Over more than a decade and a half dozen aliases, Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug have bled the past dry, mining just about every vein of indie rock down to the bedrock. As fixtures of […]
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Twitter Is So Heated Over Threads That They’re Threatening Legal Action
A lawyer representing Elon Musk’s X Corp., which owns Twitter, has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, accusing his company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade […]
Colleen Ballinger Has a History of Using Racist Stereotypes In Her Comedy
Last week, YouTube star Colleen Ballinger, the creator of sketch character MirandaSings, responded to allegations of having inappropriate interactions with underage fans. Instead of a statement, the internet star played a ukelele, accusing people of […]
OceanGate Expeditions Suspends ‘Exploration and Commercial Operations’ After ‘Titan’ Implosion
Company’s submersible suffered ‘catastrophic implosion’ last month, killing five OceanGate Expeditions, the company whose Titan submersible imploded last month, announced Thursday that it will be shuttering most of its business offerings. “OceanGate has suspended all […]
How a Rabidly Anti-Gay Preacher Inspired a Sex-Positive Summer Jam
“If you buy her one margarita, she will spread her legs!” If you’re even a casual user of TikTok, you’ve probably heard this line before. It’s from a speech by Cynthia Smock, a campus evangelist […]
The Idol: Music From the HBO Original Series
If you would like to listen to the music from the first season of The Idol—HBO’s infamous, incendiary show about a young female pop star as told through the eyes of its creators, Sam Levinson […]
The Alchemist: Flying High EP
The Alchemist has churned out steely boom-bap and psychedelic loops for icons across three generations of hip-hop and helped pioneer the one-producer/one-rapper mixtape wave of the 2010s. He’s Eminem’s tour DJ, worked on the score […]
John Carroll Kirby: Blowout
To immerse yourself in John Carroll Kirby’s mischievous amalgam of jazz, funk, and Herbie Hancock-indebted synth-soul is to enter a world of endless iteration. The songs on the Los Angeles-based pianist’s studio albums often feel […]
Chester Watson: Fish Don’t Climb Trees
Chester Watson wants to understand his place in the cosmos. The producer and rapper’s new age boom-bap evokes sleepwalking with its narcoleptic rhythms and restless motion; even in the disorienting unreality of dreams, he is […]
As Twitter Falters, Threads Surpasses 5 Million Sign Ups on Day One
Within four hours of launching Threads, Mark Zuckerberg posted that 5 million people had registered on the platform. The Twitter competitor went live in the App Store on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected, and […]
Why Are So Many People Searching for Barbie Fetish Porn?
The release of the Barbie trailer earlier this year has had the effect of getting an entire swath of Americans excited about seeing Ryan Gosling in Day-Glo knee pads. Among a slightly smaller swath of […]
Why Did GQ Delete an Article Calling David Zaslav the ‘Most Hated Man in Hollywood’?
Most days, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav can’t catch a break in the media, which endlessly details his stumbles and failures as head of a content monolith. But it seems he may still have […]