Lorde has returned to music! “Arriving in 2021 … Patience is a virtue,” the 24-year-old songstress announced on social media. Along with the announcement, Lorde Continue Reading
Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” is a stunning, stripped-back ballad that finds the superstar at her most vulnerable. On Thursday (April 29), the “My Future” singer Continue Reading
Jaguar Jonze is neither the hero nor villain of her own story — she’s the antihero. The Australia-based multi-hyphenate artist (singer! musician! photographer! visual artist!) Continue Reading
Meet the new Powerpuff Girls, definitely not the same as the old Powerpuff Girls. For one thing, this reboot of the franchise is in live-action Continue Reading
Listening to Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is like watching a guitarist perform with a thought bubble over their head. We’re aware of his physical motions, his Continue Reading
Miley Cyrus kicked off the Super Bowl with a pre-game tailgate TikTok concert. On Sunday (February 7), the Hannah Montana alum held a full-scale concert Continue Reading
When Sharon Jones tapped her feet on stage, singing and shaking in a glitter dress, the dust from everyday life turned into sparkle to let Continue Reading
Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons' 2021 inauguration collaboration has a moving backstory. On Wednesday (January 20), the "Filthy" singer and newcomer Clemons delivered the debut Continue Reading
Alexis Boylan opens Visual Culture with a careful explanation of how inundated most of us are by visual imagery. Whether engaging with screens — televisions, Continue Reading
The title of Steve McQueen’s five-part series, Small Axe (BBC in the UK, Amazon Prime in the US), is a powerful, political homonym. Formally, each Continue Reading
Ariana Grande gets groovy and busy in a laboratory, platform boots and all, in her latest cinematic music video. The music video for her raunchy Continue Reading
The ‘people’s history’ approach to thinking about and interpreting the past has gained momentum over the last few decades. From Howard Zinn’s indispensable A People’s Continue Reading
Prince’s 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls, which introduced his band the New Power Generation, is by some counts his second best-selling album period, after Purple Continue Reading
A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the Continue Reading
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I Continue Reading
Demi Lovato delivered the world premiere performance of "Commander in Chief," and it was powerful. The "Confident" singer took the stage at the 2020 Billboard Continue Reading
Blackpink teamed up with Cardi B for “Bet You Wanna," a B-side on their highly anticipated debut studio album entitled, The Album. Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa Continue Reading
Big Little Lions are the folk-pop duo of Helen Austin and Paul Otten, who live in Canada and the US and manage to collaborate despite Continue Reading
Tikyra Jackson, drummer and backing vocalist for 2020 Grammy nominee Southern Avenue, released her sensational, hook-laden debut single “No More Fear” earlier this year via Continue Reading
Michael B. Jordan shared an emotional tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who died Friday (August 28). "One of the last times we spoke, you said we Continue Reading
