The Walking Dead’s Lauren Cohan is set on survival
October 17, 2017
With everything at stake—in every sense of the word—actress Lauren Cohan has managed to navigate her way through a whopping 100 episodes of the hit AMC show.
Have a burning secret? Dial this number
August 11, 2017
Artists Gideon Jacobs and Gregor Hochmuth’s Confession connects anonymous callers to anonymous listeners, all to relieve themselves of their innermost thoughts
Artists at Work: Maya Lin
August 10, 2017
At 21, Maya Lin was chosen to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It’s a credit that’s followed—rather, chased the artist since 1981. Now, at 57, it’s a matter of fact to say it’s only one small facet of an ever-expanding practice.
Marika Hackman
July 31, 2017
“I had been on the road touring the first record, and then I came back and I took a very long, deep breath for a year whilst writing,” says 25-year-old musician Marika Hackman. The result of that extended inhale and exhale is I’m Not Your Man, Hackman’s sophomore album, which is equal parts passionate and introspective.
Little Dragon
July 20, 2017
In April, Swedish four-piece Little Dragon released their fifth album, Season High, a collection of tracks that once again proves the synth-heavy pop band is capable of both triumphant, upbeat numbers and intimate, yet sweeping songs.
Jacob Anderson
July 20, 2017
As Grey Worm on Game of Thrones, Jacob Anderson is largely silent, standing loyally behind Daenerys Targaryen and leading the Unsullied. In real life, Anderson is affable, forthcoming, and certainly not quiet; under the name Raleigh Ritchie, he makes playful pop- and R&B-inflected music.
Sundara Karma
July 18, 2017
In January, the four English rockers that form Sundara Karma released Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect, a lively debut LP about aging through adolescence that’s as brooding as it is celebratory.
Sarah Jaffe
July 11, 2017
Last Friday, Sarah Jaffe released her fourth full-length album, Bad Baby, and by her account, and ours, it might just be the strongest yet.
Katie Von Schleicher
June 28, 2017
Katie Von Schleicher’s Shitty Hits is an album’s worth of songs, built layer by layer from cassette recordings, that range from melancholy ballads to punchy confessionals.
Jessie Reyez
June 27, 2017
Three years ago, Jessie Reyez was in Sweden at a songwriting workshop, crafting hits to pitch major artists. Today, the 26-year-old is headlining her first tour following the release of her commanding yet vulnerable debut EP Kiddo, in which she announced herself as an artist all her own, not just for others.
Algiers
June 26, 2017
Algiers’ second album, The Underside of Power, is a reflection of our precarious politics—both present and past—a coming together of literature and history, and an offering of communion that might just funnel unrest into action.
Benjamin Booker
June 21, 2017
If Benjamin Booker’s first album was about his surroundings and problems with those around him, his second, Witness (ATO Records), released earlier this month, is a personal offering in which he admits, as he puts it, “I’m not perfect.”
Six Stories, Twice Retold
May 25, 2017
At the 57th Venice Biennale’s South African Pavilion, Candice Breitz offers a set of stories, ones we’re perhaps less inclined to listen to than we’d readily admit. The tales belong to six refugees, and are delivered directly as well as through retellings by Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore.
Out of This World
May 24, 2017
Not many musicians can say that David Lynch “cured” them. But 18 years ago, at the start of Chrysta Bell’s long-term collaborative relationship with the enigmatic auteur, he did just that: she no longer wanted to “write the perfect pop song.”
From the Rooftops
May 18, 2017
“Who else should have a seat at the table?” This question is one artist Heather Hart poses to Storm King and its surrounding community on the occasion of her one-season-long installation, The Oracle of Lacuna.
Loyle Carner
May 17, 2017
Loyle Carner, a 22-year-old from South London, is as earnest as they come.
At Home With Becky Suss
May 9, 2017
“I know that that word elicits a sort of cringe from a lot of people,” says Becky Suss of “Homemaker,” the title of her current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
Jesse Jo Stark
April 27, 2017
“I’m not trying to recreate anything completely from the past,” explains musician Jesse Jo Stark, “but if I’m looking up some inspiration, it’d probably be Cher from the ’70s.”
Skott
April 21, 2017
Pauline Skott has come a long way from the forests of rural Dalarna, Sweden where she once played her fiddle, but her hometown remains at the core of her music.
L.A. Salami
April 20, 2017
Lookman Adekunle Salami, who performs under the abbreviated name L.A. Salami, is a philosopher of sorts.