Vinyl Me, Please at Ace Hotel New York

Guests staying in room 212 are in for a musical (and visual) treat

Ace Hotel has always been hospitable to the arts—such as when they invited art collectives to live in Ace rooms during last year’s Fashion Week for a program called “Sleep / Walk“. Adding yet another thoughtful element to the overall cultural experience that is the Ace, a new year-long collaboration between the NYC location and Colorado-by-way-of-Chicago-based record-of-the-month club Vinyl Me, Please, will bring music (and …

Tame Impala: Let It Happen (Soulwax Remix)

Unusually for a rock song, Tame Impala’s “Let It Happen” is a dancefloor jam in and of itself. But Soulwax turns down the lights and gets the disco ball spinning with drum machine breakdowns, arpeggiated synths and more—extending the song even further than its original eight minutes into a deep, sexy burner of a remix. The Belgian brothers behind Soulwax (and 2manydjs) also announced the …

The Thing Quarterly + Michelle Blade’s Aura Scarf

Aura photography becomes a bit more tangible with this multicolored silk "painting"

Pushing artists to explore other mediums, conceptual object-based periodical The Thing Quarterly also hosts projects outside of their art-object subscription service (which “publishes” four times a season). They recently worked with visual artist Michelle Blade to bring her artwork to a wearable silk scarf. Something spiritual emanates from Blade’s paintings of shadowy figures, natural landscapes and ethereal flashes—she expertly uses inks and watercolors for beautifully …