Interview

"I grew up in a really shitty place two hours south of Stockholm and now I'm playing Soho House in New York," Erik Hassle said at Tuesday night's performance, even if "The Man" didn't want him to play.  BLOG POSTED: 03/11/10

Punk-rock goddess, muse of Manchester, Poetic spirit—Linder sterling is all of these things. She’s also One of the Most overlooked, transgressive, influential, rip-through-the-walls-to-get-to-the-truth visual artists to be let loose on the cultural landscape in the last 40 years.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/01/10

The week's playlist: Scott Mou presents The Vagina Analogs.  BLOG POSTED: 11/20/09

In Mira Nair’s latest film, Amelia, a biopic about pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, Joe Anderson plays Wilmer “Bill” Stultz, the pilot who helmed the first transatlantic crossing with a female passenger—Earhart—in 1928, despite his belief that a woman’s place was not in the cockpit.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/09

Joy Division and New Order's Bernard Sumner on his new band (and its synth-less sound), why he hates touring, and a fateful encounter he had with a giant shark last month off the west coast of Scotland.  BLOG POSTED: 09/29/09

Hans Ulrich Obrist is part curator, part critic, and part irrepressible mad scientist. He's also artistic advisor, with design legend Peter Saville, of the Manchester International Festival, which runs through July 19.  BLOG POSTED: 07/10/09

What's not to love about a band whose first recording experience went down in a converted bomb shelter on the Isle of Wight with a drum kit hewn from a Victorian-era dance floor?  BLOG POSTED: 06/18/09

Remember when New York City was a place where the hopeful, the talented, and the lost came
to get found, live cheaply, and become great (not just rich) artists? Well, it hasn’t seemed like
that kind of place for a while, but a new young art scene is emerging in all the boroughs that is more excited about the city streets than the white walls of Chelsea.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/09