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Is Damien Hirst’s Latest Exhibit “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” Art, or Undersea Scavenger Hunt? Or Both?

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In two weeks, starting Sunday April 9, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice present Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, a new project by Damien Hirst that will run across both venues.

Hirst’s latest project has been ten years in the making and this will be the first major solo show dedicated to the artist in Italy since his 2004 retrospective at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale.

What exactly IS Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable? Good question, hardly anyone knows at this point. This vast exhibition has been called his most ambitious undertaking yet. 189 works will be distributed across the two expansive Venetian museums belonging to the French collector François Pinault.

Hirst has done his best to avoid the media attention that would usually preface an undertaking of such scale. Sarah Hughes says in The Guardian,

“The stakes couldn’t be higher for British art’s jester king. In recent years, Hirst’s once gilded reputation has taken something of a battering. Although the 2012 retrospective at Tate Modern was rapturously received, bringing with it a renewed reminder of the power of early works such as ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ and ‘Mother and Child’, Divided, recent exhibitions have been panned – ‘Schizophrenogenesis’ was condemned for coasting on past glory, while 2012’s painting-focused ‘Two Weeks, One Summer’ received scathing one-star reviews – and there is a nagging sense that these days his art can resemble a factory production line, with endless copies of his popular “spot” paintings churned out in the name of brand recognition.”

That’s kind of the general consensus in the art world about today’s richest living artist. James Fox, the journalist who has spent the last few years working with Hirst on an autobiography says,

I can’t say much but what I will say is that [Treasures] is quite extraordinary and will astonish a lot of people. I’ve never seen such an ambitious and impressive show from one artist. It’s startling.

Catherine Meyer writes for the Financial Times of London and spent the most time with Hirst accompanying him on dives ad interviewing him at length. She says,

Hirst is fascinated by wealth and by the metal that underpins and represents it: gold.

There is always that scene in the movie where you open a suitcase and it shines on your face. It’s an amazing material and it brings out the best and the worst in people… Probably the worst.

Treasures reprises and broadens the theme of false idols and muses on the fallibility of collectors. Amotan’s supposed hoard includes not only pieces hailed as originals — drawn from a dizzying spread of continents and traditions, pre-Columbian works from South and Mesoamerica alongside Egyptian, Greek and Roman statuary — but also ‘fakes” and “copies’. 

Of course any fake created in the first or second century would have matured by degrees into a curiosity and eventually an antiquity, acquiring significant value. It’s an idea that clearly delights Hirst, who for several years amused himself by buying fake Picassos on eBay, amassing more than 100 and inflating the prices of even the crudest of copies by doing so.

Meyers’ article ends with this bit,

This is the riddle posed by Amotan’s sphinx — and to which she is Hirst’s answer. Treasures “taps into a desire for belief, for a connection with the past”, he says,

What’s unknown is how it will be perceived, but maybe I am worrying more than is necessary, really, because people are willing to believe. I think they want to believe.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable runs April 9- December 3, at the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana in Venice. For more info (not that there’s much at this point) go here.

(Photos, Christoph Gerigk)

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#WhitneyBiennial17: A White Artist’s Painting of a Murdered Black Child Divides the Art World

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Dana Schutz, Open Casket (2016). Oil on canvas. Collection of the artist; courtesy Petzel, New York


A painting of a murdered black child, Emmett Till, hanging in the Whitney Biennial exhibition has stirred conversation on cultural appropriation and artistic ownership culminating in a critical question:

Do white artists have the right to depict Black pain?

A little history on the subject of the painting… on Sept. 6, 1955, in Chicago. Ill, the mother of Emmett Till, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted that her son’s body be displayed in an open casket forcing the nation to see the brutality directed at blacks in the South at that time.

Flash forward to the Whitney Biennal in 2017, a survey of American Art that happens every two years in New York. A painting by Dana Schutz, Open Casket, reimagines the open casket photo and in a gruesome similarity to the original image, Schutz paints Till’s face in the abstract, reminding us that his face was left disfigured and unidentifiable.

This last week the painting sparked outrage and public protest among some Black artists, who have called for its removal and destruction and have physically blocked the piece in the gallery.

It has divided the art world and I have seen many posts with long threads about the controversy on both sides of the argument. Subjects like white violence, white privilege, black suffering, the value of art, who can speak for whom, and who can comment on whose experience have raged on for days. The art-world has lined up on opposing sides, some claiming an artist’s right to depict any subject they choose, and rail against what they call censorship; others point out that white privilege and the appropriation of black experience is as old as America itself, and inherently pernicious.

Berlin-based artist Hannah Black posted an open letter on Facebook to the Whitney Museum curators and staff,

It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time. Contemporary art is a fundamentally white supremacist institution.

Art critic Gary Indiana wrote on the subject and had this to say,

At the risk of causing further pain, Black or otherwise, it seemed obvious to me, reading Black’s letter, that the author herself was ‘pretending to care’ about the emotional injury she claims Schutz’s innocuous painting inflicts on a black viewer. In reality, Schutz’s painting serves Black as an almost arbitrary pretext for a cliché-riddled, race-baiting demagoguery, calculated to ensure many seasons of earnestly pointless panel discussions, starring none other than Hannah Black.

(Ouch. If you care to read more of Gary Indiana’s assessment of the controversy and his opinion on Hannah Black’s stance, you can go here.)

There was a faked letter circulating, not from Shutz, demanding that the painting be removed but since then, Schutz has responded saying the painting is,

not a rendering of the photograph but is more an engagement with the loss. I understand the outrage. Till’s photograph was a sacred image of the Civil Rights movement and I am a white woman. I did not take making this painting lightly. I don’t object to people questioning the work or even my right to make it. There has to be an open discussion.

She also says the painting

was never and is not for sale.

