The resurrection of Youth Lagoon
Ahead of the release of ‘Heaven Is a Junkyard,’ Trevor Powers joins Document to discuss dogs, God, names, and music
Alice Longyu Gao’s playlist for getting over your Dimes Square crush
The artist invites you into xyr colorful chaotic world of queer prosperity
Water From Your Eyes is expert in the art of accident
Ahead of the release of ‘Everyone’s Crushed,’ Rachel Brown and Nate Amos join Document to unpack their unintentional self-prophesying and extrapolate the record’s many meanings
How voice cloning is changing the music industry
Universal Music Group just inked a deal with Endel AI—further cementing a revolution in modern listening habits and intellectual property laws alike
Behind the scenes at Fever Ray’s hypnotic New York show
Writer and philosopher FT reviews the ‘There’s No Place I’d Rather Be,’ tour—a “deranged circus,” with vocalist Karin Dreijer as its ringmaster
Malice K adopts an old-school ethos on “Complicated Dreams”
Alexander Konschuh joins Document to dissect the intentions, personal reckonings, and painstaking process behind the making of his stop-motion music video
At the feet of LSDXOXO, nightlife’s deity of dance
For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, RJ Glasgow divulges his aspirations toward idolatry, detailing his pursuit of the perversion of pop
A playlist portrait of Lauren Early
Ahead of the release of ‘Don’t Take My Dream Away,’ the musician offers Document a soundtrack to herself—from first favorite songs to unexpected artistic influences
Document premieres the music video for “UNAVAILABLE,” Casey Spooner’s sonic meditation on sex and death
In communion with Fire Island’s storied geography, the artist explores the particular agonies and pleasures of longing
The art of curating Coachella
Raffi Lehrer joins Document to discuss the impact of large-scale installation work, and which sorts of creatives make the cut
Spotify has a fake artist problem
Users are encountering AI-generated songs by artists that don’t exist—many of which are being aggressively promoted by the platform’s algorithm
Can you copyright a voice?
Faced with the virality of deepfake Drake, Universal Music made a bid to shut down AI-generated songs
Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer
Document curates a selection of the musician’s far-ranging work, from synth-heavy film scores to classical ballads to indelible video game soundtracks
flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance
Following the release of her latest single “Love You,” Joyce Cisse offers a playlist of the pop anthems that shaped her mission of self-love
Age, anger, and anxiety: The doctrine of Sleaford Mods
Following the release of ‘UK GRIM,’ Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn join Document to disclose why they’ll keep going until they “drop dead”
Caroline Rose’s songs for seeking sincerity
Ahead of the release of ‘The Art of Forgetting,’ the artist lets Document in on the tracks that incite emotion, inspiring their album’s unreserved intimacy
Joni’s tracklist for jumpstarting spring fever
The musician and Intima founder curates a list of songs for getting back into the physical, from Björk remixes to Ofra Haza’s transcendent vocals
Avey Tare offers an unembellished self-portrait with ‘7s’
Dave Portner joins Document following the release of his latest solo work to reflect on where it fits in his broader creative evolution
Chiiild’s sonic North Stars
Upon the release of ‘Better Luck In The Next Life,’ the Montreal-born artist joins Document to curate a list of transportive tracks
Kelela, a raver reborn
Years following the success of ‘Take Me Apart,’ the artist fills Document in on the long road to ‘Raven,’ her much-anticipated sophomore album
Model/Actriz’s ‘Dogsbody’ is an emotional map of New York
Vocalist Cole Haden joins Document to expound upon the debut record’s influences, contextualize his suffering, and detail his pursuit of translating life to cabaret
For Soltera, music is a means of sovereignty
Upon the release of ‘TODO O NADA, VOL. 1,’ the LA-based songstress speaks on how she transforms chaos into catharsis
For Carlita, the art of DJing follows no rules
The Turkish multi-instrumentalist paves her own way through the nightlife scene—seeking to leverage her voice to better our world, and building new sonic ones in...
