A Journey Through Objects and Origins: Xinrui Qiu’s Identity …
WEB12 hours ago · Xinrui Qiu’s artistic practice is a striking reflection on the complexities of identity, both personal and collective. Her work gracefully oscillates between the deeply personal and broader societal themes, often inviting viewers into a space that feels simultaneously intimate and expansive. With an MA in Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts from Goldsmiths, University of […]
Album Review: Chat Pile, 'Cool World' - Our Culture
WEB2 hours ago · The transition from Chat Pile‘s God’s Country to Cool World is partly, as the album titles suggest, a matter of scope. While the Oklahoma City band’s 2022 debut God’s Country tore into the cruel horrors specific (but not unique) to American territory, its follow-up finds them widening their gaze, “with thoughts,” according to vocalist Raygun Busch, “specifically about disasters ...
The Cure Release New Song 'A Fragile Thing' - Our Culture
WEB22 hours ago · The Cure have released a new single, ‘A Fragile Thing’, the second preview of their forthcoming album Songs of a Lost World.It arrives on the heels of the LP’s opening track, ‘Alone’.Check it out below. Songs of a Lost World, the Cure’s first album in 16 years, is slated for release on November 1.
11 Books We're Excited to Read in October 2024 - Our Culture
WEBOct 3, 2024 · Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Ina Garten (October 1). The brilliant and charismatic Ina Garten — first an employee of the Federal Power Commission, writing the nuclear energy budget, then a store owner and Food Network star of Barefoot Contessa — returns after several cookbooks to deliver her first and long-awaited memoir. An entertaining and inspiring account of her rise to fame along ...
Album Review: The Smile, 'Cutouts' - Our Culture
WEB1 day ago · Album Review: The Smile, ‘Cutouts’. When Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood teamed up with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner to form the Smile, it became immediately clear what their deal was. Without the level of quality control (or expectation) that’s attached to their main band, the Radiohead bandmates …
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Album Review: Geordie Greep, 'The New Sound' - Our Culture
WEB6 days ago · When Geordie Greep decided to call his debut solo album The New Sound, he didn’t have the sound nailed down yet.He knew that was going to be the title before he even started recording it, when no one had any reason to believe there wouldn’t be a black midi album after Hellfire.Then, just a week before formally announcing the album – which he had already previewed live – the frontman ...
The 50 Best Albums of 2021 - Our Culture
WEBDec 9, 2021 · claire rousay’s a softer focus begins with an assortment of non-tonal sounds and ends with a short instrumental track of simple beauty. In between those moments, the San Antonio-based sound artist zones in and out of the album’s fizzling atmosphere, which gently offers a peek into the dreamlike realm of creating. rousay has aptly described her music as “emo ambient”, but its hushed ...
Shock Art is Certainly Shocking; But is it Art? - Our Culture
WEBSep 12, 2021 · Artists have always used their imagination to try to shake people out of the safe confines of their lives, views and assumptions. From composer John Cage of the avant-garde school (he produced the famous 4’33”, a piece in which a full symphony orchestra assembles for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and sits in silence) to Marcel Duchamp of the Dada art movement (he produced The fountain, which ...
The 50 Best Album Covers of 2021 - Our Culture
WEBDec 3, 2021 · 41. Lost Horizons, In Quiet Moments. In Quiet Moments, the second album from the duo of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and former Dif Juz drummer Richie Thomas, is subtle yet sweeping, capturing moments of contemplative intimacy that tend to …