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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. […]
There’s a particular kind of American panic that kicks in the moment sex stops being decorative. Not pornographic, decorative. The kind that sells fragrance campaigns, props up streaming thrillers, lubricates the cultural machine without ever leaving a stain. But the second desire becomes architectural, the second it starts shaping a […]
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 […]
Diavol Strâin return with ’11 Ecos’ as if they’ve unearthed something that was never meant to be exposed. It’s the first release from “Eterno Retorno”, and it doesn’t behave like a simple comeback single, it feels like a rupture, a crack in the surface where old violence starts leaking through […]
The Moon And The Nightspirit drop the elegiac track ‘The First Tremor’ as the final advance single taken from their forthcoming album “Seed of the Formless”. The eighth full-length of the Hungarian duo has been chalked up for release on April 17, 2026. “The track ‘The First Tremor’ constitutes the album’s haunting melodic heart – […]
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 […]
The renowned musician from Timișoara, Petre Ionuțescu, has released a new record titled “Medusara”, an album composed of eight tracks inspired by the artist’s travels across different corners of the world. From Piața Unirii, home, from the banks of the Bega River, the journey moves forward along the blue Danube, […]