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Special Interest Knows What the Dance Floor Is For
Special Interest recorded Endure at HighTower in New Orleans with engineer James Whitten. The sessions came in the aftermath of 2020, a...
Klein Built Nine Albums, Her Own Label, and a Sound the Music Press Cannot Categorize
On February 4, 2025, Klein released thirteen sense, her ninth studio album in less than ten years. The South London artist had put out...
Nick León Made His Debut Album From the Feeling That Miami Was Already Gone
Joan Didion opened her 1987 book about Miami with a description of a city that no longer corresponds to its own surface. Nick León grew up...
Charli XCX Did Not Invent the Brat. She Just Named It.
On October 31, 2024, Collins English Dictionary named "brat" its word of the year. Not artificial intelligence, not some portmanteau coined...
Jane Schoenbrun Makes Genre Do the Work Genre Cannot Usually Do
"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" opened the Un Certain Regard section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 13. The film received a...
Erin Ford Is Making Clothes From the Other Side of the World
The pattern, not the clothes. You print it at home, tile the pages together, cut out the pieces, and sew it yourself. A strapless fitted...
Michaela Coel and the Television That Changed How We Tell the Truth
There is a specific kind of courage required to make art about the thing that almost destroyed you, and an even more specific kind to make...
Kelly Lee Owens Found the Space Between the Dance Floor and the Interior
Kelly Lee Owens makes music about the feeling that arrives when you stop being a collection of anxieties and become simply a body in...
The Hours: Cautious Clay and the Sound of Passing Time
Joshua Karpeh, who records under the name Cautious Clay, has spent the better part of a decade building one of the most consistently...
Mick Jenkins and the Weight of Conscious Rap Done Right
Mick Jenkins arrived in 2014 with a mixtape called The Waters and immediately posed a challenge to anyone who thought conscious rap had run...
Ballroom Culture Is Everywhere Now and That Is Exactly the Point
Crystal LaBeija had been called ugly at a drag pageant she deserved to win. The year was 1972. The judge was white. The pageant system in...
Lagos Is the Center of the Art World Now
For years the international art world talked about Lagos as a city on the rise. An emerging market. A place to watch. The framing was...