Mekala Rajagopal

rorschach test

Sexyy Red on Duck Nails, Diss Tracks, and Synthetic Hair

September 7, 2023

“They be talking about my music, but baby we grew up on Trina.”

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skater

Chloë Sevigny on Skater Girls, Fashion Week, and the Lawless Nineties

September 5, 2023

“Now, of course, the permeating smell of marijuana drives me a little crazy. You can’t escape it in the streets of New York.”

cumgirl8

tour diary

Post-Punk Band cumgirl8 on Hobby Horses and Signing Sourdough

September 5, 2023

“She rode the fuck out of that horse.”

prada fine jewelry

review

Prada’s Pink Gold Jewelry Has Us Dreaming of Montauk and Linen

September 4, 2023

“I’m in Montauk in a white linen button down. Sheer, no pants.”

tems

sound advice

Tems Delivers Us the Perfect R&B Playlist for a Rainy Day

August 30, 2023

The Nigerian singer-songwriter joins our weekly SOUND ADVICE column to share a playlist titled “The Fog” and dish on celery juice, Sade, and childhood concerts.

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SNIFF

Marissa Zappas and Andreas Keller Talk Olfactory Art and Perverted Scents

August 25, 2023

“It’s so much more interesting to say something smells like burnt car tires or Flintstones vitamins than just leathery or fruity.”

ICON

Photographer Oliviero Toscani Takes His Camera to Torino’s FuturFestival

August 22, 2023

“I don’t photograph very old people because they’re not the future.”

samia

tour diary

Indie Darling Samia Brings Her Whiskey Ritual to Outside Lands

August 18, 2023

“I’ve been doing this Wim Hof breathing exercise where you breathe in and out really ferociously a bunch of times.”

thoom

sound advice

Electropop Princess Thoom Wants to be Your National Anthem

August 15, 2023

“No crackheads at mine, but I know a good roof.”

cakes da killa whole festival

tour diary

“A Long Foreplay With a Quick Nut”: Cakes da Killa Takes Us to Whole Festival

August 9, 2023

“It’s just a whole lot of hedonistic behavior.”

kaliii

sound advice

Kaliii Is Wearing Latex in Her Barbie Dreams

August 2, 2023

“Lambo truck in my garage, walk in closet the size of a small apartment and a chef’s kitchen.”

rian phin

search history

TikTok Fashion Professor Rian Phin Is Over Quiet Luxury

August 1, 2023

“Voyeurism, pervert, fun.”

rashida renee

barbiecore

Doll Enthusiast Rashida Renée Breaks Down the Fashions of Barbie

July 31, 2023

“I’m a label whore, so I was more interested in all the Chanel.”

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Inside the Jay-Z Retrospective at the Brooklyn Public Library

July 26, 2023

“Own your work, own your rights.”

sound advice

The Boys of Paris Texas Pass the Aux Cord Back and Forth

July 19, 2023

“Wired, but I’m not a Fed.”

lionel boyce

in conversation

Lionel Boyce and Travis Bennett on Their Evolution of Taste

June 30, 2023

“The Bear” star talks to his longtime friend and fellow Odd Future member about how the show changed his palate and his perspective.

charlotte lawrence

sound advice

Singer-Songwriter Charlotte Lawrence Just Wants to Dance

June 29, 2023

“To a non-drummer, I’m decent; to a drummer, I’m shit.”

pride

Krista Burton and the Owners of The Bush on the Return of the Dyke Bar

June 28, 2023

“We just assumed that they were fucking on the toilet.”

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lit

Whitney Mallett Tells Lynne Tillman How She Plans to Save Literary Criticism

June 27, 2023

“I have no interest in that literary world of Ivy League dinner parties where everyone works at the New Yorker and went to Harvard.”

ethel cain

sound advice

Listen to Ethel Cain’s Playlist of Melancholic Bangers

June 22, 2023

“I keep blankets over all my windows and tornado footage looped on my TV 24/7 so I usually will put on “High Gravity” by Wulven and loop that for hours and lie on the floor.”