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Rapper Jackzebra Went Apeshit With This Playlist
June 23, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Surf Gang rapper tells us what he’d wear to his own funeral and why American Chinese good isn’t so bad.
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London-Based Producer Mechatok Has Left the Club
June 19, 2025
In week’s installment of Sound Advice, the man behind some of Bladee, Yung Lean, and Charli XCX’s biggest hits sends us a transmission from the studio.
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Rico Nasty Dances in the Mirror to This Playlist
June 10, 2025
“Don’t take advice from people who don’t make art,” says the rage-rap pioneer, who stars in our just-released Summer 2025 Issue (and made us a playlist to celebrate).
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Release Your Rage to This Jogging Playlist, Courtesy of Mel Ottenberg
May 28, 2025
For this week’s installment of Sound Advice, our editor-in-chief made us a sweaty a sweaty, high-energy playlist titled “EVIL JOG.”
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Artist Lizzi Bougatsos Made Us a Playlist Inspired by Valentino and Vinyls
May 23, 2025
“With this set, I was musing on a woman’s mind through the instrumentation of frantic guitar, pleading, and loss,” says the experimental musician and underground legend.
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“I Trust Very Few People With the Aux”: Grace VanderWaal Makes Us a Playlist of Esoteric Pop
May 7, 2025
What does the 21-year-old newcomer’s Notes app look like? “Like a woman who needs some serious, serious psychological help,” she told us in this week’s Sound Advice.
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David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors Is Taking His Musical Talents to the Movies
May 1, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Dirty Projectors frontman celebrated his recent pivot to film by making us the perfect genre-bending playlist.
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“She Knows Who She Is”: Chase Icon Tells Us Which Blondes Have the Most Fun
April 24, 2025
“This is the playlist I’ve had blasting while I wander the shops in Vegas, collecting pieces for my NYC release party this Saturday,” says the singer and SoCal barbie.
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“I’d Probably Be Naked”: Sausha Tells Us How She’s Ringing in the Apocalypse
April 8, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the elusive New York DJ made us a playlist and spilled on darkroom antics and doomsday fits.
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“Don’t Face the DJ”: Pressure Point Gives Us a Lesson in Club Etiquette
April 3, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Miami DJ and producer made us a playlist of songs that get him horny and teary-eyed.
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“Chet Baker at Dawn, Sun Ra at Midnight”: DJ Koze Makes Us the Perfect Dinner Party Playlist
April 1, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the German DJ and producer got us ready for his brand-new album with an exclusive playlist of jazzy throwbacks.
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“Viva La Foca”: Eli Roth Makes Us a Playlist Inspired by Italian Sexploitation Cinema
March 17, 2025
Before releasing his new album of Italian disco bangers, the filmmaker joined us to storyboard his ideal evening in Capri and reveal the grooviest person he knows.
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Jojo Orme of Heartworms Made Us a Playlist Fit for McQueen
March 3, 2025
The London-based musician and McQueen frontwoman made us the ultimate alt-couture playlist filled with everything from Chopin to Depeche Mode.
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Here’s the Soundtrack to Your Next Dinner Party, Courtesy of Benny Blanco
February 20, 2025
Our March cover star Benny Blanco couldn’t pick just one song that reminds him of his fiancée Selena Gomez (because everything does, of course).
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Rapper 9mice Made Us the Playlist of His Apocalyptic Fantasies
February 19, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, the enigmatic Slavic musician made us a playlist and revealed his nightlife philosophy: “I don’t walk the same path twice.”
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Lexee Smith Made Us a Playlist For Getting Loose
February 10, 2025
“I would have loved to be the feminine visual embodiment of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.”
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Rapper FearDorian Hopes Their New Album Is Playing in Heaven
February 6, 2025
What’s the best way to listen to “Leaving Home,” the rapper’s sophomore album? “A walk by yourself in slight rain, or in your room after a date gone well,” they told us.
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“Chapstick, Phone, Gummy Worms”: Soccer Mommy Made the Indie Playlist of Our Dreams
January 31, 2025
In this week’s installment of Sound Advice, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter tells us her dream musical coven and all-time favorite guitar riff.
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The Boys of Wallows Made Us a Playlist to Ease Your Winter Blues
January 23, 2025
In this week’s Sound Advice, Dylan, Braeden, and Cole of the alt-rock trio Wallows tell us their dream fourth member of the band and who they trust most with the aux.
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Will August Park Made Us a Playlist to Boost Your Aura
December 26, 2024
“These are the tracks I listen to while sitting in traffic or waking up too early,” says the NYC-based producer. “Tracks that inspire me but don’t get me too jacked.”