The Top Ten It-Bags of All Time
While straight dudes are obsessed with which high-performance automobile to purchase, fashion guys and gals spend the same amount of time and sometimes the same amount of money (i.e. the $432,000...
View ArticleListen to Le1f's Remix of Nicki Minaj's "Truffle Butter" and Give Him Your Vote
2013 Paper beautiful person Le1f is vying with other rappers for the 10th spot on XXL's coveted Freshmen list -- an annual roster of up-and-comers featured on the magazine's cover -- and just released...
View ArticleWatch the New Modest Mouse Video, aka the Indie Rock "We Can't Stop"
It's been a few years since Psy and Miley birthed the reign of plotless videos where crazy shit happens in almost every shot; Modest Mouse's "Lampshades on Fire" video, which premiered on Adult Swim...
View ArticleThe Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
16 Hours...Flight attendants can tell I'm off the shits. They's a whisperin in the corridors. No I don't want a magazine but I will have a hot lemon scented towel. Thank you kindly. Guy next to me is...
View ArticleThe Sunday Funnies
Cookie Monster and Grumpy Cat try to #BreaktheInternet. Wish we had thought of your method, Cookie! Watch Ariana Grande do an insanely good impression of Celine Dion on The Tonight Show....
View ArticleKindle Cover Disasters = Your New Favorite Tumblr
New Tumblr Kindle Cover Disasters highlights the spectacularly endless ways a book cover can go wrong in the world of self-published e-books, and it makes that dinosaur erotica that was making the...
View ArticleWatch Singer-Songwriter Lail Arad's New Video, "Milo"
London-based singer-songwriter Lail Arad (who came by PAPER HQ to perform in our kitchen not too long ago), is gearing up for the release of her second album, The Onion, and we're excited to be...
View Article"He Is An Extremely Limp Stalk of Celery": The Fug Girls On The Royals
Being a rabid royal historian I'm fascinated/horrified by E!'s new deliciously trashy scripted show The Royals, a sensational tabloid style drama about a fictional royal family of England. I decided to...
View ArticleMr. Mickey's #MCM: Contractor/Fitness Model Scott Cullens
Between building houses (his main profession) and doing shoots as a fitness model, 49-year-old Scott Cullens has a better body than most bodybuilders half his age and he's not afraid to show it off. We...
View ArticleStream Earl Sweatshirt's New Album
[photo via Instagram]After Earl Sweatshirt's surprise album I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside was posted to iTunes last week for pre-order (the result of an allegedly bungled attempt at a...
View ArticlePatti Smith, Andy Warhol and PAPER Show Off Their Chucks
We teamed up with our friends at Converse to celebrate their "Made By You" global campaign that shows off some well-worn, well-loved and well-customized pairs of Chucks from over 200 creatives...
View ArticleWatch Baby Kanye West Explain His Arm Tattoo in 2002
Another baby Yeezy video has sprung up online, this time featuring 2002 Kanye explaining his left forearm tattoo. The tattoo, a permanent reminder to Ye whence he came, lists the career-shaping songs...
View ArticleA Pregnant FKA Twigs Presides Over a Voguing Battle in "Glass & Patron" Music...
Known for arresting visuals, FKA Twigs doesn't disappoint with the video for "Glass & Patron," one of the songs featured in her Google Glass short film. In the new video, Twigs starts out...
View ArticleListen to a Kendrick Lamar / Seinfeld Theme Song Mashup
God bless the internet for picking up traces of '90s sitcom beats in Kendrick Lamar's new genre-pushing album To Pimp A Butterfly. Soundcloud user Jack Dudley created a mash-up of Lamar's "King Kunta"...
View ArticleHere's Shamir Morphing Into a Puppet In His New Video, "Call It Off"
After breaking out in 2014 with his hit, "On the Regular," Shamir seems to be riding the wave of momentum into 2015: his recent SXSW shows were considered to be among the festival's best, his debut...
View ArticleHow Brands Like Converse Get SXSW Right
It's hard to believe when a brand is doing a genuinely good thing. It was just two weeks ago that the band Ex Cops shed a harsh light on McDonald's efforts to put together a SXSW showcase. The band...
View ArticleWatch Charli XCX's Surreal, Eric Wareheim-Directed Video for "Famous"
One half of the surrealist comedy duo Tim & Eric, Eric Wareheim directed a bonkers video for Charli XCX's "Famous." Like most of Tim & Eric's humor, the music video is dark and skewering as it...
View ArticleICYMI: Kerry Washington's GLAAD Speech Deserves All The Prayer Hands Emoji
Our foremost gladiator Kerry Washington was presented with the Vanguard Award at GLAAD's 26th Annual Media Awards over the weekend. In her acceptance speech she spoke on diversity in television, what...
View ArticleWatch Florence and the Machine's Cinematic New "St Jude" Video
A continuation of Florence and the Machine's video for "What Kind of Man," which we could only describe as "intense," St. Jude is just as heavy. Though director Vincent Haycock says the video and song...
View ArticleMajor Lazer, DJ Snake and MØ Head to India In "Lean On"
It's been a banner day for new music videos: Charli XCX enlisted Eric Wareheim to create a surrealist world filled with '90s-obssed teens and streetwear-clad retirees, FKA twigs "gave birth to dance,"...
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