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Articles by Rachel Grace Almeida
Cuco Interview With Greatest | GOAT
The multi-instrumentalist on his death-metal influences, the creative benefits of solitude and why his best music is still to come. Isolation doesn’t phase Omar Banos. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter, better known as Cuco, thrives in solitude; the perfect condition in which he builds psychedelic worlds through his introspective strain of bedroom pop.
The Great Regression
Streams of champagne shoot from popped bottles into the air. iPhone torches illuminate the dance floor into a nebula. Dripped-out partygoers face the DJ booth, which is bursting with a dozens-strong entourage. Can-can dancers frame the stage, writhing seductively to the supple sounds of Latin and Afro house, while the lucky few on VIP platforms who caught the spray of bubbly wipe themselves down. The surroundings feel swanky, an environment engineered for maximum impact at every turn.
A cantora Cella lança o single “Superficial - acústico”, com participação do guitarrista Léo Lou
Comemorando um ano do lançamento do single “Superficial”, a cantora, atriz e produtora Cella Bártholo lança “Superficial - acústico”, com participação do guitarrista Léo Lou. A música está disponível no Spotify (https://shorturl.at/TnNzN) e no canal da artista no Youtube (https://shorturl.at/ILFqj). O projeto faz parte do selo Sinc, criado com o objetivo de valorizar artistas independentes e talentosos, de diferentes estilos musicais.
American Horror Story: All 11 seasons ranked from Murder House to NYC
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Each year, eagle-eyed viewers wait with bated breath to discover which classic horror trope will be explored (and subverted) on American Horror Story. From killer clowns to cannibalistic inbreds and dildo drill demons, the storylines have broken boundaries for the genre on the small-screen and influenced a plethora of television series, while simultaneously popularising the anthology format.
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Gay Times
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Bad Gyal: ‘I’m not just a pretty face’
Following the release of her long-awaited debut album, the Catalan artist talks La Joia, her knotty relationship with Caribbean diasporic music, and entering a new chapter Bad Gyal is feeling opulent. It’s clear in the shimmery, seductive visuals for recent revenge banger Perdió Este Culo, the way her typically sheen, peroxide bob catches the light, and the luxurious name of her long-awaited debut album, La Joia (which means ‘the jewel’ in her native Catalan).
Kali Uchis envía mensaje para sus fans latinxs LGTBIQ+
Music La artista bisexual acaba de estrenar su segundo álbum enteramente en español y estampa la portada de febrero de GAY TIMES. WORDS BY KAIQUI MACAULAY Algunas de las citas en este artículo han sido traducidas al español de una entrevista hecha originalmente en inglés.
On Orquídeas, Kali Uchis comes into full bloom
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Music In this bilingual interview, the singer-songwriter opens up about celebrating femininity, Latinidad and love on her latest album WORDS BY RACHEL GRACE ALMEIDA PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMAURY NESSAIBIA STYLING BY UMA NATALIA & LUCA MARIE MAKEUP BY ALECKS GARCIA HAIR IN THE OUTDOOR SKY SET BY JASON ALARCON HAIR IN THE BLUE BACKDROP/PINK TOP BY KAYLA CASEY “Did you know that orchids are the national flower of Colombia?” Kali Uchis quietly enthuses over the phone from her room in Los Angeles.
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“We wanted to throw a party for the girls”
14.12.23 Words by: Rachel Grace Almeida Photography: Anya Rose This is Signing Off, our year-end series with the artists who defined 2023 Clubbers holding on to the shaky deck tables for balance while they split-twerk. No eyes, lips or baby hairs left unglossed. Bedazzled crop tops emblazoned with Good Girls Go to Heaven. Bad Girls Go to 2C Perrea. These are just a few of the glorious scenes you can expect to witness at 2C Perrea, the London-based Latinx queer party that is prioritising pleasure.
