Dan Frazier

NYLON Guys • 09/25/2020

Fitz & The Tantrums

The members of Los Angeles band Fitz and The Tantrums were never just a fresh batch of college dropouts benefiting from blogger buzz.

NYLON • 09/25/2020

Fight Club 2

What began as a short story became a debut novel, and later a feature film by David Fincher starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. The movie bombed, but it didn’t matter. A cult following had begun that would turn Fight Club into an underground cultural phenomenon.

NYLON • 09/25/2020

Jonathan Safran Foer

The underlying themes may not drastically diverge from the author’s go-to subject matters (cultural identity, family issues) or personal experiences (fatherhood, divorce), and the characters’ perspectives may feel alien to anyone who hasn’t attended Hebrew school, the story thrives on Foer’s uncanny ability to cunningly fold the perceptual sets of multiple generations into a modern national epic.

NYLON • 09/24/2020

Lauren Miller

With stunning blue eyes, long brown hair, and sporadic smiles, Miller speaks pleasantly, her open confidence laced with sharp wit. Naturally, she’s an all-in-one auteur.

NYLON Guys • 09/25/2020

The Jinx

HBO sent a collective chill down our spine with the grisly drama True Detective, but that level of macabre will be eclipsed when the network debuts The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

FILTER • 09/25/2020

Anathallo

Proving that Sufjan isn't the only one who can utilize the charismatic power of sparseness through multiple instruments, Anathallo layer subtle crescendos of keys, percussions and horns under a cloud of choral croons.

NYLON • 09/25/2020

Smoke & Jackal

So what do you do when your band goes on hiatus? If you live in New York, you go busk in the subways; if you live in Los Angeles, you go tan on the beach; but if you live in Nashville—like Jared Followill of Kings of Leon and Nick Brown of Mona—you go to a buddy’s house, drink some booze, and record songs in the basement.

FILTER • 09/25/2020

Mystery Jets

The Britpop bloc is hot and these blokes only toss more Molotovs into the hedges.

FILTER • 09/25/2020

Be Your Own Pet

The Nashville teenagers known as Be Your Own Pet were labeled the potential saviors of (authentic) punk before they'd even had an album, much less a driver's license.

NYLON Guys • 09/25/2020

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Chuck Palahniuk may be best known for writing the rules of Fight Club, but 13 novels and 18 years later he’s still pushing the edge of contemporary fiction.

NYLON Guys • 09/25/2020

Dr. Steve Brule

After hosting three awkward seasons of Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, television’s most bizarre investigative reporter, Steve Brule, recently released an unaired sitcom pilot entitled Bagboy.