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The organizers of Rock la Mureș Festival announce new confirmed acts for this year’s edition, taking place on July 10 – 11 at Periam Port, in Timiș County, Romania. The lineup is expanding with two relevant names from the European alternative scene: Swiss band Lone Assembly and +SHE+, the project […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dmytry 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 […]