Yung Lean: In my head

For almost 30 years as label boss, producer, and talent conductor at XL Recordings, Richard Russell has discovered, shaped and nurtured the artists who have rewritten the musical dictionary of the 21st century

»Jag började som en alkisunge som gillade proggscenen, som blev rockunge, som blev bluesunge, som blev jazzunge och till slut hip hop-farfar.« Christian Falks liv var musik. Han spelade rock i Imperiet på 80-talet, gick pa 90-talet över till modern dansmusik och hip hop och samarbetade med bland andra med Robyn, Timbuktu och Petter. 1999 […]

Jim Jarmusch’s new film Gimme Danger chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time. Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, […]

In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of