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Ekaterina Iakiamseva moves through photography with the instinct of someone who distrusts surfaces. The image, for her, is never a simple record, never an obedient witness. It becomes a site of tension, a controlled disturbance where the visible is pushed to the edge of collapse. Light functions as a governing […]
Tramhaus are Rotterdam’s live-wire post-punk revelation, a band celebrated for explosive shows and songs that hit like a spark to dry air. With a sound that effortlessly stretches from shoegaze textures to raw punk-rock urgency, the five-piece blend their diverse musical backgrounds into something both unpredictable and fiercely cohesive. On […]
There’s a quiet honesty running through this series by London-based photographer Oliver Villegas. Shot with model Annia Krystyna, the images feel unforced, almost accidental in the best way, as if they happened rather than being carefully arranged. The setting is simple, intimate: bed sheets, soft daylight, a body moving without […]
Deceits feels like a band you experience before you fully understand. There’s a kind of raw clarity in what they do: direct, intense, and very present. Their sound carries both movement and emotion, pulling from different places without losing its core. In this conversation, Kevin “Pups” Moreno (vocals / instruments) […]
There’s something quietly compelling about the way Antony Szmierek arrived in music, not through ambition, but through observation, writing, and a moment of stillness that pushed everything forward. What began as poetry, scribbled over time, slowly found its way into sound during a period when the world itself felt suspended. […]
Paris has always known how to domesticate ghosts. Lenny Kravitz’s residence in the 16th arrondissement, a grand 1920s hôtel particulier known as Villa Roxie, carries a name shaped by private history. It honors Roxie Roker, his mother, and the Paris she once imagined for herself. The tribute is embedded into […]
Qingshan Liu is a China-based photographer whose work moves between intimacy and tension, instinct and observation. His images focus on contemporary youth, not as a defined generation, but as individuals navigating emotional extremes, desire, anxiety, closeness, and distance. His latest body of work, brought together in “The Heat of the […]
The Romanian post-punk scene is coming back to life and, somehow, being rediscovered after many years of numbness. Lately, it has managed to throw into the world a series of compositions, entire albums, even, that deserve to be taken seriously on the international stage. We are talking, therefore, about young […]
Ductape return with ‘Obscure’, a hypnotic new single that feels like a transmission from the inner machinery of “Faded Flowers”, their forthcoming album, and already its third revealed fragment. There is a certain inevitability in the way the track unfolds, as though the duo have stopped writing songs in the […]
There’s something different about this issue. Not just in the way it looks, although it does look sharper, more layered, and intentional, but in how it moves. Issue #8 feels like a space where different practices collide: music, visual art, digital experimentation, and everything in between. CVLTARTES Issue #8 brings […]