Spotify Offering 215 Hours of Free Language Lessons

We all associate Spotify with music, but there are actually some 215 hours of foreign language lessons available. So after you listen to your Discover Weekly playlist and want to feel a bit more clever, why not take a class in beginners’ Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian or Swedish? Just go to Spotify, click browse and scroll down to “Word.” (There are also audiobooks, guided meditation …

Mr Tophat feat. Robyn: Trust Me

Robyn’s latest collaboration with fellow Swede Mr Tophat is a whopping 10 minutes long, but doesn’t feel like it—instead the track ebbs and flows in a manner that’s entirely engaging. Mr Tophat previously remixed Robyn’s 1999 song “Main Thing” and now the dream team releases “Trust Me.” With Robyn’s tender vocals contrasting moments of jittery screeches, this synth-heavy single really is a bit of a …

The Gossip’s Beth Ditto’s Plus-Size Fashion Line

Singer/songwriter/sometime model and all-the-time badass, Beth Ditto has just released her second collection of clothing for plus-sized people and it’s breaking all the rules regarding how larger women “should” dress. The idea of wearing “flattering” or minimizing shapes and colors was far from her mission. Ditto tells R29, “I think it’s really cool to… really draw attention to yourself; I want to create big shapes, …