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How Industry Curated the Best Soundtrack on TV

Music supervisor Ollie White talks about treating the trading floor like a dance floor, and the Season 4 soundtrack cut that almost broke the bank. Plus: A playlist of Industry's greatest needle drops.
Culture

Jam Cruise Is a Five-Day Escape From the Harsh Realities of a Troubled World. But Should It Be?

How a short, strange sea voyage with 30 jam bands and a small army of freaks and wooks made one writer homesick for the shit-show back on shore.
Style

The Real-Life Wardrobe of The Hellp, Who Say the Best Place to Buy Jeans Is a Time Machine to 2012

In his new column for GQ, photographer and writer Christopher Fenimore gets the LA duo on the record about why Visvim is due for a revival and which celebrities actually dress well.
Watches

Inside a Rising Soul Musician’s Extremely Vibey Watch Collection

From vintage Longines gems to timeless Cartier grails, 54 Ultra’s watch roll is as groovy and diverse as his music.
Watches

Why Jung Kook and Hublot Are a Match Made in Watch Heaven

Thanks to his new partnership with the Swiss watchmaker, the BTS megastar has found the ideal timepiece to complement his outsized global presence.
Culture

The Jeff Buckley Cover That's Better Than His “Hallelujah”

A new documentary about his life has us thinking about his real high-water mark as an interpreter.
Culture

Kid Rock's Super Bowl of Spite

While Bad Bunny threw a halftime party for everyone capable of feeling emotions other than outrage, TPUSA counterprogrammed with a jorts-clad Bob Ritchie phoning it in. This is how you lose a culture war, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
Culture

Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was a Love Letter to Latin Memory

A Spanish-language performance that channeled shared nostalgia made history as the most-viewed halftime show ever.
Culture

Bad Bunny Turned Super Bowl Halftime Into a Benito Bowl Win

Putting on for Puerto Rico with a dizzying one-banger-after-another performance, the Super Bowl's real superstar didn't waste a minute of his moment on the global stage, writes GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe.
Culture

Charlie Puth Kicked Off the Charlie Puth-aissance at the Super Bowl

That National Anthem performance is just the latest sign that our premier Dad-pop auteur is due for a reconsideration.
Culture

Justin Bieber Shredded the Competition at the Grammys, Awards or No Awards

His guitar-and-boxers “Yukon” performance was a reminder that—even on Music's Biggest Night—less is sometimes more, writes GQ columnist Chris Black.
Culture

J. Cole’s ‘What If’ Invokes Rap’s Greatest Beef to (Maybe) Address His Own

On The Fall-Off, his first new album since tapping out of the Kendrick/Drake feud, Cole imagines an alternate reality in which Biggie and Tupac patched things up.
Culture

Are the Grammys Good Again?

An ongoing push to expand the historically geriatric voting membership of the Recording Academy made for the most lively Grammys telecast in years.
Culture

Charli XCX Blows Up the Music Doc

The Moment is a quasi-ironic meta-movie that can't quite figure out what to say about its subject, but nails at least one deserving target.
Culture

Grammys 2026: An Industry Disruptor Threw a Great Industry Party

Talking legacy and disruption with Gamma cofounder Larry Jackson, who's partnering with Ye to release Bully in March.
Style

Bad Bunny’s Grammys Tuxedo Also Made History

The Puerto Rican superstar accepted the Grammy for album of the year in a corseted Schiaparelli tux.
Culture

Don Toliver Steers Into the Fast Lane

The gearhead Houston singer-songwriter takes over a Porsche racetrack to premiere Octane, a new album custom-built for fast coupes and four-doors.
Culture

Live Music is Worth Overpaying For

Harry Styles has announced a 30-night residency at Madison Square Garden, and the tickets aren't cheap. Nor should they be, argues GQ columnist Chris Black.
Culture

J. Cole's Comeback Freestyles, Ranked

The rapper teased his long-in-the-making album The Fall-Off with four new freestyles over bedrock rap beats. GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe gives them the scrutiny Cole is asking for.