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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
After a period of loss, doubt, and disillusionment, British rapper Little Simz is doing what she does best—turning it into music. Lotus, her sixth album, is both a reckoning with the industry’s toll and a release from its grip. To break it all down, the North London native, born Simbiatu “Simbi” Ajikawo, got on a Zoom with I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel, a fellow Brit who understands firsthand the alchemy between poetry and pain.
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2 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Where do you dance? In the kitchen. Who do you trust most with the AUX? This is kind of a cagey way of looking at it, right? Go ahead, plug in! For me, curiosity and the possibility of discovery trumps the comfort of sitting in a curated bubble of me & my friends’ exquisitely tasteful sensibilities lol… What’s your earliest musical memory?
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3 weeks ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
When multihyphenate Broadway diva Whitney White first conceived of her latest project, Macbeth in Stride, she had one goal. “I’m trying to surf the wave of Black feminine embodiment as I experience it,” she told me the day after the show’s opening night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Raja Feather Kelly, the production’s choreographer, chimed in from Montreal, where he was already hard at work on another project.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Jenna Ortega |Ary Russell
It’s not exactly “mommy mode,” but when Natalie Portman greets a jittery Jenna Ortega on Zoom, she immediately puts her younger costar at ease with the effusive warmth that comes naturally to a seasoned actor—and mother of two. At 43, Portman, who divorced her husband last year, is keeping busy. She just wrapped shooting The Gallerist alongside Ortega, and ignited a bidding war when she signed on to star in Lena Dunham’s Good Sex.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Brandon Sklenar is a chill guy—he spent the pandemic in a bungalow, tripping on mushrooms and writing music. He’s also a bit of a daredevil, doing all his own stunts on 1923, the Taylor Sheridan–created Western that made him a star.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from DJ Koze, Eli Roth, and Benny Blanco. This week’s edition comes all the way from sexy and sweaty Miami with DJ and producer Pressure Point. A founder of the black queer collective Masisi, Pressure Point’s Haitian ancestry brings a fresh queer Caribbean mix to the local house scene.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
“We’ve been touring for years, and we look awful now,” drummer Ryan McMahon proclaimed on a couch next to his bandmates. The rest of Inhaler, the Irish band made up of guitar player Josh Jenkinson, bass player Robert Keating, and lead singer Eli Hewson, all nodded in agreement. When they called us from Houston, the boys had been put through the wringer, as Keating confessed that codeine had helped them, survive a number of sick-day performances.
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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
For next-gen Hollywood, the starlet has become a multi-hyphenate. After the success of production companies like Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, a whole generation of rising young stars have taken it upon themselves to wear multiple hats at once. Enter Camila Mendes and Rachel Matthews, who founded the production company Honor Roll. I myself started bb² earlier this year. For all of three of us, it was our second time premiering films at the festival.
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2 months ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Heartworms, Benny Blanco, and 9mice. This week’s installment comes from Toronto-based songstress Saya Gray, who’s just come off the release of her third studio album, SAYA.
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2 months ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Ary Russell
Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. Over the past few weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Benny Blanco, 9mice, and Lexee Smith. This week’s installment comes from the London-based musician Heartworms, aka Jojo Orme, who’s currently making her way across Europe on tour.
