Jessie Atkinson

Ever battered a meathead before feeding him to a crocodile? Doubtful, considering you'd probably be wearing the wrong jeans for it. But in the new remake of 1989 classic Road House, Jake Gyllenhaal makes it work, paying tribute to Patrick Swayze's turn as bouncer Elwood Dalton by dispatching half a dozen goons in impossibly tight denim blues.
The next time a bar brawl rolls around, would a pair of 501s see you through? The professional hard man class would need something more… bespoke. “I wou...

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT are not happy people. They do not make happy music, nor do they even claim to know what happiness is. But they do like to have a laugh. It’s a tension that has governed their output since the band’s inception in 2002. Now, as then, MGMT employs the “classic combination” of joyful music paired with “soul-crushing” lyrics. Songwriting alchemy as old as the musical note, it’s a tactic that has seen the duo through 20 years and five albums, including...

October 11, Union Chapel: an intimate acoustic evening with one of the year's most stunning records
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12th October 2023
In her search for “beautiful, seated theaters” for her forthcoming spring tour, Mitski may well have already chosen the ultimate in the genre. Tonight, the singer describes London’s Union Chapel as “the most beautiful venue I’ve ever had the privilege to stand in” — a place she “would haunt the shit out of”. The space is resplendent in Gothic frescoes and vaulted ceilings: ...

Teenagers aged 13 to 48 turned out in their thousands for Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury set in the summer of 2022. By then, 13 months into the promo tour that followed her debut album ‘Sour’, it was obvious that this former Disney kid was already one of the world’s favourite new singer-songwriters.
Sugary, rageful and acerbic, Olivia Rodrigo makes music for people who know that they’re just like all the other girls, reminding you how brutal life could be when you were a teenager.
‘Guts’, the f...

Inviting the vision of film directors into your home is not always a great idea. The landscapes of David Lynch are too disturbing, the costumes of Tarantino too wild west fancy dress, the noir stylings of Christopher Nolan too…depressing. Still, there is one auteur whose aesthetic fits right in: that of Wes Anderson.
His films run the gamut of twee and whimsy, pitting manic pixie dream girls and soft bois against pantomime villains and bizarre snafus. For part-time film fans, these narratives...

As with workman's tools, hair products are only as good as the person that wields them…and yet to the man who has truly mastered his product(s) of choice, the world of fantastic hair comes wide open. Give a man a pot of clay and he may fumble through a passable look, but teach him how to style and he will never have a bad hair day again.
With this entirely unique and non-plagiarised principle in mind we took our hair product and styling questions to someone who knows better than even those of...

Who knew, when Lana Del Rey dropped “Video Games” on YouTube back in 2011 that she’d flourish into one of the most exciting songwriters we have today? Well, Tumblr kids probably could have told you, but really there were signs of it from early on, when Born To Die fused vintage soul, ‘80s hip-hop and ’90s trip-hop with her now-signature lyrical storytelling, introducing us to damsels and rascals alike. By 2019's Norman Fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey's songs were showing a capacity for genius ...

“The hitman,” Savile Row tailor Dominic Sebag-Montefiore says, “needs to be able to go everywhere. The right tailoring can do that.” The Edward Sexton creative director is in the process of answering some very important questions. Chief among them: should John Wick really be wearing a suit for the business of slaughtering his foes? Sure, James Bond has done it on-screen for sixty years, but 007 is no gun-fu artist and he's not killing nearly as many people. The answer, we soon come to underst...

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The ten-year anniversary remix of the much-streamed, much-memed single “Friday” — achieved with the help of 3OH!3, Big Freedia, Dorian Electra and Dylan Brady of 100 gecs — gave us one of the most ingenious image transformation in pop history. With just one drop, Rebecca Black was relaunched as a serious player on the hyper-pop scene. Two years on and the singer has finally released debut album Let Her Burn, a collection of new music that immortalises the heartbreak, isolation and self-love s...

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