Two years after her eponymous debut, Aldous Harding releases Party. With each track, she whispers to listeners in her gentle gothic-folk style ... More

Party

Album by Aldous Harding

Party

Album by Aldous Harding 

 

Two years after her eponymous debut, Aldous Harding releases Party. With each track, she whispers to listeners in her gentle gothic-folk style and delivers a charismatic combination of hubris, shrewd wit and quiet horror. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, it deals with the raw materials of life: death, birth, grief and love. Party introduces a new talent to the stark and unpopulated dramatic realm where Kate Bush and Scott Walker reside. (Flying Nun)

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Generation Wealth, the most recent photobook from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, is not about actual wealth but the illusion ... More

Generation Wealth

Book by Lauren Greenfield

Generation Wealth

Book by Lauren Greenfield

A woman browses on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, 2000. Outside of New York City, Rodeo Drive is the highest-rent commercial district in the United States.
Suzanne Rogers, 40, in her home in Toronto, 2010. Rogers’s style stems from a childhood fascination with the Edwardian-era candy-factory heiress Truly Scrumptious from the film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” whom she considers “the epitome of elegance.”
High school seniors (from left) Lili, 17, Nicole, 18, Lauren, 18, Luna, 18, and Sam, 17, put on their makeup in front of a two-way mirror for the Greenfield’s “Beauty CULTure” documentary, Los Angeles, 2011.
Xue Qiwen, 43, in her Shanghai apartment, decorated with furniture from her favorite brand, Versace, 2005. In 1994 Xue started a company that sells industrial cable and has since run four more. She is a member of three golf clubs, each costing approximately $100,000 to join.
Tupac plays craps in Las Vegas, losing $10,000 in minutes, Luxor Hotel, 1995.
A choreographed waltz, the main event at Tatler’s Debutante Ball, in the Pillar Hall at the Palace of Unions, Moscow, 2014. During the Soviet era, the hall was used for displaying bodies of deceased leaders, including Lenin and Stalin, before their state funerals.
Lil Jon, 33, sporting a diamond and platinum grill that reportedly cost $50,000, at the 2004 Soul Train Awards, Los Angeles.
Playmates at the Playboy Mansion’s grotto, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, 2000. In 1971 Playboy founder Hugh Hefner bought the 29-room house, built in 1927. Among its features are a screening room with a built-in pipe organ, a game room and a zoo and aviary.
Jamie, 14, and a friend in the backyard of her Malibu beach ranch, Blue Heaven, where a golf cart is used for transportation, 1992. Jamie’s father, Jerry Weintraub, promoted concerts for acts such as Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin and produced many films, including “Nashville” and the “Ocean’s Eleven” series.

Generation Wealth, the most recent photobook from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, is not about actual wealth but the illusion of it. A renowned chronicler of consumerism and cultures, Greenfield examines the perception of wealth over the last 25 years as a consequence of a global boom-and-bust economy as well as pervasive pop culture influences. Taken in major consumer hubs such as Los Angeles, Moscow, Dubai and China, Greenfield’s photographs document how consumers attempt to bridge the gap between what they want and what they can actually afford, in an attempt to simulate the life they desire. “The work is really about aspiring to wealth and the influence of affluence and about our values more than what we actually have,” says Greenfield. Generation Wealth archives Greenfield’s third collaboration with the Annenberg Space for Photography, an exhibit featuring 195 photographs and 42 interviews as well as multimedia projections and short films. (Phaidon)

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California-based band Girlpool returns with their second album,Powerplant. Now 21 and 20, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker confront projections, despondency, apathy, romanticization, ... More

Powerplant

Album by Girlpool

Powerplant

Album by Girlpool

California-based band Girlpool returns with their second album,Powerplant. Now 21 and 20, Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker confront projections, despondency, apathy, romanticization, love, and heartbreak with a more devastating emotional pragmatism than before. The decision to add percussion is a departure from their original sound. “The songs we were writing had the potential of getting really climactic,” says Tucker. “I think percussion adds a new part of the musical dynamic that we want to explore.” (Anti-Records)

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Theo Rossi stars alongside Eva Longoria in this complicated tale of family set against the vibrant backdrop of East LA’s near-spiritual car ... More