Cover story: TraTraTrax – Keep It Moving
02.11.23 Words by: Rachel Grace Almeida Photography: Leonardo Scotti Photography Assistants: Milton Highcow, Eric P Styling: Mauricio Rojas Additional Styling: Tom Passamonti Art Direction: Rafael Yuste Background Design: Wurdex Metallic Illustration: Julián Guzmán Nicolás Sánchez is scribbling down notes on a scrap piece of paper. One side, in barely legible handwriting, is a list: Curation work. Check. Touring with friends. Check. Song of the year. Check. Always operate on own terms. Check.
'Fountain Baby' review
09.06.23 In a relatively short space of time, Amaarae, the 28-year-old, Accra-born artist Ama Serwah Genfi, has carved out a lane of her own with her intoxicating blend of Afrobeats, lustrous pop and experimental electronic production, fortified by her instantly recognisable seductively whispered vocals. It’s a formula she perfected right out of the gate on debut album The Angel You Don’t Know, a collagic project that centred lust, self-confidence and pleasure.
Threads 2022: Nick León in conversation with Florentino
Crack: How did you first come across each other’s work? Nick León: I found out about Florentino’s music from his Fragmentos EP for Mixpak, thanks to Miami legend Jubilee. What year was that? Florentino: Maybe 2018? I can’t remember life before 2020. I found out about your tunes when I first heard Pelican Dub. I remember thinking, ‘This has almost got an Untold feel to it.’ After that, I found all your edits and remixes that were just insane for the club.
Postcards from the Underground:
Lenny Bruce once famously said, “Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.” The controversial comedian and social critic was trying to find the right words to describe the south Florida city’s most renowned district. Maybe he wasn’t far off. Miami is a metropolis built on contradictions: extreme wealth can sit only a few blocks from extreme poverty.
Turnstile: Shine on
“I’m really feeling my mortality right now,” Brendan Yates laughs. The Turnstile frontman is standing in his family home on the edge of the woodlands in Burtonsville, Maryland – a small town of under 10,000 people, equidistant from Baltimore and Washington DC. “My childhood was basically playing in the woods, making dirt jumps and starting fires,” he says, the sound of birdsong getting louder as he steps outside.
Clairo – 'Sling' review: Spellbinding meditations on motherhood
16.07.21 There’s a passage in Sheila Heti’s 2018 novel, Motherhood, that ponders the polarities – or similarities, depending how you see it – between art and parenthood. “Art is eternity backwards. Children are eternity forwards,” she wrote. This idea, that the pursuits of art and parenthood are forever entwined, is something that has been on Clairo’s mind – and it all began with a dog named Joanie.
Choreographer Kloe Dean on bringing Little Simz's ‘Introvert’ video to life
via YouTube Little Simz has always been an artist with a singular vision. Last week, when the north London rapper revealed the music video for anthemic new single Introvert, that vision crystallised into a rallying cry. The song itself begins with Simz reflecting on her own inner conflicts before her gaze turns outwards, to government corruption and negligence.
An Oar in the Water
A few days before I found out I was pregnant, I went to a good friend’s birthday party. On my way to the bar I felt a ripple of nausea wash over me reminiscent of No-Face being engulfed by waves. I put it down to something I ate at dinner, though I must have had a hunch something was off because that night my wine-guzzling self settled for two gingers ales and bed by midnight. Looking back, it was the first time I’ve ever truly trusted my instinct.
On becoming a parent for the first time.
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Tomasa del Real's neoperreo playground
Somewhere in Los Angeles, Tomasa del Real is just drying off from a dip in her building’s rooftop pool. Noticeably relaxed over the phone, she seems eager to hear how my communication skills have fared during quarantine. “I know that’s a weird question to start with!” She lets out an involuntary giggle, and before long I’ve erupted into a fit of laughter too.
