Earl Sweatshirt’s ‘Sick!’ is busy reconciliation
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These small bits and pieces found on the album of Kgositsile’s dedication to a new life are perhaps glazed over by the common listener.
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Golf Wang’s autumn collection cements Tyler, the Creator’s delightful sartorial flavor
It has the blasé coolness of skatewear and the feminine details of couture, made not for one subgroup of fans, but for anyone prone to tomfoolery and fun.
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Glade tunes: A playlist for relaxing in the grass
The perfect summer activity is a carefree, aimless day lounging around on a large, grassy field under intensely sunny weather and the radiance it brings to one’s mood and surroundings.
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Earl Sweatshirt is designing sweatshirts and they’re not very good
Earl Sweatshirt hasn’t released new music in over two years. What he’s been up to in the meantime is producing… sweatshirts?
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Tyler, The Creator softens in ‘Flower Boy’
Packed with punchy synths, a host of grade-A features and lyrics about growth and change … Flower Boy is all about Tyler laying claim to his own softness.
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No more silence after sex
Closeness of skin, of bodies, became the tangible marker in my mind of how close my partner and I had become — intimacy had become a numerical and qualitative rubric for grading my relationship.
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Syd tha Kyd at The New Parish
This past weekend welcomed the month’s First Friday festivities, and, as usual, hundreds of Bay Area socialites came out to celebrate art, music and good vibes throughout downtown Oakland. One of the city’s very own arts and culture magazines, Wine & Bowties, brought Syd tha Kyd to The New Parish
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Frank Ocean: channel ORANGE
Frank Ocean gets it. That’s really what it comes down to. At 24 years old, Ocean’s lyrical and musical depth far surpasses that of most of his R&B contemporaries. After joining shock-rap collective Odd Future and dropping a celebrated solo mixtape, Ocean scored front-row seats to Watch the Throne by
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The Internet: Purple Naked Ladies
As ambient hip-hop continues to rise out of uncharted wavelengths and into a popular genre of its own, The Internet serve as a prime example of this recent uprising. With their debut album, Purple Naked Ladies, the digital duo have tastefully combined hip-hop and soul in a soothing record —
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