Sorbet - Winter 2020/21, Issue 30

Sorbet’s Winter 2020/21 issue is a few parts dirty, a few parts 30, and most parts, a party to mark our milestone 30th issue, and celebrate the end of 2020. We talk to celebrity event planners about how to downscale in size but upscale in style; we bring you stories from the most monumental parties in history; we celebrate men in dresses; and provide a menu fit for a 30th bash, designed by our dear friend Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno. We shot a house party in Jeddah with Gucci and Saudi songstress Tamtam, a beach party in the Emirates, a party in the jungle with Chanel, and a hundred balloons with Bottega Veneta. And would you even believe it, our cover star Monica Bellucci first stepped off runways and onto the silver screen 30 years ago. For this celebratory issue, master photographer Ellen Von Unwerth captures the Italian actress as Madonna in her most iconic video, ‘Material Girl,’ surrounded by sparkling rocks and strapping lads. Mamma mia!

Wonderland Winter 2020 Issue

The Face – Vol. 4 Issue 5

The original style magazine returns with the best music, movies and fashion in the world (with added pandemic, politics and protest).

For our winter issue, we made the decision to focus, predominantly, on stories from within our own shores.

Starring! Jorja Smith, Beabadoobee, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Gabriel Krauze, Munya Chawawa, Ify Adenuga and Stormzy.

A celebration of extraordinary Black voices, and the first chapter of i-D’s 40th anniversary issue (1980-2020).⁣

Comes with different covers.

Get Familiar Magazine Issue 02
Interviews with: KATHY IANDOLI - CHIKA - RONAN BENNETT (TOP BOY) - RAPSODY - DRILLMINISTER - TEAMARRR

Number of Pages: 36
Dimensions: 190 x 290 mm

Get Familiar is an independent and award-winning print magazine founded on the premise of celebrating everything that is hip-hop. We believe that hip-hop's increasing importance in business, marketing and consumption, warrants a platform that treats the genre's greater footprint, and not only its music, accordingly.

Without requiring you to be a fan of the music, our interviews and articles tell the universal stories of global tastemakers active in a wide range of industries - using hip-hop as the vehicle through which we address past, present and future socio-political issues. From music to literature and photography to politics, we strive to have our content reflect the versatility of the genre's influence.

zweikommasieben Magazin #22

A number of contributions in the new issue of zweikommasieben relate to the past in some shape or form, and they conjure it in different ways. An approach that seems adequate, since the year 2020 might have given momentum to a nostalgic way of looking at the world. In an interview, the Australian duo CS + Kreme talks about how they still feed off the energy of an alchemic jam they had at the very beginning of their collaboration. Similarly, Johanna Hedva takes on the past in her artistic practice and speaks about how she understands performances as “the communion with the dead, with the past.”

But how could what has passed become productive and how can we meet the reproach of nostalgia? Tracing connections between memories and the present provides a possible answer, as one comes across in an interview with Kamixlo. There, the artist recapitulates the long temporal reaches of the process that culminated in his latest album. The traces from the past can lead us back into the present, as they have changed the now, and following down these tracks might lead to the discovery of new pathways into the present.

Yet, we should not dismiss the comforting innocence of a passing recollection. British DJ and producer Mark Lawrence aka Mala presents such examples when he talks about the early parties organized by DMZ in Brixton. And so does Chinese artist Yikii, when she tells anecdotes about her school days. The reading of this issue, then, should be both an occasion to appraise the potential of the past in the present as well as for innocently savoring a nostalgic memory or two.

P.S. form issue #22 onward, zweikommasieben Magazin will cost CHF 14 (instead of CHF 12). This increase reflects two developments that have been unfolding over the past several issues: on the one hand, zweikommasieben is no longer solely a fanzine; rather, we are a magazine with professional structures that, among other things, seeks to compensate its contributing authors, photographers, graphic designers, translators, and editors. On the other hand, the magazine has grown in volume—more interviews, more photos, more texts, more pages—without ever changing its price so far. The first increase after five years ensures that we can pursue our project with the same commitment and professionalism in the future. We thank you for your understanding and continued support.

Language: English/German/Dutch/Polish
Edition: 2000
Pages: 157
Release date: November, 2020

Slimi Magazine Issue 13

Dear Slimi magazine Aficionados,

With great pleasure we share the passion behind hundreds of hours of work to present you with The Culture issue.

Let’s step forward together as we take you on an amazing dream brought to life then captured wondrously within our pages. 

Our journey was inspired by all the artistic talents we’ve been delighted to come across and brought together in our shoots, stories and interviews, combined with all the love that allowed us to present you with such creative and live content within these pages. Every great artist and photographer we have teamed up with in this difficult year has contributed to the 9 wonderful covers for this issue.

