We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...

  At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...

In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”  In Sig...

Lucky it’s a small town Lucky coming home we got the same tram.All for a wave, beautiful.Back at the rave I waited a long time to talk to youThen we talkedShadow and light made a golden square that covered your left eyeIt was beautiful I asked for a photo and you declinedThen I felt fingernailssoft trace lines on my rightarm.Really niceHeightEyes Meet not far from being horizontally alignedYou ...

Huddled over chinese takeaway,overflowing bin a restless halo of tissues-you always used to call me angel.My food tastes like salt waterAnd I want to laugh at how stupid this is;you haven’t made me cry in a while.Grab at cold sheets, counting elephants andPushing my nose into the blanket So I can’t breathe for a minute. The reason I feel stupid is becauseI wish so badly that if I breathe in dee...

the body & mind. 

Famous man burning as a protest of war, and me cooking a marshmallow

The final days in the life of a Piñata, as told from the Piñata's perspective

The moon reflects it's light against his  skin Makes him seem so much more beautiful then he's every been So alive So breathtaking  It's the way his skin shines Full of life and a future that seems too far but it's alright Mama tells him that hard work and a little prayer would make everything seem clearer Make their futures come sooner Black boys look blue under the moon light As they lay on b...

With a rating of 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, “The Cat in the Hat” was released in 2004, based on the book of the same title by Dr Seuss. The original storyline is that a six-foot-tall anthropomorphic cat visits eight-year-old Sally and her brother during a period of wet-day boredom, and in the process of entertaining them completely wrecks their house. The siblings are dismayed, but everything is fi...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers, mentions of pedophilia, infidelity, suicide, drug use, and abuse. Disclaimer: This is strictly based on my opinion along with the thoughts of others. So, if you liked what happened in the show, then there’s nothing wrong with that. I personally did not. Greenleaf was a scripted primetime drama that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), following the l...

Instagram: @accelerator.jengoldThis track is off my new lo-fi EP out now on Spotify etc. I record all my tracks live using live-looping and hardware gear - check out my insta to see the process. Enjoy!Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3QPaGa38azrhWOBv2FTTRe?si=s-dCNcgASLGKtoZFvus7qA

The ‘Ode’, one of the most popular poetic verses, has its origins in Ancient Greece. The generic term ‘ode’ is derived from the Greek word ‘oide’ which referred to any poem that was to be formed into a song and sung in public. M.H Abrams defines the ode as “A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.” The steady rhythmi...

Indian society and culture largely still hold patriarchal roots. Though this is changing withtime, the progress is rather measured and moderate when it comes to mainstream Indiancinema. The most popular and recognised cinema in India and internationally, is the‘Bollywood’ or Hindi Film Industry. The portrayal of women and female led stories in thisindustry has mainly been regressive and dated,...

It is about the Turkish custom of the heart of a person and there is a spot a black spot at birth from in the womb where our soul our essence starts and where the purest of love resides it will stay with you and is there to the end when you die in that very spot Suveyda.

We were pretty impressed with the quality of submissions, but this one clinched it...

There is something about a man who carries around a prosthetic of his own head at a gala while dripping in Gucci. It’s not just me, is it?

This is the story of how I listened to this six-hour work in one sitting, and came closer to existential dread than I think I will ever want to. Ever.

For the record, I’m not saying Ed Sheeran is abhorrent. He’s fine. He plays an instrument. He does Glasto on his todd and has cool tricks with a pedal

Without him, part of hip hop’s journey to the mainstream wouldn’t have been as heartfelt or seductive...

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

Tumblr page Heavenly Wings & Heart reveals that one spouse tapped into their past lives and discovered they had two children with Hermes centuries ago

In Tyler, The Creator's sixth and probably most emblematic album, we are invited to hit the gas. We move forward in space, but backwards in time.

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...

Getting screwed by an artist never felt so pricey. But one day, you may find yourself somewhere special with someone who can’t get their hand off your junk. Neither can you. Kissing and blind, you hush them off with a grin. They stop. You know what they’re thinking. It’s the first time they’ve been at your place, but they’re really knowledgeable about you. Sometimes you achieve radical insigh...

 Female revenge narratives are no stranger to Hollywood, but their success is. In 2009, Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body was released and received poorly by audiences and critics alike. The film was first marketed as a sex-filled fantasy created for the male gaze, but its true message is far more complex than that. Jennifer’s Body is a scathing, metaphorical, social commentary on sexual assault, r...

My name is Mark Demuth and I am a Graphic Designer based in Manchester UK. I primarily work with vector-based graphics inspired by the blueprint of circuits and motherboards. I like creating work with a strong concept behind it, in this case, creating a blueprint of unity by bringing several elements/artists together to create a unique yet interesting body of work.  All designs can be re-dra...