G Flip Drums Up Momentum at Hangout Fest
G Flip is back in the studio. The drum maestro calls me from Nashville, where they’ve just started out recording their third album. “When you’re at the beginning stages, it’s like, wow, what direction could we go from here? I just like so much music, so many different genres.” Nashville isn’t the worst place to…
Read MoreSound Off: 10 Songs You Need to Hear Now
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the…
Read MoreBackstage at Coachella 2024 With This Year’s Stars
Today kicks off weekend two of Coachella, your favorite fashion show meets music symposium meets desert dance party that takes place every year in Indio, California. But wait! Before you dust off your boots, put on your fringe jacket and get ready for the (second) weekend of your life, come backstage with PAPER as we…
Read MoreChanel Beads’ Day Has Come
“[I want to] communicate an idea in the simplest way I can,” Shane Lavers tells me from inside an indoor-outdoor seating structure in Greenpoint. We started our conversation in a nearby park, but a surprising April wind pushed us inside. “If I can make a joke, I’ll make a joke. If I can tell you…
Read MoreShannon & The Clams Are Making Music Medicine
Shannon & The Clams’ “Big Wheel” spirals like its namesake, rolling in with a disorienting Moog synthesizer before guitarist Cody Blanchard’s vocals chime in over stuttering percussion and distorted guitars, driving towards the chorus. The song’s music video, premiering today on PAPER, mirrors the surreal nature of the track. The visuals suggest a silent-era film,…
Read MoreDancing With The Dare at Coachella
Hear the lyrics, “I like girls who make love/ But I love girls who like to fuck,” without yelling, “That’s what’s up!” I dare you to, and so does Harrison Patrick Smith (AKA The Dare). Last Friday, on a packed Do Lab stage, The Dare brought his New York City dizzying electro hits to Coachella,…
Read MoreHerrensauna Dreams Its Way to Brooklyn
“The idea of the American dream still is so alive,” Nicolas Endlicher tells me, crouching animatedly on a small couch in Bushwick. The Austrian-born, Berlin-based DJ, known to most as MCMLXXXV, speaks about the US in a way I rarely hear. Wide-eyed and dreamy, the co-founder of Herrensauna — a roving techno party that has…
Read MoreCountry Pop Star CMAT Takes Us to California
Fresh off starting a new butt crack trend at the BRIT awards and being nominated as Best International Act, Irish country singer CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) is taking the US by storm. Her latest album Crazymad, For Me is what she calls “an abstract break-up album about what happens when you’re still angry about something…
Read MoreDJ Mia Moretti Brings BFF Katy Perry to Coachella
“Hey, I’m Mia Moretti, and I’m backstage at Do Lab, at Coachella with PAPER magazine, you know it!” the DJ tells us into the mic in her boho-style green room cabana. “Best DJ of the year, PAPER magazine… look it up what year!” she adds. We did, it was 2010, but the passing of time…
Read MorePinkPantheress, Brooklyn Princess
PinkPantheress doesn’t know much about New York, but New York certainly knows a lot about her. The 22-year-old British pop princess was characteristically coy and playful as she descended on the Brooklyn Paramount stage, a newly refurbished, cathedral-esque venue in the heart of downtown Brooklyn that harkens back to the heyday of the jazz age.…
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