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Sachiko Nakahara on Building Gods of Death from Ink, Paper and Dirt for Death Note the Musical

The manga and anime series Death Note has been turned into clothing many times. XLARGE ran a collaboration in 2022 with the characters across tees, sweatshirts and jackets. Palace followed in February 2025 with a capsule of around forty pieces, among them stonewashed denim carrying Ryuk in a watercolour print and the skate logo redrawn in the manga’s own typeface.


Sachiko Nakahara has gone the other way. As costume designer on the Barbican’s new staging of Death Note The Musical, her job was...
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The Barbican's Death Note Knows Exactly How to Play God

Write a name, picture the face, and forty seconds later they are dead.


The Barbican production of Death Note has all of that out in the open straight away. Sound comes at you from every side of the room, a school student is singing about how many criminals walk free while his ethics teacher tells him off, and I hadn’t even got comfortable in my seat yet. I never did get comfortable, in the seat or otherwise, and I loved the production for it. I was still turning the thing over in my head on t...
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YAZ Built Her Sound in a Bedroom. Now She’s Taking It Everywhere

The comfort of a bedroom is something you can’t quite replicate. The companionship of clothes scattered across the floor that you said you’d move yesterday and still haven’t, or the playlists you’d never put on shuffle in the company of others. It’s the place where many can be honest with themselves. Dance badly, cry over things that aren’t that deep, and write thoughts down in the dark that always read differently by morning. 


YAZ is North-West London’s singer-songwriter in ascent, whose sop...
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Tsatsamis: ‘Gays Are Bitchy And We Love It’

Mirror, mirror. It’s the question every fairy tale gets wrong. The one the wicked queen asks isn’t really about being the fairest, it’s about being seen as the fairest. Peter Tsatsamis-Cooper has spent the last year writing a mixtape about a version of that question. Tsycophant came out in April, and is a record about wanting to be wanted, by the cooler group at the party, by the boy who doesn’t care, by the friends-of-friends whose approval shouldn’t matter and does. 


It’s a Wednesday mornin...
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Exclusive: Inside Die Twice’s New Music Video Jalapeño - The Cold Magazine

Nobody plans to meet their future music video director on the tube at midnight with a guitar case in their face. But that’s how Die Twice met Milo Hume, the director behind Geese‘s Au Pays du Cocaine, and Cold has the exclusive first look at what came out of it. “They had all these amps and cases and shit falling all over the place,” he says. “It was a total mess.” They got talking, and Hume was invited down to Brighton for the next one.


“Me and some friends go down, see the show, it’s loud a...
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‘London Is in a Rizz Recession’: Minor Attractions 2026

Moving from its usual location at The Mandrake Hotel, Minor Attractions art fair recently hosted its first summer art festival from May 28-30, split across seven different London venues. For three days, attendees of the Summer Sessions were able to immerse themselves in London’s experimental art scene and connect with the emerging creatives that keep the culture churning. 


Over the weekend you could dance, listen, watch, recite, see and learn of ideas and creations that you may have never bef...
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Exclusive: Inside LP's New Music Video 'Shelly', An Intimate Portrait Of A Friend

Some songs are born with a pencil and a notebook. LP’s “Shelly” was born from a catch up call with a friend.


“We spoke briefly about how she was super happy and having fun with a new guy she was dating,” LP says. The details were rattling around in LP’s head when they walked into the studio with producer Mike Del Rio and co-producer PJ Bianco. Mike, listening to a rough track he’d just put down, asked the casual question that lit the fuse: “Oh, how is Shelly?” LP burst out with the line that...
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'Dear Jack, Dear Louise' Is the Best Date You'll Never Go On

Is the perfect relationship having someone you can’t wait to run and tell things to? Someone whose whole world you know, the side characters, the running jokes, the small decisions they agonise over, because they’ve shared it all with you. Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise at the Arcola Theatre asks whether that intimacy even needs two people in the same room to exist.


Sitting in the Arcola as crackly wartime radio filled the air, I found myself convinced that it doesn’t. Based on the true...
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Maryze Is Done With Hollywood’s Expiry Date for Women

When Maryze moved to Hollywood from Montreal, she was told to lie about her age. Which meant an Instagram post celebrating her 34th birthday was seen as controversial:


“We’re all on different timelines ~ Call me a late bloomer, but it took me till my 30s to follow my dreams full throttle. And now they’re coming true?? Blessed this birthday & so much ahead.”


It was the kind of birthday post you might make without a second thought. Friends messaged to tell her she was brave, which still make...
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“Books Really are Creatures”: Fatima Bhutto on How Her Dog, Coco, Inspired 'The Hour of the Wolf'

They say dogs are a man’s best friend, and writer Fatima Bhutto has plenty, both in her writing and in her home. When we speak, she glances off-camera at her two dogs Coco and Tokyo, and laughs, predicting that one of them will erupt into a bark at any moment.


On the contrary, they are silent, well-behaved throughout, calm in Bhutto’s presence. They run like a current through her latest memoir, The Hour of the Wolf, which was published by Daunt Books in February 2026. Bhutto was still a teena...
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Grace Ives on Losing Yourself and Dancing Anyway

Labels make Grace Ives uneasy. “I’m a writer,” she says, and then immediately dismantles the certainty of it. “You don’t write one day and suddenly it’s like, fuck. I guess I’m not a writer.” She laughs, recognising the absurdity of it all. The same logic applies everywhere: girlfriend, musician, daughter, artist – roles that are expected to be tied up neatly, like a bow in your hair.


Talking to Ives means the conversation can pivot quickly from the mundane to the philosophical. Mid-interview...
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Bitch Boxer Comes Out Swinging

Hearing the title Bitch Boxer, my first thought was linguistic rather than theatrical – what a satisfying pair of plosives. Bitch. Boxer. Both words land with a punch, which feels appropriate for a play about a boxer. My second thought, perhaps unfairly, was that I had already guessed the show’s angle. The title seemed to promise a familiar contemporary narrative: a reclamation of the word “bitch”, perhaps something about female rage being reframed as power. In other words, I thought I knew what...
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UK Independent Venue Week 2026: Cold’s Favourite Music Venues

The independent music venue is, it can seem, an endangered species. I won’t bore you with the details, which are seemingly better trodden than England’s dancefloors: the hundreds of pubs, clubs and music joints forced to shutter up under the long shadows of austerity, lockdowns and arts-industry cuts; Britain’s monastic youth who would rather buy a gym membership than grab a pint. The list goes on.


Maybe it’s also because artists don’t need venues anymore. Who does when fame’s freshest vector...