Swamp Dogg feat. Justin Vernon: I’ll Pretend

With captivating blues flourishes and his own unique twist to auto-tuned soul vocals, Swamp Dogg (aka Jerry Williams Jr) makes nothing short of art in his new collaborative track with Justin Vernon, “I’ll Pretend.” With a narrative about loneliness and separation, coupled with a haunting music video, the track highlight’s the 75-year-old’s wisdom and emotional awareness. Simply put: it’s a genre-defiant number from a legend.

Exploring the Westfjords with Hidden Iceland

Balancing adventure and relaxation in the island nation's remote region

Shards of glacial icefall chop up the landscape left and right. They’re milky in coloration, though shot through certain areas with the most magnificent blue veins—a color that denotes areas that have been recently exposed to air. This is merely a corner of Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park, perhaps most famous for housing a volcano that disrupted air travel for weeks. Our guide Ryan Christopher Connolly, …

Three Negroni Week Stand-Out Cocktail Recipes

Mixed drinks drawn from the more than 8,000 bars, restaurants and partners participating

Negroni Week launched with 100 partners in its debut year, 2013. Now, roughly 8,000 bars, restaurants and partner vendors take part—almost 200 of which can be found in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Negroni Week isn’t just a celebration of one historic Italian cocktail. Done in partnership with Imbibe Magazine, and stretching from 4-10 June this year, it’s actually a multi-destination charitable event. Bartenders create their own …