We celebrate wonder, diversity, cultures, as well as up and close interviews with aspiring artists that shine so bright you cannot help but want to sit down with and have a chat and document their light and color within these pages. 

Beloved reader, we hope that our modern interpretation of the Culture Issue is well conveyed, and our content will Inspire you further to appreciate and understand our vision at Slimi mag.

Finally lets ask ourselves, “What would our life look like without Culture?”

Enjoy the Culture discovery, happy reading, Sleiman Dayaa

Pop Magazine – Issue 43

Winter 2020/2021

A magazine for the generations of genuinely chic women and men who understand that fashion is a wonderful prism through which so much of contemporary creativity and cultural change is refracted. We’re living in a time of a new world order with fashion as a vibrant language. These are the days of POP.

INTERVIEW #533: “Nicolas Cage,” - 
Fall 2020

Nicolas Cage needs to work, but not necessarily for the reasons you and I need to work. At 56, the owner of one of the most eclectic filmographies in Hollywood history just can’t seem to slow down. And while his days at the top of the box office largely behind him—he was once one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, earning $40 million in 2009— speculation about his career choices persist: Is he paying off debts? Is he supporting his taste for rare artifacts? Is he just bored? As he tells his friend, the musician Marilyn Manson, in the cover story for our new Fall 2020 issue, the answer is as complicated as it is simple. Meanwhile, the inscrutable, avant-garde musician Arca contains so many multitudes that instead of one interview, they had three: with the artist Marina Abramović, the actor Oscar Isaac, and the pop supernova Rosalía. The screen legend Jane Fonda tells the actor and activist Indya Moore why climate change is a battle she thinks we can win, and the designer Rick Owens and Miley Cyrus trade road stories and UFO sightings. Ahead of the election, two of the most trusted voices in America, Charlamagne tha God and Stephen Colbert, have a candid discussion about where we are right now. Meanwhile, the acerbic acting icons Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland enjoy a perfectly dreadful conversation about the pain and the pleasure about what they do. 

Elsewhere in the issue, the author Ayad Akhtar and the actor Aasif Mandvi investigate the rot at America’s core, the directors Taika Waititi and Nia DaCosta talk horror movies and try their best not to obsess over money, and the Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors shares her items of self-care and self-preservation. And if that wasn’t enough, the supermodel Bella Hadid and the rising singer 070 Shake prove that good things come in small doses. All that, and so much more.

Hunger – Issue 19

For HUNGER’s 19th issue, we’re excited to announce a theme that we know resonates with these urgent times: DIY. So far this year, we’re in the midst of a pandemic and a recession, all while finally beginning to address the long-ignored realities of systemic racism. Dodging past crumbling systems and making change when no-one else will, a new wave of activists, punks and artists are claiming the future for their own – and we want to give them the credit they deserve.

Our DIY Issue is headed up by six talents who embody this radical spirit. Actor Malachi Kirby appears in frank conversation with close friend and Black Panther star Letitia Wright and Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen ahead of the release of Small Axe, an anthology series based on the experiences of London’s West Indian community. Paapa Essiedu opens up about working on cult hit I May Destroy You. In an era where LGBQTIA+ rights are continuously under threat, pop star Kim Petras gets candid about growing up trans in rural Germany and the need to show up for her community, no matter what. Mercury Prize-nominated rapper and Top Boy star Little Simz talks about life after critically-acclaimed album Grey Area, the emotional lows of quarantine and finding new purpose. The last of our cover stars, genre-defying musician Bree Runway discusses online trolls, battling colourism and how therapy is teaching her to love herself. Debuting in October as a Digital Cover, Ziwe, the host of Instagram show Baited with Ziwe – where she speaks to guests such as Caroline Calloway and Alyssa Milano about race – talks to fellow comedian Athena Kugblenu about mixing education with entertainment. Our Art Section is guest-edited by Ghanaian-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist Harold Offeh, In the spirit of Audre Lorde, he spotlights three artists making their own tools to dismantle the Master’s House: filmmaker and flagmaker Tanoa Sasraku, moving image artist Michelle Williams Gamaker and multimedia artist Zadie Xa.

The DIY Issue’s Documentary Section hones in on themes of community, featuring a profile of photographer Callum Malcolm-Kelly, who highlights southeast London nightlife and culture, and an investigation into the commodification of arts education alongside a series of portraits of Central Saint Martins students. Away from the capital, Nathan Appleyard explores the lost teenage summer in the Yorkshire countryside and further afield, Mexican photographer Nelson Morales documents the third gender muxe community in Oaxaca. Closing the issue, our Speaker’s Corner Section features op-eds from the founder of The Free Black University Melz Owusu, model and In Their Shoes author Jamie Windust and Camden Youth MP Athian Akec.

Wonderland Autumn 2020 Issue

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

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.

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

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