This is a must-read. Earlier this week, Oyster published a lengthy interview between Strokes front man Julian Casablancas and Dev Hynes. Their conversation spanned everything from their thoughts on Prince and Smash Mouth to the trouble with singing, but that’s not all they discussed. According to a Tumblr post from Hynes, who broke his moratorium on social media to speak out, the magazine “cut everything to do with race and my past. Read More...
Drake is prioritizing his health. On Friday, the Canadian rapper, 36, revealed that he is taking a break from music to focus on his health while speaking on his show Table For One on SiriusXM’s Sound 42. Explaining how he’s been having the “craziest problems” with his stomach, the musician said he’s going to take a hiatus for “maybe a year.” “I probably won't make music for a little bit. I'm gonna be honest,” he said. Read More...
A woman becomes obsessed with a K-pop idol: This increasingly ubiquitous real-life narrative is the basic premise of Esther Yi’s debut novel, Y/N, in which an unnamed protagonist undergoes a process of spiritual conversion after attending the concert of a South Korean boy band so popular they’ve generated a power outage across a Pacific island. As is commonly the case, the woman initially resists proselytization, seeing herself as a person of greater refinement: “My spiritual sphincter stayed clenched to keep out the cheap and stupid,” she proclaims. Read More...