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3 days ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

Qianqian Jia graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2023 with a Master’s degree in Fashion Design. In 2025, she was invited to participate in Beijing Fashion Week. After graduation, she created several collections, one of which is titled “Need or not.” In this collection, clothing transcends mere fabric; it embodies questions, contradictions, and the silent struggles present in urban life.

4 days ago | ourculturemag.com | Abbie Wilson

In the silence between materials, Wuchao Feng makes language. Salt crystals crunch underfoot, uneven pearls spell aphasic fragments, and a red heap dissolves into migration trails—each gesture a poetics of the inarticulable. If her earlier work offered a visual grammar of fluid identity, her most recent explorations in salt and pearl have shifted toward a dense, embodied metaphysics—one in which materiality is both archive and oracle.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Thursday, May 29, 2025.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

Bruce Springsteen has previewed his upcoming collection Tracks II with a new song, the mariachi-assisted ‘Adelita’. A ode to Mexico’s “soldadera” freedom fighters, this one is taken from the lost album Inyo, which was recorded in the 1990s and was inspired by his motorcycle trips across the Southwest. Check it out below. “There was constant border reporting in the Los Angeles Times, so it was a big part of your life,” Springsteen said in a press release.

1 week ago | ourculturemag.com | Konstantinos Pappis

It’s easy to trace a narrative thread between the title of Shura’s new album and its cover artwork: I Got Too Sad for My Friends, so I dressed myself up in insufficient armour, ripped jeans, a jumper, Converse, and headed off to the mountains. And then it begs the question: Are the little gremlins circling our protagonist friends, manifestations of nervous catastrophizing, or remnants of a creative imagination that never stops running when we’re kids?