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on Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound 9000, a marvel of seductive pre-millennium design.

One Hot Piece of CD Player

Prince in a 1999 interview with MTV News

Sampling the sample.

on the growing homogeneity of mainstream pop.

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Melting pot music

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The house always wins.

on Temu and Flip as two sides of the same poker table.

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Fast Fashion Casino

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"I’m a lot of things but I’m not home"

on how *Aftersun* and *Dogtooth* are about going home.


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The Question of U

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“Son, this isn’t art.”

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Unwritten profile

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From Houdini to Issey Miyake.

on the controversial history of bringing the asylum to the runway.

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The state of music criticism 

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Art and autoimmunity.

on a new three-part project by [Goldin+Senneby](https://goldinsenneby.com/).

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