Wesley Joseph shares songs that feel like cinema
The polymath artist curates a transportive and transformative playlist of tracks that elicit memories, and form new ones of their own
Andy Shauf doesn’t play God
On ‘Norm,’ the Canadian singer-songwriter uses fiction to tackle dark themes—leaving it to the audience to make their own conclusions
Day Zero marries Mayan tradition with the sounds of modern techno
Damian Lazarus’s festival—hosted on the Tulum coast—celebrates rebirth and the formation of community through music
The winding path to Mac DeMarco’s ‘Five Easy Hot Dogs’
The multi-instrumentalist’s latest album is lyric-free, improvised along American highways in the spirit of plein-air painting
The C.I.A. play with the parables of punk
With ‘Surgery Channel,’ the LA-based band dissects both society and the self, offering a rhythm that feels danceable and dissonant at once
Grand River’s “Kura” is an all-consuming embrace
Ahead of the release of ‘All Above,’ Aimée Portioli expounds upon the evolution of her practice and the art of translating emotion through sound
Pa Salieu is the driving force behind a new cultural narrative
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the breakout musician reflects on his many lives, from the frontline to international fame
Nation of Language is the synth-pop time machine you didn’t know you needed
Ian Devaney and Aidan Noell share a behind-the-scenes look at their latest tour, and an homage to their musical influences
“The Train You Always Hear But Never See” is a sonic interpretation of memory
Premiering with Document, VORA and Umbra Abra’s latest track is the reflective center of collaborative electronic album, ‘Portals’
Christeene and Narcissister are exploring life’s profane pleasures
The transgressive artists join Document to discuss modern dating, sex magic, and Christeene’s latest album ‘MIDNITE FUKK TRAIN’
The Céline Dion Snub: Ignorance, or a ‘Rolling Stone’ bid for hate clicks?
The beloved singer’s absence from the magazine’s ‘200 Greatest Singers of All Time’ list caused an uproar—but was that the point all along?
Unorthodox holiday albums that are actually pretty good
From rap to K-pop to punk rock, Document offers the best festive records from across the musical continuum
Isabella Lovestory’s guide to K-pop
The reggaeton-pop princess curates a playlist of songs defined by their maximalist production, from new electro hits to classic R&B staples
Daisy the Great is chicken soup for our eternally-adolescent souls
Mina Walker and Kelley Nicole Dugan join Document to discuss grappling with their online personas, the mutual exchange of performance, and their latest album
Waajeed constructs Afrofuturist realms from the seed of Detroit techno
The musician's latest album, 'Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz,' is an exploration of the technological funk and soul that defined his youth and the city's cultural...
Kevin Abstract and Charles Atlas interrogate physical realities in digital fantasies
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the musician and the artist meet for the first time to explore the evolving principles and practices of video-making
Punk or pastiche? East Village is getting the “rock” club it deserves
At the site of beloved discotheque Pyramid Club, Baker Falls promises a reincarnation of the city's transgressive roots—but its new neighbors suggest otherwise
For Weyes Blood, fantasy is a form of survival
On ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow,’ Natalie Mering explores the function of storytelling in the face of societal collapse
When it comes to artistic success, what are we really measuring?
From Madonna to Taylor Swift, writer and philosopher FT examines the ever-changing metric of music rankings
Caleb Landry Jones handpicks his favorite works of classical literature
Following the release of his new album ‘Gadzooks Vol. 2,’ the actor and musician shares a booklist steeped in nostalgia
In celebrating emo’s resurgence, When We Were Young Festival prophecies its death
“The 2008 financial crisis killed mall goth. Facebook killed MySpace. Adulthood killed emo.”
The Beths unite dark lyrics with upbeat pop in ‘Expert In A Dying Field’
“There’s something about the words and the music together that makes me feel emotional… It’s like a cheat code to making me feel something.”
La Femme defies expectations on ‘Teatro Lucido’
After years of travel in Spain and Mexico, the band mixes its signature psych-pop style with flamenco and Spanish lyrics for a commentary-as-comedy effect
Indie sleaze gets the cinematic treatment in the new documentary, ‘Meet Me In the Bathroom’
Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern discuss their gritty tribute to New York’s indie scene, featuring archival images from Hedi Slimane
Okay Kaya’s booklist is an ode to brevity
The artist shares 7 short story collections, and the poetic fragments they inspired
A morning with six-piece indie pop collective MICHELLE
The group joins Document to unpack their process, origin story, and the inspiration behind their latest singles
