Borshch – Issue 6

coming home

Lately, everything’s been weird. The feeling of vulnerability, fragmentation of time, space and memory, lack of solid ground. Many of us went back to the old ways of listening to music — glued to the speakers in your room. Is it daytime, or is it dark already? Remember your room was your whole universe? Feels like it’s time to return to where you started, to come back home. Remember what mattered to you before you grew up. Were you naive and unlearned? Or did you know yourself better before someone told you how to think of yourself and what to want and what to call for?

In our conversations, Lanark Artefax, Lyra Pramuk, Nazar, Hiro Kone, Bill Kouligas, Amnesia Scanner, Farwarmth, Helena Hauff and Racine review pieces and bits of their memories, values, and intentions with creating music. When you return to where you started and remember the days when the world was big, and you were small, and nothing was impossible, you start to play again. You free and protect your inner child. You are at home.

Record Culture Magazine Issue 8, 2020.

Featuring Louise Chen, John Gómez, Apiento, Regularfantasy, Lauer, Beatrice Dillon, Public Possession, River Yarra, Sadar Bahar, Anthony Naples, and the visual feature, “A Decade of Power and L.I.E.S.”

228 pages, Perfect bound, Softcover
Printing: KOPA, EU

Das Wetter #22

mit 112 Seiten Inhalt und sieben Titelstories – um unseren siebten Geburtstag zu feiern. Das heißt:

Wir trafen die Frankfurter Urgesteine und Streetrap-Pioniere Celo & Abdi im Stadion des FSV Frankfurt zum ausführlichen Gespräch, organisierten ein großes 10-Seiten-Gespräch zwischen zwei der relevantesten literarischen Stimmen zur Zeit: Mely Kiyak und Mac Czollek. Zudem portraitierten wir den Rapper Serious Klein und trafen die Schriftstellerin Stefanie Sargnagel, von der in diesem Herbst endlich ihr Debütroman erscheint, in Wien. 

Außerdem sprachen wir auch ausführlich mit der großen Soulsängerin Joy Denalane, dem Musiker Valentin Hansen (interviewt von der Schriftstellerin Paulina Czienskowski) und Joana Tischkau und Anta Helena Recke, den beiden Macherinnen des Deutschen Museums für Schwarze Unterhaltung & Black Music.

Darüber hinaus in Das Wetter #22: Leonhard Hieronymi spricht mit Barbara Zeman, Marius Goldhorn spricht mit Ben Lerner, die Sammlung Simonow geht in die dritte Folge, eine Bildstrecke zu Tereza‘s Blue Space Record Store Tour, drei Gedichte von Semra Ertan, ein Interview mit Reezy, ein Portrait von Rosa Anschütz, der Text „Grauzone“ von Lea Crescenti, The Screenshots, Yung FSK18 und ein Ausschnitt aus dem neuen Korbinian-Buch des Regisseurs und Autors Jan Koslowski.

Mit Texten von: Davide Bortot, Jan Wehn, Johann Voigt, Lea Crescenti, Leonhard Hieronymi, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Marius Goldhorn, Paulina Czienskowski, Roxana Höchsmann, Sascha Ehlert, Teresa Guggenberger, Jan Koslowski und Yannic Niang.

Mit Bildern von: Anna Breit, Humberto Cruz, Bahar Kaygusuz, Danny Sommerfeld, Frederike Wetzels, Luis Krawen, Maša Stanić, Neven Allgeier, Paula Otten, Philipp König, Soumey Amadou, Svenja Trierscheid und Till Wilhelm. 

Covers ship randomly for pre-orders

Dazed Autumn 2020 Issue: Read up Act Up issue

Now we know what the world looks like when it shuts down, what will the future be? Fronted by a series of text-led covers, this autumn issue replaces cover stars with conversation, celebrating the power of words to inspire, inform and reimagine the world anew. We invite six essential figures leading the fight for progressive change to guest-edit their own section. Bringing together a multitude of voices, their stories tackle the issues that matter most right now, from the ongoing fight for prison abolition to racial injustice and the future of creative protest.

