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 […]
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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 […]
MIKE / Wiki / The Alchemist: Faith Is a Rock
The Alchemist is not an unrealistic man; he understands that even his powers have limits. In an interview with Tidal in late 2022, the legendary beatmaker admitted that a full-length collaboration with two artists presents […]
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 […]
Nation of Language: Strange Disciple
Nation of Language made their first two albums in the confines of the pandemic, and their lean and understated synth-pop was hewn from varying degrees of convenience. Keyboardist Aidan Noell, who is married to vocalist […]
Twitter Fires Election Integrity Team Ahead of 2024 Elections
Next year will see dozens of elections around the globe, but X (formerly Twitter) has seemingly abdicated responsibility for protecting users from misinformation during these democratic processes. Several European staffers working on a threat disruption […]
Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made Wednesday at Meta […]