Month: August 2024
Sound 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…
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The Ultimate Fire Island Survival Guide (According to Linux)
On a North Atlantic sandbar just south of Long Island, a 1.5-mile community best described as “both heaven and hell on earth” awaits, as thousands of the World’s Most Debaucherous Gays™ swarm onto it like some sort of invasive species. Donning its iconic name from a shipwreck carrying Christmas trees in the 1800s and then…
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How Tommy Cash Made the Sex Olympics Happen
Tommy Cash had a dream. In 2020, he came up with the concept of the Sex Olympics, which would be a film that replaced gymnastics and pole vaulting with jizz nastiness and pole sucking. “I combined what might be humankind’s two greatest passions through the ages — sex and sport,” he says. He didn’t think…
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So Chic, Very Chic: Pickleball ‘Challengers’
This is So Chic, Very Chic, PAPER’s examination of Bravo’s sprawling cohort of fashion obsessives. From haute couture to TJ Maxx, they’ve literally worn it all. Sometimes they stunt, sometimes they turn the look, and sometimes they burn holes in retinas my ophthalmologist says might never heal. Has anyone seen the movie Challengers? I thought…
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Christina Aguilera Defines Her Legacy
Christina Aguilera has clearly spent her life on set. The performance begins at the entrance of her dressing room; when she’s finally ready to emerge from hours in glam, her own BTS videographer captures the walk — a powerful strut and determined face — like she’s on a runway towards our cover shoot camera. She…
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Fontaines D.C. Bridge Reality and ‘Romance’
It’s early May, and Warsaw — the tiny Polish community center turned Greenpoint venue — is packed to the brim. Fontaines D.C. is playing a surprise gig in the small, sweaty room, and before they’ve even struck an opening chord, fans are buzzing about the impending performance and chance to see the Dublin-born, London-based band…
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Glass Animals Give Us Some Space at MSG
“I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH,” reads the text on the massive screens flanking the stage at Madison Square Garden. More than just an expletive-laced phrase of affirmation, it also happens to be the title of Glass Animals’ fourth studio album. “These words take on a different meaning every time you say them,” frontman Dave…
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KATSEYE Thrives Through ‘Pop Star Academy’
True pop success hinges on more than talent — it’s about possessing that rare, magnetic presence. Bang Si-hyuk, the visionary behind BTS and chairman of HYBE, understands this better than most. “Usually, people believe that skill is the most important part, but for me, it’s star power,” he says in the Netflix series Pop Star…
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Miss Madeline Celebrates ‘So Dramatic’ With PAPER
Last Thursday, New York’s favorite pop princess Miss Madeline took to Brooklyn’s 99 Scott for her triumphant Girls Night Out. In celebration of the release of her debut mixtape, So Dramatic, the party was a deserved moment for the burgeoning star who has been putting in the work in the NYC underground scene for a…
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Alex Wilcox and Chippy Nonstop ‘Did That’
The phrase “I did that” is usually uttered as a boast — that emphasized for prideful measure. But on Alex Wilcox’s new track, “I Did That” featuring Chippy Nonstop, the phrase is pushed to its conceptual limit, expanded to include a list that ranges from the banal to the heathenish: being a “bitch,” smoking, drinking…
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