Shiverstruck, Ian Sweet’s fifth album, delivers honesty and personal reflection
Jilian Medford, also known as IAN SWEET, just dropped her fifth album, Shiverstruck. SWEET is following the beat of her own drum, charting her own course through the brightest and darkest moments life has to offer. Now 33, she reflects on moving to New York, singing for babies, and locking herself up in Atlanta to birth her latest album.
Slawn: Basquiat or King Bach?
British-Nigerian painter Olaolu Slawn has become one of contemporary art’s fastest-rising names. Michael A. Fadugbagbe argues that beneath the hype lies a practice that repackages American minstrelsy for the age of the algorithm.
The Next Designers: Dialective Class of 2026
Each year, Dialective, a nonprofit fashion collective, platforms the next generation of fashion designers with runway shows produced by students, for students. Bias Cut’s fashion editor Karalyn Hosier sits down with three stand-out graduates, Blue Achenbach, Devlin Ebisu, and Lia Skoien, to discuss impeccable craftsmanship, relentless determination, and what’s next in fashion.
August Horoscopes
August is marked by eclipse season, bookended by a grand hello and a dreamy goodbye. Eclipses can be experienced as heightened times that catalyze abrupt beginnings and endings. This August is home to two of these major events, the first of which takes place on the 12th.
Inside Macy Todd’s Modern Americana
Macy Todd is a girl with soul. Her voice, with its captivating, raw tone is infused with a spirit that reminds you she is alive, and you are too. On her new EP pretty ruthless, the Georgia-born singer-songwriter explores the past decade of her life, cutting through misty nostalgia with her lucid lyrics and impassioned vocals.
Tennis Skirt
A poem by Juliette Jeffers.
Breast Milk
Still waiting patiently for puberty.
Storied Memories
These moments don’t have to disappear just because we grow up.
Class Clown
A Fateful Convergence
In photographer Adali Schell and painter Ethan Kramer's work, abstraction and representation meet in a rigorous union. The two best friends push each other into conceptual deep ends, discussing growing pains and surrendering to one another.
Every Day Should Be Laundry Day
Some bands get famous airing their dirty laundry. Laundry Day isn’t one of them. The four best friends develop perfectly imperfect harmonies while having the time of their lives.
Fish Oil
How vitamins and a nuclear reactor led me to a perpetual pursuit of pleasure.
Very Nice People
Raised on punk and pop, Davis and Skyler Diamond are shaping a sonic universe in their band Very Nice Person. With their debut album Trampoline, the brothers channel a lifetime of influences into an alternative sound that’s entirely their own.
Dust Bunny
Dreamy, nostalgic, and playful, rooted in inheritance, memory, and rebirth through entirely secondhand, vintage garments.
The Next Creative Directors: Max Sperber
A series profiling emerging fashion designers from some of the world’s leading design schools.
The Next Creative Directors: Sid Maelfeyt
A series profiling emerging fashion designers from some of the world’s leading design schools.
Inherited Garments: Dara Swan
A series telling the stories of the objects and garments that were gifted and passed down to us and the legacies we perpetuate by wearing them.