In Manchester, looking for Umbro. In the meantime: links!
Lordi for Vogue Scandinavia — a couple months ago, Finnish makeup metalheads Lordi did a fashion shoot featuring… vegan leather designer bags. Gotta drop a link for posterity (and a paywall disregarding backup too) because there’s few things I enjoy more than creatures popping up where you don’t expect ‘em. See also: scream legend Barbara Crampton’s “Simply Beastly” 1986 Playboy pictorial (NSFW) and Beate Karlsson’s monster boots for AVAVAV.
ScreenSlate on The Flintstones — “Maybe this is a core tenet of millennial saudade: realizing how crass and disgusting and stupid everything was when we were children, only to realize swiftly thereafter how elegant, human, and precious it was compared to most contemporary equivalents.”
MGNA CRRRTA “Contagious” — this riff sounds like The Anniversary so I am legally obligated to fw it.
Doraemon AirPods case — ayo technology!
Mark McGrath Lipps Service podcast — if you are the type of individual who will listen to multi-part Counting Crows conversations (I am), this Spin pod has tidbits galore. Sugar Ray’s frontman going full McGrath is an obvious highlight.
Finding Big Country — wholesome, heartfelt mini-doc about one Vancouver woman’s bball fandom and her search for the reclusive Arkansas seven-footer.
HEAVIES — “A Modern Newsletter About Health, Wellness, and Feeling Good.” Chris knows whats up! I myself have been Peloton pilled for the past year or so, looking fwd to muscle content from a fellow traveller.
Snack Betch on IG — that said, as a recovering candyholic, simply knowing about Wendy’s NERDS FROSTY offerings is enough to graze the dragon’s tail, however briefly. Still going to tap in with the reincarnated Altoids Sours. For research purposes!
Cricket x WWE Chair Phone — “IT’S A CHAIR. IT’S A PHONE. IT’S CHAIR PHONE.”
GAB3 x F1LTHY “I GOT BANDS” — Apple can bounce back from that iPad commercial everyone hated by getting behind this extremely persuasive argument (assuming you have already been internet and/or zaza poisoned) for the Vision Pro.
Anna Calvi on Peaky Blinders — solid soundtrack talk from this shredder / composer in Guitar World. Love her less-is-more philosophy (applicable to all music production, emphasis mine): “I find tremolo works really well with soundtrack stuff because it provides texture without too much information.” There’s more AC x PB on the Soundtracking pod.
David Cronenberg sunglasses ID — shout out “his trusty Julbo EXPLORER 326 5 11.” All auteurs should be polarizing and polarized.
AG Cook Britpop — have enjoyed listening to / reading about the latest from the PC Music founder and one of Charli XCX’s go-to producers. His D&D-inspired side quest Thy Slaughter is also quite good.
Scando The Darklord & Mani Draper Mobbioso — there’s no way for Vallejo rap to not have a profound E-40 influence; once Scando dropped “pinochle” 30 seconds in to his first verse, I knew I was in good hands.
Jake Tapper x Dave Matthews Band — the CNN anchor (!!!) sketched DMB a la your fifth grade How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way doodles for a (now sold out) charity t-shirt design. May we all have rewarding hobbies!
The Buoys “vampire” — Oliva Rodrigo’s fandom name is up for debate (I am partial to “Rodrighoes”) but whatever they end up calling the army, draft me.
Also: playlists updated!