Exactly how helpful can AI be to games development? A Reader’s Feature offers a very optimistic view of how generative AI might be used in video game development in the future. One reader tries to imagine the best case scenario for using AI to make video games, cutting down the…
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs…
Aluna is building something unlike anything I’ve ever seen before — in the club and in the studio and out in the world — amongst her people. I’m onstage at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco, watching her play with the crowd and her dancers. She bounces back and forth from…
We didn’t make this issue because we needed to, we made it because we wanted to. The end of our four-day-long cover shoots this summer ended with champagne-popping and everyone on set stomping their boots — from Rick Owens to Doc Martens — into a cursed “Happy Birthday PAPER!” cake….
There was a period in the last few years when Halsey thought, Am I gonna die or am I gonna be taking medications for the rest of my life? They recount this realization with near total clarity: “I had a tiny little baby and I was on my tour, and…
“They said this shit wouldn’t work,” NLE Choppa reminds his doubters every time he performs his viral track, “Slut Me Out 2.” But right now, it’s working exactly how he wants. A mean strut down the Rolling Loud stage in March 2024 and a call for “all the bad bitches…
Doechii is buzzing, blunt and self-assured — but never quite satisfied. She’s an artist, committed to honesty above all, ruthless about her craft and just as competitive as one would expect a former gymnast-to-be. The 26-year-old Tampa-born, LA-based artist has an athlete’s mindset that has given her the know-how to…
Seeing The Dare at one of his regular Freakquencies parties goes something like this: a sea of cool kids, wondering if the sweat on your skin belongs to you or someone else, surprise spins from stars like Charli XCX, dancing to heart-racing electro-clash; blurry visions of a disco ball, legs…
“Have you heard of Malice K?” A few months ago, I would’ve said no to that inquiry, the same one that kicks off the video (below) of Malice K’s album release listening party. Lucky for me (and for you), PAPER social editor Alaska, got me hip to his game after…
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs…