Interview: Grammy Award-Winning Icon Nile Rodgers

One of the music industry's legends on his decades of success and keeping time

In 1980 Nile Rodgers received his first Grammy nomination—as a songwriter on the Sister Sledge hit “We Are Family.” A year later he received another with “Upside Down,” which he produced for Diana Ross. As awards shows go, he wouldn’t win—until 2014. That year, his collaborations with Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams (the track “Get Lucky” and album Random Access Memories) would take home three …

Amazon.com Opens a Rainforest-Filled Office

Equal parts greenhouse and office space, Amazon.com’s $4 billion downtown Seattle Spheres structure features verdant walkways and non-traditional, chair-laden meeting spaces. There also happens to be about 40,000 plants of 400 species, creating a rainforest-like environment (72 degrees, humidity at 60%, and a breeze throughout). It’s aimed to provide inspiration to employees. Jeff Bezos actually just opened the doors on the facility, by way of …

Eku Fantasy: We Got The Power

Olugbenga Adelekan of Metronomy and Gareth Jones (aka producer Jumping Back Slash) have never met in real life, and yet their debut single under the moniker Eku Fantasy conveys so much thought, emotion and texture that you’d think they’ve been collaborators for a lifetime, side-by-side. The song is “We Got The Power,” an almost unrecognizable cover of the Gorillaz hit that featured Savages’ Jehnny Beth. …