Music
Patti Smith’s Advice To The Young
Patti Smith’s Advice To The Young by Fábio Vermelho. Check out Fábio’s instagram and store if you like...
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Memories
Leonard Cohen’s memories should all be held in oversized marbles sitting caviar-like in a sacred container surrounded by a lifetime of artifacts, signed promotional photos and adoring press clippings. The centerpieces of a cluttered display case. Full of life, full of...
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Inside the head of…Emily Barker
Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to the hit PBS Masterpiece drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. Growing up in rural Western Australia, Barker fell in love with American roots music from the soul of Aretha Franklin...
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None More Black: Leonard Cohen’s “The Old Revolution”
The Old Revolution “I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain. Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, All the brave young men They’re waiting now to see a signal Which some killer will be lighting for pay. Into this furnace I ask...
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Recipes from the Rancho De La Luna
The recipes below come from two of Joshua Tree’s finest residents and feature smoked meat and tequila, a unfuckwithable combination. Dave Catching (from bands such as Eagles of Death Metal, Earthlings?, Mojave Lords & Masters of Reality) who runs Rancho De...
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John K. Samson’s Very Fine Kale Salad.
This spring while I was in LA I sent both John K. Samson (Manitoban, writer, solo artist, frontman of The Weakerthans) and A$AP Rocky postcards asking for recipes, with my email written at the bottom. John K. got a kitsch 70s postcard with a girl sitting on a swing...
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Inside the head of…Esme Patterson
Esme Patterson is a singer songwriter from Denver, Colorado with three solo albums under her belt, and one with the band Paper Bird. We first discovered her when a friend of ours gave us a copy of Woman to Woman, her 2014 album which gives voice to the women...
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Soaked to the skin by Leonard Cohen
The last time I saw Leonard Cohen perform live was in the square outside the Santa Croce church in Florence, Italy. It’s a small square, no more than 1000 people sitting on rickety white plastic chairs over cobbled stones. When you looked up, through the fairy...
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An Ode To Almost Famous
‘Music, you know, true music – not just rock and roll – it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone listening to your headphones…with the vast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It’s a place apart from the vast, benign lap of America’. – Lester Bangs...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 3
My original plan was that I would somehow get hold of Puff Daddy, I would grill him about his and Biggie’s favourite old haunts in Brooklyn and the two of us would go on some kind of crazy restaurant crawl, at the end of which we would be best friends. Puffy...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 2
Illustrations by Chris Harward. Photos by Sarah Crowder. Sophie and I have been “going back to Cali” at least once a year every year for the last three years now. We drive around in rented cars (I say “we” but it is always Sophie driving since...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. part 1
Illustrations by Chris Harward On this day 19 years ago Biggie was killed. I was two weeks away from my 12th birthday when Christopher Wallace (aka the notorious B.I.G) was shot dead outside the Peterson Automative museum in Los Angeles, and I had no idea who he was....
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