Magnificent Musician-Inspired Nail Art
We’re not sure exactly what’s behind the recent nail art explosion, but as long as it continues to produce amazing pop-culture tributes on a tiny, personal scale, it has our attention. Last week, we...
View Article‘Greatest Women in Music’ Picks VH1 Will Surely Come to Regret
As you may have noticed, we do a lot of a list-making here at Flavorpill. So we’re particularly sensitive to the idea that anything purporting to be a definitive countdown of the 100 Greatest Women in...
View ArticleBeautiful Celebrity Illustrations and Pop Culture Collages
Barcelona-based illustrator Berto Martínez creates beautiful portraiture, and his “celebrity” gallery recently caught our eye. His subjects range from film stars and musicians to well-know writers....
View ArticleThe 10 Best Breakup Albums of All Time
If you’re in any way a regular Flavorwire reader, you’ll probably have noticed that we’ve been quietly beside ourselves for several months now at the prospect of a new Spiritualized album. Sweet Heart...
View ArticleThe Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Vulture is exclusively reporting that Adam Sandler is in talks to replace Mark Wahlberg in Three Mississippi, a comedy about “two rival families who have an annual tackle football game at...
View Article10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Nas feat Amy Winehouse,...
It’s Friday, and we’re back with another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week, there’s a new Nas track, which features an appearance by the...
View Article10 of the Funniest Love Songs in History
Jens Lekman’s new record I Know What Love Isn’t is out this week, and on the whole it’s a pretty morose affair, as befits its status as a breakup album. Still, even on a record this subdued, Lekman’s...
View ArticleHarry Benson’s Intimate Photos of Cultural Icons
A Scottish-born photographer, Harry Benson’s big break came when he started traveling with The Beatles in 1964. His photo of the band having an impromptu pillow fight at a Paris hotel quickly became...
View ArticleThe Morning's Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Over a year later, a new inquest is being held into Amy Winehouse’s death because the assistant deputy coroner who oversaw the original examination lacked proper qualifications. [via ArtsBeat] 2....
View Article20 of the Flat-Out Funniest Songs in Rock ‘n’ Roll
In an attempt to save you (not to mention ourselves) from the general Monday-morning awfulness that tends to follow a lovely spring weekend, Flavorwire has compiled a playlist of indie/rock/generally...
View Article‘ARTPOP’: Lady Gaga Reaches the Limits of Control Freak
Do you remember what pop stars were like before Lady Gaga? It seems like a stupid question to ask just five years into her career, but her aesthetic and attitude spread so quickly upon her rise to fame...
View ArticleRock ‘n’ Roll’s “27 Club” Myth Needs to Die
The notion that 27 is some sort of mystical age is one that gets wheeled out every time a rock star dies young — everyone starts whispering solemnly about how someone new has joined the 27 Club, and...
View Article50 Songs That Are Guaranteed to Make You Cry
Strip away the creeping pumpkinspicization of fall, and there’s something somber and inherently melancholy about this time of the year. It’s when the days get shorter, the leaves fall off the trees,...
View Article25 of the Best Sophomore Albums Ever Made
You know how it goes: a band or a musician puts out a stellar first album, receives heaps of praise and success, and then goes back to the recording studio and turns out a second album. What a bummer,...
View ArticleWitty Vintage-Style Ads Starring Contemporary Music Icons
There’s just a week and a half left before the new Mad Men season rolls out, but in case the ’60s-style withdrawal is too much to bear, Ads Libitum has the graphic design beat covered. Run by David...
View ArticleJack White Apologizes to Every Artist He’s Ever Mentioned, Blames “Tabloid...
Over the last couple weeks, Rolling Stone has teased out its cover story on Jack White shamelessly. Multiple news stories emerged on the RS site, touting “scandalous” quotes from White’s interview....
View ArticleFamous Songs Become Buildings in Federico Babina’s ‘Archimusic’
Music often drives us to change the architecture of our bodies – if it wasn’t for Rod Stewart’s raw, animalistic beats or Barry Manilow’s thrashing guitar, I wonder if I’d ever move at all. But...
View ArticleTrailer for Amy Winehouse Documentary Reveals Sad, Intimate Footage of the...
There seems to be no shortage of devastating music documentaries coming our way. Yesterday, a clip was released from the upcoming Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck showing the legendary musician’s diary...
View ArticleThe Winehouse Family Issues Statement Against the Upcoming Documentary, ‘Amy’
With the upcoming Amy Winehouse documentary Amy set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the Winehouse family has released a statement — via a spokesperson — objecting to some of the film’s content...
View ArticleWatch: Amy Winehouse Spirals into Fame, Love and Self-Destruction in First...
Asif Kapaida’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, seems an excavation of the ways fame led one of the “smartest” and “most authentic” pop musicians of her time to self-destructive tendencies. And because...
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