Music
Ooh, a New Track by Giorgio Moroder
Legendary Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder is back in the spotlight with his new Daft Punk collab -- and he's also just released a new track on his own. The seventy-three-year old did the…
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The Breeders' Photo Tour Diary Part 2
One of our favorite music developments to happen so far this year? The return of the Breeders. The sisters Deal and the original band line-up are back with LSXX, a 20th anniversary re-issue of the…
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At Long Last, There's a Video For Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"
So is "molly" the bitch Kendrick Lamar doesn't want to kill his vibe?After first hearing "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe," we never assumed Kendrick was directing his antipathy towards MDMA but after watching the brand…
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Listen to Jonny Makeup's Ode to a Forbidden Love Affair With a Sailor
Check out a new track by Jonny Makeup, one-third of gay hip-hop trio VIP Party Boys, self-professed La-la-land "It Girl," and member of one of our favorite L.A. tribes -- the cuckoo collection of…
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New Marc Maron-Narrated Doc Looks at 12 Years of DFA
"Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic" is an appropriate description of seminal NYC indie record label DFA. It's also the title of a short documentary that looks at the label's…
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Talking With Punk Scholar Jon Savage About the Met Exhibition and Punk's Early Years
Jon Savage is the foremost authority about punk, both first-hand as a wild child himself in London and, later, as the author of England's Dreaming, his authoritative history of the movement that shook Europe and…
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Mariah Carey Made a New Song With Miguel
Fresh from renewing her wedding vows with Nick Cannon in a Disney princess ceremony at Disneyland, Mariah Carey has released a new single featuring R&B stud Miguel. In what we can only suppose is…
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MCA Day Is Saturday + Beasties in the Archives
Brooklyn performance and art space Littlefield (622 Degraw Street) is celebrating the life of Adam Yauch tomorrow, May 4, starting at 11 a.m. Stop in and spend a little time reminiscing -- or whatever floats…
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Here's Xavier Dolan's Controversial New Music Video
PAPER is no stranger to Xavier Dolan, the young filmmaker who loves to play with themes of sexuality and the complications of love (who was also featured in our spring issue a few years…
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Looking for the Authentic Great Gatsby Soundtrack
This morning, after several weeks of parcelling out individual songs to different blogs, Interscope Records unveiled the full soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby (out in 3-D next Friday). Executive-produced by…
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Pissed Jeans' Frontman and Fashion Enthusiast Matt Korvette Talks Punk Style and Loving Louboutins
Pissed Jeans, L-R: Matt Korvette, Bradley Fry, Sean McGuinness, and Randy Huth. Photo by Bradley Fry.As front man for Philly-based hardcore band Pissed Jeans, Matt Korvette isn't the typical fashion-obsessed dude. But, between Rick…
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A Beastie Boys Memoir + an Adam Yauch Playground on the Way
Big Beastie Boys news this week with the announcement of a new "oral history" and the re-naming of a city park in honor of Adam Yauch, who passed away last May 4th. According to the…
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From Budokan to Bowery: An Interview with Cheap Trick's Tom Petersson
(Photo by Alberto Cabello on Flickr)Thirty-five years ago this Sunday, Illinois' own Cheap Trick headlined Tokyo's Nippon Budokan stadium on their first Japanese tour. Recordings of that show (and another one two days later) were…
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Classixx' Upcoming Album Hanging Gardens Is All We're Waiting For
DJ and producer duo Classixx (Michael David and Tyler Blake) have made a name for themselves remixing songs for Phoenix, YACHT, Major Lazer and more, vamping up tracks with unique synth beats and disco charm.…
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Rapper Cakes Da Killa On Everything You Need to Know About Twerking
From Miley Cyrus breaking it down in a unicorn onesie to Vanessa Hudgens popping it on The Tonight Show, it's clear that twerking has crept its way from the strip clubs of America and into…
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Jessie Ware Covers Martika's "Love Thy Will Be Done" (Co-Written by Prince)
One reason Jessie Ware is so admirable is the singer's own overt admiration for semi-obscure movements of 20th-century R&B. A one-time teenage raver, Ware has paid tribute to that scene by covering Bobby Caldwell's 1978…
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The Downtown Music Festival Returns Next Month
Earl SweatshirtThe Downtown Music Festival is going nomad. The two-day fest that started in New York City in 2011, returns this year on May 10th and 11th -- and then its traveling around North…
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The Band, Biggie LPs Reissued for Record Store Day (Tomorrow)
The third Saturday of April is, of course, Record Store Day: a major event for the last of the independently-owned record stores, seeing the release of hundreds of limited edition records by a wide range…
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Coachella Chatz: Theophilus London
We're out here covering Coachella with our new pals Fruttare, a yummy fruit popsicle brand from Brazil that's newly launching in the U.S. and was one of the festival sponsors. When not OD'ing on the…
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The Designers of Public School Make A Coachella Photo Diary
Most of the Coachella stories you'll read come from one of two camps: musicians or journalists. We thought it would be fun to mix things up and see what in-demand designers do during the fashion-conscious…
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