She says she made the painting in August of 2016 during a time which she calls “a state of emergency” that came about as a result of fatal officer involved shootings of unarmed Blacks. She believes the violence Till experienced coincides with violence and brutality innocent Black men face today.

The photograph of Emmett Till felt analogous to the time, what was hidden was now revealed. I was struck by Mamie Till’s account of witnessing her son and her grief and rage. Her gesture of leaving the casket open was about visibility, sharing pain and witnessing. I wanted the painting to be intimate, not grotesque but I wanted to show the brutality.

Art professor Dr. Lisa Whittington, a Black artist who has created two paintings of Emmett Till, says she doesn’t have an issue with a white artist taking on the difficult subject matter, but questions Schutz’s perspective in making the painting.

I would ask her, why she did not paint the Emmett Till Story from a white woman’s point of view? Is there nothing that as a white woman that she would want to say? Especially in recently knowing that the woman who accused Emmett Till has admitted that she lied. Where is the artwork that represents her lies?. The two men who lynched Emmett? Where is the artwork about them? Does she have nothing to say there?

As artists—responsible artists—we are to speak and to document history. We are to tell about life from our point of view from where we stand.”

Parker Bright, New York-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and co-founder of 4E Gallery in Chicago protested the depiction, physically blocked the painting for eight hours over two days.

Baruti Kopano, is an associate professor at Morgan State University and author of Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture. On WNYC’s The Takeaway, Kopano discussed the controversy surrounding the painting and Schutz’s response,

At what point do Black people control the stories of Black bodies? I can appreciate the artist’s attempt to keep this memory alive. I can appreciate the artist’s attempt to engage us in dialogue – I’m not sure if she imagined this level of controversy.

Despite public outcry from Black artists, the Whitney Biennial curators are standing by their decision to feature the work. Curators Mia Locks, Christopher Y. Lew, Nancy and Fred Poses released a joint statement to NBCBLK stating,

The 2017 Whitney Biennial brings to light many facets of the human experience, including conditions that are painful or difficult to confront such as violence, racism, and death. Many artists in the exhibition push in on these issues, seeking empathetic connections in an especially divisive time.

The curators describe Schutz’s painting as an

unsettling image that speaks to the long-standing violence that has been inflicted upon African Americans.

Study for “Censorship Now”, 2016
by Frances Stark,
which is also in the Biennial

For me, another painting in the exhibit, Censorship Now by Frances Stark, study for it left, totally sums up the argument, in black and white.

I understand both sides of this, I think, being a gay artist, belonging to a minority that has been abused and tortured by society in similar ways. But I’m white, and I’m not a parent. My only way in to understand this argument on a personal level, is to imagine that this were a radical image that depicts some aspect of gay cultural by a straight artist. I think artists DO get a lot of leeway to express themselves, but I understand the personal, institutional and cultural aspects of the protests. I will say that no matter which side you are on, it’s opened a new platform to stand on and say what we think. The question is, in our echo-chamber world, are we listening to each other?

The Whitney Biennial runs through June 11, 2017. For More info go here.

Mamie Till Mobley weeps at her son’s funeral on Sept. 6, 1955. She insisted that her son’s body be displayed in an open casket forcing the nation to see the brutality directed at blacks in the South at the time. Photo, Chicago Sun-Times, via AP

(via Artnet; NBC News)

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#LGBTQ: “Homocore” Is Mad as Hell That Gucci’s New Collection Rips-Off Queer Culture

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Italian luxury brand Gucci just released its latest shoe collection called Queercore. They say,

“Reflecting the spirit of the subculture, the styles are fitted with multiple straps, studs and metal embellishments, including the Dionysus buckle.”

The collection prices starting at $1,250, a lot of money for any punk. It was reportedly inspired by Homocore, an 80s gay punk movement. Filmmaker and musician G.B. Jones, a legend in the Queer movement played bands like Bunny & the Lakers and Fifth Column. She told LGBTQ Nation,

Queercore didn’t ‘lend its name’ to Gucci for their shoes. I should know, I invented the term ‘Queercore’. They stole it, plain and simple. It’s theft.

I live on less in an entire month than it would cost to buy one pair of these shoes…

Together with Candaian actor, writer and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Jones published J.D.s., a queer punk zine. After publishing a manifesto called Don’t Be Gay, which attacked both punk and gay subculture, Queercore began to emerge.

At first, it WAS called Homocore, but later it was renamed to the LGBTQ community’s diversity. Jones said it would probably put off the average Gucci buyer, if only they knew.

I’m sure if half the people buying these shoes knew what Queercore was really all about, they’d return those shoes in a heartbeat.

A number of activists joined in on Jones’ criticism of Gucci, but rather than sue, Jones has a different idea on how Gucci could help the LGBTQ community. She suggests they might use their advocacy, and the fact they have shops in a number of countries where homosexuality is punishable by death, to drive change – like in Qatar, or Saudi Arabia.

G.B. Jones

(via Gay Star News)

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#LGBTQ: Candy Ken’s “F*ck Gender” Is Catchy & F*cking Fun. Watch

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You know Candy Ken, right? The performance artist/rapper Austrian but Berlin-based rapper (born Jacob Kasimir) uses his body, fashion, and music in an attempt to blast stereotypes,

I look like this normal, crazy gym guy and I don’t want to look like that. I love combining muscles and Hello Kitty, being white and wearing grillz—doing things that aren’t supposed to go together.

His latest is a song called BIGGA, below. I somehow missed his Fuck Gender video. How you gonna argue with lyrics like this?:

if you stand out
they will judge you
if you think different
they will judge you
if you are different
they will judge you
but fuck em anyways
we will do what we want to

gender roles are over
gender roles are done
gender roles are over
unisex is what i am

Watch.