Black Lives Matter International ambassador Janaya Future Khan guides us through the explosive growth of the movement and its future trajectory; Wide Awakes, an activist group with its roots in the 19th-century anti-slavery movement, reboot creative protest for 2020; rapper and abolitionist Noname invites incarcerated artists and thinkers to imagine a world without prisons; Grace Wales Bonner talks Black rhythmicality for the launch of her new digital project Between Critique and Hope; Shayne Oliver and friends unveil a radical manifesto for new residency and community hub Anonymous Club; and Samuel
Ross uses his inspiring grant initiative as a springboard for a survey of Black entrepreneurs across the UK.

THE COVERS

JANAYA FUTURE KHAN: The Black Lives Matter ambassador presents their expansive roadmap for the future, including a discussion between BLM activists past and present, a tribute to US statesman John Lewis and more in a special cover designed by Harsh Patel

NONAME: The Chicago rapper dreams of another world in a collaged cover created by artist Jazz Grant; inside, she links up with incarcer-ated people across the US for a powerful meditation on the meaning of abolition WIDE AWAKES: Resurrecting the spirit of a protest movement that changed the course of politics in America, Wide Awakes light the way for the future of protest, with an inspiring cover designed by artist Hank Willis Thomas

GRACE WALES BONNER: For the launch of her new digital educational platform, Between Critique and Hope, the London designer dives deep on the theme of Black rhythmicality, in conversation with poet Petero Kalulé

ANONYMOUS CLUB: The school mutated out of what Hood By Air started, Shayne Oliver’s Anonymous Club presents a new manifesto for cultural creators
SAMUEL ROSS: Following his launch of a series of cross-platform grants, the designer presents a special digital cover exploring Black British futures, featuring David Lammy, Munroe Bergdorf, Rhea Dillon and more

THE FEATURES
THE CURRICULUM: Meet the youth activists, educators and MPs calling for a new history curriculum that confronts the UK’s imperial past – plus, a patriarchal punch-up from comic writer Bobby Joseph CONFUSED NEWS: As lockdown madness grips, writers Steve Beale, Sulagna Misra and Nadia Isle step through the looking glass of our new, weird reality STUART HALL LIBRARY + INIVA: Exploring the treasure trove of the radical arts institution’s archive – plus new work from contemporary artists inspired by the cultural theorist’s legacy HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH: Tourmaline – the filmmaker behind Happy Birthday, Marsha! and the MoMA-acquired Salacia – lenses her creative NYC family LOCKDOWN REVELATIONS: Connected by the six degrees of separation, six graphic artists and creatives dream up new possibilities forpost-lockdown life
BLACKMASS PUBLISHING: Presenting printed ephemera from a “Black epic” of the imagination, the indie NY publishers reveal the improvisa-
tory spirit that binds their works

INTERVIEW #532: “LANA DEL REY,” - September 2020

Who is Lana del Rey? She is Elizabeth Grant, the New York City-born musician who got her start playing Brooklyn’s underground club circuit. She is the scrappy singer who uploaded two homemade videos to the internet, only to watch her career explode in the aftermath. She is the self-described underdog, an oft-misunderstood purveyor of glamorous and tragic Americana, apocalypse and utopia, breathless romance, and devastating isolation—often crashing into one another. And she is our September 2020 cover star. In our new issue, the first in our history made entirely remotely, the elusive pop star talks to her producer Jack Antonoff about her upcoming album, going country, and the end of the world. Elsewhere in the issue, fashion industry oracle Bethann Hardison tells Zendaya why her fight for diversity is far from over, and movie-star-in-the-making Antony Ramos and his A Star Is Born director Bradley Cooper dissect the fallacy of stardom. Meanwhile, the author Emma Cline talks daddy issues and directing with the legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jabari Brisport look to make all kinds of trouble. 

Ahead of the release of his latest novel Inside Story, Martin Amis sits down with his friend Salman Rushdie to reflect on the friends they lost and the literary movement to which they belonged. Nightlife legends Connie Girl and Honey Dijon reminisce on what it was like being a star below 14th Street, and the artist Lawrence Weiner has a conversation about art and abnegation with the rock star Kim Gordon. And feminist icon Gloria Steinem answers a bunch of questions from some of her famous friends and admirerers. All that, and so much more.

