Tomas Ekström is a designer and illustrator from Stockholm who works under the name Kallbrand, and his latest piece of work — the Ghost Lamp — is inspired by the classic ghost characters that made Pac-Man’s life hell. So if you’ve ever dreamed of lighting up your house with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, this […]

I’m not sure what they infuse their vodka with up in Sweden, but the tiny nation (population under 10 million) churns out more impossibly catchy hitmakers per capita than anywhere else on Earth. From the early days of Abba to the 90s pop dominance of Roxette, Cardigans and Ace of Bass onto the modern indie […]

The always stunning Lykke Li is back with her latest video, “Sadness Is a Blessing”, directed by Talik Saleh. Sure when you’re a gorgeous Swede drinking voluminous wine with Stellan Skarsgard sadness may be a blessing, but for the rest of us it just kind of sucks. Still, I’d watch Lykke be sad any day… […]

I’m pretty much a girlie girl. I pretend to be tough, but the closest I’ve ever gotten to a fight was when a chick in seventh grade gym class made fun of my friend Sophia De La Torre, so I pointed my shaking finger in her face and said, in my best pretend badass voice, […]