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Joni Mitchell Arrives at the Hammer Museum’s Celebration of Elton John’s 70th Birthday

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Beloved singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen here arriving at Elton John‘s 70th Birthday and 50-Year Songwriting Partnership with Bernie Taupin benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the UCLA Hammer Museum at RED Studios Hollywood.

Joni’s health has been in serious decline over the last few years.

According to Wikipedia:

She spoke to the Los Angeles Times in 2010 about battling the self-diagnosed skin condition Morgellons, saying, “I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it’s from outer space.” She said at that time that she planned to leave the music industry to work toward giving more credibility to people diagnosed with Morgellons.

On March 31, 2015, Mitchell was found unconscious in her Los Angeles home. She regained consciousness in an ambulance on her way to hospital, but was taken to intensive care for tests.[65] Since then, there have been conflicting reports about her condition. On April 28, 2015, an official statement was made through JoniMitchell.com:

Contrary to rumors circulating on the Internet today, Joni is not in a coma. Joni is still in the hospital – but she comprehends, she’s alert, and she has her full senses. A full recovery is expected. The document obtained by a certain media outlet simply gives her longtime friend Leslie Morris the authority – in the absence of 24-hour doctor care – to make care decisions for Joni once she leaves the hospital. As we all know, Joni is a strong-willed woman and is nowhere near giving up the fight. Please continue to keep Joni in your thoughts.

On May 29, 2015, it was confirmed that Mitchell had suffered a brain aneurysm and that while speech was difficult, she had been communicating with others. As of May 2015 Mitchell was expected to be moved to a rehabilitation facility, as her condition was still considered to be “very serious” About a month later close friend David Crosby said “nobody found her for a while” and “to my knowledge, she is not speaking yet.”However, Mitchell’s conservator, Leslie Morris, later released a statement saying that “details that have emerged in the past few days are mostly speculative. The truth is that Joni is speaking, and she’s speaking well. She is not walking yet…”

In July 2015, Mitchell was back at home, undergoing physical therapy and “making progress”, according to her lawyer Rebecca J. Thyne. In October 2015, Mitchell’s friend, singer Judy Collins, reported that she was taking part in rehabilitation every day and was walking, talking and painting.

Mitchell made her first public appearance following the aneurysm when she attended a Chick Corea concert in Los Angeles in August 2016.

Good to see her out and about!

(Photos: Pacific Coast News)

 

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RuPaul Corrects a Misconception –”That’s What Gay Guys Are Right? You’re an Accessory for My Straight Life.” Wrong.

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The Emmy Award-winning host of RuPaul’s Drag Race has some SERIOUS advice (and a touch of shade) for the straight mainstream world,

“You know, this is an important thing. People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them. OK, so I’m a brown-skinned gay man, I do drag. Early on, I learned that I could do it well and make money. So people automatically ask me about beauty tips and I get kids who write me and say,

‘I wish you could do my makeup for my prom?’

or

‘I wish you could do my makeup for my wedding?’

I’m like, “’Bitch, I’m not a makeup artist. I’m an entertainer. OK?'”

They think,

‘Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That’s what gay guys are right? You’re an accessory for my straight life.’

Just because your limited view is that everyone’s there to serve you and that you’re the only person in the world. It doesn’t work that way.’”

Mic drop. Mama has spoken.

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It’s Time, Children! Casting for ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 10 HAS BEGUN!

So When Did George W Bush Actually Become a Good Painter?

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I mean, let’s not get it twisted: George W Bush is still a horrible man. An idiot and a war criminal. But if you remember, a few years back the Romanian hacker known as Guccifer hacked the Bush family’s email accounts and leaked the former president’s (rather amateurish) paintings of dogs and still lifes. He became something of a laughing stock for them amongst the late night comedian crowd. But something has changed between then and now. He’s become… good. His latest paintings of war veterans are actually kind of mesmerizing.

Via W:

Now it looks like Bush has been honing his artistic practice over the last few years, if Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tributes to America’s Warriors, published by Penguin Random House, is anything to go by. It marks Bush’s latest output, and maybe it’s the subject—soldiers who’ve served in the U.S. military since 9/11—but Bush finally seems to have hit his painterly stride, as evidenced by a new approach that emphasizes brush strokes, extreme close-ups, and non-local color. Did he take a painting class? Did he call up Anthony Hopkins? Did he decide there’s no better place to atone than on the canvas—or that he simply wanted to be a no. 1 New York Times best seller? Judge for yourself with a look at some of his latest portraits, here.

Can we actually separate the art from the artist here?

Top photo: “Sergeant Daniel Casara,” U.S. Army, 1994 – 2008.

“Sergeant Leslie Zimmerman,” U.S. Army, 2001-2004.

“Sergeant Michael Joseph Leonard Politowicz,” U.S. Marine Corps, 2010 – Present.

“Lance Corporal Timothy John Lang,” U.S. Marine Corps, 2005-2010.

“Sergeant First Class Ramon Padilla,” U.S. Army, 2000-2009.

“Sergeant First Class Michael R. Rodriguez,” U.S. Army, 1992 – 2013.

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All The Entrance Looks From ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 9 Episode 1

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We’re y’all gagged from last week’s GAGA-sized premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9?! The show was the top trend on Twitter Friday night, (and the #1 series and season on iTunes), and it’s new home – VH1 – threw a gigantic viewing party with Ross Matthews and Wendy Williams to commemorate the iconic ninth season’s Mother Monster-sized opening. Queens always know how to enter a party and they didn’t mince their fashion when walking in the work room.

