James Ivy is trying to remember the world as it once was: listening to FM radio, rocking a pair of back-of-neck headphones, falling in love with someone in real life instead of online. The 23-year-old […]
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Ron Morelli: Heart Stopper
Thirteen years ago, DJ and producer Ron Morelli began releasing records by friends and neighbors like Delroy Edwards and Traxx, quickly establishing a very New York take on Detroit techno and Chicago house. Their residue was both greasier […]
Bluesky Becomes the Hottest Club Online as Twitter Users Fight for Invites
Imagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — […]
Farewell Jerry Springer, the Patron Saint of American Dysfunction
R.I.P. to the great Jerry Springer, who died Thursday at 79. This man revolutionized daytime TV — he was the Martha Graham of afternoon talk-show slap-and-punch choreography. His eponymously titled show was a beautifully bizarre […]
‘It Is Easy for a Person to Disappear’: Accused Murderer Suggests Missing Wife Ran Away
Brian Walshe, who following his wife’s disappearance went on a cleaning-supplies shopping spree and reportedly Googled “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body,” has again pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ana Walshe. […]
WHO IS ALEXA DARK
The enigmatically named Alexa Dark is a Spanish-American singer-songwriter who grew up in Europe, the Old World spirit of which she has clearly absorbed. European influence notwithstanding, she admits she can’t cook — not essential […]
Gabe ‘Nandez No Longer Rides Alone
Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. Rap rewards groups, crews, and cliques. Semi-free Substacks, the back pages of semi-functioning blogs, and the few […]
The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein
The National’s ninth album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, is consumed with keeping track: where things diverged, where things were lost, what has been accumulated since. The band is taking stock—sometimes literally. “Eucalyptus” is a breakup […]
Bill Evans: Treasures: Solo, Trio and Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969)
If Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is the most common entry point for a new jazz fan and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is number two, a typical next step would be an album by Bill Evans. The LPs drawn from the […]
Remi Kabaka: Son of Africa
Musician Remi Kabaka, a Ghanaian-born Nigerian, first landed in London in the early 1960s, flourishing in the expat community’s Soho club scene and performing at joints like Club Afrique, where African bands rubbed shoulders with London’s […]
Portrayal of Guilt: Devil Music
There are so many ways music can make people uncomfortable, and Portrayal of Guilt have tried nearly all of them. The Austin trio’s journey from screamo to blackened noise culminated in last year’s Christfucker, where new levels […]
UN and Coachella Artists Fight Climate-Induced Hunger
Coming Together “[Music can] wake up and excite a whole future generation to be with us, to change perspectives and mentalities,” said musician Jupiter Bokondji United Nations representatives from Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala, and the Netherlands […]