Julian Cross has made a name for himself as an artist who constantly redefines electronic music, blending intensity and depth to create a unique soundscape. His reputation in the Drum & Bass genre is further […]
This Is About Accountability
A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website. When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, […]
Jamila Woods: Water Made Us
How much would you let love change you? That’s the dare that singer and songwriter Jamila Woods tosses inside the circle on her sprawling new album Water Made Us. Across 17 songs, she considers love […]
Loraine James: Gentle Confrontation
The Kübler-Ross model has done the bereaved dirty ever since it entered the public consciousness in the 1970s. Its five tidy stages are woefully inadequate to handle the myriad shifting forms of grief: unpredictable physical […]
They Played Football as Children. Now Their Families Mourn
S ince DuQuan Myers died six years ago, he’s come back in ways that are mysterious and magical and hard to explain. It started the day of his funeral, when the doves that were released […]
Albert Hammond Jr.: Melodies On Hiatus
Melodies on Hiatus is a title that sounds better suited to Julian Casablancas, the Stroke who spends his spare time peddling noise skronk with the Voidz. Is Albert Hammond Jr. really trying to tell us […]
Why Are So Many Popular Wellness Influencers Red-Pilled?
A few years ago, around the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a perplexing shift in the wellness space. Yoga teachers, holistic healers, crystal sellers — people who had never posted anything remotely political, […]
Jam City: Jam City Presents EFM
Jam City’s debut album, 2012’s Classical Curves, rewired grime textures and electro-funk chords through sleek, off-kilter sound design and blistering rhythms. The English electronic producer born Jack Latham cited both Philly club and Laurie Anderson—indicators of his […]
Death at a Frat-Boy Fight Night
T he evening of the fight, Nathan Valencia was nervous. It was the first time that Valencia, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas had participated in Fight Night, […]
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition)
It was a provocative thought: What if, Daft Punk wondered, we take our retro flirtations and lean all the way in? Is it the moment to fully consummate a Pharrell connection that stretches back over 12 years? […]
The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’
Her creativity helped fuel a technological revolution she knew almost nothing about. Although the Bored Ape Yacht Club — now, arguably, the world’s biggest NFT project — first appeared online in May and quickly started […]
Tom Hanks Nearly Destroyed Connor Ratliff’s Life. So He Made a Podcast About It
The first time Tom Hanks nearly destroyed Connor Ratliff’s career was on June 12, 2000. The Missouri-born Ratliff, then an aspiring actor in his mid-twenties living in England, landed what he hoped would be a […]