African-American writer and activist Langston Hughes penned these unsentimental lyrics in 1946: “The night for me is not romantic/Unhook the stars and take them down.” On Moses Sumney ’s full-length debut, the art-soul singer-songwriter taps into the enduring resonance of Hughes’ blues melancholy.…

Chloë Sevigny on the Music That Made Her So Cool The 42-year-old actress and fashion icon talks about the albums that have meant the most to her, five years at a time. Photo by Maarten de Boer/Getty Images by Contributor 5-10-15-20 September 27 2017 The first time the world encountered Chloë Sevigny…

Before summer 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg was best known as the daughter of gallic godhead Serge Gainsbourg, a curiously magnetic actress with a diverse CV (romantic comedies, dark dramas, period pieces), and a part-time singer still working in the shadow of a mildly pedophilic 1984 duet recorded…

Charlotte Gainsbourg, now an acclaimed French actress perhaps best known in the U.S. for 2003's 21 Grams , made her musical debut as a Lolita -esque nymphet cavorting in bed with her notoriously lascivious father Serge Gainsbourg in 1984's "Lemon Incest". In 1986, Gainsbourg pere penned his…

Charlotte Gainsbourg has been in the public eye for most of her life. She's been acting since she was 13, and the first glimmers of her parallel musical career date to the same year, when she dueted with her father, Serge Gainsbourg , on a song called "Lemon Incest" . He produced her first album two…

Elastica hid from the media over a year before the release of their self-titled debut album. In early 1994, after putting out just two singles, they took six months off from performing and giving interviews. When the sabbatical ended, the band’s frontwoman and primary songwriter, Justine Frischmann,…

At first, he didn’t want to be Charles Bradley, but James Brown. As a kid, Bradley—born in Gainesville, Florida, but a child of Brooklyn—would practice the Godfather of Soul’s fleet-footed mic stand moves with a broom in his kitchen. His sister had taken him to see his idol at Harlem’s Apollo…