Category: Music

SPELLING’s music isn’t for the faint of heart. The Oakland-based artist found wider notoriety through her epic, cross-genre breakout, 2021’s The Turning Wheel. Whimsical yet heart-heavy — symphonic yet meticulously detailed, the album created the rare kind of lightning-in-a-bottle moment that allows a member of music’s experimental outskirts to reach a wider audience. After being hailed by Pitchfork and given an exceptional 10/10 review by The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano, SPELLLING (Chrystia Cabral) found herself in a surprising sort of … Continue reading “SPELLLING Paints a Portrait of Her Heart”

On the eve of his seventh album Glory, Perfume Genius is preoccupied. He’s fixated on the things anyone with a wandering, creative and often self-destructive mind fixate on: his image, his body and the pervasive fear that the people he loves will die. That’s not to say Glory is melancholic and ruminative. Rather, it’s an elastic, open-hearted record that’s refreshingly more intent on flirting with life’s hardest questions than answering them. Perfume Genius, the stage name of Michael Hadreas, has … Continue reading “Perfume Genius Doesn’t Need To Answer Any Questions”

“La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid,” wrote Pierre de Choderlos de Laclos, in his 1782 classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses. But the English version of the delicious phrase has been uttered in pop culture many times since, by everyone from Dorothy Parker to The Godfather’s Don Vito Corleone: “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” And while the chilling epithet may be true, retribution can come in many forms, and on the ferocious new Revengeseekerz, the electro-indie-digi-punk savant … Continue reading “Jane Remover Comes In Hot”

Last weekend marked the 25th anniversary of Ultra, the world’s most renowned electronic music festival. Over 160,000 attendees from all over the world flocked to Bayfront Park in Miami to celebrate the tenets of American rave culture: peace, love, unity and respect (aka P.L.U.R). When we think of Ultra, we think EDM, a young genre of electronic music that first rose to popularity in the early 2000s, helped by the emergence of drum and bass, trance and house music in … Continue reading “Boots on the Ground at Ultra's 25th Anniversary”

What are you wearing to Coachella? It’s one of the most important questions you’ll hear or answer in early April as music fans, musicians and celebrities head to the desert for two weekends of unbridled fun. Lucky for us — and you — we spoke to Dizzy Fae, who gave us the ins and outs of what to wear this festival season and even gave us a new phrase — ghost outfit — to define clothing that really makes you … Continue reading “Dizzy Fae Is Ready for Festival Season”

Kesha calls in fresh off a reinvigorating retreat to Big Sur, California, where she spent a weekend off-the-grid, “dancing and trying to move trauma through my body” — at last in a place of self-actualized autonomy and healing. This spiritual release reflects a physical one that has been publicly fought in court, but, perhaps most intensely of all, within the pop artist’s soul. “It rained all year, but it’s clearing up,” she sings on the new celebratory single “YIPPEE-KI-YAY.” with … Continue reading “Kesha, the Barefoot Baddie From Tennessee”

Dolly Parton just dropped a collaboration with Good American, and it’s as glam as you’d expect. Called “Dolly’s Joleans,” the limited-edition collection, available April 3 at Good American and Nordstrom, is packed with rhinestones and country-inspired details that have become synonymous with the country legend whose always been an outspoken advocate of staying true to yourself. “We wanted to kind of get into my closet and pull out things that I’ve worn through the years in magazines and on shows,” … Continue reading “Dolly Parton and Good American Are Spreading Love With Jeans”

“I’m a manifester!” Lil Nas X hums from his makeup chair where he’s getting dolled up before his PAPER shoot in New York. Just hours ago, the internet savant-turned globally famous rapper was performing his new single, “HOTBOX” for a jam-packed crowd at The Box in Manhattan. But after just a few hours of beauty sleep, he’s ready to dig in. It’s clear he has a lot to get off his chest after a relatively quiet period in his life … Continue reading “Lil Nas X Is Revving Up”

Tori Amos’ creative path has never been linear. A child piano prodigy, she was the youngest student ever admitted to Baltimore’s prestigious Peabody Academy, but her parents’ dreams of raising a concert pianist were soon shattered by young Tori’s preference for Beatles over Bach. A stint playing showtunes and standards in Beltway bars turned into a big-gamble move to Los Angeles, where Amos joined a hair-metal band called Y Kant Tori Read that also included future Guns’n’Roses drummer Matt Sorum. … Continue reading “Tori Amos Takes Advice From the Muses”

Daniel Seavey leans back while tanning on a lounge chair, the bright blue Los Angeles sky framing his highlighted hair. As he moves the phone during our video call, pool water and lush palm trees peek through. “I’ve had one day back home off tour and it’s the perfect day,” he smiles, rarely shifting from a grin and breaking into fits of laughter. “Choosing optimism” at the start of every day is Seavey’s strategy for living a full existence. “Choosing … Continue reading “Daniel Seavey Runs It Back”