RXK Nephew is a bug-eyed paranoiac with a work ethic like no other. When he’s really in the zone, you’ll blink and discover 10 new songs on his YouTube channel. Included in his immense catalog […]
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Hand Habits: Sugar the Bruise EP
For Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, creativity is a ritual of connection that reconciles the innumerable unknowns within and beyond human existence. Over the years, they’ve come to understand that it’s the questions, not necessarily the […]
Jayda G: Guy
DJ, producer, and scientist Jayda G makes effervescent dance music with a wealth of deeper meaning. On her second album, Guy, she explores grief and renewal through ambrosial disco, soul, and dance-pop dedicated to her […]
A Submersible for Taking Tourists to See the Titanic Is Missing
Search Underway The boat, designed to let tourists visit the wreckage of the Titanic, has lost contact with vessels on the surface A submersible designed to take tourists underwater to view the wreckage of the […]
First She Got Veterans In Compromising Positions. That’s When the Alleged Scam Began
Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, Scott C. Johnson’s unique true crime narrative recounts the tale of the brilliantly cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction across the […]
Kamala Harris on What She Learned from Tina Turner
When I was a child, my mother would play “Proud Mary” on repeat as I danced around our living room, singing along into my toy microphone at the top of my lungs. The power in […]
Walkie-Talkies, a Smashed Skylight, and Thieves in Disguise: Feds’ Museum Crime-Ring Allegations Are a Wild Ride
On Thursday, federal authorities in Scranton, Pennsylvania, released charges against nine people they say were involved in a series of dramatic museum heists. The alleged thieves cased their targeted institutions ahead of time, then returned […]
Meshell Ndegeocello: Bitter
“Why is the measure of love loss?” Jeanette Winterson asks in her 1992 novel Written on the Body, where a genderless narrator mourns their previous relationship so deeply they write long, vivid paragraphs cataloging the […]
The Fast Times and High Crimes of a Hip-Hop Grifter
“Who’s Swagg Man?” the 36-year-old rapper currently wanted by the law poses the question to himself in a text to me. “I was born an artist … Swagg Man is a fictif [fictional] guy. Same […]
Pet Shop Boys: Smash – The Singles 1985 – 2020
Even before he perfected them, Neil Tennant respected pop singles enough to hate them. As a journalist at the beloved, now-shuttered British music magazine Smash Hits in the early ’80s, his reviews of the 7-inches […]
She Used TikTok to Keep Her Missing Sister’s Name in the News. Now, She Wants to Save Other Women
Megan Kingsbury and her sister Madeline used to spend hours together, taking long walks, relaxing by the lake, or trying out new coffee shops in the towns where they lived, a few hours apart, in […]
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Guilty of All 63 Charges Against Him
The man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 was convicted Friday of all 63 charges against him, The Washington Post reports. The charges against Robert G. Bowers, […]