PREMIERE: Teeth and Tongue's "The Party Is You"
Going by the unlikely name Teeth and Tongue, Melbourne, Australia-based singer Jess Cornelius creates melodic, sludgy rock that's steadily gaining steam -- and growing its fanbase -- after successful...
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Friday Superlatives: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
Craziest Thing We Saw at a Party This Week: These two (nearly) naked body-painted girls at the Dos Equis Academy Party at a Masonic Lodge in Chelsea. -- Abby SchreiberBest Food Reading: As a lifelong...
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GIFs of the Week: Postmodern Edition
Welcome to our Friday GIF roundup, featuring a collection of this week's most important, amusing and/or newsy GIFs and GIFsets by Mike Hayes of Buzzfeed and Gifhound.Welcome to GIFs of the week....
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Nationalized Twinkies + Donkey Politicians = Eight Items or Less
1. When memes collide (see here and here): petition to nationalize the Twinkie. [via Felix Salmon]2. Check out one writer's attempt to source every ingredient in a Twinkie. [Twinkie, Deconstructed]3....
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Tips for Today: METZ at Mercury Lounge + the CLMP Spelling Bee at the Standard
MUSIC: METZ at Mercury LoungeToronto pigfuck revivalists METZ filled the house wherever they played at last month's CMJ. Tonight they're joined by the local punks in Hunters.Mercury Lounge, 217 East...
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Morning Funnies: The Best Campaign Ad Ever + Taylor Swift Is Not Laughing
This SNL ad for visiting your hometown during the holidays is perfect. Taylor Swift's interview with the New York Times this weekend got off to an awkward start:NYT: At the CMA awards earlier this...
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Meet Top Female Skier Roz Groenewoud
The first time American Federation of Skiing (AFS) half pipe champion Roz Groenewoud ever won a competition, she spent her winnings on a plane ticket to Montreal to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform. The...
View ArticleR.E.M.'s "Blue" Is Our Music Video of the Day
Okay, Mr. Franco, we'll change your grade in Music Video Production 101 from an "incomplete" to a "C."Â When R.E.M. released their final album, Collapse Into Now, in 2011, the band announced a "film...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Club Chrissie ft. Cory Kennedy
On today's episode of Club Chrissie, PAPER Nightlife Award Winner Cory Kennedy heads over to the crafting klatch to make some denim iPhone cases. The two have some funny exchanges (turns out Chrissie...
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Emma Stone Is at the Top of Vogue's Best Dressed List + Who Would Play Grace...
Emma Stone tops the list of Vogue's Top Ten Best Dressed Women. Other women on the list include Rooney Mara, Kristen Stewart and Solange Knowles! [via Fashionista]Loving the new Marc Jacobs...
View ArticleLe1f + Boody's New Video Pops
We've been waiting to see what Le1f would serve up after he turned it out with his video for "Wut", and the video for "Soda", his recent collaboration with Boody for their Liquids EP, has not...
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An A to Z Guide of "Trapped in the Closet"
It's a testament to R. Kelly, perhaps the most wonderfully weird global R&B legend we have working today, that his batshit crazy "Trapped In the Closet" music video project -- a pulpy, soap opera...
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FriendsWithYou's New Print + Kenan Thompson's New Show = Eight Items or Less
1. FriendsWithYou's "I am Malfi" poster is available today in a limited edition of 150. [Poster Child Prints]2. Now that you've looked up who died on your birthday, you can look up which records came...
View ArticleThe Crystal Ark's "We Came To" Is Our Music Video of the Day
The aliens have landed and they want to party. From the ashes of the disbanded LCD Soundsystem comes Crystal Ark with this 8-minute cross between Joey Arias and the B52s. "We Came To" is an Off-Off...
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Tips for Today: Gary Shteyngart Roast at BAM and Joey Arias & Sherry Vine at XL
CABARET: Joey Arias and Sherry Vine: Looking Back at the Future at XLPAPER pal Joey Arias reunites with former "SINsation" and "StarLust" collaborator Sherry Vine for their first full-length New York...
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Live: METZ at Mercury Lounge
Heavily-hyped Toronto punk trio METZ packed the Mercury Lounge Monday night, the first of two consecutive New York dates. METZ can probably best be described as "muscular," both for the way their...
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Next Big Thing: Designer J.W. Anderson
Often clad in blue jeans and a simple white T-shirt, designer Jonathan William Anderson does not immediately look like the man responsible for leading a London-based fashion revolution. The 28-year-old...
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Lena Dunham Gets Her First Fashion Mag Cover + Some Bad News About All of...
Today in 'Dammit, why didn't we do that?': Lena Dunham covers i-D (for one of 8 covers including the amazing Grace Coddington cover we wrote about earlier this week). This is the first -- and not the...
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"The Hook Is That There Is No Hook:" R. Kelly on the New Episodes of "Trapped...
"I'm so nervous, but I'm at the same time so excited," said R. Kelly, in a black tuxedo jacket and sunglasses, holding an unlit cigar in his red-leather-gloved hand. Before a theater of journalists and...
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Check Out Ingo Maurer's Futuristic Digital Candles
Take a look at "My New Flame," fantastic digital candles by engineer Moritz Waldemeyer for legendary lighting designer Ingo Maurer. Primarily composed of a thin strip of circuit board, the "candle"...
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