Chances are, your friends who watch Mad Men still haven’t stopped talking about how amazing / intense / dramatic / Drapetacular (a new adjective created by Mad Men fans solely for the purpose of describing this episode) this past week’s episode was. But one fan of the episode is pretty surprising: David Pryor, the Vice President of brand development at Jaguar USA.

Earlier this week, Atlanta rapper and former half of OutKast Big Boi announced the title of his upcoming album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, the follow-up to his acclaimed 2010 effort, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Today, he dropped a new single, "She Said OK," with a little help from everyone's favorite collaborator (and BlackBook performing favorite), Theophilus London, along with producer and artist Tre Luce.

Creepy kids have always been a part of music videos, but they've been popping up more and more over the past couple of years, from MGMT's "Kids" to Skrillex's "First of the Year - Equinox." Last year, creepy kids of the luminous-eyed, telekinetic powers-possessing variety were the subjects of the video for M83's single "Midnight City." In the video for the second single off of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, "Reunion," the kids are back, stronger than ever, and now being tracked by some sort of government intelligence-gathering body of some sort. You can probably guess who wins out in the end. The song itself is lovely too. 

Oh, Greta Gerwig. The Helen of Troy of Mumblecore; the face that launched a thousand Kickstarter campaigns.

As I chow on last night’s leftovers, my mouth tingles in memory of chef Danny Bowien’s Sichuan pepper-heavy dishes that he serves at the new Mission Chinese Food on the Lower East Side. Now, here is a man who not only knows how to play with traditional Asian spices, but has also figured out a way to make take-out Chinese hip. But don’t tell him that. “A lot of people have labeled us that way, but we are working away from that,” the long-haired chef says. “We are tying to make something at appeals to us, and is something we want to go to our day off.”

If there's anything that makes me more exhausted than talking about Girls, a show that I actually very much enjoy, it is James Franco. Yes, James Franco: actor, artist, author, possible asshole, probable automaton, and various other words that begin with the letter A. Sadly, it has come to my attention that Franco has something to say about Girls and its creator, Lena Dunham.

In our upcoming June/July issue, Fiona Apple opens up about her career and her new album The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do, which drops June 19. We can barely wait to share with you our profile of the enigmatic singer-songwriter, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the full piece. In the meantime, check out some of the interesting bits that didn't make it into the issue! 

Tired of the bottle service-heavy, interaction-light nightlife of Los Angeles, best friends Marc Rose (left) and Med Abrous (right) opened the Spare Room, a unique lounge in the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, early last year. The lounge features bespoke cocktails, vintage bowling alleys, and a variety of gorgeous handcrafted board games. The combination has proven wildly successful among partiers looking to socially network without staring at pixelated screens. We asked the innovative duo how they managed to get Angelenos to put down their iPhones and pick up their Scrabble tiles. 

The sixth studio album from Liars has a funny name. It's spelled WIXIW and pronounced like “wish you.” No matter how odd the title is, however, the music from the band that rose to indie fame alongside Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs in an early aughts New York City is, as always, excellent.

Although he’s been around the track a few times, I wasn’t familiar with New York rapper El-P until last year, when he did a pretty great guest verse on Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire’s “Last Huzzah.” He delivers his lines with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. How cool is that? El-P has a lot going on this summer. He produced Killer Mike’s highly-acclaimed new album R.A.P. Music and has an album of his own that just came out on Tuesday called Cancer for Cure. (Buy it here.) El-P is a talented, creative, and interesting man. And the video for his new single is crazy and wonderful in all the right ways, except one.