Ships end of September/beginning of October

VOLUME N^o 37

THE UNDEFINED ISSUE

Undefined; adjective. Without fixed limits; indefinite in form, extent, or application.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Full of 200+ pages of music, culture and beautiful living,
• Often compared to a book in terms of size and quality,
• Perfect for your coffee table or backpack,
• Each tmrw volume is printed on recycled paper in the United Kingdom,
• We’re proud to be partnered with Offset Earth to help lower our impact on the climate.

RAVE

Rainald Goetz

Translated by Adrian Nathan West

Published 1 July 2020
French paperback with flaps, 264 pages

Wax Poetics – Issue 68

At Wax Poetics, we put music in context. Closing the noticeable gap in music journalism between coverage of contemporary artists and celebration of classic trailblazers, we provide extensive commentary on the dynamic relationship between past and present to educate today’s ears about the origins of their favorite music. What we started in December 2001 as a quarterly magazine, both classic and fresh, has grown into a diversified music media resource for music aficionados and general listeners alike. From our signature approach to print media to our giant steps into new media and the recording industry, we strive to revolutionize the way we educate ourselves about music.

Wax Poetics magazine makes the perfect stepping-stone for the endless possibilities of Wax Poetics media outlets. The strength of our name relies on a passion for quality music and the history that contextualizes it.

In this issue:

Wax Poetics Journal is back for 2020 with Digable Planets c/o P.M. Dawn.

Other contents include British synth-pop band the System; synthesizer futurist (and Dilla samplee) Raymond Scott; singer-songwriter Susaye Green (Stevie Wonder, Supremes); jazz-funk icon James Mason; Brazil’s biggest band Novos Baianos; disco drummer/producer Cerrone; Rap-A-Lot Records and the Geto Boys; and hip-hop photographer Frank White.

zweikommasieben Magazin #21

Even at issue number 21 of zweikommasieben, it remains challenging to identify a common theme among the different contributions gathered in a magazine. What is the “thing” to which we have dedicated ourselves issue after issue?

Over the years, it has become clear that the “thing” that continues to captivate us is in flux, as are its possible definitions. Various contributions to the current issue of this magazine attest to this permanent development, too. And whatever our “thing” might be called or actually might be, the following has become clearer in the recent past: the boundaries separating different artistic practices have been dissolving more and more. Also this second assertion seems to be present again in the interviews and texts present in zweikommasieben #21.

The contributions in the current issue hint a third unifying characteristic of our “thing”: in the context of the developments and the cross-disciplinary thinking, music does not figure largely anymore. More often than not, it is a starting point and stimulus for further thinking rather than anything else. This assertion might seem contradictory coming from a magazine that claims to be devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sounds. Yet, it does not seem to be problematic for the artists appearing. It no longer seems necessary to have an answer to the question, what function music fulfils within our “thing.” Or what else it might be about. Rather, the nature of our “thing” reveals itself in the work and the talk—and, so we hope, in the act of reading.

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Co-published with Motto Books.

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Language: English/German
Edition: 2000
Pages: 144
Release date: June, 2020

Wonderland Summer 2020 Issue

Covering Wonderland’s Summer 2020 issue is breakout actor Paul Mescal, who talks through his role as Connell in the screen adaptation of Salley Rooney’s Normal People, the pressures and privilege of taking on a well-loved character and the cultural impact of the show. Alongside Mescal, the issue includes features with actors Indya Moore and Maisie Williams, music artists SZA and Princess Nokia, and others making waves across the creative industries including Maya Hawke, Dove Cameron, Evan Mock and Rafferty Law. With many of the images created in self-isolation at home, this issue celebrates the creativity and imagination of each talent involved, spotlighting individuals who are sharing their experiences of the world and shaping a new one with their art.

A collection of Los Angeles Rave Flyers from 1991 to 1994.
Courtesy of Victor Stapf.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

A collection of San Francisco Rave Flyers from 1991 to 1993.
Courtesy of Dano Lepez.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

A collection of San Francisco Rave Flyers from 1990 to 1993.
Courtesy of Sioen Roux.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

A collection of New York Rave Flyers from 1991 to 1995.
Courtesy of Ernie Villalobos.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

A collection of U.K. Rave Flyers from 1991 to 1996. 
Courtesy of Stefania Fiorendi and Junior Tomlin.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

A collection of New York Rave Flyers from 1990 to 1995.