Perspective: Prince Set Me On My SassyBlack Path
© Ed Chambers SassyBlack is a Seattle-based artist, and one half of the soul-rap duo THEESatisfaction. Following the death of Prince Rogers Nelson, she explores the influence the icon had on her identity, her artistry and her celebratory Black Weirdo parties. When I was 13, I thought we were all going to die. Everyone in the world, on the same day, at the same time. Somehow the streets would burst into flames, the world would collapse and we would simply not be here.
How to support the Black Lives Matter movement – A list of funds and organisations who need your help
The recent deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police brutality have called attention to the deadly effects of racism and state violence around the world. In light of this, protesters have been arrested and met with hostility by the police force and Trump administration. In order to support the vital campaigns seeking justice for Floyd, Taylor and countless others, please engage with the resources below and donate what you can to any of the following organisations.
Amnesia Scanner: Reprocessing Realities
“I’m such a stylist!” Ville Haimala laughs as he carts a bright orange office chair into the small corner studio he and his musical partner Martti Kalliala share with their label PAN. He’s arranging the room for their Crack Magazine photoshoot, the little metal tag on the back pocket of his Prada jeans flapping with every stride.
Bárbaro Rivas Showed Me the Value of My Own Complicated Heritage
Elephant and Artsy have come together to present This Artwork Changed My Life, a creative collaboration that shares the stories of life-changing encounters with art. A new piece will be published every two weeks on both Elephant and Artsy. Together, our publications want to celebrate the personal and transformative power of art. Out today on Artsy is Suchandrika Chakrabarti on Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Ms Nina has logged on
© Felipe Longoni Ms Nina is power walking through the cobbled streets of her Madrid neighbourhood. She’s running late for a hair appointment that she’s had booked in for months, and if she misses it, she won’t be able to see her favourite stylist until she’s back from a lengthy US tour. Her hair, currently a brassy shade of blonde, has been long overdue for change. “I’m dyeing my hair darker, I’m tired of this colour,” she pants down a WhatsApp line.
The Knife's ‘Silent Shout’ forever skewed the landscape of subversive pop
Label: Rabid Records Original release date: 17 February 2006 “Scandinavian” once meant a certain thing in pop: clean, bright, peppy. As the millennium turned, the Stockholm juggernaut let loose by Denniz Pop and Max Martin went global, drawing a line from ABBA through Ace of Base to Robyn, and beyond to Britney and the Backstreet Boys. Sweden became the top per capita exporter of music perfectly constructed for world domination, drawing endless critical parallels to IKEA furniture.
Goya Gumbani is bringing the sound of NYC's new generation to London
Despite currently residing in London, Goya Gumbani is a firmly New York MC. Alongside the likes of Medhane, MIKE and Slauson Malone, Gumbani is helping to revive and reimagine the city’s boom-bap legacy. New project HGR Presents: A Thousand Months sees the rapper drop classic flows over sparkling beats that recall the likes of Just Blaze and NYC era Kanye.
20 Questions: Sega Bodega
Sega Bodega’s sound is difficult to pin down. As co-founder of NUXXE, the independent London label bending electronic music into strange new shapes, his work has centred around the innovative and unexpected. Take his latest single Salv Goes to Hollywood – a work that bounces around propulsive industrial clanks, meandering ambient and melodic R&B flourishes, in just three minutes.
Meditations... on the white-washing of Latinx music
© Jude Gardner-Rolfe As Latinx music climbs up the charts, it has increasingly become subject to miscategorisation in mainstream pop culture. Here, Rachel Grace Almeida considers the consequences, and how they affect Latinx people longing for representation. The first time I saw a Latinx artist on MTV, it was a posthumous video of Selena’s Dreaming of You, released in 1995.
Photographer Jake Millers captures Manchester’s independent spirit
Jake Millers is a Mancunian photographer with a strong visual identity. Born and raised in the North, he has a strong cultural understanding of the region, and has risen to prominence thanks to his sharp eye for fashion and everyday life. That’s what made him the perfect choice to shoot the explosive Manchester rapper Aitch, whose critically acclaimed mixtape, Aitch20, has cemented him as a beacon for UK hip-hop.
20 Questions: Best Coast
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Best Coast (nearly five years, to be exact). The Los Angeles duo, made up of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, first arrived with their sun-soaked debut album Crazy For You in 2010 – a blissful iteration of surf rock, with Cosentino’s breezy vocals evoking the West Coast warmth that’s proven such a lasting influence.
AYA's new dance theory
© Kevin Mason “You’re probably feeling quite melodramatic right now.” It’s not a phrase you would expect a DJ to utter into a microphone during the emotional peak of their set. Most of us would be surprised to hear a DJ speak so intimately to their crowd at all.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist on BTS’ groundbreaking London exhibition
This month, we were blessed with the news that K-pop superstars BTS are set to return with their next album, Map of the Soul: 7. In the lead-up to the album’s release on 21 February, the group have teased a mysterious project entitled Connect, BTS. Pinned to each Army member’s calendar, the group have – finally – revealed what the big project is: a global art series spanning five cities, and involving 22 artists – including some of the world’s leading names, such as Antony Gormley.
Downtime: Georgia
Welcome to Downtime: a regular series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This month, we catch up with Georgia. First arriving in 2015 with her excellent self-titled debut album, Georgia was a promising leader at the forefront of a new wave of British artists. The album, a work that jumps between pop and electroclash, packs an emotional punch, exploring all the ways heartache can shape a person.
Virginia: Pop Music for Rave Kids
© Alexander Kilian Perched above Panorama Bar sit the meticulous offices of Ostgut Ton, the orderly working space for the officious team behind the club and label. Its clean interiors, opaque walls and purposeful ambiance sit somewhat in contrary to the fury of heathen decadence that occurs beneath its floors on the weekends.
Downtime: Midland
Welcome to Downtime: a regular series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This month, we catch up with Midland. For the past decade, Harry Agius – aka Midland – has distinguished himself as one of UK club music’s best-loved figures.
20 Questions: Galcher Lustwerk
Galcher Lustwerk might just be the most low-key artist working in electronic music today. Moody and hypnotising, Lustwerk’s productions have inhabited a distinctive corner of house music since his 2015 debut. Galloping, repetitive beat loops swirl around his subtle stream-of-consciousness raps, creating a stylish sonic landscape that you can get lost in for hours on end. But it’s not just his music that possesses this subdued after-hours candour.
How Extinction Rebellion's graphic design amplified their year of radical activism
© Lauren Marina When designer Clive Russell first met Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, he was blocking traffic on Marylebone Road, protesting poor air quality in London. Hallam mentioned a then-unnamed, decentralised movement, that would make the urgent message of climate crisis unavoidable. “I told him, ‘If we’re going to do this properly, give us more time to get a design,’” Russell says.
Battles on what to read and watch during your downtime
Welcome to Downtime, a series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This month, we catch up with New York two-piece Battles. Battles formed in 2002, masterminded by a set of musicians who’d cut their teeth in math rock. Their 2007 debut, Mirrored, remains a touchstone for bracing, strange and defiantly avant-garde music.
Sudan Archives is conjuring alternative realities
In ancient Greek mythology, Athena is the goddess of warfare and wisdom. What’s lesser known, perhaps, is that Athena has also been linked to the Egyptian goddess Neith. It’s this detail that inspired white academic Martin Bernal’s work Black Athena, which explores the debt Greek culture owes to Africa and the Middle East.
Meditations on... the white-washing of Latinx music
© Jude Gardner-Rolfe As Latinx music climbs up the charts, it has increasingly become subject to miscategorisation in mainstream pop culture. Here, Rachel Grace Almeida considers the consequences, and how they affect Latinx people longing for representation. The first time I saw a Latinx artist on MTV, it was a posthumous video of Selena’s Dreaming of You, released in 1995.
