Slash-and-Burn Interlaced with Youthful Volatility
The city-state of Singapore nearly straddles the equator. We landed there in a heavy, moist heat tinged with toxic haze,…
The city-state of Singapore nearly straddles the equator. We landed there in a heavy, moist heat tinged with toxic haze,…
When house music first emerged out of disco and soul in the 1980s, its message was remarkably different from that…
Between the end of the 1960s and the early 2000s, nightclubs in Europe were the outposts of progressive social and…
An Atmosphere needs a room. A room is a strange concept. In fact, to create an A today there is…
A group of people dance ceaselessly. They rub against each other. They also rub against the walls and the floor.…
It’s 2013 in downtown São Paulo. On the rooftop of an iconic building on the margins of the infamous elevated…
A few days prior to New York Fashion Week last September, I came across an article in The New Yorker…
What is Wildness? Literally, it is the state of being wild, undomesticated, untamed, as with animals or plants found in…
New York and its nightlife often exist in a state of “remember when?” In a city and scene that evolve…
Sporting a gown adorned with images of Russian prison tattoos, slang words, a pair of large Japanese manga-style weeping eyes…
Pongsuang Kunprasop lied. Dudesweet’s founder and creative director told a landlord that he wished to use a small restaurant on…
An extremely loud, happy-hardcore remix of a cult classic by Russian suicidal-psychedelic-punk-band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) animates the dance floor.…
At a few minutes past 1:00 AM I enter the dark cave of MusicBox, a club under the bridge in…
On a mild winter night I was sitting on a stoop outside of a club, in Milan, with a friend…
Hanging outside Zurich’s trashy but steadily gentrifying Langstrasse the other night, an older artist, who had grown up in the…
Sadie Benning’s early black-and-white videos convey the familiar postadolescent restlessness and ennui experienced by teenagers when confined to the banal…