Comet and her band are standouts in New York City’s most recent resuscitation of rock n’ roll. (She is also my wife and twin flame, probably.) Nearly two years after

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Dolly Parton just dropped a collaboration with Good American, and it’s as glam as you’d expect. Called “Dolly’s Joleans,” the limited-edition collection, available April 3 at Good American and Nordstrom,

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“I’m a manifester!” Lil Nas X hums from his makeup chair where he’s getting dolled up before his PAPER shoot in New York. Just hours ago, the internet savant-turned globally

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Tori Amos’ creative path has never been linear. A child piano prodigy, she was the youngest student ever admitted to Baltimore’s prestigious Peabody Academy, but her parents’ dreams of raising

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Daniel Seavey leans back while tanning on a lounge chair, the bright blue Los Angeles sky framing his highlighted hair. As he moves the phone during our video call, pool

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Grace Bowers may just be 18 years old, but she plays with the veracity and ease of a guitar god three times her age. Picking up the instrument at just

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It’s not every day you get to experience such a live TikTok. Throughout our intimate shoot with Laundry Day, the now viral boy band spontaneously breaks out into song —

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“HAUTE COUTURE,” the new single from Rhea Raj and Aliyah’s Interlude, is all about dressing up, showing out and taking up space. Built on booming club drums and confident verses,

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In her new single, Cortisa Star raps, “Face card don’t decline/ I ain’t playing, even Prada want me.” The track, “PARIS,” comes from a true experience. Just this past week,

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On Michelle Zauner’s advice, I read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain on the six-hour flight from New York to LA. During our Zoom interview, we discussed the book’s cult appeal

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