Punk
Cultural Comment
It’s Green Day’s World Now
The band’s new album, “Saviors,” feels amazingly current, not because Green Day has capitulated to the whims of the Zeitgeist but because, somehow, the Zeitgeist has bent around Green Day.
The New Yorker Interview
Hayley Williams, Without a Guidebook
The singer-songwriter talks about growing up in the South, trusting your teen-age self, getting divorced and getting exhausted, and the search for a home.
Pop Music
The Fierce, Lasting Influence of Paramore
On “This Is Why,” Paramore is trying to grow up and move on. But it’s the teen-age angst of the band’s early work that still inspires.
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A Counterculture Chronicler Gets His Due
A Brooklyn Museum retrospective of Jimmy DeSana’s erotic, compulsive, gender-fluid work makes a case for his ongoing relevance.
Culture Desk
How Hate5six Captures the Hardcore Universe
In a subculture that thrives on spontaneity and obscurity, Sunny Singh’s video library stands out as a lovingly curated record.
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Willow Smith Goes Pop-Punk
The reluctant child star embraces the sounds of punk for her best album yet, “lately I feel EVERYTHING.”
The New Yorker Documentary
Azuma Makoto’s Provocative Botanical Sculptures, in “Flower Punk”
Alison Klayman’s documentary shows how a former punk musician brought his sensibility—part poet, part mad scientist—to the unlikely medium of floral art.
The New Yorker Interview
Ad-Rock Just Wants to Be Friends
The Beastie Boy on growing up, mellowing out, and the importance of snacks.
Cultural Comment
Liquid Death and the Nonsense of Packaged Water
The new canned-water brand comes wrapped in teen-rebel labelling, complete with skull imagery and a detailed explanation of its “proprietary thirst murdering process.”
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Terroir
Fiction
Come Together
Culture Desk
The Day That Punk Died Again
A Critic at Large
Paint Bombs
Portfolio
Burma Wave
Photo Booth
Burma Wave
Pop Music
Hanna And Her Sisters
Critic’s Notebook