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Pangaea: Changing Channels
A minute or so into the opening song on UK electronic musician Pangaea’s Changing Channels, something strange happens. Over a rubbery, insistent bassline and crisply swinging drums, an unidentified vocalist is spitting out a string […]
A. Savage: Several Songs About Fire
New York City courses through Parquet Courts’ discography. The quartet that tapped the streets’ pulse on 2021’s “Walking at a Downtown Pace” has long captured the full spectrum of life in the city, from heady […]
Hemlocke Springs: Going…Going…Gone! EP
Hemlocke Springs explains her creative process as a haphazard exercise with only three steps: collapse into neurosis, keyboard smash on your preferred DAW, and spill your guts. It’s a characteristically insular approach for a young […]
Lewsberg: Out and About
Out and About, the fourth album from Rotterdam quartet Lewsberg, is a collection of hypnotic, talky post-punk that hinges entirely on atmosphere. It’s music for small rooms with weird lighting, old churches where you have […]
He Was a Beloved Activist. Right Wingers Are Using His Death to Fuel a Targeted Harassment Campaign
While police continue investigating the stabbing death of Brooklyn activist Ryan Carson, interest in the case has turned into a targeted harassment campaign. A spokesperson for the NYPD confirmed Thursday to Rolling Stone that a […]
Brooklyn Subway Shooter Frank James Receives 10 Life Sentences
Nearly a year and a half after Frank James opened fire in a Brooklyn subway, injuring 10 people, he has been sentenced to 10 life-in-prison sentences — one for each of his victims. The New […]
Men Are Cheating With AI Instagram Bots, Because Men
Daphne, a 22-year-old marketing manager, knew it was never going to work out with her ex, Dave. There were red flags from the start, she says: Since they started dating in the spring of 2022, […]
Kyrie Irving Is Now an Exec at Chinese Firm Tied to Human Rights Abuses
Kyrie Irving — the singular basketball talent and moth-to-the-flame of NBA controversy — has embarked on a rebranding campaign with his new corporate benefactor, Chinese apparel giant ANTA. Irving is now the superstar face […]
Sufjan Stevens: Javelin
Once when Sufjan Stevens was in college, he brought an injured crow to the biology lab to help save its life. “You are doing the universe a great favor,” a woman who ran an animal […]
Cherry Glazerr: I Don’t Want You Anymore
On Cherry Glazerr’s first new album in four years, I Don’t Want You Anymore, Clementine Creevy pushes herself to extremes. As a lyricist, she explores devotion and surrender, apathy and dependency. As a musician, and […]
Slow Pulp: Yard
Slow Pulp know how to ground extreme emotion. Their shoegaze-tinged country rock can transform euphoria into a mellow CBD gummy high, anchor combustible bursts of rage, and buoy depression. Their self-produced 2020 debut, Moveys, was […]