LIVE REVIEW: The Burlies@ Glassland – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

story / David Leigh Abts & Sarah Shanok photos / Elizabeth A. Abts It is a Summer Hump Day. Your co-worker suggests a show and you aren’t sure if you want to go out on a Wednesday evening – you’re wiped after working just to keep the lights on and mid-week you’re already burning the [...]

BROODS

on caleb : apc t shirt, nike sweatpants, massimo alba trench coat, nike sneakers. georgina : vintage dresses, topshop heels, jacket stylist’s own. photographer / Daniel McMahon story / Erica Russell stylist / Alison Mazur hair + makeup / Ronnie Peter The first thing you notice about Broods is how breathtakingly beautiful they are. Georgia, [...]

CURTIS HARDING

photographer / Hedi Slimane story / Katie Deutsch Having Burger Records music sensation and super babe CURTIS HARDING serenade me at the Gansevoort Park Hotel is hardly an assignment. I’ve been grooving to his album SOUL POWER as soon as I got it so hearing his velvet smooth and all rock’n’roll voice in real life [...]

SONG PREMIERE: yöri / “Surrounded”

There’s only two words that properly describe electronic nu-pop artist Yöri: pure magic. Like the sonic lovechild between a 90′s-era Bjork and Canada’s creep-pop export Grimes, the California artist’s music is both ancient and futuristic in sound, a sonic fusion of two worlds that seem to collide and shatter in the airwaves. Yori’s voice is [...]

Rebecca and Fiona

photos / Katy Pritchett story / Erica Russell Petite and fairylike in person, with their candy-colored hair and dollish features, onstage Rebecca and Fiona – the Swedish electronic-pop duo that spins high-octane EDM and performs original music for crowds of thousands at music festivals around the globe – are towering behind their DJ booth. And [...]

VIDEO PREMIERE: Dai Burger x Timespent

photo / Sam Evans-Butler New York rapper Dai Burger is on the rise. From the rapid fire flow in her bubble-pop sex-rap debut “Souffle,” to her aggressive, no-prisoners-taken feature on Saint’s trap banger “Tamagotchi,” the colorful MC and former House of Field shop-girl is not one to shy away from the spotlight, and has been a [...]

LADYGUNN TV / First Aid Kit / Cedar Lane / Acoustic Session

Executive Producer / Koko Ntuen Video by Joshua Shultz Location Bronson Island Special Thanks Mike Schuppan

Taking the Crown: The Return of Lily Allen ++ Interview and Review of Sheezus

  interview / Erica Russell review by / Cetoria Tomberlin photos / Jamie Nelson When Lily Allen answers her phone, she’s on her way out of a meeting with her record label in London. It takes roughly three reschedules to get ahold of the British pop starlet for this interview, so I’m wholly unsurprised to find that when [...]