Welcome to the Dissociation Generation (The Cut)

COVID-19 has cleared the arena for America’s druggiest era, as the twin wrecking balls of economic devastation and psychic trauma leave a crater of suffering — and drugs come to fill the void. Welcome to the dissociation generation, baby!

Psychedelic Therapy Schools Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms (Bloomberg)

“The market is huge, and it’s kind of a free-for-all, which is scary. There are training spaces on the West Coast where everyone and their mother is a shaman.”

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GRIMES (THE FACE - FEB '20 COVER)

Techno-pagan faerie queen Grimes falls back to the mortal realm after a protracted hiatus, only to find the world unhinged from its axis and civilisations careering towards collapse. In this time, she’s found a way to become a part of the thing that captivates her.

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SOPHIE (Teen Vogue)

By the time she released her 2015 debut album, Product, “What do you think of SOPHIE?” had become a litmus test for where you stand on questions of “good” and “bad” taste, while inevitably stirring up fiery debates on what defines pop music itself.

SOPHIE insists she’s never been interested in anonymity. “I’m always honest in what I put across,” she maintains. “Looking back, I think my intentions have been clear, but misinterpreted, maybe,” she says slowly. “So now I want to join the conversation.”

CHELSEA MANNING TRACES HER POLITICAL ROOTS BACK TO THE RAVE (THE OUTLINE)

Most people don’t realize that Manning is a drum and bass-loving DJ and producer who grew up with one foot in underground nightlife. To Manning, the anarchic spirit of early internet culture and illicit raves are intertwined.

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MICHAEL ALIG'S RETURN TO NY NIGHTLIFE (VICE)

When I first started spending time with Alig, the backlash against his parties captivated me because it brought up complex questions about crime and punishment, and how the nightlife community polices itself. But the more I dug into his psyche, the more I realized that the deepest dilemma at the heart of his tale is also my own.

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YAEJI (FADER JUNE '18 COVER)

Recently, a strange phenomenon has occurred whenever the Korean-American DJ and singer Kathy Lee performs: white people start singing along in fake Korean, literally screaming gibberish at the top of their lungs.

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Michelle Yeoh Has Kicked Ass For Three Decades (GQ)

In order to understand Michelle Yeoh’s commanding presence, you have to first understand that she is one of the most physically gifted actresses alive.

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Henry Golding (GQ NOV '18 COVER)

Photography is an old passion of Golding's, and he is ironically trying to operate like a Le Carré–esque spy photographer when he's becoming one of the world's most visible actors. A man in sunglasses, splayed on the ground, lifts his head toward us. “He's spotted us!” whispers Golding, darting away.

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Getting 'California Sober' Showed Me a Kinder, Gentler Way to Do Drugs (VICE)

This mode of being feels like a radical self-experiment, except I am tweaking my body’s neurochemistry through removing substances, instead of adding them. After more than a decade of reckless self-indulgence, being Cali sober is the ultimate trip.

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LOSING MY RELIGION (Electronic Beats)

For most of the 2010s, I was in the thick of it, whirling in the bloodshot eye of New York’s underground party scene—a world that felt invisible unless you were one of us, the indefatigable party demons tearing through three, four, five parties a night, entry stamps covering arms like tattoos, addresses of warehouses running through heads like mantras.

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WTF IS WEARABLE KETAMINE? (MOTHERBOARD)

The answer, it turns out, lies at the bleeding edge of ketamine therapy, and while the futuristic-sounding device is still a few years away from hitting the market, it could unravel yet another layer of this extremely useful—yet deeply mysterious—drug.

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AGIT CHOP (ART FORUM)

People on social media love to advise others to “read the room”—an idiom I never really understood. What room are they talking about, and who’s in it?

At CHOP, however, the writing was on the walls, and it set the revolutionary tenor of the space. “FASCISTS FUCK OFF AND DIE” shouted the sidewalk chalk at the entryway.

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People Are Paying Real Money to Get Into Virtual Zoom Nightclubs (Bloomberg)

Welcome to the new era of clubbing under quarantine. Somewhere on the internet, a virtual party is always going down.

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AMNESIA SCANNER (FADER)

Dark euphoria in Berlin with post-genre club mutants Amnesia Scanner

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