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The Smashing Pumpkins are set to return to North American stages this fall with The Rats In A Cage Tour, a large-scale live production built around the 30th anniversary of their landmark 1995 double album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.” Launching on September 30 in Columbus, Ohio, and continuing […]
Geological Abstractionism begins where image-making dissolves into process: in a field where time, gravity, and matter take precedence over composition and immediate visual impact. Wallace Woo, a Paris-based contemporary artist and the founder of Stalactite Aesthetics, approaches painting as a form of sedimentation, a slow accumulation of material and meaning […]
There’s something quietly obscene about a garage in the Alps. Not obscene in the scandal sense, but in the way it sits there; too practical, too blunt, too indifferent to the romance we insist on projecting onto mountains. A small stone volume on a weekend property in the Raethian Alps, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the labyrinthine sprawl of modern UK, Sleaford Mods return with “The Demise Of Planet X,” a thirteen-track testament to discontent, a chiaroscuro of the everyday weighed against the looming shadow of societal collapse. Jason Williamson’s voice, jagged and unrelenting, prowls the album like a specter through the decaying corridors […]