Here’s all their legendary entrance looks:

Peppermint

Valentina

Eureka

Charlie Hides

Farrah Moan

Sasha Velour

Alexis Michelle

Shea Coulee

Trinity Taylor

Kimora Blac

Jaymes Mansfield

Nina Bo’nina Brown

Aja

Lady Gaga

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RuPaul’s DragCon 2017 #MeetTheVendors: A Make-Up Maven’s Guide Featuring Jeffree Star, Sugarpill, Morphe, & More

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We’re one month away from RuPaul’s DragCon 2017, squirrel friends! If you’re a returning DragConner or just a shopping aficionado to boot, you’re NOT gonna wanna miss out on the opportunity to familiarize yourself with all our spectacular exhibitors before April 29th and 30th. You saw our love for 3rd Class ClothingChernobyl ShowDiva Dreads, Rockstar WigsPlanned ParenthoodLove for Bling, Art of Claire Hummel, Project Q, Wacky WackoThe House of Avalon, and today we’ve put together 5 WIG-tastic exhibitors that will add flair to your hair featuring KritterKlipsWigs By VanityWigs And GraceDiva Dreads, Rockstar Wigs, Our Hair Guide, and today’s feature is A Make-Up Maven’s Guide Featuring Jeffree Star, Sugarpill, Morphe, & More!

Check it out:

1) Cailyn Cosmetics – Booth 310
Achieve stunning results with CAILYN Cosmetics – innovative skincare and color cosmetics that make feeling beautiful easy. Formulating cutting edge products from quality ingredients, every facet of CAILYN products is dynamically engineered and meticulously created to bring you flawless looking skin and gorgeous results.

Blending science and technology, CAILYN Cosmetics provides 24-hour beauty with cosmetics and skincare that refine and restore the appearance of youthfulness. Offering never-before-seen products, you’ll love the professional looking results and exclusive, innovative configurations only found at EVINE Live.

2) Caked MakeUp – Booth 722

We’re an indie, streetwear inspired makeup company that blends pop culture & everything sweet into one. Our goal at Caked Makeup is to serve you on-trend, wearable & fun beauty products that will make you feel some type of way. 

Located in Tampa, Florida, Caked Makeup was launched on the sweetest day of the year, Valentine’s Day, 2016. We can’t get enough of the glamorous and ever-evolving makeup world, and hope you love everything we dream up for you. 

♥ ♥ ♥ Everything produced is 100% Vegan and cruelty free ♥ ♥ ♥

We don’t test on animals, only boys.

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3) Cinema Makeup School – Booth 736


Cinema Makeup School is “Hollywood’s professional makeup school.” Its award-winning instructors, along with Director of Education Ve Neill, winner of 3 Academy Awards herself, teach a variety of makeup disciplines to prepare students to pursue work in the entertainment and fashion industries. Staying on the cutting edge of makeup technology, CMS connects working industry professionals with some of the most driven and talented emerging makeup artists the world has yet to see.

4) Crystal Lipz – Booth 830


The Kit includes one rhinestone transfer sheet, The Glue, the disposable glue applicator wand, glue removal solution and a small hard plastic carying case for easy transport on the go. This glue is simply amazing and unlike anything you have ever used before!Feel free to dance the night away without worry. This safe, water base, medical grade adhesive will hold all night and when you want to remove them they will come off easily. We offer them in 14 different beautiful colors. The kit is $19.99 plus shipping.

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5) Drag Makeup Academy – Booth 330


Drag Makeup Academy teaches the ultimate in Drag makeup glamazon tranfermation. They will be demonstrating some of the techniques that are taught in there workshops across the nation.

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6) EyeLuv.me Lashes -Booth 407

Created just for you; offering the finest and superlative quality eyelashes and accessories. eyeLuv.me is more than just about eyelashes. We are dedicated to delivering superb customer service and attention-to-detail. We strive to be eco-friendly with the materials we use; and we provide a conscious employee environment. Furthermore, giving back to the community is highly important to us as well.

Overall, we “Vow” that our products are manufactured with “Superlative Quality,” super easy to apply, and so comfortable, that they will look and feel like your own. Each Lash is prepared by hand and sterilized; which are comparable, if not similar, to well known brands (you know who they are); but with one difference, our prices are to die for! We also understand that looking beautiful shouldn’t be difficult; therefore, we strongly believe that a happy customer is a satisfied customer! Remember, you don’t have to be famous to feel and look like a RockStar!

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7) Gender Bender Cosmetics – Booth 917


Gender Bender Cosmetics aims to cultivate and industry-unique relationship with their core consumer. The brand dedicates all efforts to create a platform for self expressive male models and MUA’s.

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8) Jeffree Star Cosmetics – Booth 1000

My name is Jeffree Star. I discovered makeup at the age of 13 and have been obsessed with it ever since. I used to copy looks from fashion ad’s in my mother’s Cosmopolitan magazine’s and steal her eye shadows. When I graduated high school, I moved from Orange County, California to an hour north to Los Angeles. I worked at makeup counters, freelanced and worked on many celebrities, music videos, fashion editorials and weddings. Now I teach makeup classes around the world and share my secrets that I’ve learned through 10 years of experience. Playing with cosmetics is my favorite thing to do and I started to create my own formulas years ago but only wear them on myself & put them on my best friends. My goal is to create products that do exactly what they say and that actually last!

I hope you all enjoy the pink blood, sweat and tears that go into every product I make! My brand is for anyone who’s fearless enough to be their own person. Let’s inspire each other to stay true to who we are and have fun doing it. It’s been a dream of mine since I discovered my first lipstick, to create and own my very own brand.

9) Kokie Cosmetics – Booth 320


We’re Kokie (pronounced Co-Key) we were born in 2015 and raised in Maryland. Did you know that Kokie derives from the Korean word for elephant? The elephant represents power, wisdom, strength, and loyalty – just a few of the things that we think are beautiful, too.
Team Kokie comes to you with over 20 years in the beauty industry. We are a team that loves to create. Every detail from design to formula, to color has been meticulously selected to ensure that we bring modern innovation to your beauty favorites while introducing the newest trends. We pour our heart and soul into making sure we bring you only the best. You will find that our look comes from the runway, but not our price.
At Kokie, we thrive in a world of originality. That’s why our friends are our inspiration. We welcome creativity and inspire fun. We know the power of passion. Most of all we know that beauty is as unique as you. Which is why we will always endeavor to make you bold, beautiful and unforgettable.
*Don’t worry, we love our elephant friends and don’t test on them – or any other critters.

