MIRRORS

Today, Shake is hitting us again with a sleek new visual for her track "Mirrors." And we want more and more.

Watch the video for "Mirrors" below.

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Bilt Rewards Celebrates Launch at The Summit with Wyclef Jean and A$AP Rocky

April 11, 2022

93 floors above Manhattan, with a 360 panoramic view of the city skyline, Bilt Rewards celebrated their launch with a cinematic night full of surprises. Bilt Rewards, a system that builds points when paying your monthly rent, invited guests to The Summit at One Vanderbilt. The event consisted of dinner, cocktails, and legendary performances from Wyclef Jean and A$AP Rocky. With chaotic exuberance and the ultimate night of singing, dancing, and partying, these performances made for a night that guests are sure to remember.

Wyclef Jean took the stage, immediately controlled the crowd, and had the performance of a lifetime bringing us back to the 90s. Not only did he get the party going by inviting guests to take the stage with him, but he also jumped into the pits himself. From guitar tricks to handstands, the artist left everyone speechless and chanting for an encore. However, after his performance, A$AP Rocky took the stage and kept the energy going with a performance of “Plain Jane.”

Text by Cassie Jekanoski
Photos courtesy of BFA

When speaking about how Bilt Rewards works, Founder and CEO Ankur Jain states, “Bilt Rewards has been four years in the making, but today we officially launched the Bilt Mastercard to the entire country. For the first time ever, everyone in the country can now earn points on rent. Just think…pay your rent, travel the world for free. Pay your rent, buy a home one day. We’re excited to be live and celebrating in the most beautiful space in all of New York.

Bilt is the first program that lets you earn points on rent. Rent is your biggest expense every month, and just like when you book a blight or book a hotel and earn miles or points, you can now do that just by paying rent on time. Imagine how much you can do when your biggest expense turns into your biggest reward.”

In the words of Mayor Eric Adams, “There are two kinds of people in the world: people from New York and people who wish they were.” And trust me, people who got a first-hand glimpse of the night through Instagram stories wish they could be a New Yorker for the night.

Take a look at how the night unfolded below.

Music

Harnessing a Kismet Connection with BIIANCO & MOONZz

April 08, 2022

In late 2021 BIIANCO & MOONZz came together for a late night songwriting session, after only a few hours pray2u was brought into existence. A track inspirited by an, as they call it, love-at-first-night whirlwind romance. Harnessing the feelings you get when you meet someone and the connection is instant, as if it’s a love you have experienced for many lifetimes.

When BIIANCO & MOONZz first met they felt a connection like this, but instead of as lovers it was as friends. As if the two had walked many lifetimes together by the others side, their instant bond made creating and collaborating feel like something they had done together many times. To top it all of, the duo shares a birthday!

Text by Oona Oglesby
Photos by Michelle Shiers
Produced by BIIANCO
Written by MOONZz and BIIANCO
Performed by MOONZz and BIIANCO

For the music video, the duo wanted to play off of the idea of platonic soulmates. Inspired by the Cassie and Maddy duo from Euphoria, they explored what it is like to feel so bonded to another person without any romantic aspect affecting the relationship. Honoring the beauty of this musical collaboration and highlighting their kismet pairing and their shared love for maximalism and taking fashion to the extreme, the pray2u music video is a roadmap to their friendship.

Music

office Gets Drained

On a snowy Monday night in March, the underbelly of Boston’s subcultures came together to see their favorite Swedes. Donning camo prints, full suits, and lots of faux furs, every attendee was an RPG protagonist.

Drain Gang’s following, known as “drainers” are best characterized as the seventh-grade Minecraft kid who got cute and vapes now and are recognizable by their unique fashion sense, irony-steeped sense of humor, and disaffected demeanor. A rough amalgam of horse-girls-turned-hot-girls, gamers, and skaters, “drainers” make up the devoted fans of the internet’s boy band (with Bladee as a self-proclaimed Directioner).

Unlike boybands of the past, Drain Gang builds a world around their music–from coveted merch design to discord channels–while maintaining an air of anonymity to create one of the last standing subcultures of the commodified online landscape. The concert itself embodied this sentiment. On a dimly lit stage, Drain Gang members were near indistinguishable from one another, catching glimpses of their gelled hair and eyes lined with black liner for brief moments in the spot(or strobe) light. Rather than putting on a highly curated, spectacle of performance, their energies were directed towards engaging the crowd.

The crowd, who willingly surrendered all sense of bodily autonomy and preservation, was a cacophony of head-against-elbow, hair-in-mouth, yelling-in-ear-from-all-directions. On the periphery of the pit stood the occasional open-mouthed tweaker blissfully absorbing the cloud of sweat, tears and spit wafting off the bodies in the mosh.

Through fan-favorites like “Be Nice 2 Me” and obscure cross-overs like Justin Beiber and The KID LAROI's STAY x Vanilla Sky the energy never waned, but was intensified by each layer of experienced shared across attendees and each unidentifiable bodily fluids showered down from the stage.

Within an established set of aesthetics, language and markers of belonging, it’s this connective tissue between Drain Gang and their loyal drainers that makes their following so unique. For a group characterized as “chronically online” the night was decidedly analog. With hardly a phone in sight (and if you could hold on to it through the toss and turn of the pit, you earned it), the unforgettable performance will be remembered, rather in the aches and pains sure to take hold and the phantom limb felt behind in the lost wigs, shoes, and personal belongings strewn across the post-show floor.

Much like drainers themselves, each forgotten item carried the unique memory of its own identity while taking on a disjunct, Frankenstein-like persona, larger than the individual, yet not quite human enough to be whole.

For a glimpse into the group-think, we asked drainers a few questions.