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TikTok’s Favorite Comedian Is Rehashing Ancient History
Did anyone in the Trojan Horse get claustrophobic on the way to Troy? Was Marie Antoinette worried about getting canceled when she said, “Let them eat cake”? What if people got drafted into World War […]
May 2023’s Best Punk: We Have Questions
Welcome to Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, […]
Blawan: Dismantled Into Juice EP
The words inked across Blawan’s knuckles—KICK DRUM—offer shorthand to the UK producer’s credo: a paean to the life force that is rhythm, the pulse at the heart of all things. The heart, of course, is also […]
Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark
Brandy Clark is one of the finest rhymers in Nashville. In addition to finding unexpected pairings of words, she can use a simple AABB to blur comedy and tragedy, or combine humor with pathos. “Crazy […]
Mega Bog: End of Everything
What use is beautiful language in a crisis? On her previous album as Mega Bog, 2021’s Life, and Another, Erin Birgy found breathtaking ways to describe the world around her and the one inside her head. On […]
Nikola Jokíc and Jimmy Butler: The NBA Underdogs Slaying Titans
It’s springtime in America. The flowers are blooming, the sunsets are stunning, the air is filled with the scent of amour. It is now when a young man’s thoughts turn away from the grindset and […]
L.A. Dodgers Apologize and Re-Invite Charity Drag Group to Pride Night
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will, after all, be participating at Los Angeles Dodgers’ Pride Night next month after the baseball team received severe backlash from queer organizations for disinviting the charity group. On Monday […]
Right-Wingers Furious That Fox News Doesn’t Hate Trans People As Much As They Do
To say that’s been a rocky month at Fox News would be an understatement. First, in April, the conservative cable news network agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems […]
Idaho Murder Suspect ‘Stands Silent’ During Arraignment, Judge Enters Not Guilty Plea
A judge in the Idaho Murders case has entered not guilty pleas on behalf of suspect Bryan Kohberger in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho college students. When the judge asked Kohberger’s attorney […]
The Freewheeling Ascension of Foyer Red
Nobody expected things to go this way for Foyer Red, least of all Foyer Red themselves. The band began casually, an idea hatched earlier but born from pandemic stir craziness. Unable to continue with their […]
Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes
Alex Lahey made her mark with 2017’s “Every Day’s the Weekend,” a sublime surf-rock ode to calling in sick and making out all day. The mood is buoyant, caution-to-the-wind; still, at the chorus, seconds before […]