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10) Lashy Brows



Get INSTABROW with Lashybrow’s Stick-On False Eyebrows. Meet the new false eyelashes for your eyebrows. A new beauty product tailored made to transform and give faces the perfect brow every time in less than 3 minutes. INSTABROW false eyebrows are essentially glue-on wigs for your brows that fill out where your brows need them. Lashybrows.com

11) Lippy Lovers -Booth 832

All of our products are vegan, lead free, wax free, waterproof, and never tested on animals. Our best selling product is LipSense, a lip color that molecularly bonds to your lips. This allows it to last up to 18 hours without smudging off. Stop by our booth and sample over 70 colors of LipSense as well as our entire line of long lasting cosmetics. You have to see it to believe it!

12) Lit Cosmetics – Booth 630
13) Lionesse Beauty Bar


Our company’s logo is Lionesse Beauty Bar. And our products are the natural alternative to botox and evasive techniques that erase wrinkles and lines. It will take away the lines for you within 60 seconds!

14) Love Luck Lipstick – Booth 316


LipSense is unlike any lipstick you have ever put on those beautiful lips! It’s a long-lasting liquid lip color (not a stain) that can last up to 18 hours by molecularly bonding to your lips for whatever comes your way. It works with a permeable Shea gloss which transfers through the color to hydrate while keeping the color in perfectly in place. It’s waterproof, smudge-proof, and kiss proof!

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15) Manic Panic – Booth 621


Tish & Snooky’s® Manic Panic® NYC was born on 7/7/77. Few of the people who ignited the late ‘70s punk scene, including Tish & Snooky, would have ever dreamt of its acceptance by the mainstream, or MANIC PANIC®’s evolution into the internationally renowned hair color and cosmetics company it is today.

NYC natives and sisters Tish & Snooky were backup singers in the original Blondie line-up. In 1977, to add some extra fun to their Rock ‘N’ Roll lifestyle, the two introduced hair dyes in every color of the rainbow to the USA, along with matching wild colors for lips, nails, and eyes. By the ‘90s, Tish & Snooky watched as their hair dye and cosmetics were worn proudly by fashion models and celebrities. MANIC PANIC® was suddenly appearing in magazines, television, and major motion pictures. Today our products can be found all over the world.

Tish & Snooky are lifetime animal rights activists and Manic Panic® continually sponsors animal (and human!) charities. The Manic Panic® line is against animal testing and has won 2 awards from PETA. It is Tested On Celebrities, Not Animals®. The entire Manic Panic® hair color line is Vegan and Paraben-free. The line of Glamnation® Cosmetics is cruelty-free.

In between running the MANIC PANIC® empire and traveling, the sisters still manage to find time to perform, rocking out with a variety of legendary artists. Tish & Snooky, “The Martha Stewarts of Punk Rock”, still rock the MANIC PANIC® lifestyle. “We don’t just sell it , we live it!”™.

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16) Melanie Mills Hollywood – Booth 634


Emmy Award–winning makeup artist Melanie Mills is one of Hollywood’s leading style-makers and beauty consultants, known for her glamorous flair, supreme talent, and vivacious personality. Melanie’s journey to glitter and glam began in Thousand Oaks, California. Born to a family of intelligent, strong, and capable women – each style icons in their own right – Melanie’s love affair with all things beautiful began early and carried her as she ventured out into the world, living, learning, and making memories that would leave lifelong impressions not only on her, but on those she encountered.

Today, Melanie is one of the most sought-after makeup experts in the industry. With more than fifteen years of experience, Melanie is a master of her craft, sculpting faces and bodies into true works of art in a variety of mediums, including television, film, and editorial. In 2007, Melanie was selected as the Makeup Department Head for ABC television’s global phenomenon “Dancing with the Stars,” where she defined the look of the series and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup Design in 2008. Melanie’s superior talent has earned her nine career Emmy nominations for her work on various projects in the entertainment industry, including two double nominations.

Melanie’s products and tips for creating flawless makeup for the face and body have appeared on The Dr. Oz Show and Access Hollywood Live, Hallmark channel’s Home and Familyas a Beauty Consultant, and in national publications including Allure,  Essence, Shape, Vogue, InStyle, US Weekly, OK, Redbook, and People, among others.

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17) Morphe Brushes – Booth 900


Morphé Brushes specializes in high-quality makeup brushes without the name-brand cost.

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18) Nicolet Beauty – Booth 213
Nicoletbeauty.com will be offering our non-drying matte lipsticks, vegan lip catnip lip glosses, and our new product coming soon liquid matte lipsticks! Payments via PayPal accepted.

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19) Sauce Box Cosmetics


SAUCEBOX TAKES ITS BEGINNING IN 2010. FOUNDED BY MOTHER AND DAUGHTER (BOTH MAKE UP ADDICTS). THE NAME TAKES ITS ROOTS IN OLD ENGLISH, AND MEANS RUDE AND IMPUDENT, OBNOXIOUS. WE BELIEVE THAT MAKE UP IS ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE AND YOUR INNER SELF EXPRESSION. THE GOAL WAS TO CREATE A HIGH QUALITY LINE WITH OUT THE HIGH PRICE TAG – SUCCESS! THE LINE COMBINES TWO WORLDS OF ‘ OLD AND PROVEN” WITH ” NEW AND EXCITING”.

