Since The Sound of Freedom was released in theaters last week, the inspiration for the film, Tim Ballard, the CEO of the anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), has been getting quite a bit of […]
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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Eligible to Face Death Penalty
A month ago, Robert G. Bowers was found guilty on 63 charges connected to the 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, in which 11 people were killed. According to The New York […]
PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying
PJ Harvey has dedicated the second half of her career to finding new ways to sound unlike herself. Since her 2007 reboot, White Chalk, Harvey has retired the seething yowl that was once her signature, […]
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Marc Ribot keeps watering the roots of no wave. The New York genre, while it seemed to wither 40 years ago, is a key ingredient in his gloriously messy alchemy, which mixes flippant interpretation, heavy […]
Big Jade: I Can’t Help It
The finer points of regional rap geography are sometimes lost on listeners outside those places. Due to their tight affiliation with the Screwed-Up Click, UGK became honorary Houston heroes, but the duo was actually from […]
Elon Musk, Twitter Sued for $500 Million in Severance Benefits
A former Twitter employee has filed a $500 million class action suit against Elon Musk and the social media company, alleging they’ve skimped out on severance for the thousands of workers fired since Musk’s takeover […]
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Ozempic. Rybelsis. Wegovy. They’re three of the most popular semaglutide drugs on the market, but there’s one company behind them: Novo Nordisk. But in addition to the drug brand being a major player in the […]
With Fish Don’t Climb Trees, Chester Watson Searches For Purpose
Even for the esoteric Chester Watson, there’s no greater knowledge than self-awareness. This becomes evident across his latest project, fish don’t climb trees, which takes its title from a quote Albert Einstein may or may […]
Why Anti-Trafficking Experts Are Torching ‘Sound of Freedom’
When Sound of Freedom, the new Jim Caviezel thriller about child trafficking, was released in theaters last week, it garnered mixed reviews, to say the least. The movie, with its central narrative about a former […]
Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Taylor Swift emerged in 2006 as a 16-year-old wunderkind with a gift for articulating all the intimacies and humiliations of falling in love. But throughout her early career, her image was predicated on her youthful […]
Freak Heat Waves: Mondo Tempo
In the 13 years that Canada’s Freak Heat Waves have been making music, they have channeled a welter of influences: post-punk, shoegaze, dub, goth, Detroit techno, Japanese synth pop, German prog. Drop the needle at […]
Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon: I’ve Really Never Been Better
Listening to a Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon mixtape has the same episodic feeling as reading the latest issue of your favorite comic book. It’s just nice to hear what nuggets of hip-hop history he mines (“I’ma […]