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Scott Weiland, An Appreciation
In the summer of 2001, Stone Temple Pilots were doing an in-store signing at New York's Virgin Megastore to promote their then new album Shangri-La Dee Da. It was a few years after their...
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Premiere: Vandaveer's Blissful New Single "But Enough On That For Now"
Mark Charles Heidinger and Rose Guerin have been making harmony rich folk pop as Vandaveer for almost a decade, and on February 19th of next year, they will release their fifth album The Wild Mercury...
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PREMIERE: TWIN LIMB GOES TO THE DOGS IN KALEIDOSCOPIC "DON'T EVEN THINK" CLIP
Twin Limb's video for "Don't Even Think" starts with some very cool dogs and ends with some almost as cool laser, and in-between there's a lovely psych ballad that you can space out to. It's the...
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Watch The Mesmerizing Short Film From Goth-Hope Duo Zebra Katz X Leila
Earlier this year rapper-singer Zebra Katz teamed with Iranian DJ and producer Leila for the Nu Renegade EP, which took hip-hop bravado, club thumb and even some vintage trip-hop atmosphere and threw...
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Premiere: Princess Superstar And Margaret Cho Team Up To Salute Emojis
Party starter Princess Superstar is back, and she's brought Margaret Cho along with her. The downtown dance music fixture and raunchy comedian have teamed up to pay tribute to "Motherfuckin' Emojis,"...
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Miley Cyrus And The Amazing Technicolor Mushroom Garden
photo by Vijat Mohindra We realize we just had Miley Cyrus on the cover of PAPER this year. But can you ever truly have enough Miley in your life? Especially when she's dressed like some kind of...
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Halsey On Being A Gossip Magnet, Growing Up Emo, And How People Missed The...
photo by Sarah Barlow + Stephen Schofield.When Halsey, the "New Americana" pop maven, and I meet at Serafina in the Dream Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, she is dealing with rumors that she's been...
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Car Seat Headrest Tees Up For The Major Leagues
Under the moniker Car Seat Headrest, 23-year-old Will Toledo makes fuzzed-out, guitar-driven power-pop songs that also comment on their status as fuzzed-out, guitar-driven power-pop songs. His...
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Watch The Exclusive Trailer For The Re-Release Of Kelly Reichardt's Lost...
American minimalist master Kelly Reichardt released her debut film River of Grass in 1994. It was immediately acclaimed upon arriving at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the...
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Jack Antonoff Writes The Songs That Make The Whole World Sing. What Happens...
Jack Antonoff got his start doing no-budget tours with the New Jersey outfit Steel Train, but ever since his band Fun. scored the prom song of the millennium with "We Are Young," he's been giving Dr....
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Download Actually Huizenga's Goth Party Starter "Fun at the Funeral"
Holiday cheer got you down? Actually Huizenga has your back. Just like she did last year, the L.A. performance art star has brought you some synth camp candy to help you you through all the merriment....
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The-Dream Just Gave You A Sam Cooke Cover EP For Christmas
Terius Nash, aka r&b king The-Dream, just gave us all a last minute Christmas gift in the form of IAMSAM, a set of eight covers of soul icon Sam Cooke that he posted to Soundcloud. You can listen...
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Listen to Sondre Lerche's Cover Of "Hotline Bling"
The year is almost over, but apparently there's still time for one more "Hotline Bling" cover. Hey, Erykah Badu and Sufjan Stevens can't have all the fun. Norwegian crooner Sondre Lerche likes to...
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A Conversation With Motherfucking Samuel L. Jackson About What The Hateful...
We often talk about Leonardo DiCaprio or Tom Hanks as having worked with all of the biggest directors in the business, but Samuel L. Jackson is very much in that league alongside them. After minor...
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The Best Moments In Music Of 2015 Featuring Kendrick Lamar, Beach House,...
Music and storytelling, at their core, are about arranging the right moments in the right order so that they all add up to something more. Perhaps not every moment is remarkable on its own, but that's...
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The Best Moments In Television Of 2015 Featuring Mad Men, You're The Worst,...
While we often talk about television in terms of arcs, seasons and episodes, what resonates most with us are the moments, be they the WTFs we share on Twitter or the scenes that linger in our mind for...
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Giantess Porn Is A Thing That Exists
As first pointed out by erotica expert Tracy Clark-Flory (via Vocativ), the most popular new search term of 2015 on the naughty online portal PornHub was "Giantess." Never heard of it? Us either. But...
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Hear Pioneering Punks 7 Year Bitch's New Album Live At Moe
7 Year Bitch managed to exist concurrent to a few of the '90s biggest musical movements without ever quite being part of them. They started in Seattle in 1990, but didn't quite fit into the boy-heavy...
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With Their Debut Album, Hinds Reclaims The Garage For The Girls
Madrid might have a thriving garage rock scene, but the Spanish city faces the same issue that plagues the entire music industry: It's still very much a boy's club. To correct this horrid imbalance,...
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Premiere: NZCA LINES' Forlorn Dancefloor Banger "Two Hearts"
NZCA LINES will release their new album Infinite Summer, the follow-up to their 2012 self-titled debut, on January 22nd, and PAPER has the premiere of the video for debut single "Two Hearts," which...
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Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman And Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Call Out...
As reported by Brooklyn Magazine's Caitlin White, last night Dirty Projectors Member Amber Coffman took to Twitter to publicly call out music industry publicist Heathcliff Berru of Life or Death PR...
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Premiere: Uncle Meg's Queer Love Anthem "Freak Like A Model" Featuring Clara Rae
Uncle Meg of the hip-hop crew Hand Job Academy has dropped a video for her new single "Freak Like A Model" and PAPER has the exclusive premiere. The video was shot in Meg's hometown of Charleston,...
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Local H To Release As Good As Dead On Vinyl, Hear An Exclusive Bonus Cut
On April 15, Chicago two-piece Local H will release their breakthrough album As Good As Dead on vinyl for the first time, and PAPER has the exclusive premiere of one of the bonus tracks, a demo...
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Premiere: WRITER's Fuzz-Pedal Anthem "Mosquito Bitten"
The dream of the '90s is alive and well in Brooklyn. Just ask trio power WRITER, whose new single "Mosquito Bitten," which you can hear below, hits the sweet spot between the languid crawl of early...
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Lady Parts Justice Gives The War On Abortion Access The Groundhog Day Treatment
In honor of Groundhog Day and our nation's draconian attitudes towards abortion, Lady Parts Justice, the reproductive rights organization founded by comedian, author and Daily Show co-creator Lizz...
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A Conversation With Fred Armisen About Portlandia, David Bowie And Getting Older
The sixth season of IFC's Portlandia has episodes where the main characters don't feel like attending a music festival in person; someone can't keep up with his much younger girlfriend, and another...
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Talking Penis Monsters, Sex Aliens and the New Season of "Man Seeking Woman"...
In the most recent episode of Man Seeking Woman the titular man, played by sad sack supreme Jay Baruchel, is bummed because his work crush has a boyfriend. But because this is the dryly surreal Man...
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In Conversation with Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves and CHVRCHES' Lauren...
In our 'Girl Crush' series, women with mutual admiration for one another get together for conversations that offer illuminating looks into what it's like to be a woman right now. Perfect Pussy's 2013...
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Saul Williams On His New Album, Acting Projects and Singularity
Saul Williams' new album MartyrLoserKing is not technically the follow-up to his 2007 Trent Reznor-produced breakthrough The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, but you'd be forgiven for...
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The 1975 Want to Be Your Band
On a frigid December evening, Matthew Healy was in full-on rock god Dionysus mode: hips swaying with Presleyian abandon, expensive-looking white shirt flowing just so, glass of red wine in hand,...
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