Thought I Was Better Than You
Hip-hop beats and tales of childhood naughtiness: Baxter Dury on his new record
Desert rebirth
Music
“It’s a recovery album” – how a trip to Mexico inspired Freddie Cowan’s redemptive solo debut
Internal Affairs
“I’m so nostalgic, to a fault” – Buzzy Lee’s sophomore record retraces moments of beauty and heartbreak
Make me famous
Art
“Having a fine time in the middle of a decaying city” – the legendary Marguerite Van Cook tells stories from the 80s East Village art scene
Photo Ephemera
Cult auteur Bruce LaBruce takes us through his personal photography archive
Not what it seems
Film+TV
All is Vanity: a movie about a fashion shoot gone weird
Cabaret tricks
Sofie Royer is both the sensitive Pierrot and witty Harlequin
The reinvention of a superstar
James Righton introduces us to his Gucci-suited, basement crooner alter-ego: Jim
Signs of Love
Dylan and Hopper Penn and Zoë Bleu unpick the beauty and emotional strife at the root of their new film
landscapes of love
“I was bleeding with emotion” – Lykke Li rummages through the wreckage of heartbreak
Pick up a camera, and roll
“I threw the armadillo in to fuck with people’s heads” – Don Letts on turning punk into art with The Clash
Andy Warhol: model
Photographer Chris Makos shares rare stories from his fabled photoshoots with Andy Warhol
Punk to Dior
Janette Beckman’s photographic monograph honours the rebels shaping culture from the fringe
In conversation with Paul Graham
This exhibition documents the joyful, unstaged spontaneity of pre-Covid America
NYC Icon
In conversation with Chris Makos: the photographer who introduced Andy Warhol to Basquiat and Keith Haring
“Donovan’s job was death”
Frank Lebon discusses his new cinematic trailer about a freelance crime scene cleaner
Between worlds
Oracle Sisters’ new EP details a future Paris balanced between utopia and dystopia
Mercy
The gospel of Natalie Bergman: accepting loss through God, love and music
Fantasy escape
Inside the Palm Angels FW21 zine: Francesco Ragazzi takes us on an imagined holiday
TO ERASE A CLOUD
Budding filmmaker Jim Longden on his debut film: a rumination on solitude, agony, and hope