SOUND ADVICE
Pop Protegé Isaac Dunbar Tells Us What Happens After the House Party
April 26, 2024
“My current era is a little pissed off energy combined with spite,” says the 21-year-old. “My next era is total freedom, pure pop, and pure experimentation.”
Tour Diary
“Pulling Pork and Cranking Hogs”: On the Road With Mannequin Pussy
April 26, 2024
“I’m really enjoying looking very sweet and angelic while screaming in people’s faces for 45 minutes.”
SOUND ADVICE
Shane Lavers of Chanel Beads Trusts His Uber Driver With the Aux
April 22, 2024
For this week’s SOUND ADVICE, the NYC-based producer and scenester curated a sentimental playlist to mark the release of his debut album, “Your Day Will Come.”
SOUND ADVICE
Shoegaze Princess Wisp Makes Us the Ultimate Grunge Playlist
April 19, 2024
In this week’s SOUND ADVICE, TikTok’s shoegaze princess opens up her Pandora’s box and tells us the songs that make her cry and what she’ll be wearing when the world ends.
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How 1010Benja Went From Church Boy to Hitmaker
April 18, 2024
“What an artist does, now more than ever, needs to hark towards freedom,” says the singer-songwriter of his major label debut. “It’s not enough to have talent.”
HOT SEAT
“Fuck a Day Job”: Sematary Takes the Proust Questionnaire
April 18, 2024
What’s the best way to get to know the elusive 23-year-old rapper? In the mountains of upstate New York, we asked him to complete the infamous Proust questionnaire.
CHEF
benny blanco Serves Ali Wong His Spiciest Food Takes
April 17, 2024
One of pop music’s most prolific hitmakers is also die-hard food fanatic on the verge of publishing his first cookbook. Here, he connects with his friend to share the culinary dos and don’ts he lives by.
TOUR DIARY
Teezo Touchdown Takes Amsterdam’s Red Light District
April 16, 2024
“We make sure we have four bouquets of flowers backstage,” said the rapper-rockstar as he concluded the European run of his first headlining tour. “That’s mandatory.”
SOUND ADVICE
Superproducer Vegyn Tells Us His Musical Red Flags
April 15, 2024
To celebrate his new album, “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions,” the 31-year-old British producer curated us a playlist of smooth, electronic jams.
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“Pray, Smoke, Take a Shot”: Anycia Takes Us Backstage at Her NYC Show
April 12, 2024
The Atlanta rapper called us from the hair-braiding salon to talk about falling in love with New York City on tour and tell us her backstage tequila of choice.
SOUND ADVICE
Live Coder DJ_Dave Is Logged In to the Algorave Afters
April 11, 2024
The producer and sound selector made us the ultimate futuristic fembot playlist, featuring Kelela and Charli XCX, and tells us who to fear when the machines take over.
COVER
Rihanna Is Ready to Confess
April 9, 2024
Somewhere on the outskirts of Milan, our EIC Mel Ottenberg comes face to face with his former boss. And for the next 90 minutes, she gives him her all.
SOUND ADVICE
Varg2™ Hates the Algorithm. And Your Outfit.
April 8, 2024
In this week’s Sound Advice, the Stockholm-based musician and producer curated a playlist to prepare us for his new record, “Nordic Flora Series Pt. 6: Outlaw Music.”
TOUR DIARY
Flyana Boss Takes Us BTS of Their First Headlining Tour
April 3, 2024
In this week’s Tour Diary, Bobbi and Folayan called us from San Francisco to talk about self-care on the road and being chronically online.
SOUND ADVICE
Singer José James Eats Sashimi in the Studio
April 1, 2024
For this week’s Sound Advice, the acclaimed hip-hop and jazz vocalist readies us for his new album, “1978,” with a playlist of his icons and inspirations.
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“We’re Always On Our Sexy Girly Shit”: Rico Nasty, in Conversation With Boys Noize
April 1, 2024
The sugar trap queen and the producer got together to discuss the cruise raves and late nights that led to their collaboration on Nasty’s new EP, “HARDC0RE DR3AMZ.”
NOSTALGIA
MGMT Calls Themselves Middle-Aged. Feel Old Yet?
March 27, 2024
The band’s fifth studio album “Loss of Life” coincided with major life changes. “What came with that,” they say, “is a more stable and confident existence.”
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Santigold and Frank Ockenfels 3 Take Us Behind the Scenes of Their Spirituals Videos
March 26, 2024
“When I thought of this record, I thought of this idea of catching the spirit,” says Santigold, who enlisted Frank Ockenfels 3 to shoot a series of vignettes for her comeback album.
ICONS
“A Champion of the Freaks”: Christeene and Justin Vivian Bond on Sinéad O’Connor
March 25, 2024
Before they get on stage at City Winery to pay tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, the drag artists got on Zoom to reminisce on the singer-songwriter’s life and legacy.
SOUND ADVICE
Nourished By Time Tells Us What An Erotic Probiotic Really Is
March 25, 2024
For this week’s SOUND ADVICE, Marcus Brown of Nourished by Time, who’s just dropped a new EP called “Catching Chickens,” curates us a playlist of the pop bangers that inspire him.