Second Life: Light Bulb Magazine

East of Borneo brings back LA-based music and art magazines from the '70s

The online publication based in LA East of Borneo has embraced the magic of print in a series called Second Life, in which they bring back the long-lost printed wonders of decades past. For one of their latest revivals, East of Borneo brought back the art and music culture of the ’70s with Light Bulb Magazine, a publication made by artists, for artists. The unbound, …

Interview: JIHAE

The artist on working with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and co-writing music for a Leonard Cohen poem about an orgasm

Many singers these days produce albums that have been laboriously groomed and primped—from almost-too-perfect Autotuned vocals to the overly airbrushed album cover—so it’s refreshing to meet a singer and songwriter with a sultry voice and raw energy who’s not afraid to express her opinions. JIHAE isn’t a new face in the music industry: her debut LP My Heart Is An Elephant featured guest percussion from …

SBTRKT: IMO

Elvis Costello and the Roots, SBTRKT, Kendrick Lamar and more in our weekly music recap

The typically reserved musician Aaron Jerome—better known as UK producer SBTRKT—bared a bit of himself this week with the surprise Twitter revealing of “IMO.” The unmixed and unmastered song is from new album recordings, and was posted in memory of his brother Daniel. In classic SBTRKT form, the video is a mysterious abstract work created by Lorenzo Durantini and the equally incognito design studio A …