Kanye West Teaches Us Fame Begets Fame, In Perpetuity

In 2008, when the artist Vincent Desiderio finally put down the brushes on an 8' x 24' painting he’d been working on for five years, the stock markets were in decline but his cancer was in remission. He’d first shown “Sleep” four years earlier in a solo show at Marlborough, the New York gallery that represents him,…
'Auctioneer Beats' Is the Song of the Summer
Some people, including Jezebel, have put forward suggestions about what the “song of the summer” is or should be. I know I have contributed to that conversation. But we were wrong. We were all wrong.
Fuck Yourself Up With the Amazing Music From Last Night's Game of Thrones
I watch Game of Thrones. There, I said it. I watch that dumb, awful show every single stupid Sunday night because I’ve invested so many hours of my life that—at this point—I can’t very well back out now. I generally watch the first few minutes focused on my meal (I don’t take my first bite until the credits have…
A Playlist of Songs You Really Should Have Been Talking About Last Year
Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.
Roadies Snoozily Sprouts Up in Vinyl's Place, Present-Day Nostalgia for Rock Firmly Situated
Throughout Vinyl’s first—and now final—season, my opinion changed ever so slightly from when I first wrote about its debut episode. Vinyl remained absurd, overly nostalgic, ahistorical and evenly lionizing of men, but at the very least, the effervescent Juno Temple got to shine a little and, even better, the “getting…
The Only Problematic Thing About the New Ghostbusters Is Its Awful New Theme Song
We’ve had to sit through months of sexist Ghostbusters fanboys in a full-blown outrage woody because the new Ghostbusters is comprised of four very capable, very funny women instead of men. The mommy-fear was palpable there, and perhaps a plant, because even despite Missy Elliott, the real thing Ghostbusters fans have…
Nick Jonas Is Good at Playing the Sex Talk Game
Nick Jonas is on a press tour for his third solo album, Last Year Was Complicated, and so far he’s been talking about sex through a lot of it (gay sex, kinky sex, accidental boners), because he’s older now and no longer a third of a Jonas Brother, nor a virgin, and therefore he’s been having some sex.
Hear Atlanta Singer/Producer Abra's New Freestyle Joint 'Crybaby'
Abra writes and produces all her own music in a closet in Atlanta, so everything she’s done thus far has got a slight lo-fi tinge to it, while being formidable in both melody and sheer force. But her latest track, “Crybaby,” might be my favorite thing she’s ever done: an echo-drenched, lip-glossed vocal over a beat…
Meet Page Four, Denmark's Answer to One Direction
Last week, I traveled to Copenhagen for a massive, citywide, four-day rave (I’ll tell you all about that later). During a rare break lounging around my hotel room, I found myself mesmerized by Teenage Superfan, a documentary television show about the teen megafans of Page Four: a Danish boy band consisting of four…
Listen to Victoria Beckham's Scrapped 2003 Hip-Hop Album With Damon Dash
Things didn’t have to be this way. Since leaving Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham has rebranded herself so effectively that it’s bewildering to imagine that she was ever known as Posh Spice, or doing anything but being a fashion mogul and muse, walking around with severe haircuts and strappy stilettos and compression…
Shura's New Single 'What's It Gonna Be' Fuckin Rules
British singer-songwriter/producer Shura has steadily pumped out an array of near-perfect pop tracks over the past few years, but her latest single, “What’s It Gonna Be,” twists the tapered, yearning nostalgia of songs like “Touch” and “2Shy” into a condensed, sophisticated three minute vocalization of the best ‘80s…
Florence Welch Visits Hospice, Gives Private Concert for Sick Fan
A 15-year-old girl in hospice care was determined to attend a Florence and The Machine concert in spite of her illness. But as the day drew nearer, it became evident that she was too sick to leave the Austin, Texas medical facility. So, on Friday, May 20, Florence came to her instead.
