On paper, Texas rapper Mike Dimes has the resume of a rising star your teenage cousin won’t stop raving about. A year ago, the former basketball player was balancing a rap career with college, pursuing […]
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Amnesia Scanner / Freeka Tet: STROBE.RIP
Nina Sun Eidshem begins her 2019 book The Race of Sound with a concept she calls “the acousmatic question.” When you hear a voice and you’re not sure of its source, your nervous system lights […]
The Battle for the Future of Psychedelics
“Welcome to the psychedelic twenties.” This is how Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), greeted a packed crowd on the opening morning of Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver […]
Grady Kurpasi Went to Ukraine to Fight. Then He Disappeared
G rady Kurpasi and Andy Hill dove to the ground as the forest around them exploded. There was a rapid pop, pop, pop as rifle fire pounded the dirt and trees and Russian infantry edged […]
New Justice Dept. Report Details ‘Serious Failures’ That Led to Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide
An extensive and detailed 128-page report from the U.S. Department of Justice details “numerous and serious failures” that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to die by suicide while in the care of New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center […]
At Oblivion Access, Heaviness Comes in Many Forms
You have to be a total maniac to go to a festival focused on uncommercial, loud, raucous, confusing music in the summer in Austin, Tx. Hopefully, like me, you are a total maniac. Oblivion Access, […]
Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty Against Idaho Murder Suspect
Idaho Murders Bryan Kohberger is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Bryan Kohberger. Kohberger, 28, a former Washington State University graduate student in criminology, […]
Militarie Gun: Life Under the Gun
Militarie Gun originally started as a solo side project for Ian Shelton, the drummer and vocalist for the Seattle powerviolence group Regional Justice Center. Across three early EPs, it felt as if Shelton was stuck […]
Coi Leray: COI
While some artists begrudgingly hopped on TikTok to market their music, Coi Leray turned the app into her digital playground with bite-sized hits like “Big Purr (Prrdd)” and “Twinnem.” The 26-year-old rapper and singer knows […]
Rrose: Please Touch
In the beginning, Rrose made techno. Unusual techno, perhaps—heady, psychedelic, convoluted—but techno nonetheless. It maintained the genre’s recognizable form, based on four-on-the-floor beats and boom-tick cadences. It drew its minimalist aesthetic from the early-’90s sounds […]
Titanic Obsessives Would Like You to Leave Their Reddit Alone, Please
Robert Douglas Spedden’s grave is located in his family plot, usually surrounded by freshly cut grass. The headstone is incredibly small and stub-like, so no matter how many times you’ve been to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, […]
Inside OceanGate’s Doomed Titanic Dive: Flouted Regulations and Murky Finances
First Stockton Rush wanted to be an astronaut, but couldn’t, because of poor eyesight. So, he tried working as a flight-test engineer. Then he went to business school. Then he traveled to the Mojave. It […]