#americana

#americana

Gap is tapping into its timeless Americana roots once again-this time with a distinctly modern twist. The brand has reignited its collaboration with the National Basketball Association ( NBA) for a new Fall 2024 collection that captures the shared cultural impact of two icons: one born from classic American casualwear, the other from global sports and style influence. Together, they've created a capsule that blends nostalgia, authenticity, and effortless cool, just in time for the season's shift.

Atlanta-based painter Alic Brock has developed a practice that merges digital manipulation with painterly precision. Brock creates compositions that explore spaces between waking and dreaming, recognition and estrangement. Each work begins as a collage of both found and personal imagery that is intentionally altered and translated to canvas using airbrush acrylics. Fragments of Americana, cultural icons, and private memory mingle in peculiar scenarios where narrative and meaning surface only in retrospect.

His 2025 debut album, "The Select" - its title nods to the Parisian brasserie from Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" - puts bluesy guitar riffs against low-slung soul-rock grooves, as in the twangy "Let 'Em Talk" and the waltz-time "Ends of the Earth," which has been streamed more than 70 million times on Spotify and is slowly moving up the country radio chart.