Mekala Rajagopal

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal

Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Lizzi Bougatsos, Grace VanderWaal, and David Longstreth. This week’s installment, “EVIL JOG!,” comes from our own editor-in-chief, Mel Ottenberg, the perfect metal playlist for working up a sweat and releasing stress on a summer morning. After wrapping up a hot new issue, Ottenberg is back hitting the pavement to Slayer and Black Sabbath.

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal

Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve collected playlists from Grace VanderWaal, David Longstreth, and Chase Icon. This week’s installment comes from New York underground legend Lizzi Bougatsos, the experimental musician and artist who also happens to be a major cratedigger.

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal

For some actors, the right role can change your life, and for Lily McInerny, playing the precocious teenage Cécile did exactly that. “There was a version of myself before shooting this film and a version of myself after,” she says.

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal

Tourmaline has been working through the life of Marsha P. Johnson for decades now. She’s organized on the ground, cultivated a visual practice, and made films in her honor, carrying the trailblazing communard’s legacy from grassroots movement-building through her own life as an artist. Now, Tourmaline has written Marsha, the first comprehensive biography of the mother of the Stonewall uprising.

3 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Mekala Rajagopal

Over a decade after turning Lost into a cult favorite, Josh Holloway and J.J. Abrams are back together. In Duster, Abrams’s new ‘70s-set crime series in collaboration with LaToya Morgan, Holloway is a brooding mafia getaway driver whizzing Rachel Hilson, who plays the FBI’s first Black female rookie, through the Arizona desert in his eponymous red muscle car. The show is a headless adrenaline rush—stunts, shootouts, car chases, and a few scenes almost too racy for the kids, Holloway laughs.