Jake Nevins

New York

Digital Editor at Interview Magazine

digital editor @interviewmag // writing in @nytmag @newyorker @nybooks @thebafflermag @nymag

Articles

How Real Lies Doom-Scrolled Their Way to a New Album

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

In the Safdie brothers’ 2019 magnum opus Uncut Gems, there’s a scene in which Adam Sandler’s character believes that he’s won a high-stakes bet. Sitting in the backseat of a cab, his newfound fortune dawns on him as dire straits turn into dollar signs in a matter of seconds. The film as a whole, and that scene in particular, resonated with vocalist Kev Kharas, one-half of the UK electronic duo Real Lies. “It’s anxiety being alchemized into euphoria,” Kharas told me over Zoom.
Julie Curtiss and Anna Weyant on Morbid Fascinations and Lynchian Fantasies

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

Among the characteristics uniting the artists Julie Curtiss and Anna Weyant, apart from their shared predilection for painting the female body in striking, bulbous, and neo-surrealist forms, is a strange and somewhat paranoid relationship with death. “When I was a teenager, I seriously thought I was going to die every night,” Curtiss told Weyant on a Zoom last week. “I was really neurotic.” Weyant, too, has macabre visions of her own demise, particularly when aboard an aircraft.
Peter Wolf and Danny Fields Revisit the Backroom at Max's Kansas City

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Gillian McCain |Danny Fields |Jake Nevins

Peter Wolf, onetime lead singer of the J. Geils Band, is a rock star, pioneer radio D.J., painter, sex symbol, A-list wit, and now, with the publication of his memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters and Goddesses, a best-selling author. Last month, just after the book’s release, Wolf sat down with Danny Fields and Gillian McCain at Fields’ West Village apartment to talk about people they’ve known and adored.
Curator Alex Tieghi-Walker on Loewe Teapots and Late Nights in Milano

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mitchell Nugent |Jake Nevins

WEDNESDAY 5:05 PM APRIL 9, 2025 MILANOOn Tuesday evening, Loewe hosted a mad tea party during Salone del Mobile, unveiling LOEWE TEAPOTS, a whimsical collection of specially commissioned teapots from a diverse lineup of architects, artists, and designers.
Willo Perron and Vans Take Over Salone del Mobile

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

TUESDAY 9:15 PM APRIL 8, 2025 MILANCheckered Future: Frequency Manifest is a mirrored fever dream, a new installation from OTW by Vans for which creative savant Willo Perron transformed a pocket of Milan into a cross between Studio 54 and a sci-fi cathedral. In a galaxy far, far away known as Salone del Mobile, the Death Star crash-landed at Parco Sempione, bringing with it an immersive indoor-outdoor exhibit that fuses sonic architecture with intergalactic glam.
Christopher Makos Looks Back on New York City's Golden Age

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

“There were sex parties, there were drug parties, there were dance parties—it’s hard to narrow down,” remembers the photographer Christopher Makos. Upon arriving in New York City in 1976, the artist had only an apprenticeship with Man Ray under his belt and an empty Rolodex. But it wasn’t long before he leveraged his mop of golden locks and his New England charm to become the city’s party boy du jour, ingratiating himself with the colorful characters that populated Andy Warhol’s Factory.
Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

Andrea Long Chu is the critic we need, and not just because her pen can range from poison-tipped scalpel (on Joey Soloway self-aggrandizing memoir She Wants It: “They mix metaphors like a bartender in a recording studio”) to life invigorating epipen (“There is, after all, a reason that people sit together: they don’t want to be alone,” she writes of mixed-race Asian people in literature).
The Girls of Momma on Breakups, Sisterhood, and the Indie Rock Renaissance

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

Household Name turned Momma into indie rock’s new, well, household name. On their 2022 breakthrough album, core songwriters Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten drew from the likes of ‘90s luminaries such as Pavement and Stephen Malkmus’ alleged diss recipient Smashing Pumpkins, updating a decades-old sound for the modern age.
Momma on Breakups, Sisterhood, and the Indie Rock Renaissance

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

Household Name turned Momma into indie rock’s new, well, household name. On their 2022 breakthrough album, core songwriters Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten drew from the likes of ‘90s luminaries such as Pavement and Stephen Malkmus’ alleged diss recipient Smashing Pumpkins, updating a decades-old sound for the modern age.
DJ Alex Gloor Takes Mel Ottenberg Into the Annals of Smylonylon

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Jake Nevins

30 years ago, in October ’94, I discovered Smylonylon on my first weekend trip to New York. Located on Lafayette between Spring andBroome, Smylonylon was a psychedelic explosion of a boutique that sold hideous deadstock 70s clothes and blasted the weirdest mix of crazy, far-out music that I’d ever heard. I bought into this alternate reality instantly and hard, and it’s been my thing for life.