SAUCEBOX COSMETICS BELIEVES THAT EVERY ONE IS BEAUTIFUL, AND EVERY BEAUTY NEEDS TO SHINE. WE PROVIDE EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF EYE SHADOW FOR EVERY TASTE, LOOK, DAY, NIGHT, OUTFIT…ETC. WE ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO INNOVATE OUR PRODUCT AND ADD NEW ITEMS TO OUR COLLECTION.
SO, GO AHEAD AND EXPERIENCE THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SAUCEBOX COSMETICS.

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20) Spill the Tea / Pure Brush


Spill the tea is our weekly talk show that me, melissa, and evan have been hosting for 3 years now! We met these wonderful laides Kristi and Sarah and they showed us there product, Pure Brush! It’s an amazing makeup brush cleaner that not only leaves your brushes instantly dry and ready to use, but it also helps stop the spread of acne and germs on your face!

 High-performance, hyper-pigmented cosmetics made with love in Los Angeles. Cruelty-free and never ever tested on animals!

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22) Strobe CosmeticsBooth 312

100% vegan and cruelty-free makeup

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23) Tooth Kandy – Booth 532

Our Signature Red Sparkling Lips Are like no other lipstick you have worn before! Incredible Sparkling effect for your lips that lasts for hours! Glitter Cosmetic Company based out in Los Angeles Glamifornia.

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Sessions Warns “Sanctuary Cities” Will Lose BIG BUCKS If They Don’t Start Deporting Illegals

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced at a surprise White House press briefing that the Justice Department is taking steps to implement one of Trump’s core campaign promises. They will withhold some federal funds from “sanctuary cities”. The move is designed to push law enforcement to cooperate more with ICE, (Immigration and Customs Enforcement.)

“Sanctuary cities” is not an official term, but it refers to places where police don’t always automatically cooperate with ICE as it tries to track down undocumented immigrants. Trump has always promised to withhold federal grant money that went to these jurisdictions, like New York City. There are nearly 600 of these cities. Sessons said,

I strongly urge our nation’s states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce immigration laws and to rethink these policies. Such policies make their cities and states less safe. Public safety as well as national security are at stake.

Immigrants’ rights advocates say sanctuary jurisdictions aren’t violating any federal laws. Domenic Powell of the ACLU, says,

Few, if any, localities are in violation of 1373. There’s no way to pretend that 1373 requires blind compliance to detainers.

In his White House remarks, Sessions said that the Justice Department will give out more than $4 billion in grants to help with law enforcement and criminal justice issues. The Center for American Progress reports that so-called sanctuary jurisdictions received more than $870 million from the feds in the last fiscal year.

Austin is located in Travis County, Texas, where they recently lost $1.5 million in state money because its sheriff, Sally Hernandez, announced the county would stop fully cooperating with ICE. The loss could force the county to cut programs that support veterans with PTSD and parents with drug addictions, unless the sheriff there decides to start working with ICE again.

Democratic Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, who supports the sheriff’s policy, told The Daily Beast,

At some point, you hit a point where the cuts are so much, it becomes so great that if you’re the sheriff, you have to have that discussion—you have to figure out what you’re going to do. And there probably is a point where the purse strings are such that it’s going to be hard for her not to change her policy.

That’s exactly what our tiny Secretary of State is trying to force. A police state.

Fascist much?

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(via The Daily Beast)

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#LGBTQ: BBC Announces “Queers” Which Chronicles a Century of Gay Life in Britain

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Mark Gatiss, who plays Holmes’s brother in Sherlock, has announced a new TV project that will chronicle the last century of gay life in Britain. Queers, the series, will comprise of eight 15-minute monologues to be aired on BBC this summer, after being staged at the Old Vic theatre in London.

It will begin with The Man on the Platform, which is set in 1917 and has been written by Gatiss himself who said,

“I’m thrilled and delighted to have been asked to curate this exciting series from both established LGBT writers and a whole host of new talent fresh to the screen. It’s a privilege to be working with such brilliant writers and actors. At this challenging and fluid time, it’s a marvellous opportunity to celebrate LGBT life and culture, to see how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

According to BBC Four, Queers will

“mark and celebrate some of the most poignant, funny, entertaining, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history and the very personal rites of passage of gay Britons through the last 100 years.”

Other pieces, like the Wolfenden Report of 1957, which recommended homosexuality should no longer be considered a crime, as well as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalised gay relationships in England and Wales will be featured, along with the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. (via Gay Times)

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#LGBTQ: The Pics From Richard Renaldi’s “Manhattan Sunday” Happened When the Party Was Over

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Photographer Richard Rinaldi. Photo, Seth Boyd


Photographer Richard Rinaldi‘s new book, Manhattan Sunday (Aperture) chronicles six years, starting in 2010, where he visited NYC nightclubs. He didn’t shoot the patrons in the act of nightclub fun but rather after the party was over, between midnight and 10AM on Sunday mornings, on their way back home.

Night-life personalities like Honey Dijon and Ladyfag can be spotted, but most of the portraits are of nameless club-goers with no identifying captions, other than the time of the photograph.

In 1986, while visiting colleges in New York, his father took him to Danceteria, the now legendary downtown nightclub, although he and a friend were underage at the time.

He had the savoir faire to give the doorman a $20 bill.

He ended up enrolling in NYU, studying photography by day and dancing at night, becoming a regular at places like the World, Mars and Palladium. He kept clubbing through the 1990s at hot spots like the Roxy, SqueezeBox and the Sound Factory.

Sound Factory for me was my golden era. It was so New York, with kids from all over the city.

In 1996, he learned he was H.I.V.-positive and pulled back from the scene, going out less and less. A couple of years later, he met his long-term partner Seth Boyd, an architectural photographer, and began taking his photography seriously. Encouraged and accompanied by Mr. Boyd, he went back into the club scene and several years later, he combined his two passions. He set up his Wisner 8 X 10 view camera outside of clubs like Roseland, Pacha and the Eagle, as club-goers stumbled out at dawn.

