Over the past decade, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing veteran indie-rock acts enjoy a surprising surge in streams thanks to prime movie placements, sudden social-media virality, or inexplicable algorithmic voodoo. But the case of Blonde […]
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Cleo Sol: Heaven
Cleo Sol named herself after the sun. The UK singer is a vocalist for the enigmatic collective SAULT, which makes experimental R&B, funk, and disco-inspired music that speaks to the complexity of the Black experience. […]
Purelink: Signs
Purelink’s debut single might have been a time machine. One track, the B-side’s “Head on a Swivel,” invoked the ’90s drum’n’bass of artists like Photek and Source Direct, in which breakbeats splintered like shards of […]
Roger Waters Is Undermining the Cause He Claims to Support
Roger Waters has long denied he’s antisemitic. His former collaborators — including the celebrated producer Bob Ezrin — are telling a different story. A new documentary, The Dark Side of Roger Waters, includes claims from Ezrin and […]
FDA Adds New Side Effect Warning to Ozempic Label
Popular semaglutide injectable Ozempic will now have a warning about intestinal blockage after the Food and Drug Administration accepted manufacturer Novo Nordisk’s proposed changes to the drug’s packaging. Semaglutide mimics the body’s GLP-1 hormone, which […]
TikTok Steroid Accounts Are Targeting Young Adults, New Report Claims
TikTok accounts promoting steroid consumption are thriving on the social media app — and possibly targeting young adults in the process, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In a new […]
Suspect in Boston Children’s Hoax Bomb Threat Pleads Guilty
Bomb Threat The Westfield, Massachusetts woman now faces up to 15 years in prison The suspect accused of calling in last year’s bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital amid a wave of harassment has pleaded […]
WHO IS AKIRA GALAXY
The imaginatively named Akira Galaxy (it turns out to be her real name!) was born in Seattle, Washington 24 years ago, a time when the ghosts of grunge sailed through the city, their music not […]
Swede Surrender: Sven Wunder’s New Old Jazz
With his perfectly trimmed red beard, sweater vest, spectacles, and black stocking cap, Joel Danell resembles your hipster teenager’s favorite college philosophy professor. However, the albums the Stockholm-based artist/producer/composer makes as Sven Wunder are anything […]
Wilco: Cousin
There are protest songs that rage with righteous fury. Then there are protest songs that simply gesture at the headlines, powerless and numb. “Ten Dead,” a glassy-eyed track on Wilco’s Cousin, is the latter. Counting […]
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Chai: Chai
CHAI’s songs glimpsed a band seemingly in a perpetual state of youth. Moles and blemishes became irresistible chocolate chips through their eyes; donuts were equally, if not more, important than a passionate crush. But on […]