Pride month is not just a celebration of queer joy, but also an annual reminder of the ongoing fight for LGBTQ rights. It’s important, though, to break up the parades and protests with a little personal […]
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ChatGPT Is Making Up Lies — Now It’s Being Sued for Defamation
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Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure
During a routine memory-erasing operation, the New Order—the oppressive regime at the center of Dirty Computer’s “emotion picture”—comes across information about an underground resistance army. Sporting a kufi crown, Janelle Monáe’s alter ego Jane 57821 leads the […]
King Krule: Space Heavy
A King Krule song tends to sound woozy, even slick, until you get close enough to smell the rot. Blue notes curdle in grimy pools of reverb. Hooks wilt in the muck. Then he sets loose […]
Squid: O Monolith
Just a few years ago, Squid were frenzied, bugged-out chroniclers of urban anxiety. Emerging from London’s fertile new guitar scene and influenced by dystopian science fiction, their full-length debut Bright Green Field documented the suffocation of city […]
Truth Be Told
Branded Content Rolling Stone and Variety proudly announce the return of the Truth Seekers Summit presented by Showtime. In continuing their shared dedication to truth, and giving flowers to those that seek it, Rolling Stone […]
Pat Robertson Is Dead. His Dystopian Legacy Lives On
“Don’t speak ill of the dead” is a dumb idea. When people have caused massive suffering to others, and changed society for the worse, it’s good to speak ill of them. It helps to reaffirm […]
The FDA Warned Ozempic Users. They Don’t Give a F-ck
Before August 2021, Emily Clasen had never heard of Ozempic. The 31-year-old from Fort Wayne, Indiana tells Rolling Stone that after her best friend at work mentioned the drug, she brought it up with her […]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit launched their supporting tour for Weathervanes, Isbell’s eighth collection of original material, three months before its release, a tacit admission that these songs were built for the long haul. An […]
Lunchbox: New Jazz
A majority of the rappers who have treated Whole Lotta Red like the Bible have misunderstood something fundamental about Playboi Carti’s album: It isn’t cool just because of its self-mythologizing spirit. Sure, Carti flexed the same expensive […]
Saya Gray: QWERTY EP
According to the credits, Saya Gray recorded the bulk of her new EP, QWERTY, on her floor. It’s easy enough to imagine: Gray sprawled in a tangle of machinery, plucking strings and smashing buttons, funneled into a […]
UFOs, Lasers, and Antifa Arsonists: Wildfires Spark New Conspiracy Theories
Wildfire smoke from Canada is now blanketing the East Coast, creating some of the worst air quality in the world. The official explanation for these strange conflagrations — lighting strikes across unusually dry forests, igniting […]