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In the few short months since Lil Nas X’s country trap single “Old Town Road” exploded online and forced a generation of aging music editors to learn what TikTok is, he’s been the subject of more internet discussion and dissection than many artists see throughout full careers. The song catapulted from meme success to rack […]
Before Since ‘93, you worked in A&R at Virgin EMI and signed Professor Green and Krept & Konan. With Krept & Konan, they got a record deal after Young Kingz charted in the Top 20. Then their debut album, The Long Way Home, was a top five album. How do you go from a ‘good’ […]
Adidas announced on April Fool’s Day that it would have “a new beginning” on 4.4, but it wasn’t a joke. Some guessed that it would be a collection with Pokémon. Other hardcore brand loyalists kicked around assumptions that it would have to do with Adidas relaunching of its ZX campaign. There were even poorly informed conclusions […]
“I reached out to his agent at the time on MySpace. That’s not a joke. I really reached out on MySpace.” Sascha Stone Guttfreund, co-founder of the music promotion company ScoreMore, laughingly recalls the beginnings of his relationship with J. Cole—a bond that culminates on April 6 with the first Dreamville Fest. The festival, co-produced […]
Stephen A. Smith has always been a popular face and voice in the world of sports media, but over the past couple years the ESPN personality’s status has reached new heights. Whether it’s his rants on his daily radio show or outbursts on First Take or animated reactions that quickly get turned into memes, Smith […]
“I was born in 1965,” Kyle Chandler reasons, “I don’t know what an Easter Egg is.” The question was in relation to whether any sly references to his iconic role as Coach Taylor on TV’s Friday Night Lights will appear in his upcoming summer blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters. But ideally, it’s indicative of […]
Chances are, at some point in the last year, you’ve heard, seen or read something about the new wave of UK jazz. Across the capital and beyond, a new generation of trumpet players, saxophonists and singers have revolutionised what we think of as jazz and how we think about the people who listen to it. […]
Much has been written about Drake’s “Sicko Mode” verse, particularly the line about popping half a Xan and being “out like a light.” The Independent says he “sounds more important on this record” than he did on all of Scorpion; The New Hampshire calls the Xanax line “the strangest brag of 2018”; DJBooth dubs it […]
Before the first show, on March 8, Bad Bunny’s stylist Patricia Alfonso took our photographer David Cabrera into Bunny’s dressing room. There, he saw what Bunny was planning on wearing for the shows, spotting brands like Jaded London, Talentless, and the Italian GCDS (God Can’t Destroy Streetwear), along with Poppy Lissiman sunnies and Dragon Ball […]
Daniel Arsham, Alex Mustonen, and Benjamin Porto, the partners behind design studio Snarkitecture, have developed a specific identity with their slick, minimal spaces and objects that confuse and entice the senses. But they’ve never been in complete control of how their work is presented—until now. Arsham, Mustonen, and Porto are usually showing their designs in someone […]
