When I meet GrandeMarshall on the streets of Midtown Manhattan after the release of his debut mixtape, 800, he’s noticeably lost—a Philly kid in the big city, pumping himself up for his first big day ... read more
DJs, labels and video directors to keep an eye on next year. Jerome LOL Los Angeles, CA AGE: 25 SOUND: Like a syrupy, house-informed pop musician who is dating the drummer from a middle school ... read more
Footnotes is where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our magazine's featured artists. In this issue we caught up with four new producers—Mike Will Made It, Paris Beuller, DJ Mustard and Chuck ... read more
Four very different producers define the sound of rap's future. Two years ago, Waka Flocka Flame released his debut album, Flockaveli. Of its 17 songs, 11 were produced or co-produced by Lex Luger, a Virginia ... read more
Weed Al Yankovic. That’s what I started calling Tim Vocals in my mind about halfway through his opening set for Chief Keef’s New York debut at SOB’s this past June. While onstage, Vocals sang about ... read more
Future's appearance at New York's Highline Ballroom this past Friday celebrated Pluto 3D, a re-release of his major label debut Pluto that features remixes with high-watt collaborators and three new tracks. The new material was ... read more
Future's appearance at New York's Highline Ballroom this past Friday celebrated Pluto 3D, a re-release of his major label debut Pluto that features remixes with high-watt collaborators and three new tracks. The new material was ... read more
Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo are two enviably tall Stockholm natives—Hjelt with a soft burst of orange hair, Jawo with a brown, eyebrow-skimming bowl cut. Before they united as Icona Pop, Hjelt had spent a ... read more
Christian L'enfant Roi makes clothes for bratty boys. Christian Deslauriers creates the fey, printed suits and soft shades of maroon in his menswear line for a very specific clientele—as he puts it, his muse for ... read more
Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, received cautiously upon its release in 2008, remains one of the most experimental and prescient moments in Kanye's career. Today, we mark the four years that have passed since its ... read more
The former Girls frontman sets out on his own. On the morning of July 2, 2012, Christopher Owens rose with the sun. His mind was restless, he had slept poorly and the room at his ... read more
Twelve indispensable items for trips around the world (or to grandma's house for the holidays.) 1. Sprout Skincare The Full Mini Kit, $58 2. Etiquette Clothiers Ikura Trunk in Royal Blue, $32 Everest Stripe Sock ... read more
For the two gentlemen on the cover of our new Now Issue, our annual look at what's super important in the moment, it's been a year of rebirth: free from a bad record label deal, ... read more
Miguel’s sophomore effort is really his first look. Miguel’s alcohol stash is low. He’s got a glass-worth of whiskey, which he says he prefers, and one bottle of beer. He offers me the whiskey. It’s ... read more
With over 40 releases to its name, Emeralds—the trio of Steven Hauschildt, Mark McGuire and John Elliott—has established itself over the past six years as one of the most prolific acts in contemporary synth-based music, ... read more
Analog synths and vintage drum machines may be badges of authenticity in a certain sector of electronic music, but for Johnson City, Tennessee native Holly Herndon, clicking a mouse onstage is about as real as ... read more
Sometimes it takes a brush with mortality to find your true calling. In the spring of 2011, Kinuko Hiramatsu was your average Japanese university student, preparing to graduate and hunt around for a run-of-the-mill desk ... read more
Seventeen-year-old Amy Kabba paces the stage of an East London dive in short-shorts and vertiginous ankle boots, working the crowd to perfection with perky between-song banter and a swagger that could fill arenas. Running through ... read more
In 2009, the British Council invited Olivia Arthur to teach a two-week photography workshop to a group of women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Arthur has spent much of her photographic career documenting facets of the ... read more
Crashing couches along the Trans-Siberian railway Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter doesn’t speak Russian, so she had a friend who does write this on a piece of paper: “I am looking for a place to spend ... read more