Downtime: Pelada on political books you need to read
Welcome to Downtime: a regular series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This month, we catch up with Pelada. Coming up through Montreal’s warehouse rave scene, Pelada inhabit a unique space in electronic music. The duo, made up of vocalist Chris Vargas and producer Tobias Rochman, fuse a patchwork of influences to create an entirely new sound.
20 Questions: Thurston Moore
As part of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore made history. The iconic New York band spearheaded a new 80s punk movement – one that prioritised musical experimentation but stayed true to its anti-establishment roots. A source of inspiration for what feels like every single guitar band that came after them, their grip on the zeitgeist has never loosened.
Bakar on fashion week and his multidisciplinary approach
Words: Ashleigh Kane Photography: Machine Operated Styling: Ade Udoma All clothes: Telfar Global Amongst a labyrinth of hallways in a set of south London warehouses functioning as everything from a co-working cafe to a casting call, I walk past a flurry of anxious models to an empty corridor where a rack of Telfar clothes and accessories are being packed away.
20 Questions: Lykke Li
When Lykke Li made her debut with the quickly-iconic Little Bit in 2007, she established herself as an alt-pop enigma. Introverted by nature, the Swedish singer and songwriter creates a curious blend of pop, folk and electro – an intoxicating sound which would eventually cement her name as an unlikely pop powerhouse. And despite her current star status, Li doesn’t give too much away. We try to get to know her a little better. What’s something most people don’t know about you?
The Click: Pixies
In his own words, Frank Black looks back at the transient spell that inspired him to form Pixies When I was in college, I was really restless. I wanted to get out of my hometown and just travel, everywhere and anywhere. One day while I was at school, someone walked into my Spanish class and said, “Anyone that would like to go to Puerto Rico for an exchange programme, sign up here.” It was like joining the army or something.
Metronomy's Joe Mount on what to watch during your downtime
Welcome to Downtime: a series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This month, we catch up with Metronomy frontman Joe Mount. For the last decade, Metronomy have been the unofficial soundtrack to wistful coming-of- age drives along the coast with your mates – even if they’re just imaginary. The Devon five-piece, led by Joe Mount, are known for their slick brand of electronic-leaning pop that invokes a certain small-town escapism.
What does it mean to be an Extremely Online musician?
The recent tide in music culture might be characterised by the industry’s seismic shift towards being fully online. From the radical, Marxist notion of artists seizing the means of production and crafting entire sonic worlds from their laptop to record labels’ frantic scramble to adapt to streaming.
20 Questions: Jubilee
There’s something about Miami’s humid, salty air and fuzzy neon lights that whips its dancefloors into hysteria. But behind the veneer of the city’s kitsch, lovably sleazy aesthetic, there is a booming Miami bass movement driving its music scene forward, and Jubilee – real name Jessica Gentile – is a key figure.
Common ground: Holly Herndon in conversation with James Bridle
© KESH Holly Herndon is the American composer, performer and musical futurist who has just released her third album, PROTO, with the help of both a vocal ensemble – hearkening back to her gospel and folk singing roots in East Tennessee – and a self-built, nascent artificial intelligence called Spawn, which uses machine learning to interpret vocal characters and composition techniques. In 2018, Herndon released Godmother, the track that introduced Spawn to the world.
The criminalisation of rap in Brazil is having fatal consequences
For most people living in Zona Sul (South Zone), Rio de Janeiro, it would be a strange sight to see a car riddled with 111 bullet holes driving around the city during the day. A tourist hotspot – and home to Christ the Redeemer – the area is less accustomed to the violence that has become increasingly common elsewhere in the city.
Downtime: Crumb
Welcome to Downtime: a new series in which we ask our favourite artists for their cultural recommendations. This can be anything – but music. This month, we catch up with Crumb. The Brooklyn-based band, made up of Lila Ramani, Jesse Brotter, Brian Aronow and Jonathan Gilad, brought their neo-psychedelic visions into focus with their recently-released debut album Jinx. Here, the four-piece take a break from their busy tour schedule to fill us in on what they like to watch in their spare time.
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