EZRA KOENIG: Hey Carles, they want us to talk about indie. My first question is: Does it still exist? CARLES: Indie never existed. What people believe ‘sounds’ like indie still lives on in the fringes of Bandcamps, content farms of yesteryear, and in the hearts of regretful thirtysomethings. Do you…

When Andre Herrmann first moved to Leipzig in 2007, the post-industrial East German city wasn’t exactly known for its glamour. Since the Berlin Wall had fallen, the city had mostly been in dire economic straits, with many empty buildings left to rot. “The GDR had let many of the late-nineteenth…

by Dayna Evans If you slice holes in the knees of your jeans, you increase their coolness percentage by twenty percent. Whatever you look like when crossing the path of a “skinny mirror” is how the rest of the world generally sees you. You’re not actually as disgusting as you think you are. Buying…

I remember telling a girl I dated in college once that I’d like to be dead by fifty. It was an egregiously stupid thing to say, the kind of low-risk rebellion a teenager from the suburbs engages in to seem dangerous and irreverent, like smoking a joint or shoplifting or wearing eyeliner (all of…

En los últimos días se vino hablando bastante en la prensa y redes sociales de «4G». La discusión se hizo más intensa, cuando uno de los operadores, Personal, que no participó en la licitación de la Conatel por las bandas de 4G sorpresivamente lanzó «4G». Leyendo algunos artículos de prensa y…

RR 8 min read· Aug 5, 2015 -- O conflito autofágico entre progressismo e relativismo e você tivesse que apostar em qual lado do espectro político está alguém que defende o casamento gay, a equivalência moral entre os povos e culturas e o feminismo, e ataca a “indústria cultural”, a natureza humana,…

I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was about. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the words — it’s that I didn’t have an answer yet. All I knew was…

Let me tell you a story about my phone. Four times in the last few years, it has made a certain series of Noises. My current theory is that the Noises are generated when a critical mass of gays text one another at the same time. The first time, it was when Michael Jackson died and I was in a…

Dumas sits in the heart of the Arkansas Delta, just off of Highway 65 in Desha County. The railroad that once made it a busy town splits Main Street in two, a reminder of how central it was to the cotton trade and the merchants the trade brought in its wake. Today, errant bits of cotton float down…

Catholic communicants are asked at Easter, “Do you renounce the glamour of evil, and refuse to be mastered by sin?” The question preserves a conflation, now rare, of glamour and sorcery: glamour was a quality that confounds, shifts shapes, invests a thing with a mysterious aura; it was, as Sir…

From 2009 to 2013, every book I read, I read on a screen. And then I stopped. You could call my four years of devout screen‑reading an experiment. I felt a duty – not to anyone or anything specificall

Tavi Gevinson is the founding editor-in-chief of Rookie. “I know that I cried because as soon as I wear myself out, what wells up first is love.” I share this line on twitter with a link to Lena’s entry for all the girls at Rookie events this week who said that they want to write but feel like their…

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a…

Whenever a young person comes to me for career counsel I let loose a dramatic sigh, fix her with a steely stare and deliver the following discourse, which is drawn on more than a decade’s experience spent toiling in this industry: “If you want to succeed, find a field in its infancy, one with no…

Snapshot Hari Nef Adds Another Layer to ‘Transparent’ Hari Nef is joining the cast of “Transparent.”Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Some women really know how to make an entrance. Consider H

Near midnight on Monday Gay Talese was tucked into a corner booth in the downstairs bar at the 21 Club, sipping a Bombay martini with a twist, with a specimen from his much-admired hat collection sitting politely beside him. It was nearly two hours after guests including Frank Stella, Michael…

Earlier this fall, Antonio Banderas, a.k.a. Zorro, began taking classes in menswear design at Central Saint Martins, the renowned London fashion school. In an interview with the school’s student-run Web site and magazine, Banderas explained that he wanted to start his own menswear line; his…

Its achievements are undeniable. Having hosted what some historians call the greatest creation of wealth in human history,1 the San Francisco Bay Area had the fastest growth rate in the United States in 2012,2 the highest per-capita gross domestic product,3 one of the highest average IQs,4 and has…

My sister and I recently toured the retirement community where my mother has announced she’ll be moving. I have been in some bleak clinical facilities for the elderly where not one person was compos mentis and I had to politely suppress the urge to flee, but this was nothing like that. It was a very…

Illustration by María Inés Gul. Regret, in my head, sounds like Joanna Newsom’s voice: I have often turned to her music in endings, in trying to remember beginnings, to parse everything in between, to know what I could have done differently, what I ought to have said. Divers, her first album in five…

