This week we’re introducing a new series, the perfect hair of the dog for whatever wonky-eyed Internet hangover you’re nursing. Enter Trending, Will’s visual meme-watching series.
With Cluster Mag’s new Required Reading series, we’re taking you back to school. RR-001 comes from one of our favorite NYC artists and critics, Brad Troemel.
The face, which has traditionally been the locus of identity, romance, and a sense of “uniqueness,” has been transformed into a battleground where the struggle for power over recognition and control is played out.
His own music playfully re-works influences from Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and his world-renowned Peligrosa party is ground zero for these experiments in cross-cultural borrowing.
Some estimate over 1,500 english-language books have been published on the “2012 transformation.” The Mayan “End of Days” could mean another bubonic plague or the final obliteration of greedy capitalist sentiments, depending on who you ask on a given day.
Shiftee has built us a mix that privileges deep, thoughtful immersion over dancefloor hedonism, teasing us with flashes of turntablism throughout the 52-minute journey.
This week’s <300 contributor is a Soundcloud cult icon of sorts. His incredibly sexy narco-pop slow jams tap the current trend towards an abstracted, filtered, chopped and screwed R&B sound.
The once sacred monoliths of Pop and the Underground have begun to crumble and fall into one another as the inertia of genre borrowing and sound sampling have overtaken our allegiance to one category or another.
On Friday, January 6th, Cluster Mag and Power5 Worldwide are joining forces to build a new monthly party at one of our favorite venues in NYC, Bushwick’s Brooklyn Fireproof. [...]
