BUTTSTUFF

This time, I'm curling up with 24-year-old New Jersey rapper and big spoon Rashard Bradshaw AKA Cakes da Killa, now sitting pretty in his room at the Hampshire Hotel Eden in Amsterdam. He gives me the lowdown on his nastiest lyric ever, his cocoa butter obsession, and what it's like being an emotional juicer. Listen and...

'Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play', opening this week at Artists Space in New York, is perhaps the most complete look at the iconic artist's work ever, including more than six decades worth of drawings. The exhibit's a boon for those looking for insight into the illustrator's process...

27-year-old singer — and possible lovechild of Klaus Nomi and Laurie Anderson — Colin Self delves into full-on fantasy mode with this track from his luscious debut USB album, Elation. 'Aflame' sees Colin projecting beams of woozy Mamas & Papas-esque vocal harmonies, which are then subjected to a rigid chopping and muting. Stream, listen and...

Versatile Roddy Bottum is currently in the middle of a fifty-nine date tour, tinkling the ivories with MTV Generation rockers Faith No More. Of course West Coast indie pop kids know him on guitar/vox in bubblegum group, Imperial Teen. Recently, he previewed his first opera (about Bigfoot) in New York where he's been hanging out for the last couple years, threatening to take his music to a more theatrical place. But Roddy grew up in Los Angeles, near the Wilshire Country Club, in a stimulating environs where no one ever went to a dinner party without at least three topics for conversation.

In the Sonoran Desert, just outside of Tucson, Arizona (where temperatures are expected to reach 86˚F this weekend), there's a magnificent formation of boulders where you can strip down and partake of a DIY hot stone massage.

Ah, to be a young homosexual, coming of age under the watchful eye of one's doting mother. London-based writer and broadcaster Richard Scott — who characterizes his relationship with his mother as good by the way — submitted two poems, which we suspect will touch and excite BUTT readers this Mother's Day. Although his poems are not always autobiographical, Scott explains, 'They play around with the idea of being confessional…'

It's May and cock rocker Roddy Bottum unzips for artist-photographer Milan Zrnic in Bronson Canyon, one of the many cruisy corners of Griffith Park, Los Angeles. The area, which is home to the original Batcave, has also been a go-to shooting location for Hollywood B movies for years.

If AA Bronson was a card in the tarot, he would be The Magician. That card is all about discovering and making use of one’s might. For his first solo show at Maureen Paley, AA Bronson: Hexenmeister, he has brought his unique combination of esotericism and homosexual subculture to the London gallery.

29-year-old Martin was first spotted by photographer Julia squatting an insane amount of weight at their local CrossFit Box in L.A. Apparently, that's one way to a great butt.

Over at his Between Bridges gallery in Berlin, Wolfgang Tillmans is unveiling the first European solo show of artist Greer Lankton. The self-described 'chronic masturbator' and 'junkie' is probably best known for her sculptural works, a menagerie of dolls which seem to provide both consolation and commentary on her own bumpy personal journey as a transexual.

Oh-my-gosh, so many new faces at CLUB BUTT in Bushwick last Saturday, and some old friends too. Throughout the night trooper Zak Krevitt and his BF Thomas were snap-snap-snapping away behind a discreet curtain in the cruise yard, making party pics in the so-called Limp Dick Photo Booth. Thanks to Zak and Thomas, Rachel and Erik at Secret Project Robot, Bottoms, Harry & JPEG, and everyone who came out and unzipped!

Ecce homo! Stop scrolling for holes and get your sex look together cuz tonight's the nite. On the decks — all the way from Boystown, U.S.A. — Harry & JPEG of Men's Room Chicago play from 10 P.M. til 4 A.M. Bushwick's own Bottoms take to the stage 'round midnight for another one of their jaw-dropping live shows.

That sucking dude on BUTT's splash page this month was coded and designed by Robert Yang for Succulent, an interactive music video game, the second of the Brooklyn-based designer's trio of gay sex-themed games. At his website, you can download and play the actual game, which features a soundtrack by Arca.

Mexico City locals don't push the clocks forward until the first Sunday of April in 2015, but Óscar is already so ready for it. Nothing pleases the amateur scuba diver (and jockstrap enthusiast) more than a dive in the sea.

25-year-old Alejandro Ghersi's fingerprints are all over the music he produces. When he's not teasing sonic electricity out of his own recordings as Arca, he's writing and producing for others, most recently Björk. Working on Björk's latest and playing a string of shows with her in New York has been a dream come true for Alejandro, but one he was well-prepared for. BUTT was absolutely entranced by his twink-meets-dominatrix stage persona, the perfect foil for his gargantuan and lumbering live PA, a sound which is as challenging — and downright freaky — as it is groovy. Alejandro and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans got together in London to talk nuts and bolts.

That's Rod in his bedroom — the walls of which are decorated with rose patterned wallpaper. This particular Berliner rarely goes out, except on those occasions when he's had a bit too much to drink.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY — After my partnership of ten years came to an end, I decided to visit the New Man (Dr. Müllers) sex cinema, which I hadn't been to for well over ten years. I walked in and noticed there was a new paint job, a few more dark corners, and a few new cabins. The glory holes, once brutally cut out from the cabin walls by customers, were now fitted with decent-sized, perfectly round holes with sliding covers...

Michael is actually half Syrian (and half Greek). He and his Gaydar fuck buddy Menelas made these photos for an exhibition about 'youth in revolt', shooting in an abandoned factory outside Athens.

Saturday night, 4 April 2015, break a rule and bust out the white socks — seven weeks before the official start of summer, mind you — or some other sex look when CLUB BUTT returns to Brooklyn just in time for The Big Thaw… For this momentous occasion, we will fly in that hottie deejay duo Harry & JPEG of Men's Room/Smart Bar infamy all the way from Shytown to play a five-hour set. And it wouldn't be a BUTT party without Bottoms, that is, Bushwick's own gothic transvestite meets squelchy TB-303 clone meets stunner drummer threesome! Thanks to Butthead Flo for sharing the photo of his hairy lower half.