trips to the fabric store with my grandmother as a child told me that good quality fabric does NOT come cheap.
Still Animal: Francis Bacon
Bacon in his studio, Jane Bown ,1985
On an airless white soundstage, shutters scream up. A man steps in. He walks with brass dignity, a hand in his pocket, wearing the colours and contours of Berlin; black turtleneck, grey blazer; mouth ajar, as always, like the eyes above it have found something tasty in a trap. Another man waits for him, suited, with the aspect of someone who would wait fore...
5 Artists Defending Ukrainian Identity
A screenshot from Marynka Dovhanych's animation. The blue symbols that double as the soldiers' eyes also double as the Ukrainian trident.The culture war between Russia and Ukraine has been playing out for decades. As always, one of the key battlefields is language. Russian was the de facto official language of the Soviet Union and it wasn’t until 1989 that Ukrainian was declared the official l...
The Rise of Analog Horror
Note: contains spoilers for web series Local58I hate opening with statistics – unless of course, they’re jaw-dropping. In its first month, a recent found footage video called The Backrooms hit a staggering 15M views after its upload to YouTube. That’s a reach of roughly half a million hits every day. And let’s bear in mind, this isn’t the latest drop from Ariana Grande, or MrBeast putting main...
