In December of 1991, I was asked to do a photoshoot with Henry Rollins for SPIN. The majority, if not all, the photos I had seen of Henry had presented that intensity and punk-like rage he was known for. I planned to capture images that went beyond that facade while remaining true to the Rollins […]
Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren’t even born then! Not only has the advent of digital releases made more music available, but it has also made keeping up (whatever that means these days) increasingly impossible. So regard the following 40 recommendations as mini-subsurface maps and drill accordingly! […]
As always, this year’s Miami Art Week, brought the convergence of global art fairs, cultural events, brand activations, and late-night bacchanals that transform the city into an around-the-clock cultural ecosystem. The 2025 edition brought together creatives and tastemakers across art, fashion, music, culture, gastronomy, and nightlife. The week began on a softer frequency with two […]
For all of the much-needed weirdo adrenaline and absurdity that Sarah Sherman brings to Saturday Night Live — acting casually with singing meatballs protruding from her neck, or portraying 1922’s pointy-eared, silent film Nosferatu irked by 2024’s muscular iteration — nothing mesmerizes more than her stand-up persona, Sarah Squirm. Beloved for taking outrageous body-horror comedy […]
Walk into any Fluevog store—from Vancouver to Amsterdam—and you feel it immediately: this is not fashion as usual. It’s part art gallery, part spiritual sanctuary, part joyful rebellion. For 55 years, Vancouver-born legendary designer John Fluevog has been quietly reshaping what a shoe can mean, building a world where craftsmanship, whimsy, and radical self-acceptance stand […]
Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social media telephone game quickly led to many believing that MTV as a whole, in the U.S. and everywhere else, was shutting […]
Last year the Residents celebrated the 50th anniversary of their debut, Meet the Residents. But the theatrical, quixotically anonymous band, who’ve been in costume longer than KISS, are still full of piss and vinegar and recently released longtime-in-the-making true crime concept album Doctor Dark, based in part on the 1990 heavy metal trial around two […]
Camila, a 16-year-old high school student in Los Angeles, holds her phone out, screen facing up, playing a grainy video of Deftones performing on a late-night talk show in 1999. The clip has the jumpy, staticky, lo-fi quality of VHS tapes from that era. “This popped up on TikTok,” she says. “It looks old time-y. […]
The white ON AIR light was still glowing when the cops walked in. A tiny bulb in a dirty old studio, shining on as if it had no idea its world was about to change. It was October 3, National College Radio Day. The one day meant to honor the weird, chaotic magic that stations […]
In June, I was on an Indie Week panel called “Indie Music Journalism: Navigating a Shifting Landscape” with with Creem’s Fred Pessaro and That Good Sh*t’s Annabelle Klein-Zilles, led by former Billboard editor Bill Werde. When Bill opened the discussion up for questions, a woman asked about the future of media given the reported rise […]