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Country Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

Q&A: Drop The Lime On Growing Up With New York's Dance Underground, Bringing Punk To Le Bain, And The "Devil's Music"

A dracula is the image most frequently equated with Trouble and Bass founder and DJ Drop the Lime. "It's because I'm a night owl, always showing up everywhere," says Luca Venezia—and he's a New York night owl at that. Born and raised downtown to artist parents, Venezia has lived through three ... More >>

Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap

Tom Ford On His Boyfriend, Yves' Dis, And the Manson Connection

Designer Tom Ford said a fashionable mouthful in his interview with Fern Mallis at the 92nd Street Y the other night. Here are the tres chic highlights, as reported by well-dressed attendee Christian Freedom: "Though Wikipedia states that Tom went to Bard College, he never attended that school. ... More >>

Children Of The Night Wave The New York Flag On Queens... Revisited

"I find myself walking to work and I can see the sun rise right over Queens Boulevard, and I say to myself, why hasn't Queens gotten a trophy in a very long time? I mean, I feel like we deserve to shine right now, don't we? We got a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful team and I can see us parading down ... More >>

A Brief History of Dave Mustaine Saying Conservative Things

Courtesy of MSO PRPolitical Pundit Dave Mustaine​ Last night press representatives of Dave Mustaine sent out a statement clarifying the Megadeth frontman's recent supposed-by-not-really endorsement of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

Ten Trends That Watch The Throne Could Kickstart

​It's way too early to have a critical judgment on Watch The Throne; didn't you read the rules? But since Kanye West and Jay-Z's colossal collaboration plopped into the raging waters of Internet opinion early Monday morning, I've been watching for ripples. Here are ten new things that Watch Th ... More >>

Live: Kreayshawn Hits The Box For Less Than 15 Minutes

Kreayshawn The Box Thursday, July 21 Better than: Not being in an air-conditioned room. Kreayshawn—an Odd Future outlier and Lil' B acolyte—has skyrocketed upwards since her arrival on May 16, 2011. In the immediate days after "Gucci Gucci" hit YouTube, she spent time in the studio wi ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Florence Welch And A Perpetual Sweat Machine

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This past Saturday was Debbie's birthday, and what better way to spend one's birthday weekend than with punk rock, cheap beer, and a nice, intense, purifying shvitz ... More >>

Hear Indie Muppet Dom's Improbable Collaboration With Gucci Mane, "Living In America (Remix)"

​Because we are still amazed when successful rappers team up with flavor-of-the-month indie people. Because we always wonder what phone call made this happen. Because we always play fantasy football about exactly which party is benefitting most from this relationship. Because we always want to ... More >>

Bowled-Over Bowlmor Construction Workers Get Gutterball Paychecks

​Bowlmor Lanes -- the Union Square bowling alley/nightclub -- is under fire today from a New York City carpenters union accusing the hotspot of "[desecrating] the American way of life." How? By hiring contractors who've allegedly bilked workers building their planned 90,000-square-foot Times Squar ... More >>

Live: Rating Rock the Bells Sets From Slick Rick, Wu-Tang Clan, Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg, and More

Oh, hey Q-Tip. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​On a sweltering Saturday, the seventh annual hip-hop nerd convention Rock The Bells took over Governor's Island. It's a place where people know to "throw a one in the air" for Guru before DJ Premier even asked, a place where you can overhear a convo ... More >>

A People's History of Summer Jam 2010

Drake debuts, Trey Songz gyrates, and DJ Khaled wins at the hip-hop event of the year

In Praise of Shakira's Mesmerizingly Goofy She Wolf

Hookers, Slot Machines, Rats: Life at the Bronx's 2320 Aqueduct Ave

Life is a gamble when your home is a bargaining chip

Interview: Southerngold DJ Terry Urban Responds to Downtown Records' Santigold Cease and Desist

"I'm not trying to burn bridges. I did the mixtape because I absolutely adore Santi." Southerngold, the ace Santigold/Southern rap remix record that sprang loose on the internet last week, has caused its creator, Brooklyn DJ Terry Urban, no end of trouble. Last Monday, as Urban was on the verge o ... More >>

Bush and Confessions of a Shopaholic Agree: Go Shopping! (Wait, Don't.)

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo

Rich Boy's Fired-Up New Mixtape

Hitting the Vuitton Murakami Shop at the Brooklyn Museum

Instead try Canal Street.

Track 18 Wins Again

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

The $23 Million Boa

Despite her huge payday, Mediabistro mastermind Laurel Touby still stands outside the press-gang elite

Project Pat and Z-Ro: The Unsung Heroes of Southern Rap

My Irie Lung

A Radiohead reggae tribute bewilders, while the real thing just beguiles

Kid Rock Meets Gucci

'Maxim' makes duvets and office furniture?

Zombies Invade Bloomingdales

Plus: Style tips from the undead

Celebrity, the Brand That Fits

Is Jessica Simpson slowly taking over your world?

Swap Meet

Clothing trades: How to make friends and shop without money

The Emperor's New Paintings

Hirst is just another symptom of the hype, the hubris, and the money that have swamped the art scene lately

Brown-Skin Lady

Suede magazine wants advertisers to see its true colors—and spend some real green

Blame It On Band Camp

Where's the Beef?

Dave's Butcher shop-sneaker store; the lush life in Herald Square

Target Audience

Isaac Uptown, Ralph on Bleecker

Rocket '88

Top-Billin' Not Half-Steppin'

Bringing Home the Bacon

Russians Change the Face of Israel

Renovated Loft in Former Warehouse

Arda, or Ardor

••• Getting to the Root of Tolkien’s Tongues

Borrowed Finery

Saint Laurent as Thief

What Fresh Sell

NY Mirror

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Photographic Memory

The Season Envisions a 101 Lesson in the Medium

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City on a Hill

Mexico’s Post-Apocalyptic Metropolis

Watching the Clothes Go Round

In Search of the Fashion Don't

Profile in Courage

Jeffrey Kalinsky Takes on the Meatpacking District

The Beats Go On

Fashion Victims

Spycam Chic

The Surveillance Society: Part Two

Scents and Sensibility

A Nose for the City