Buzzy Canadian duo Purity Ring won’t release their long-awaited debut album until July, but a new video for the song “Belispeak” just might hold fans over.
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Buzzy Canadian duo Purity Ring won’t release their long-awaited debut album until July, but a new video for the song “Belispeak” just might hold fans over.
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I was working in a mechanic shop in Soweto when I got the call that Paul Simon was looking for studio musicians to record an album. “Paul who?” I asked. But I needed the money so I went. I was poor. I was supporting my mother, who was sick, and as a black musician in South Africa at the time, you’d get ripped off a lot, getting paid five dollars for an entire album. Paul was different. When I got to the studio, we started jamming. He liked everything I did.
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Good news: Rad Hourani has revealed yet another fascinating unisex collection. Bad news: It's only available in Hong Kong. Good news again: Maybe he'll release it stateside if we hype it up enough. We've kept our eye on Rad since 2010, when he explained to us that he designs from a "virgin point-of-view" and produces pieces that are "freed from any gender differentiations." Although he's stayed true to this philosophy through the years, he never ceases to surprise us with his ability to infuse innovation in his highly-structured garments. His latest range of adrogynous pieces for Joyce Hong Kong is a celebration of that.
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You might remember him from his work with the Moldy Peaches, his solo albums or even last year’s film, shot completely on an iPhone, The Wrong Ferrari. But Adam Green has yet another life: fine artist. Next week, Green’s latest exhibit, titled Cartoon and Complaint, will open at Intercourse Exhibition Space, aritist Dustin Yellin’s Brooklyn Gallery. We caught up with Green to find out about the work he’s showing, his partnership with Yellin and just what Snow White has to do with his art.
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In our obsession with shows about sex, singles, and ways of helping singles have sex, it is with great sadness that we announce this season’s final performance of Never Sleep Alone this Friday (tomorrow). Yes, we are in fact talking about that New York Times-acclaimed show that helps singles hook-up (evidence provided). And since each show sells out before you can even say “but I’ve been involuntarily chaste,” get your tickets today so you can get laid tomorrow.
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Famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle does more than snap pictures for advertising campaigns and pal around with the world’s most glamorous trans woman. LaChapelle has a very solid resume as a music video director.
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So, that face-eating thing! I'm starting to be convinced that it's all an elaborate hoax, some grand social experiment to see just how disgusting, vile, and tasteless humanity can be when talking about someone who was attacked by another person. That has to be it, right? Granted, I've done my best to avoid reading any of the very many stories covering the incident on the internet (no, I will not click on your links! But animated cat .gifs? Yes, please!), and I'm assuming that, if it hasn't happened already, there are at least four slideshow galleries somewhere across the internet called "Top Ten Eaten Faces in History!" It's the end of the month, after all. Gotta get dem pageviews!
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Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” So goes the oft-quoted line from William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. Time is circular, and our relationship with our own personal histories is ever changing. This is a concept with which the enigmatic Fiona Apple is deeply familiar. The 34-year-old singer-songwriter is about to release her fourth album—the first in seven years—aptly titled The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do. The spinning wheel of time cranks back and forth for Apple, who continues to re-examine her past while trying to keep up with the present. Like most artists, however, Apple finds that her fans cherish the past more than she does.
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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.
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