The only way reading Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, on the subway could be any more embarrassing is if he’d tacked on “For Dummies” to the end of ... read more
As he tells it, Lonnie Holley’s story of growing up poor in the south is nearly impossible to fathom, marked again and—almost routinely—again by trauma. But then, too, by art, as he built a career ... read more
March 2013: Last night, the Diplomats—Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey—celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2003 major label debut with a reunion show in Manhattan. Below, take a look back at the ... read more
March 2013: Last night, the Diplomats—Cam'ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey—celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2003 major label debut with a reunion show in Manhattan. Above, take a look back at Marc ... read more
New Delhi designer Manish Arora wanted his collaboration with Jaipur jewelry company Amrapali to champion the age-old customs of his native India, but he also wanted it to speak to the myriad ways modern women ... read more
In our behind the scenes video, tag along with style editor Mobolaji Dawodu and photographer Dietmar Busse on the Brush Strokes shoot.
A year ago, Riff Raff claimed that James Franco would be playing him in a movie. He was talking about Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, and his boast proved to be partially true, at least to ... read more
Vampire Weekend gets comfortable making music that's complicated. To date, Vampire Weekend has sold over a million records, played every music festival worth being jealous of your friends for attending, been the musical guest for ... read more
As a student in composition, British singer Laura Mvula found herself dissatisfied with the ugly dissonance of the modern classical canon. A lover of beautiful sounds, she found nothing to admire in a lack of ... read more
There’s something about spending a majority of your days in the back of a tour van that makes for precise packing. If you’ve only got room in your suitcase for the essentials, you’d better figure ... read more
Stone Fox explains how to avoid bridezilla weddings. “Fuck Weddings” might seem an odd slogan for a bridal atelier, but Molly Guy opened Stone Fox Bride in 2012 intending to make a chic rebuttal to ... read more
A security guard blocks the path to "African Innovations." Christian aTunde Adjuah stares him down with a bottle in his hand. A petite docent with a pink streak in her hair stands between the two ... read more
Iamsu! is a 23-year-old rapper and producer from Richmond, CA, a city northeast of San Francisco known for its high crime rate and Green Party mayor. His moniker is a search engine-optimized take on his ... read more
Pop music very likely taught you more about the birds and the bees than your parents ever did, so it’s no surprise that when you actually experience the highs and lows of love, it’s music ... read more
Solange and Vampire Weekend are both bound to have big years. Though Solange has been writing and recording music since she was a teen, her recent EP, True, is far and away her best work, ... read more
There is a heavenly light in New York’s Bowery Ballroom at two in the afternoon. Being that it’s a nighttime place, few would know it, but the sun just pours in all day long through ... read more
Fear of Men’s Early Fragments LP comes out next week via Kanine Records. Read the band's GEN F profile from FADER #84, then stream the whole album below. Two years after moving to Brighton and ... read more
From 2004 until the day LCD Soundsystem quit being a band, Ruvan Wijesooriya followed the group, first as a fan, and then as their adopted resident photographer. This month, powerHouse Books is releasing a monograph ... read more
The last week of August 2011, I found myself stranded in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My band Caveman had been one week into a tour with The War on Drugs. It was late summer, we were ... read more
Matt Mondanile groupthinks his new solo record. Real Estate’s role as suburban New Jersey’s jangle-pop poet laureates has been greatly exaggerated—at least according to the band’s guitarist, Matt Mondanile. “It’s cool that we’re from where ... read more