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Hayden Pedigo: Prince of the Panhandle
In this FRONTPAGE interview, the ‘West Texas Balenciaga’ (as dubbed by a fan) chats about music, pranks, and personal style.
The Cringiest Home Decor Trends, According to YouTubers and TikTokers
Cringe, a hotly debated term of disparagement, its flames fanned in all corners of the internet, is present—and the design world is not exempt from its tight clutches. While many influencers, tastemakers, and content creators that occupy this space share all the things they love without abandon, many have no qualms about sharing what home decor trends they can’t stand.
Breaking Through: Manuka Honey
A self-proclaimed “unhinged, hostile girl” and practicing astrologer, Manuka Honey is bringing otherworldly experimentation into her Latinx-infused club music.
Marissa Malik—otherwise known as Manuka Honey—released her debut EP, Industrial Princess, in 2021. It's directly tied to her love of astrology and her own birth chart: a Pisces sun, an Aries moon and a Gemini rising. The EP channels the planet Mars in the sign of Pisces, which presents a paradox, she explains over Zoom wearing an oversized Blade tee.
How to Heal Through Dance Therapy
Four practitioners offer tips on using physical movement to process emotions.
The Ultimate Raver's Diet
Eat, rave, rest, repeat. Here's our comprehensive guide for partying smarter in 2022.
January is a time for jumpstarting positive change for the upcoming year. Throughout the month, Resident Advisor explores the topic of wellness and self-improvement in dance music.
Exploring 20 Culture-Defining Moments of the Last Two Decades
Examining a complex new millennium
To mark the launch of The Cube, Telekom Electronic Beats’ new immersive 360° digital experience exploring the facets of our culture over the past two decades, we look at the trends and stories that shaped the last 20 years.
Nature Loves Courage Is a Dance Music Oasis at the End of the World
The first of its kind in Sougia, this intimate festival invites world class experimental artists like Juliana Huxtable, Kilbourne and DJ Diaki to the Cretan Village's picturesque shores.
"It's low-key the end of the world," Abyss X, founder and artistic director of Nature Loves Courage, says of Sougia, a small seaside village in southwest Crete where the festival just held its second edition.
Life Forces: We Read Call Super’s Tarot to Unlock the Key to His Creative Process
In the first edition of our new Life Forces series, we investigate the Gemini energy that influenced his latest album, Every Mouth Teeth Missing
Life Forces is a series where tarot reader, astrologer, and intuitive Bianca, from Life Forces Incorporated, taps into previously unseen cosmic territories with an artist. Both tarot and astrology are tools to understand ourselves better.
Life Forces: Kelly Lee Owens Is No Stranger to the Tarot
"Remember who you are. Remember that you have this kind of divinity, which we all have within us.” In this month's edition of Life Forces, we dig deeper into the mystical energy that inspired her 'Inner Song.'
The Problem Solver: Climber Ashima Shiraishi's Journey to the Top
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It’s morning in Memphis and world-renowned pro-climber Ashima Shiraishi sits between some major milestones, outfitted in a bright green hoodie, sharp bangs framing her face. Days before, she competed and qualified for the US National climbing team, and a couple days ahead, she will turn 20. Despite these recent, staggering achievements, she gets anim...
Greentea Peng’s Recipe For Revolution Is More Love, Less Ego
In spite of her moniker, Greentea Peng hasn’t been drinking any green tea lately. “It’s so jokes. I drink more chamomile and Earl Grey,” she tells me over the phone. “And I like to make ginger and turmeric tea too, poached on the stove, which is really nice.” Despite the fact that we’re not in the same room, the conversation we share is so soul-centered it feels as though she’s just prepared a pot of homemade brew and we’re slowly sipping it at a table in her kitchen.
It’s hard to decide whet...
Oklou's Impeccable Pop Experiments Are Truly Like No Other
Somewhere in the vast depths of the internet (after seapunk and vaporwave made their mark on the hyperreal, post-internet landscape), Oklou was brought into the world with a keyboard, found sounds from her world wide web womb, a microphone, and music production software. A couple of decades before, Marylou Mayniel was born in the countryside of western France. It was an ideal recipe for the kind of pop star that makes sense in 2020 and beyond — a young girl from a small town, who is classical...
Keinemusik: The Berlin DJ Crew Celebrates 10 Years of Safe Spaces
Since their establishment in 2009, Berlin’s Keinemusik have operated in a direct dialogue with music, streetwear, and the unique club culture that emerged from the capital of reunified Germany. Ten years on, the group continues the party, bringing their singular vibe to dance floors around the world, never losing that intimate house party feeling that can only be cultivated by a close crew.
(This story is from Issue 19 of Highsnobiety Magazine.)
King Princess Is Dead, Long Live the Cheap Queen
FRONTPAGE is Highsnobiety’s weekly online cover story exploring the people, moments, and ideas shaping culture today. For the fourth edition of our series, Highsnobiety’s Bianca Giulione talks to Mikaela Straus, better known as King Princess, about her highly anticipated debut album Cheap Queen.
The Internet: How Five Enlightened Egos Formed a ‘Hive Mind’
How does a band follow up a Grammy-nominated album? If they’re The Internet, it’s by pursuing solo projects and coming back feeling more interconnected than ever before. From ‘Ego Death’ to ‘Hive Mind,’ the five friends trace a journey that has led them to their best work yet, both as individual artists and as a band with an almost telepathic dynamic.
(This story is taken from Issue 17 of Highsnobiety magazine.)