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. 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….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There’s a film Tyler Mitchell made in 2015, while still a student at Tisch School Of The Arts, that foreshadowed much of the groundbreaking work the Atlanta-born artist was on the verge of creating. The dreamlike…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I’m convinced NORiKO, the producer-vocalist behind POiSON GiRL FRiEND, is a time traveller. Her solo debut, 1992 EP MELTING MOMENT, blended trip-hop and dream pop at a time when Massive Attack were just a little-known band…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As Art Basel Paris begins to take shape, the city prepares for floods of visitors during its celebration of art and culture. With the fair fast becoming a fixture in the international calendar, this third edition…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Unless you’ve been living under a rock since 1968, you know exactly what Sisley is. Founded in Paris by married couple Hubert and Isabelle d’Ornano, the iconic Benetton Group acquired the label in 1976, and took…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The irony of resurrecting Frankenstein is that you have to become Dr Frankenstein yourself in order to remake the famous tale. Director Guillermo del Toro has done exactly that, and this weekend, his two-and-half-hour reinterpretation of…