The rise of EsDeeKid in 5 tracks

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I’m all about my passions, music, money and fashion,” EsDeeKid raps in the viral song “Phantom”, lifted off his breakthrough album Rebel last year. Well, he ticked at least two of these off the list at…

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Rosalía: ‘We all want love – brotherly love, divine love, carnal love’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. We all want love. We long for it, we pine, we ache, we’re consumed by our desire for it. It’s a drive that has always been inherent to the human condition, though recently yearning has become…

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Watch: fakemink on lust, obsessive fans and his new album, Terrified

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For the casual observer, fakemink might look like an overnight success: from niche internet celebrity to major festival slots, famous fans (including Drake, Frank Ocean and TimothĂŠe Chalamet) and walking Gucci’s AW26 show, all within the…

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5 of the best Oklou collabs, ranked

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Marylou Mayniel has been making music for over a decade, releasing work under various monikers – including Loumar and avril23 – before settling on Oklou in 2015. While she steadily built a cult following as a…

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Life lessons from the legendary photographer Larry Sultan

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the last few pages of Larry Sultan’s posthumously published book Water Over Thunder: Select Writings, an excerpt from his archive reveals how the celebrated photographer harboured a desire to be a writer. “I’ve actually thought…

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