Bladee wears Jacket and Shoes Bladee’s Own. Vintage Polo and Shorts Ettresex. Jeans Our Legacy. All Jewelry Bladee’s Own. Welcome to Bladeeʼs world. Ahead of his latest album, Cold Visions, the elusive Swedish rapper provides the answers to lifeʼs big questions. ——— Can you describe the shoes you’re wearing? White Reeboks Classic. What time did you go to bed last night? Around 4 a.m. What do you believe in? God. How far can you swim? I’m not sure. Coat, Shirt, Shorts, and Shoes Comme Des Garçons Homme Plus. Leggings Bladeeʼs Own. What was your favorite TV show as a kid? The Simpsons. Who d ..read more

Isaac Dunbar, photographed by Thom Kerr. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Wisp, Vegyn, and DJ Dave. This week’s guest is pop-protegé Isaac Dunbar. The 21-year-old musician is a true believer in musical maximalism: think 70s disco meets 2010’s Gaga. After the breakout success of his previous records Apartment A and Backseat Girl, Dunbar avows his own version of Americana masculinity, singing, “I’m man enough to be a party girl and dance all night.” Before the rel ..read more

Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy, photographed by Juliette Boulay. Marisa Dabice, the lead singer of Mannequin Pussy, is hiding from her bandmates backstage. “I can still hear them in the distance,” she says, crouching over her phone. This is the farthest she’s been from them all day. The Philly-born rock band has just set out for five weeks in one van, to play 30 shows. They’re two weeks in. The name Mannequin Pussy, like the band’s lyrics, edge us toward a sense mof discord. On the title track of their latest album I Got Heaven, Dabice confesses: “I want to be a danger, I want to be adored ..read more

Photo courtesy of Shane Lavers of Chanel Beads. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Wisp, Vegyn, and DJ_Dave. This week’s guest is NYC-based producer Shane Lavers of Chanel Beads, who’s just released his debut album, Your Day Will Come, with bandmates Maya McGrory and Zachary Paul. Since their cult, genre-distorting singles “Elf” and “True Altruism” hit the Dimes Square scene in 2022, Chanel Beads has dedicated their latest experimental project to sifting thro ..read more

  Photo courtesy of Wisp. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Vegyn, DJ_Dave, and Varg2. This week’s guest is the heiress of Gen-Z shoegaze, aka nu gaze, Wisp. Just one year after the unexpected viral success of “Your face,” which Wisp, born Natalie Lu, recorded in her bedroom on a YouTube “type beat,” the 19-year-old musician has turned into the face of a major TikTok-era revival of the noisy 2010s-via-’90s rock subgenre. Pandora, her debut EP released e ..read more

1010Benja, photographed by Grant Sharples. The Kansas City-based 1010Benja has been one to watch for a while now. But he only just released his debut album, Ten Total, last month. After garnering some attention with his 2017 single, “Boofiness,” and his 2018 EP, Two Houses, Benja disappeared for a while. He dropped some singles intermittently, but now, seven years later, he’s reemerged with an album-of-the-year contender.  Benja’s music blends the outré tendencies and ludicrous ad-libs of Playboi Carti with the smooth melodicism of Frank Ocean. He approaches palatable pop, hip-hop ..read more

Sematary, photographed by Wyatt Winfrey. In late February, my friend Scott asked if he could come to my house in the mountains with the rapper Sematary and bring my other friend named Wyatt who would take some photos of Sematary around my property. I said something like, “Yes, sure bro” and then I forgot about it. A few weeks later, I was in the middle of nowhere in West Texas and Scott said something like “Yooo what’s the address for Saturday?” And I said something like, “What? I am in West Texas.” Turns out the whole thing was considered confirmed and Sematary was in New York to make it ha ..read more

benny blanco wears Shirt DSQUARED2. All Jewelry (worn throughout) benny’s Own. When he’s not in the studio serving up tasty hits for the likes of Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, and just about every other pop star on planet Earth, benny blanco is dishing out even tastier feasts to Hollywood’s creative class. The highly connected super-producer loves cooking for his crew so much that he wrote a whole book about it. Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends, is part food bible, part dinner party manual, and a total guide to living the good life. Here, blanco’s friend Ali Wong (we told you, he knows everyon ..read more

Shot on Teezo’s iPhone 4 These days, you might catch Touchdown Teezo with metal nails dangling from his head, or flowers wrapped all around his mic, hopping out on stage decked out in full football gear. One part emo, one part rocker, one part rapper, the 31-year old musician thrives off a sound and style that cannot be easily defined or replicated. After collaborating with the likes of Doja Cat, Lil Yachty and Travis Scott, and opening for Tyler, the Creator on his Call Me If You Get Lost tour, the Texas-born musician amassed a cult following of adoring fans and industry players—and not jus ..read more

Vegyn, photographed by Joshua Gordon. This is SOUND ADVICE, a weekly destination for playlists curated by Interview’s friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gathered playlists from Varg2, José James, and Nourished by Time. This week’s guest is the elusive London-based musician Vegyn, a.k.a Joseph Thornalley. Known for working on the hit albums of artists such as Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, and JPEGMafia, Vegyn dropped his own highly anticipated album, The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, last Friday. To mark its release, he curated a smooth ..read more