Published by Colpa Press, 88 pgs, 21 × 13.5 cm, Softcover, 2019

Mischief; noun. This volume looks at playful misbehaviour. The rule-breakers and the game-changers. The ones who take what is normal and make it their own – ensuring they have fun with what they’re doing along the way.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Full of 200+ pages of music, culture and beautiful living,
• Often compared to a book in terms of size and quality,
• Perfect for your coffee table or backpack,
• Each tmrw volume is printed on recycled paper in the United Kingdom,
• We’re proud to be partnered with Offset Earth to help lower our impact on the climate.

Das Wetter #21 mit 244 Seiten Inhalten, großem 148 Seiten-Sonderheft in Zusammenarbeit mit den Münchner Kammerspielen (Coverfoto von Wolfgang Tillmans) unter Matthias Lilienthal und exklusiver 10-seitiger Tourreportage von  RINs Nimmerland-Tour (fotografiert von Martin Tamba (@brownshootta)). Plus: 070 Shake (fotografiert von Nina Francesca Nagele), Erotik Toy Records (fotografiert von Jonas Höschl) und viele (sehr viele) mehr.

mit Texten von: Elfriede Jelinek, Mira Mann, Damian Rebgetz, Jovana Reisinger, Julia Riedler, Nicolas Rühle, Friederike Ernst, Leif Randt, Benjamin Radjaipour, Toshiki Okada, Julian Warner, Anna Landefeld, Leonhard Hieronymi, Enis Maci & Pascal Richmann, Klitclique, raumlaborberlin, Juno Meinecke, Josef Bierbichler, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Christoph Gurk, Jan Wehn, Sascha Ehlert, Naima Limdighri, Emilia von Senger, Marius Goldhorn, Neslihan Yakut, Teresa Guggenberger, Felix Diewald, Charlotte Krafft, André Simonow, Johann Voigt, Caroline Elsen, Anton Weil & Luna Ali.

Dear Slimi magazine aficionados,
It is with great pleasure that I present you with this very special release: The Music Issue.
Our aim is to take you through a Music journey in our pages, a dream full of inspiration thanks to the creative talents in our shoots, stories & interviews.
For this purpose, we have teamed up with top artists O set, Shay and Lindsay Lohan for our 5 covers.
Mais aussi, we teamed up with two major fashion houses in the industry: Saint Laurent & Gucci, where we interpret the latest collections in our special
stories.
Finally, Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Happy reading,

INTERVIEW #531: “SELENA GOMEZ,” - SPRING 2020

At just 27 years old, Selena Gomez is, in no particular order, a global pop-star with three number-one albums, the fifth-most followed person on Instagram, an actor since the age of 7, an executive producer of documentaries and television, a tabloid fixation, a philanthropist, a mental health advocate, and, most recently, the founder of an inclusive beauty line. She can now add two-time Interview cover star to her resume. In our new Spring 2020 issue, Gomez connects with her close friend Amy Schumer to reassure her—and us—that despite all the strife, she’s doing better than fine. Elsewhere in the issue, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright makes an urgent case for the power of democracy to her friend and admirer Amy Poehler, and mogul-in-the-making Issa Rae sounds off on everything from dating apps to fashion week. Meanwhile, the boxing phenom Ryan Garcia has some fighting words for his mentor, the legendary pugilist Oscar De La Hoya, while Ashton Sanders reveals to his fellow actor Tessa Thompson why Hollywood can be “a little sus.”  

Ahead of the release of her third novel, Death in Her Hands, acclaimed author Otessa Moshfegh tells the artist Alex Israel why her year has been neither restful nor relaxing. The iconic actor Michael Caine schools his co-star Aubrey Plaza on the art of being famous, and the viral rap sensation Lil Tecca gets real with fellow hip-hip misfit Rico Nast about high school, haters, and some naked cats. In an editorial photographed by Pierre-Ange Carlotti and styled by Interview’s Mel Ottenberg, the supermodel Irina Shayk makes solitude chic, The Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes gets paid a visit by his friend, the artist Rachel Whiteread, to discuss his new book on the dawn of the dandy, while the filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga takes Miranda July through the highs and lows of making a James Bond movie. All that, and so much more.

