Lana Del Rey Teams Up with Producer Emile Haynie on "Wait For Life"
via David Crotty/PatrickMcMullan.comIt's Monday and it's scientifically the saddest day on earth, apparently, so it's only fitting that Lana Del Rey decided to drop a moody, new track. The singer...
View ArticleICYMI: Listen to Frank Ocean's Haunting Tribute to Aaliyah
There are both good and a not-so-good ways to honor Aaliyah's R&B legacy and lasting contribution to music. Lifetime's biopic? Bad. Drake's tattoos? Possibly worse. But Frank Ocean's cover of The...
View ArticleReport: Karl Lagerfeld Hates Selfies and Ugly People
Last Friday, New York Times Magazine ran a profile on Brad Kroenig, model and current muse to Karl Lagerfeld. But it was honestly hard to care about Brad when we were blinded by all the glorious Karl...
View ArticleJessica Pratt is Really Good at Twitter (and Music); Stream Her New Album Here
On Your Own Love Again, Jessica Pratt's haunting, stripped-bare second album, is now streaming on NPR. To paraphrase her entry in our "Hottest Acts to Look Out For in 2015" post, "the fragility of her...
View ArticleBroad City's Abbi & Ilana Looked Like Two '60s Lounge Singers On Kimmel Last...
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer made their debut appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night and, as you might expect, looked nuts and were completely charming. In the clip above, the two...
View ArticleListen to St. Vincent's Electric New Song, "Bad Believer"
Our reining goddess of rock, St. Vincent is getting ready to release the deluxe edition of her 2014 self-titled album. "Bad Believer" is the first cut from the re-issue to be unveiled, and it's such a...
View ArticleArtist Clayton Cubitt's "Hysterical Literature" Series to Make Its First...
Alongside various other book-centric works at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Clayton Cubitt's "Hysterical Literature" series will be on view as part of a new exhibition called...
View ArticleKim Kardashian Reveals the Cover Art for Selfish
Genius photographer of our generation Kim Kardashian is almost ready to reveal her life's work, Selfish, a collection of selfies taken over a decade of Kardashian-Jenner vacations, as witnessed below:...
View Article5 Indie Graphic Novels That Even Comic Book Haters Will Like
We're only half a month into 2015 and it's already looking like a good year for indie comics. Our five favorites are a diverse lot to choose from, including a collection of diary strips, a tragicomic...
View ArticleCharli XCX and Rita Ora Take a Delightfully Campy Roadtrip in "Doing It"...
Charli XCX once told us that she's "inspired more by movie characters than musicians," and that definitely comes through in the video treatment for "Doing It." Like Britney Spears before them, Charli...
View ArticleA Brief History of New Kids On the Block's Incomparable Steez
PAPER wasn't the only venerable institution to celebrate its 30th anniversary last year. New Kids On the Block, that other bastion of cutting-edge cool and peerless cultural acumen, also got started...
View ArticleWatch a Puppy and a Blindfolded Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sing the Astonishing...
"I can't see what I am doing / It's like a dog is standing on my face." So begins the eerie and flat-out gorgeous "Blindlessness." Clearly Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, has been spying on...
View ArticleLil Wayne's Sorry 4 The Wait 2 Is Here
It's no Tha Carter V, but Lil Wayne's mixtape, Sorry 4 The Wait 2, has finally dropped. Sorry 4 The Wait 2 includes tracks with Drake, 2 Chainz, mack Maine, and a Beyoncé remix featuring Christina...
View ArticleWatch Kanye West, World's Cutest Kid, Recite a Poem Dedicated to Martin...
Before he took the Def Jam Poetry stage, Kanye West was a very cute middle schooler with a dream and a tiny tie. Yesterday, Kim Kardashian took to Twitter to post a video of husband Kanye West reading...
View ArticleIs Kendall Jenner's First Estée Lauder Ad a "Selfie"? (Probably.)
Kendall Jenner's modeling career got a big boost in November when it was announced that she'd star in a campaign for Estée Lauder and now, two months later, the results are in. As the new face of the...
View ArticleStarting Saturday, You Can Watch The Interview on Netflix
Bad news for people who just want to stop hearing about The Interview: the notably meh film is coming to Netflix. Since being pulled from theaters, the controversy-prone movie has grossed $40 million...
View ArticleArtisté Shia LaBeouf Talks About Working With Sia on "Electric Heart"
Although there's been some controversy surrounding Shia LaBeouf's role in Sia's "Elastic Heart" music video, it's hard to ignore the emotion and physicality he put into his heartfelt performance. We've...
View ArticleKaren O's New Video Will Break Your Seasonally Affected Heart
Karen O's new video for single "Day Go By," off last year's ridiculously gorgeous Crush Songs, is a double whammy of emotion. First, there's the song. O tells Vogue she wrote it, "when I was living in...
View Article10 Reasons Why You Need to Jump On the Empire Bandwagon Immediately
(Photo credit: Michael Lavine/FOX)FOX's new monster hit, Empire -- brainchild of Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, the team behind The Butler -- has already been rewarded with outsized ratings and critical...
View ArticleBroad City's Abbi and Ilana Interviewed Sleater-Kinney and of Course It Was...
The facts are already established: Broad City is amazing. Sleater-Kinney is awesome. So, if you put the two together in an attempt to scientifically engineer a flawless 80-minute panel discussion, it's...
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