Emma Madden

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Emma Madden

After telling me to close my eyes, the voice instructs me to notice the sounds around me. I hear the drone of Tibetan bowls mixing with an insect chorus, scattered yawns, and what sounds like a flowing brook. Upon opening my eyes, I discover the ‘brook’ is, in actuality, a horse releasing a powerful stream of urine. The, uh, water feature is thanks to August, a stallion.

3 weeks ago | theface.com | Emma Madden |Hendrik Schneider

He’s been sober since New Year’s Day 2023, a decision prompted by a pair of soiled khakis at an airport. ​“I was with my parents in Florida, about to fly home, and I thought, ​‘Let me just get a couple more drinks in,’” he remembers. ​“I drank, like, six gin and tonics. Went to use the restroom before getting on the plane and ended up missing the urinal.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Emma Madden

Behind every home lies a network of pipes, valves, and vents. Behind every relationship, an engineered performance of power, sublimation, and ego. In her debut solo album, Affectionately, Raisa K, a member of Good Sad Happy Bad (formerly Micachu and the Shapes), exposes the wiring and guts of both: the machinery of domesticity and the inner workings of love.

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Emma Madden

17.03.25 Finding freedom in the perverse once again, Haley Fohr, a.k.a. Circuit des Yeux, revels in primal, animalistic abandon to create a record that will stalk your nightmares. Most musicians simply make albums, Haley Fohr, a.k.a. Circuit des Yeux, makes emergencies. Since releasing her debut, Symphone, in 2008, Fohr has made music that works on a molecular level, her howling, bleating, four-octave voice shaking the listener out of complacent passivity and into a state of alarm.

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Emma Madden

Love him or loathe him, Virginia rapper Nettspend’s blasted, sense-defying flows are the sound of a world still busy being born. But ask him how he became the face of hip hop’s new gen at 17, and he’ll tell you to talk to his monkeyTextEmma MaddenPhotographyCallum HensenStylingJoe Share Nettspend is about to introduce his son. The 17-year-old rapper’s A&R tells me to wait around the corner – he’s just “being prepared”.