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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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sergey Goncharov, who signs his work under the name catarsic, approaches photography as if it were a language still in the process of being invented. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he is drawn to the nude as a site where image and poetry begin to overlap, where the body carries the […]
Dmitry Krapivin, a Russian photographer with more than twelve years behind the lens, has built his visual language around the austere seduction of black-and-white portraiture. In the absence of color, something more volatile surfaces: the texture of a gaze, the quiet defiance of a posture, the fragile electricity between photographer […]
“Mizantrop” opens like a shadow stretching across memory, a whisper from a past that refuses to fade. She Past Away, the duo of Volkan Caner and Doruk Öztürkcan, return with an album that unfolds more like a nocturnal journey than a conventional record. Every track pulses with deliberate precision, a […]
Diana Karimova is a young visual artist from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, who explores the photographic universe with a refined sensibility and an elegant touch. Her images unfold through delicate tonalities and subtle gestures, seeking to articulate femininity and the beauty of the female body with an almost devotional precision. Most of […]
The organizers of the Rock la Mureș festival, scheduled for July 10–11 at its traditional location on the banks of the Mureș River, at Periam Port in Timiș County, announce a new wave of artists joining the already confirmed lineup. The announcement includes four bands from different sonic areas, selected […]
London’s underground circuit has a habit of producing bands the way cracked asphalt produces weeds: stubborn, accidental, and impossible to fully domesticate. Boxing Club, a four-piece formed through forum ads, mutual acquaintances and the erratic choreography of rehearsal rooms across the Glasgow–London axis, emerge from that ecosystem with their debut […]