Lowriders

Film by Ricardo de Montreuil

Lowriders

Film by Ricardo de Montreuil

Theo Rossi stars alongside Eva Longoria in this complicated tale of family set against the vibrant backdrop of East LA’s near-spiritual car culture and follows Danny, a talented young street artist caught between the lowrider world inhabited by his old-school father and ex-con brother (Theo Rossi), and the adrenaline-fueled outlet that defines his self-expression. (Blumhouse)

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If Cayetana’s newest album had a tagline it would be “how to stop self-sabotaging and accept love.” Thematically, the Philadelphia indie rock ... More

New Kind of Normal

Album by Cayetana

New Kind of Normal

Album by Cayetana 

If Cayetana’s newest album had a tagline it would be “how to stop self-sabotaging and accept love.” Thematically, the Philadelphia indie rock three-piece – comprised of Augusta Koch, Allegra Anka and Kelly Olsen – has been exploring the delicate interplay of mental illness and wellness, since they began releasing music in 2014, but never so gracefully and poignantly as on New Kind of Normal. Although many of the songs were worked out at Koch’s barnyard studio in the Poconos, the band returned to Matt Schimelfenig at Philly’s Miner Street Studios to record the record. The collaboration resulted in a diverse output of expertly crafted, hooky pop songs like “Mesa” coupled with sparse, dark, and deeply emotional synth-laden tracks like “World.” Musically, the record captures the quiet moments of crushing vulnerability and the hardened highs of personal strength as expertly as Koch’s lyrical craft. (Plum Records)

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Writer and director Azazel Jacobs’ new film The Lovers is a refreshing take on love, fidelity, and family, starring Debra Winger and ... More

The Lovers

Film by Azazel Jacobs

The Lovers

Film by Azazel Jacobs

Writer and director Azazel Jacobs’ new film The Lovers is a refreshing take on love, fidelity, and family, starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts as a long-married and completely dispassionate husband and wife. Both are in the midst of serious affairs and are increasingly committed to their new partners. But on the brink of officially calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly and unexpectedly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance that forces them to navigate the hilarious complications of “cheating” on their respective lovers. A mixture of humor and powerful emotion, the story is a uniquely honest take on modern marriage.(A24)

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Named after the New Zealand suburb where Amelia Murray finally feels at home, Morningside plots its course carefully through the rocky terrain ... More

Morningside

Album by Fazerdaze

Morningside

Album by Fazerdaze

Named after the New Zealand suburb where Amelia Murray finally feels at home, Morningside plots its course carefully through the rocky terrain of finding place and peace in personal growth. Growing pains are central to Morningside and Murray’s meditations on the concurrent exhilaration and intimidation of an older kind of life and love never feel cloying. Instead, on every track, Murray builds an intimate relationship with the listener. Each song is personal but never isolating. The album is like reading someone’s journal with their express permission: at turns, it seems full of the most universal of feelings, as well as the kind of sensory and narrative details that make for the truest kind of memoir. (Flying Nun)

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Vancouver-based vocalist/composer Ian William Craig returns with Slow Vessels, an album-length EP which both extends and radically re-imagines Centres, rendering six of ... More

Slow Vessels

EP by Ian William Craig

Slow Vessels

EP by Ian William Craig 

Vancouver-based vocalist/composer Ian William Craig returns with Slow Vessels, an album-length EP which both extends and radically re-imagines Centres, rendering six of its tracks in a stunning new light. While not quite an “unplugged” version, it is fundamentally stripped back, raw and predominantly acoustic. Slow Vessels sees Craig paring back the dense, billowing layers and heavily distressed textures that dominated the album and re-playing these tracks on a borrowed acoustic guitar and piano. Deeply affecting and almost devotional in character, this re-setting of the songs throws a brilliant new slant on Craig’s prodigious creativity. (FatCat Records)

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Argentinian-born Far Rockaway transplant Tall Juan has managed to evade labels and put out songs that only a Latin Elvis inspired by ... More

Olden Goldies

Album by Tall Juan

Olden Goldies

Album by Tall Juan 

Argentinian-born Far Rockaway transplant Tall Juan has managed to evade labels and put out songs that only a Latin Elvis inspired by the Ramones could deliver: short, fast, and packed with attitude. Tall Juan’s lyrics are autobiographical nuggets about everything from drug addiction, the perils of dating, and living in Queens.
With only a handful of songs released, Juan has landed himself on the radars of many and has been touring the world constantly since 2014. (BUFU Records)

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