Once Upstate New York locals sense that an early winter is on its way, they can count on a few short weeks of spectacular weather, where amber-leafed sugar maples and auburn birches sway in the warm breeze. At the end of a rocky dirt road, surrounded by this cinematic countryside, is the bright blue barn […]
Name Steven John Fucking Kilbey Best known for Idiot savant (perhaps more of the former) behind Australian band The Church. A prolific renaissance bloke, knocking out records, paintings, poems, books, and now even comics. Still haven’t choreographed a ballet, but who knows? Current city Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia 2034. Really want to be in Bali. Sitting on a deck […]
In an ’80s pop landscape full of enormous talents and outrageous fashions, Cyndi Lauper still managed to stand out with one of the loudest voices and biggest personalities on MTV. The Queens native looked like a thrift store come to life and incorporated professional wrestlers like Captain Lou Albano into her music videos and performances. […]
There is a quote attributed to the late Athabascan elder and ambassador of indigenous Alaskan culture, Howard Luke. It’s about the concept of Gaalee’ya. “Gaalee’ya is a luck that you get by learning to live right with the land and the animals, including people, and everything around you, to respect everything.” We shouldn’t have to […]
Kelvin “Pos” Mercer—also known as Posdnuos or Plug One of pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul—was flipping through television channels when he stumbled across the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky starring Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, and other jazz greats of that era. He instinctively knew that was going to be the title of the […]
“We had to get a death certificate,” says Travis Mills—one-half of pop-punk duo girlfriends, along with Nick Gross—over a video call from Studio City, about getting the rights to the social media handle that would bear the band’s name. Before we get into that, however, let’s back up a bit. Before girlfriends, Mills, who currently […]
Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in 1964, the only child of Black actress Roxie Roker and Jewish NBC news producer Sy Kravitz. Over the next few decades, he grew up to be one of his generation’s most iconic rock stars, befriending idols like Prince and Michael Jackson and dating an array of glamorous actresses and […]
The Charlatans were the first band I truly loved as an adult. They were the crest of the Madchester wave for me, carried forward by the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses. What I didn’t realize then was that the Charlatans’ soul-shifting song “The Only One I Know,” and their transcendent debut album Some Friendly, […]
Spencer Berger has that kind of look that makes you wonder where you’ve seen him before. His thick brows, kind blue eyes, slim face, and wily smile are the perfect composite of a frontman you could swear you just saw on the cover of a magazine, or maybe an actor in a movie you can’t […]
Maintaining an air of mystery in our all-access digital world is nothing short of an anomaly. But staying anonymous? That’s a miracle. Yet somehow, Ado has done so for the past five years, ever since debuting with her first viral hit “Usseewa” in 2020. Her newest single “Magic” comes out on Halloween. What we know […]