Tinashe, Halsey, Dej Loaf and Lion Babe Are the New Faces of MAC

MAC Cosmetics has always been progressive—never forget that its first Viva Glam spokesperson was RuPaul Charles, in a campaign benefiting AIDS research—but as of today they’re in the business of hooking up quasi-emerging musicians with their own signature cosmetics, a la that Rihanna lipstick you can’t find, but for…

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Bleachers Released an All-Female Cover Album of Strange Desire and It Rules

Forget Ryan Adams’s 1989, an album whose pleasures should be apparent to only Ryan Adams fans and interesting to a smaller cohort still. In terms of gender-flipped cover collections, what Bleachers just did in Terrible Thrills Vol. 2 is much, much livelier: it’s their debut album Strange Desire with a different woman…

Watch Charli XCX, Tinashe & Ty Dolla $ign Perform With Dancing Kitties

I enjoy how Charli, Tinashe, and Ty's performance of "Drop That Kitty" at the MTV Movie Awards was literal, in that it included a chorus line of dancers booty-popping in pink kitten costumes. But still, it could have gone farther—were real cats unavailable? They are in Hollywood, there are definitely some trained…

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Tinashe's Amethyst Mixtape Is G-Funk for a New, Womanist Los Angeles

Twenty-two is a really important age for a woman: far enough off from teenhood that it feels grown, new enough to adulthood that self-actualization is a prospect of excitement and fear, like when your stomach starts to drop in airplane turbulence. Some emotions are new; even newer is how confidence cements them there.…