The other people you saw beside the clubbers were the street cleaners. There was this nice dichotomy between the mess makers and the ones cleaning up after them.

In 2015, after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, he took his project inside clubs as well, shooting at gay-friendly parties like Brut at Santos House and Holy Mountain at Slake.

A couple times I partied and then in the morning when things were winding down, I took out the camera and started to shoot; that was a little wacky. A couple times I photographed first and then put the camera away and had fun afterward. That was the smarter way of doing it.

You can get Richard’s book here.

(Photos, Richard Rinaldi; via NY Times)

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So Some Human Tissue Grown in a Petri Dish Just Had Its First Period….

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#TheFutureIsNow

In a laboratory at Northwestern University in Chicago, there’s a palm-sized device that “looks like a Japanese bento box” that contains living tissue instead of sushi.

From National Geographic:

One compartment has a bit of mouse ovary; others hold pieces made from a human uterus, cervix, vagina, fallopian tubes, and liver. The team named the device the EVATAR, a play on the idea of an avatar, or virtual representation of a person, combined with the name of the Bible’s first woman.

OK…. already, I’m a little creeped out. That name is straight out of a ’70s science fiction movie… and those do not usually end well for mankind.

Anyway.

Scientists are reporting today that the device has replicated a full menstrual cycle for the first time. “The tissues produced hormones that coursed through the miniature reproductive system, their levels rising and falling over 28 days.”

“It’s really revolutionary technology,” says study co-author Teresa Woodruff, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University.

The EVATAR will hopefully help scientists better understand how medicines and toxins affect women differently from men. Which is a good thing.

Woodruff’s new device aims to make it easier to test drugs in a system that mimics the female body, a step toward a much-needed revolution in medicine, says Marianne Legato, who heads the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine in New York City.

“I think we’re in a new era of investigation,” she says.

In addition to differences between men and women, fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone throughout women’s menstrual cycles also affect their physiology, Legato says.

“Even the composition of saliva is different at the peak of the cycle,” she says, with higher levels of enzymes for digesting food. “So these hormonal fluctuations are an important factor not only in normal function, but can be really isolated as specific targets for new drug developments.”

Other labs have created “organs on a chip,” but Woodruff’s device goes to the next level, says Christos Coutifaris, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Pennsylvania who recently developed a working model of a human placenta.

“She went many steps ahead by putting not just a single organ, but a whole system together,” he says.

Woodruff gathered experts on each part of the reproductive system to build the device; one team worked on the ovary, for example, and another just on the cervix.

Eventually, multiple synthetic systems could be linked up to essentially create a “human in a dish,” some researchers hope, reducing the need to experiment directly on people or animals.

And scientists hope such devices could one day use a patient’s own tissues to tailor treatments to an individual. Woodruff imagines a future in which a person’s medical care might be tailored using a series of personalized avatar devices as their own metabolism changes through the years.

“I think the future of women’s health is bright,” she says.

As long as those “humans in a dish” don’t rise up and demand retribution for being experimented on…

#DishHumansRights

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#TransformationTuesday: QWERRRKOUT feat. Ivana Vodka

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Transformation Tuesday just got a whole lot QTer…New queers featured every week! Tag us, take a pic of us and follow us on Instagram at QWERRRKOUT, and you too could be the next QT! YOU BETTA QWERRRK!

Ivana Vodka


Age
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa

About:

“I am a glamorous hostess for the rich and famous, darling! Well, having grown up in a religious environment, I never really knew how to express my inner self. One night out, about two years ago, I met a drag queen…she was fierce and unapologetically fabulous! I felt inspired by this individual that could so freely express herself without fear. I asked her to take me under her…well…wig!
Make-up is one of my favorite parts of the transformation from Ruan to Ivana. She brings out a part of me that pushes creativity, and brings me out of my shell. My drag is influenced through a multitude of styles ranging from housewife to high fashion geisha realness. I love the different effects certain looks can have. They question gender norms and culture…and I think that’s important!
I can’t wait for the future of my drag. I’ve been working on a huge collaboration project that I’m really excited about and I want to start really pushing myself to do more things outside of my comfort zone. Cape Town drag isn’t that big yet or recognized. I want to try to inspire other young queens and create a safe community that is recognized worldwide.”
Instagram: theonlyvodka

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“Trans-Black” Rachel Dolezal Has Come Out as Bisexual

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Former Caucasian Rachel Dolezal has been out promoting her autobiography In Full Color: Finding My Way in a Black & White World, and spouting her usual “trans-racial” gobbledygook. In an interview with NBCBLK, she asserted:

“In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really challenge the racial hierarchy, we’re going to have to allow some fluidity.

Adamant that her racial fluidity is not equivalent to putting on a costume, she continued:

“The color line can’t just forever be ingrained in some kind of one drop rule kind of Jim Crow sense.”

When asked to define “Black” and “Blackness” she responded:

Well I think that in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don’t believe that it really is. And so it’s still a very racialized society. And so there’s a line drawn in the sand. And there’s a Black and white divide and I stand unapologetically on the Black side of that divide with my own internal sense of self and my values, and with my sons and my sister and with the greater cause of really undoing the myth of white supremacy.

Hmmm.

When asked to define herself, she offered that she was a pan-African, pro-Black, bisexual, mother, activist, and artist – an answer that clearly surprised the interviewer, who had never heard the bisexual part of the Dolezal equation. “Is that in the book?” she asked.

“I mean the focus isn’t necessarily my sexual orientation for this book, but I think that you know I mean, I am fluid in my sexuality. You know, people ask me all the time, “Oh, does she only date only Black men?” or something. I guess it is kind of like out there. And I’ve dated women and men, Black and white, and, and Native. So, love is love.”

