Up Close and Personal with San Francisco’s Original Punks
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long before it became a playground for budding millionaires, San Francisco was a city filled with freaks. Its punk scene, like a lot of early punk scenes, drew art students, outcasts, weirdos, and plenty of people just looking for a new kind of kick. Ruby…
On the Road With Jacob Collier
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we went to Irving Plaza in New York City to get to know Jacob Collier, the 24-year-old hyper-kinetic, preternaturally talented British composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Collier began releasing YouTube videos in his teens that featured complex arrangements of pop songs and playfully…
Forget the Neon—This New Photo Collection Shows Darkness and Decay Along America’s Highway
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Robert Frank’s mid-’50s photographic romp around the United States—captured in his seminal book The Americans—canonized the road trip as a photographic right-of-passage. Since then, many notable photographers have taken the temperature of the country via the open road, with varying degrees of success. Among the…
A Photographer Reveals How a Shrinking African Landscape Leaves Little Room for Animals to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s new book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson), he explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one another’s way. “There is a very finite amount of space,” Brandt tells Mother Jones. “There isn’t room for both humans and…
A Photographer Placed African Animals Against an Industrial Landscape—And the Result is Mesmerizing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s third book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson) photographs animals as others might photograph people—shooting close, revealing portraits instead of more traditional wildlife images. His newest work in East Africa explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one…
On the Road with Esperanza Spalding
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Esperanza Spalding seems to do it all. The ever-evolving bassist-vocalist-composer emerged from the jazz scene in the early 2000s, winning the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2010, and she’s been relentlessly pushing the boundaries of the genre ever since. Her most recent album, 12…