Scott Ayers once fronted the Lovemakers, recorded an album on Interscope with them, and scored a hit with “Prepare for the Fight”. Now, the talented Continue Reading
Lomelda's 'Hannah' Is an Internal Dialogue Leaking Out
Some music is just internal. It creates its own world, plays by its own rules, and speaks to itself only. Yet, sometimes this internal music Continue Reading
Elizabeth Cook Looks at Her Past to See What's Next on 'Aftermath'
Critics consider the Rolling Stones’ 1966 album Aftermath as one of the most important rock records. That was the Stones’ first “real” album rather than Continue Reading
'Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement' (excerpt)
Excerpted from Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman. (Footnotes omitted). Copyright © 2020 The MIT Press. Excerpted by permission of Continue Reading
Brothertiger Discusses Finding Inspiration in the Strangest Places
When Brothertiger’s John Jagos takes a break, he means it. For the Ohio-born, New York-based master of emotional synthpop, his career has already been full Continue Reading
Kate Bush's Splendidly Transitional 'Never For Ever' at 40
“Where does Kate Bush come from? You can’t hear her influences”, said English rapper and actor Tricky for the 2014 BBC documentary The Kate Bush Continue Reading
‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Announces Final Season: Get Details and See Reactions From Fans
The Kardashian-Jenner family announced on Tuesday (September 8) that after 20 seasons, their hit show Keeping Up With the Kardashians will be airing its final episodes in 2021. Continue Reading
TikTok Creator Accused of Trying to Pass Off Ashanti Song as Her Own
A TikTok content creator is under fire for seemingly trying to pass off Ashanti's debut single as her own. Danielle "Dani" Cohn, who has more Continue Reading
Lupita Nyong’o Pens Touching Tribute to Chadwick Boseman: ‘He Had a Profound Impact on Me’
Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther co-star Lupita Nyong’o shared a heartfelt tribute to the late actor via Twitter. Broken up into several portions, Nyong’o’s words honor Boseman and the inspiring Continue Reading
Samuel Tucker Young Releases “Whiskey Burns”
Following his ‘Timberwolf‘ album, Samuel Tucker Young returns with Whiskey Burns. Written and recorded at the height of quarantine, Young captures feelings of despair as Continue Reading
Who Is Katie Holmes’ New Boyfriend? Everything We Know About the Couple
Katie Holmes and her rumored new beau are keeping their romance anything but low-key. The 41-year-old actress has been spotted around New York City on Continue Reading
Justin Bieber Reveals Huge New Neck Tattoo
Justin Bieber has added a new tattoo to his massive body art collection. The 26-year-old singer revealed in a series of Instagram posts on Monday Continue Reading
Meghan Markle’s Royal Training Involved A Staged Kidnapping
Meghan Markle apparently had to go through an intense, two-day security training course before marrying Prince Harry. Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, authors of the Continue Reading
The Singularity of Žižek
Slavoj Žižek’s latest book, Hegel in a Wired Brain, mixes perspicacity and paradox in brain-teasing ways that have become his signature style but there is Continue Reading
Decode the Pre-Code: Four Hot Early Talkies Hit Blu-Ray
In 1934, the major Hollywood studios knuckled down to the self-censorship standards of the Motion Picture Production Code, an office subsidized by the studios themselves. Continue Reading
Vancouver's Yukon Blonde Drift Into Dreamy Neo-Psych on "You Were Mine" (premiere)
No one could ever accuse Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde of remaining stuck in place, releasing the same album over and over again. Indeed, the band are Continue Reading
Georgia Anne Muldrow's New Jyoti LP 'Mama, You Can Bet!' Is a Revelation
Jyoti’s (aka Georgia Anne Muldrow) Mama, You Can Bet! is a revelation — of time, of rhythm, of sound. It takes the free-ranging jazz sensibilities Continue Reading
Badfinger's Joey Molland Tells the Story of the "Rainy Day Man" (premiere)
Joey Molland’s latest LP is Be True to Yourself and arrives on 16 October via Omnivore Recordings. The album is a collaboration between Molland and Continue Reading
Korine's 'The Night We Raise' Is Shimmering Synthpop With Its Heart on Its Sleeve
Synthpop that harkens back to the innocence of the 1980s is in great abundance these days. While instrumentalists like Com Truise and Paul Haslinger effectively Continue Reading
Ambient Producer Joshua van Tassel Believes We Need More Beautiful Things
“I feel like really just straight-up beautiful things have become uncool. There’s this idea that sentimentality is looked down upon, and emotion is not cool,” Continue Reading