Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 2017, rap went mainstream in China. The moment is easy to pinpoint: hip-hop competition show The Rap of China. MC culture had been bubbling in the country for years prior – generally, as with most…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you brought together a Belgian designer and a Scandinavian high street giant, you might not expect the result to be a collection deeply rooted in British culture, but that’s exactly what Glenn Martens has done…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the cool, columned expanse of Palazzo Te in Mantua – an opulent palace built in the early 1530s by Giulio Romano for Federico II Gonzaga – time fractures, weaves and reconstitutes itself under the gaze of multimedia…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The North Shields singer-songwriter beat out FKA twigs, PinkPantheress, Fontaines D.C., Pulp, and more Source: pitchfork.com — original article published 2025-10-16 21:39:46. Read the full story on pitchfork.com → [source_url]

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Known for his on-stage theatrics, the rock band’s own “Spaceman” played on nearly all of Kiss’ most iconic records Source: pitchfork.com — original article published 2025-10-17 01:31:49. Read the full story on pitchfork.com → [source_url]

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Pulling double duty as host and musical guest, Carpenter starred in sketches as a 12-year-old boy podcast host and a singing washing machine Source: pitchfork.com — original article published 2025-10-19 20:15:04. Read the full story on…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Stream new releases from Tame Impala, Sudan Archives, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Silvana Estrada, Monaleo, Bar Italia, Ty Dolla $ign, Militarie Gun, Destiny Bond, Elias Rønnenfelt, Cusp, Jane Inc., and Suzie True Source:…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Geese frontman, or somebody with a strikingly similar voice, sings over a deconstructed instrumental in the launch trailer for the ROG Xbox Ally Source: pitchfork.com — original article published 2025-10-17 18:13:11. Read the full story…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The internet today is awash with promises of easy wealth, with a whole ecosystem of grifters selling people a dream of financial independence, passive income and freedom from the thankless drudgery of working life. At a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Long before the seatbelt sign dimmed on the return flight from Johannesburg to Nigeria, and before a single passenger rose to disembark, all that the 29-year-old Imo, Nigeria-born rapper and singer Blaqbonez yearned for was home….