Over the past decade, Casja von Zeipel’s art has evolved from daily selfies and sketches to massive statues. And while the Swedish sculptor has fashioned the occasional boy smoking a cigarette or jacking off, her primary interest is specific: the pubescent, slender female body. Dressed in leather, mini skirts, panties and platforms, Zeipel’s girls interact in commanding, sexual, and at times spiteful ways. Founding editor of Adult Mag, Sarah Nicole Prickett describes their presence as “a stage on which you become an extra in a mob scene, gathered here to see sanctity in action. When you look into their eyes—you can’t. A blackness snaps back. Not since Kate and Naomi have fasting girls looked more like furies.” Featuring writers Andrew Durbin, Chris Ford, Stefanie Hessler and Prickett, “Pro Anatomy” chronicles the spirit of Zeipel’s work, capturing the current cosmetic and social discourse surrounding the human body, its imaging and its actualisation.

Published by Capricious

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Chicago singer-songwriter Erik Hall, known by his moniker In Tall Buildings, is back with the long-awaited followup to his 2011 eponymous debut. Hall specializes in layered bedroom recordings and delivers here with rough electro-guitar, steady tambourine and super smooth multi-tracked vocals. Influenced by psychedelic folk and synth, “Driver” embodies its title with a tempo reminiscent of a drive down the highway, gradually building momentum with each track.

Driver is out Feb 17 via Western Vinyl

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In the 90s, New York City crime and drug rates soared and squatters were moving in to refurbish tenements on the Lower East Side that sat vacant, uninhabitable and forgotten by the city. Ash Thayer was a 19-year-old photography student at the time and could no longer afford school and rent. She found herself taken in by the squatter community at See Skwat, where she lived with punks, outcasts and others like her who were poor and needed shelter.

Thayer moved freely among the residents of the squats, who were forced to isolate themselves or else face eviction. For a total of seven years, she photographed their homes, construction projects and punk shows, capturing the DIY spirit and idealism of their community. “Kill City” is her memoir of those years and an intimate documentation of the fringe-dwellers who took a neglected city into their own hands.

Published by powerHouse Books

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David Cronenberg turns his weird and wacky sensibilities to the weirdest and wackiest of cities – Los Angeles. Yet he hasn’t met his love match, rather he gives the city a grotesque sheen while providing his own take on all the usual Hollywood tropes. He picked Robert Pattinson again here (last in Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis”) to play alongside Mia Wasikowska and Julianne Moore. It’s unsettling to watch, but not because he is particularly truthful about the lives of the rich and famous. A film best enjoyed by those who know there are many more notes to La La Land, but still embrace its unique excesses.

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What happens when Canadian jazz/hip hop band BADBADNOTGOOD and Wu-Tang Clan’s founding member Ghostface Killah get together to make some music? Inspired by production techniques from the 1960s and 70s, the collaborative studio album “Sour Soul” plugs live instrumentation and free improvisation. BBNG’S soulful bass lines, soft snare drums and building orchestral arrangements set a sophisticated stage for Ghostface’s hypnotising gritty flow. Sonically, nothing is pushed back or left to die. On the contrary, what emerges is probably the most elegant and cinematic hip hop poetry that you most certainly have never heard before.

“Sour Soul” is out Feb 24th via Lex Records

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In the mid-60s and 70s art community, photographer Joel Meyerowitz was a revolutionary. Together with William Eggleston, Garry Winogrand and Stephen Shore, Meyerowitz championed the New Color Photography movement, seeing it through from general resistance to general acceptance. A New York native, Meyerowitz has now exhibited his street photography in over 350 museums and galleries worldwide. “Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective” canonizes the shrewd, sui generis eye that first began capturing New York streets in 1962. It is an anthology of every sort of milestone in Meyerowitz’s career, including his “blue hour” experimentations at Cape Cod, “Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks,” “After September 11: Images from Ground Zero” and his renowned early work, including his 1967 foray to Europe and his seminal transition from black and white to color photographs.

Published by D.A.P. / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

Ending a ten year hiatus, the essential late-90s/early-aughts classic and punk rock trio Sleater-Kinney have dropped their eighth studio album, “No Cities to Love”. Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss formed Sleater-Kinney in 1994 Olympia to record a total of seven albums regarded as defining principle rock albums of the decade. “No Cities to Love” sustains the band’s rock finesse right where it left off, while sweeping over lost years to push its relevancy as already one of 2015’s best rock albums. Its lyrics resume Sleater-Kinney’s signature leftist tone and feminist discourse on fear, power and capitalism.

“No Cities to Love” is out via Sub Pop.

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Pennsylvania born rock band, Dr. Dog has released “Live at a Flamingo Hotel”, featuring 19 (fan favored) songs cut during their 20-show stretch last year. The album, unlike their previous seven studio albums, fully embraces their more raw, electrically energized side; a characteristic that has come to distinguish their onstage performances and has prompted their cult-like following for the past 15 years.

“Live at a Flamingo Hotel” out via Anti Recordings

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