At Home With: Erika Spring
Last week we had the pleasure of spending some time with the lovely Erika Spring in her Greenpoint, Brooklyn one-bedroom. She played her new track “Six More Weeks” and then we all drank water out …...
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Two of the three members of Real Estate live across the street from each other. Alex Bleeker’s house is definitely the crash pad, where the band recently gathered to discuss the finer points of...
View ArticleAt Home With: Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire
Head busting, joke-cracking everyman Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire still lives in his childhood home. He’s redecorated the upstairs apartment in Crown Heights’ Kingsborough Houses since his mom left a couple...
View ArticleAt Home With: Action Bronson
Action Bronson lives in the apartment he’s lived in his whole life, at the southern edge of Flushing, Queens. Before he started rapping, Bronson dropped out of Bayside High School and cooked at his...
View ArticleAt Home With: The Lijadu Sisters
Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu are identical twin sisters from Nigeria. Throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s they performed and recorded as The Lijadu Sisters, fusing Western R&B, soul, reggae and funk,...
View ArticleAt Home With: Veronica Vasicka
Veronica Vasicka founded the labels Minimal Wave and Cititrax as a way to re-issue—and often release for the first time—the cold and dark brand of homemade, analog synth-based electronic New Wave from...
View ArticleIn Mexico With: Festival NRMAL
A couple days before SXSW, I traveled to Monterrey, Mexico for Festival NRMAL, a one-day, 55-band party. Taking a barely-planned trip just ahead of Austin’s endless sea of wristbands and Jacked Doritos...
View ArticleAt Home With: Ron Morelli of L.I.E.S.
L.I.E.S. is a gritty, DIY dance label run out of its founder and sole proprietor Ron Morelli’s Greenpoint apartment, where we found him finishing takeout and a bottle of Perrier. L.I.E.S. has no...
View ArticleAt Home With: Mykki Blanco
We hoofed it up to Harlem, NYC to kick it in the bare-bones bedroom of drag superstar/rapper Mykki Blanco. While he’s known for ripping down stages in blonde wigs and padded bras, Mykki was in … read...
View ArticleAt Home With: Kilo Kish
Lakisha Robinson bka Kilo Kish talks like she talk-raps, in a cushiony whisper. When she started, she approached recording casually, encouraged by her onetime roommate Smash Simmons. Having just...
View ArticleAt Home With: Smoke DZA
There’s a small neighborhood movie theater across the street from Smoke DZA‘s uptown apartment building. The block, with a number of residential towers and a park at the end, feels like an urban...
View ArticleAt Home With: Blood Orange
Last week we met Devonté Hynes bka Blood Orange in his Brooklyn apartment, where the affable and angelically white-dressed one-man band seemed to float his way past Peanuts ephemera, a piano and a “not...
View ArticleAt Home With: Haleek Maul
Haleek Maul lives in Barbados, but he spends some months of the year at his parents’ apartments in Brooklyn. This summer we met him at his dad’s place in Bushwick, where he lounged on a … read more »
View ArticleAt Home With: Beach Fossils
Dustin Payseur proposed to his girlfriend, a manager at his band Beach Fossil’s label Captured Tracks, over the holidays. When we visited the tidy Greenpoint apartment last week where he lives with his...
View ArticleAt Home With: Eddie Huang
A couple years ago Eddie Huang, the 30-year-old restauranteur, author and host (former gigs: lawyer, weed dealer, standup comedian) moved BaoHaus, the New York Taiwanese spot he co-owns with his...
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