And as for the transracial element?

I think there are too few people — we don’t have the vocabulary to express racial fluidity. But I do like the term trans-Black that Melissa Harris Perry suggested because it does kinda cover the “I wasn’t born this way but this is who I really am” component. But “transracial” it almost sounds like I’m neutral, and I’m not neutral on political and social issues.

And the complex description of pan-African, pro-Black, bisexual, mother, activist, artist, you know that’s like too long. So trans-Black is quicker.

So there you have it. A greater understanding of Miss Dolezal.

Add her to another group!

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Born To Slay: Our Favorite Birthday Gaga Photo Shoots

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Paws up, hunties: it’s Mother Monster’s birthday! Today, the mega superstar landed on her rocket ship to spread love and self-acceptance 31 years ago! Besides hanging out with RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Ross Matthews, and Carson Kressley on last Friday’s GAGA-sized premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 on VH1, she’s shaping up to have the biggest year EVER: her Joanne tour kicks off this summer and she begins shooting “A Star Is Born.” We’ve compiled all our FAVORITE Gaga photo shoots dripping with charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent, AND eleganza.

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2008

Hello Kitty (girl!)

This Tom Munro photo shoot from her early days is so simple and stunning.

This David LaChapelle moment is EVERYTHING.

This one too:

2009

Does everybody remember her 2009 photo shoot with V Magazine?! This was her first collaboration with the magazine (she’s now done over 20 covers for the fashion-forward magazine.


Pretty in pink.


This Tom Munro outtake is how I want to eat a Big Mac.


2010:

Born this regal:


Love this strawberry blond hair bow.


Her gray phase was iconic.


Effortlessly gorgeous.


With the most adorable smile.


2011

I think about this Mario Testino shoot for Vogue often.

Transcendent.


2011 was arguably Gaga’s most transformative year:


YES.

I adore this photo for the fashion and the commentary:

Perfection.

Forever:

Too chic to function:

Monochomatic for the win:

2014

Cher Horowitz’s doppleganger in Harper’s Bazaar:


Kill Bill realness:

ARTPOP TIL YOU DROP:

Sailor Moon vibes:

2015

The future is female:


YAS.

2016

Fashion.

Too cool for school.


Happy birthday, Gaga! We love you!

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News You Might Have Missed: SpaceX Launches and Lands First Recycled Orbital Rocket

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The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! And Drumpty-Trump is about to fall! And Flynn has been denied his immunity request! And Pence cast the deciding vote to undermine Planned Parenthood LITERALLY the day after the White House hosted a “Women’s Empowerment” summer! SMH! I mean… WHO CAN KEEP UP? The deluge of Trump-related news is literally clogging my mind, my social media feed, and my ability to talk about anything else.

But here’s a big story that slipped through the cracks. And one that has far-reaching implications we should all be aware of.

SpaceX, the company that’s single-handedly building the comic-book future of your childhood dreams, flew a previously used rocket yesterday in an unprecedented test of the durability of space equipment.

Via HuffPo:

The Falcon 9 booster took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and landed on an ocean platform called Of Course I Still Love You. The aerospace company founded by Elon Musk said it was the “world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.”

The Atlantic Ocean landing took place about eight minutes after takeoff.

This is great news, of course, because if such rockets can be used more than once, the cost of orbital flights by SpaceX (and others) will be vastly reduced.

SpaceX has previously shown it can land a booster on a platform. The company first accomplished that feat in December 2015 when it landed its intact booster at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It has repeated the accomplishment eight times, Reuters said.

 

Elon Musk for president please.

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NEW MUSIC ROUND-UP: Bleachers, Tei Shi, Sampha & More

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There’s so much exciting new music, hunties: from Jack Antonoff’s side-project-turned-full-fledged-band-project Bleachers new song “Don’t Take The Money,” to Tei Shi’s highly anticipated debut album “Crawl Space” (if you haven’t heard ‘Keep Running,’ you’re really missing out), to Sampha’s visual treat for ‘Process,’ it’s hard to keep up, but I’ve put together some of the best new songs/albums that are out right now so you can put more spring in your step.

Check it out:

‘Don’t Take The Money’ by Bleachers

Jack Antonoff’s second album for Bleachers is almost here and from the sound of his new single (released today on his birthday), “Don’t Take The Money” is refreshingly fun. Think Morrissey meets Billy Ocean and as real life girlfriend Lena Dunham described on her Instagram: “a song that makes your hair blow in the wind.”

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And if the background vocals sound familiar – well it’s Lorde! This isn’t their first collaboration:

Tei Shi’s “Crawl Space”

I’ve been obsessed with Tei Shi’s sound and visuals since “Keep Running:”

Ever since, I’ve seen her live in concert (she’s INCREDIBLE), instagrammed with her, and have never stopped listening to ‘Keep Running.’ Take a full listen here:

Sampha’s “Process” short film


If you don’t know about Sampha, you’re WAY behind! Take a listen and escape into his cinematic beauty:

Charli XCX’s “Number 1” 


I’ve always been a huge fan of Charli XCX, and this new mixtape is EVERYTHING as evidenced by my previous post and admiration for her/it. Listen to ‘Babygirl,’ ‘White Roses,’ and ‘Lipgloss.’

Also: you should listen to her collaboration with Mura Musa.

Mo Bounce by Iggy Azalea


It’s just fun and REALLY catchy:

Noah Cyrus’ ‘Make Me Cry’

Who knew it would be so damn good?! It’s at the intersection of pop meets melancholia and I love it.

‘Somebody Else’ by The 1975

Okay, SO this is six months old (but it’s just hitting the radio) and we are obsessed with his curls in the office.

Take a listen to some of these great artists this weekend while you’re out in about!

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