Tucked away on an unassuming residential street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is Hayward House, the home to two accessory brands: Hayward Luxury and Hopper Goods. Both brands, named after founder and designer Marin Hopper’s parents Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper, inhabit a showroom on the brownstone’s ... More

For the last decade, celebrity photographer Tyler Shields has snapped his subjects with the access of an embedded photojournalist and the abandon of a Hollywood stuntman. In the pre-social media era of MySpace and flip-phones, Shields’s Southern charm and unfiltered eye attracted the likes of Lindsay ... More

Sam Bruno might be energy personified. With a vibrant voice, the artist offers captivating conversation not only about her musical endeavors, but her travels, my travels and more. Bruno’s debut EP IAMSAM was released in June 2017 and the video for the last single, ... More

The soulful spark that surrounds Elise LeGrow’s voice is provocative and alluring. The Canadian singer is about to release her debut album titled Playing Chess via S-Curve Records/Awesome Music on February 16. Drawing inspiration from the celebrated Chicago label, Chess Records, LeGrow cultivated several songs from their catalogue and ... More

Carrying a reputation for crafting tragically relatable storylines through their music, The Wombats have martyred themselves once again on their upcoming album Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life. The three-piece band’s fourth studio album comes after the ten-year anniversary of their first album, A Guide to Love, ... More

The founding member of the Fugees is lounging on a couch backstage of the pop-up Live.me event at Grand Central Station in New York City. Wyclef Jean has devoted his life to encouraging others to pursue their dreams, the exact way he did. Jean ... More

The Montreal-based electronic music production duo Adventure Club are taking a much-appreciated break from a typical twelve-hour day in the studio when they hop on the phone with me. With a freezing first snow already laying the foundation for a typical Canadian winter, Christian Srigley and Leighton James ... More

Uber-collaborator MØ, born Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Anderson, is likely featured on many of your favorite hits. But as a solo act on some of music's biggest stages, from Lollapalooza to Coachella, her energy is front and center. With an electro-pop voice and a punk attitude that has attracted hitmakers like Diplo,  More

Between the giggly banter and nonchalant profanities coming from the other end of the phone, I feel as though I’m catching up with an old friend. But I’m talking to John Gourley, lead singer for Portugal. The Man, and he’s joking about ill-fated fashion endeavors leading to horror and mockery from ... More

Despite the confluence of white-bread-handsome doctors on TV, from the baby-faced savant on ABC’s ratings slayer The Good Doctor to titular doctor-in-training on Fox’s just-premiered The Resident, for many, there is no substitute for Grey’s Anatomy’s now-deceased Derek Shepherd a.k.a. McDreamy. And while that Patrick Dempsey-shaped void may never be ... More