HUNGER: THE FUTURE ISSUE 018

Created at the dawn of a new decade, HUNGER: THE FUTURE ISSUE is a tribute to the very real new era of gender politics, beauty, fashion, technology and the climate emergency. Some of the world’s most prolific change-makers front this special issue – including cover stars:

• Actor and Quentin Tarantino muse Margaret Qualley
• Controversial whistleblower and author Christopher Wylie
• The dark side of rising R&B star RAYE

All of the cover stars, fashion and beauty stories are styled using “no new clothing” – only archive, vintage and second-hand clothes. This commitment is a direct response to the climate emergency and our changing relationship to fashion, as well as a celebration of DIY style and hacking designer goods.

Elsewhere in HUNGER: THE FUTURE ISSUE:

• A special art section guest-edited by DJ, poet, artist, musician and futurist Juliana Huxtable
• Exclusive interview with artist Trevor Paglen
• DIY fashion stories by guest fashion editor NeeshaTulsiChampaneria
• Anna Wiener’s memoir and takedown of Silicon Valley’s startup bubble, Uncanny Valley, alongside photographs by Laura Morton
• Interviews with a series of “anti-influencers”: singer and poet Arlo Parks, writer Nathalie Olah, internet personality Charity Shop Sue and LVMH prize-nominated designerPriya Ahluwalia

Stranger Than Kindness

NICK CAVE

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke.

Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit.

The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in March 2020.

Besides providing botanical content in a simple, personal and cozy way; The Plant offers plant lovers a new look at greenery by featuring the works of many creative people who share our love for plants.

As a curious observer of ordinary plants and other greenery, the magazine presents a monograph on a specific plant; bringing together photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, writers and visual artists, both established and emerging, from all over the world.

These people share with The Plant their unique perceptions and experiences of plants.

Also in the issue...

Rema's intergalactic afrobeats / The girls of Rocks / Meet some of the Dazed 100 / Fast times in the Hype House / Future youth inLagos and New Delhi / 100 gecs' virtual living

To kick off the new decade, we’re featuring one of the most enduring stars of the last one (and the one before that). Jennifer Aniston has covered many, many magazines over the course of her career—many not by choice—but never quite like this. On the heels of her career renaissance thanks to her blistering performance on the Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show, the 51-year-old actor connected with one of her closest friends, Sandra Bullock, for a candid conversation about lifetime bonds, brown liquor, and that time they dated the same guy. Elsewhere, another ‘90s sitcom queen and national treasure Julia Louis-Dreyfus opens the floor for questions from 21 of her famous friends and admirers.   

Ahead of her North American film debut in the live-action remake of Mulan, the Chinese superstar Yifei Liu tells Awkwafina what it’s like bringing a beloved character to life. Meanwhile, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts tells his Little Women director Greta Gerwig why his new Broadway play The Minutes is not—but sort of is—a commentary on the Trump era. Superstar producer and social media savant Diplo inhabits a rogues gallery of alter-egos as he tries on 15 boot-cut pants in roughly 15 minutes. The pop sensation Normani answers questions from the writings of Andy Warhol, while the artist Alex Da Corte tells his friend, the musician St. Vincent, about his modern-day reinvention of the violent “Chicken Happening” (you have to read it to believe it). And the Estonian hip-hop curiosity takes us on a hallucinatory tour of the former Soviet Bloc. All that, and so much more.

Escapism; noun. The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. Alongside your bi-monthly slice of culture, fashion and photography, you’ll find exclusive shoots and interviews with FLETCHER, Young Dolph, Brandz & Zion, Deathbyromy, Mad Teeth, Mozzy, Oscar Jerome, Sam Dotia and Spencer Barnett.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Full of 200+ pages of music, culture and beautiful living,
• Often compared to a book in terms of size and quality,
• Perfect for your coffee table or backpack,
• Each tmrw volume is printed on recycled paper in the United Kingdom,
• We’re proud to be partnered with Offset Earth to help lower our impact on the climate.