Download | Tracklist Genius production companies, like the Ark Music Factory, have realized that every tween girl needs a single no matter what they look like and no matter how shrill their voice is. This Willow Smith and Justin Bieber-inspired movement is currently democratizing the teen pop industry, breaking the DISney chains. Having a single is the new communion, the new bat mitzvah, and before long every tween across the globe will just do it.… [read more »]

CHICAGO’S GHETTO HOUSE AND JUKE L-E-G-E-N-D, T.R.A.X.M.A.N MAKES HIS NEW YORK DEBUT TONIGHT @ COCO66! Joining him will be DIS Magazine fiancees TEENGIRL FANTASY, playing their only headlining show in New York this month instead of submitting to that coed SXSW ish. TRAXMAN continues his tour of the town on Saturday @ ZEBULON! Both shows feature a set by AZIZAMAN and RAINSTICK and they’re duh. “TRAXMAN aka CORNELIUS FERGUSON aka CORKY STRONG OF CHI TOWN’S… [read more »]

Rip your fishnets with this Processing fabric simulation by BlueThen

Bobby Brown had a sweeping effect upon young men in the Middle East during the late ’80s and early ’90s. I remember the boys in Kuwait desperately trying to copy his style to impress the girls, who were all naturally Bobby-obsessed. One Turkish guy went all the way to emulate not merely the style but also the singing of our New Jack god: Ahmet. Wrapped in a black tee; full-length, opened pin-striped shirt (with a… [read more »]

Is choque the new cumbia? Read more about Colombia’s “equal opportunity” dance at wayneandwax.

Lillies and lightning bolts And digital denim, That is what boys are made of.