DEADSTOCK
“The Moog Fucks Me Up”: DJ Alex Gloor Takes Mel Ottenberg Into the Annals of Smylonylon
April 4, 2025
In October 1994, Mel Ottenberg stumbled on a New York City store called Smylonylon. 30 years later, DJ Alex Gloor takes him on a walk down memory lane.
SOUND ADVICE
“Don’t Face the DJ”: Pressure Point Gives Us a Lesson in Club Etiquette
April 3, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Miami DJ and producer made us a playlist of songs that get him horny and teary-eyed.
TOUR DIARY
“The Lions Are Ravenous and They Eat Us Up”: On Tour With the Irishmen of Inhaler
April 2, 2025
In this weeks Tour Diary, the four members of the ascendant Irish rock band called us from the road to talk memes, fan cams, and Spring Break in Florida.
SOUND ADVICE
“Chet Baker at Dawn, Sun Ra at Midnight”: DJ Koze Makes Us the Perfect Dinner Party Playlist
April 1, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the German DJ and producer got us ready for his brand-new album with an exclusive playlist of jazzy throwbacks.
Tinnitus
Dan Bejar and Jessica Pratt on Chronic Angst, Precious Instruments, and Occupational Hazards
March 28, 2025
Before dropping his new album, “Dan’s Boogie,” Destroyer’s Dan Bejar joined Jessica Pratt to geek out about guitars, synthesizers, and The Rolling Stones.
COURTSIDE
“We’re Sweating Balls”: One Night in Miami With Model Francisco Lachowski
March 27, 2025
At On and Boiler Room’s Clubhouse Nights in Miami, the model and Tumblr dreamboat joined us to talk tennis, John Galliano, and getting hot in the 305.
GUT CHECK
“I’m Looking to Heighten the Stakes”: Kinlaw and Jae Matthews on Queer Sex and Southern Pride
March 24, 2025
Before dropping her new album, the Carolina-born performance artist caught up with Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews about turning the indescribable into music.
POP
“Ideas Are Nice, But Music Is Stronger”: Oklou, in Conversation With A. G. Cook
March 19, 2025
After dropping her debut album, the musician called up A. G. Cook to talk French idealism, YouTube rabbit holes, and her biggest project to date: impending motherhood.
SOUND ADVICE
“Viva La Foca”: Eli Roth Makes Us a Playlist Inspired by Italian Sexploitation Cinema
March 17, 2025
Before releasing his new album of Italian disco bangers, the filmmaker joined us to storyboard his ideal evening in Capri and reveal the grooviest person he knows.
GREEN ROOM
“Demonic, Ethereal, Fun”: Seven Minutes Backstage With Sasami
March 13, 2025
Before her show at Rough Trade, we joined the classically trained musician to talk about her recent pivot to pop music: think Bruce Springsteen meets alien huntress.
SOUND ADVICE
“I Haven’t Been to a Function Since Birth”: Pop Experimentalist Saya Gray Makes Us a Playlist
March 10, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the Toronto singer revealed what sounds she hopes to hear at heaven’s gates and the drink she’s getting DoorDashed to the studio.
SOUND ADVICE
Jojo Orme of Heartworms Made Us a Playlist Fit for McQueen
March 3, 2025
The London-based musician and McQueen frontwoman made us the ultimate alt-couture playlist filled with everything from Chopin to Depeche Mode.
IDOL
Johnny Suh Tells Madeline Argy His Secrets
February 26, 2025
Away from the screaming fans who swarmed their Paris Fashion Week meet-up, Madeline Argy called up the K-pop superstar for an intimate conversation, just the two of them.
POET
“For a Moment, You Become the Art”: Yung Lean, by Vincent Cassell
February 25, 2025
With his eighth album around the corner and his acting debut on the horizon, the genre-blurring Swedish musician caught up with the veteran French actor for a conversation about reshaping perceptions and shedding personas.
SMOKE BREAK
“I’m Just Ready to Fucking Dance”: Kicking Off the Mayhem Era With Nick Gaga
February 25, 2025
Over a pack of Capri Blues, we talked wigs, cigs, and “Mayhem” with Nick Gaga, the world’s premiere Mother Monster impersonator.
ROCK AND ROLL
How the Director of Becoming Led Zeppelin Got the World’s Most Tight-Lipped Band to Talk
February 24, 2025
“The film is made for movie theaters and the biggest screens possible with the biggest sound systems,” says the director of “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” a new and unvarnished documentary about the band.
SOUND ADVICE
Here’s the Soundtrack to Your Next Dinner Party, Courtesy of Benny Blanco
February 20, 2025
Our March cover star Benny Blanco couldn’t pick just one song that reminds him of his fiancée Selena Gomez (because everything does, of course).
SOUND ADVICE
Rapper 9mice Made Us the Playlist of His Apocalyptic Fantasies
February 19, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the enigmatic Slavic musician made us a playlist and revealed his nightlife philosophy: “I don’t walk the same path twice.”
ICON
Inside Goodbye Horses, the First Documentary About the Mysterious Q Lazzarus
February 18, 2025
Filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes joined us to talk about her serendipitous friendship with the most elusive of rock icons, the late Q Lazzarus.
COVER
Benny and Selena Against the World
February 14, 2025
As they get set to release their new album “I Said I Love You First,” Hollywood’s preeminent power couple take Mel Ottenberg inside their whirlwind romance.