Powys begins with the tenet that “culture is what is left over after you have forgotten all you have definitely set out to learn” and sets out to examine what, exactly, is left over — which is often too surprising and subtle, too aglow with inarticulable radiances, to fit into our intellectual…

Interview with “New York Magazine” Associate Editor Joe Coscarelli Joe Coscarelli is 23-years-old and is an Associate Editor at New York Magazine. Yes, he is killing it. He previously worked at The Village Voice (and even had a cover story) and has contributed to a large variety of publications. His…

"I'll never be your dream girl," sings Claire Boucher on "Butterfly", the final song on Art Angels, her most audacious album to date. Perhaps she's just being coy, because for many she is exactly that. In the age of the female pop auteur, Boucher's work as Grimes is a glorious addition to the canon,…

Boucher is a veteran of Montreal’s underground scene (her first release was 2010’s murky-pretty lo-fi tape Gedi Primes, named after a planet in Dune), but she’s just as much a child of the internet — which is to say a resident of everywhere. Grimes’s music has become such perennial think-piece…

Page-Turner November 3, 2015 After the image of a Brooklyn student named Vidal captured widespread attention on the Humans of New York blog, he and the photographer, Brandon Stanton, were invited to the White House.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON STANTON. COURTESY ST. MARTIN’S PRESS The most famous photograph…

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Last fall at Oberlin College, a talk held as part of Latino Heritage Month was scheduled on the same evening that intramural soccer games were held. As a result, soccer players communicated by email about their respective plans. “Hey, that talk looks pretty great,” a white student wrote to a…

The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at them, is to be openly critical — this is actually nonsense. Some of the most effective ways in which you deal with someone’s idea are to treat them completely at face value, and with an enormous amount…

Ryan Murphy has a weakness for women having breakdowns. The TV show creator and director lives for the broken lady: the delusional, tempestuous middle-aged woman who’s lost all self-control, like the totalitarian cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, or the actual witches of American Horror…

Last Saturday night at London’s Royal Academy, I watched two men attempt to play the internet like an instrument. More specifically, it was a performance called Network Ensemble, which involved taking collated network data and bringing it to life in sound. Even more specifically, it involved a lot…

In April, I settled an argument with myself. After years of assuming that a small and compact phone was what I wanted, I realized that the iPhone 6 Plus was the pocket computer for me. The size, harder one-handed operations, software slowdowns caused by memory constraints and resolution downsampling…

Cultural Comment October 28, 2015 Is “Sorry” an acceptable cap to Bieber’s year of penitence? By all accounts, this has been an eventful month for template-skewing music videos. Adele planted herself in a clearing and theatrically clapped a flip phone shut (“Hello”). Drake pulled on a turtleneck and…

André Foeken 14 min read· May 31, 2015 -- Those who are no longer purely driven by financial gain are now creating the building blocks for an entire economy in which money no longer has value. As we proceed towards this post scarcity economy, the next generation of companies is actively trying to…

When I look back at my Instagram, here’s what I don’t see: That most of the time I felt ugly, even as I was taking selfies; that I didn’t really feel like the friends I took those fun photos with were always there for me; that school was sort of hell sometimes. But what I posted never felt fake,…

Drake in his latest video “Hotline Bling.” In the beginning, Drake’s “Hotline Bling” was a pure child of the Internet. Released in July on his label’s SoundCloud page following a premiere on Apple Music’s OVO Sound Radio, it felt like a casual throwaway, a breezy compatriot to “Charged Up,” his…

Photos: See Jaden Smith Wear Fall’s Trippiest Clothes Jaden Smith has a game he likes to play whenever he's in public, or whenever he's stating something that will eventually become public—such as right now—and the game goes like this. It starts with him saying something Jaden-like. For example: “Me…

Coffee played an integral role in the early-2000s mother-daughter psychodrama Gilmore Girls , and Luke Danes, the town’s dinerman, was its primary purveyor. Much was made throughout the series about h

This image was removed due to legal reasons. Isabel Allende needs no introduction, but we will introduce her anyway. Allende is a Chilean author whose debut novel was the magical realist sensation La

Gilmore Girls is one of the great triumphs of modern TV—a sharp, endlessly rewatchable dramedy that holds up better than most new television, with a Netflix fanbase as wide as its original audience on the (now-defunct) WB network. It also had one of the worst goodbyes in TV history, airing a…