When The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the melodic, folky rock band made up of Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, decides it’s time to record a new album, the first order of business is leaving New York City behind for a cabin upstate with decidedly fewer disturbances. “There are ... More

They Call Me the Boss “I used to be called bossy. Now I’m badass.” – Katie Couric, lending her voice to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” campaign, which encourages assertive little girls to shirk disparaging undertones often associated with words like “bossy.”   Foul Play “Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could ... More

Consider William Ivey Long Broadway’s Fairy Godfather. For one, you're lucky if you catch sight of him: The costume design impresario, who's earned six Tony awards and a place in the Theatre Hall of Fame, is simultaneously working on not one or two, but four Broadway shows. Secondly, he's the ... More

It’s shaping up to be quite a month for the musician known as Lo Fang. On February 24 the avant-garde pop artist, born Matthew Hemerlein, will release his first album, Blue Film, and just a week later he’ll start a new gig: opening for reigning pop queen ... More

New York-based Skaters won’t be releasing their debut album, Manhattan, until February 25, but the band’s spent the better part of a year touring to build buzz around it. “We’ve been to the U.K. seven times this year with only singles out,” singer Michael Cummings says.  “We’d play ... More

Sometimes the signs of a breakup are so obvious, it's painful: there's the unmade bed, the half-eaten cartons of Chinese takeout, the brooding Coldplay song on repeat. It's this last clue in particular that raised Joy Bryant's eyebrows when she walked in on a friend who's relationship was on the ... More

“I went to a year of art school before I quit to join the Cardigans,” Nina Persson tells us from her home in Sweden. “I never thought music would last forever; I thought I would go back to that.” Persson, of course, stuck with the band. The Cardigans shot to ... More

On a typical night, you might find the Brooklyn-based DJ MICK spinning at an event hosted by an A-list celebrity or wowing a crowd of well-heeled New Yorkers at an exclusive nightclub. This Friday, though, he’s headed to Davos, Switzerland to perform at the World Economic Forum—a venue ... More

Lewis Watson should get used to being noticed. The 20-year-old British crooner was just another moppy-haired kid two years ago when he posted videos of himself to YouTube, covering songs by his musical heroes like Bon Iver and Bombay Bicycle Club, and caught the attention of hundreds ... More

Things are getting real for Joe Jonas, the recently-liberated leader of the oh-so-wholesome-but-now-defunct Jonas Brothers band. Along with the band’s breakup came the realization that their Disney-entrenched image was really just that: an image, created by executives to make the boys seem like a lily-white version of what they really ... More