On the internet content creator hierarchy, there’s no one more widely reviled than the momfluencer. With her flawless locks and perfectly appointed nursery in various shades of ecru, with nary an errant Lego or Cheerio […]
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Impersonators Run Wild on Twitter Thanks to Sabotaged Verification System
As predicted by almost its entire user base, Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s decision to do away with its free identity-verification system on Thursday has unleashed a torrent of impersonation, misinformation, and general anarchy. By stripping […]
Everything But the Girl: Fuse
When Ben Watt was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening autoimmune disease, he made two albums with his wife, Tracey Thorn, that wore the couple’s trauma on their sleeves: Amplified Heart arrived in 1994 and Walking Wounded two […]
MC Yallah: Yallah Beibe
MC Yallah doesn’t sweat getting lost in translation. The Kenya-born, Uganda-raised rapper shoots off high-speed rhymes in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili, and English, sometimes keeping pace with 300 bpm singeli beats. “Even if they don’t understand, […]
Fenne Lily: Big Picture
Fenne Lily wrote her latest album amid a creative slump whose timing is no doubt familiar to many. Her work stalled out during a post-2020 malaise that The New York Times summed up in an unsurprisingly […]
Shawny Binladen: WiCKMAN STiCKMAN
New York drill has gone through an astounding number of mutations in the last nine years. Technically, it’s a third-generation copy of a subgenre that already had two distinct homebases: the warbling 808s of the […]
Did Elon Force His Celebrity Enemies to Look Like Twitter Blue Subscribers?
Elon Musk has finally purged the unpaid “legacy” blue checks from Twitter, a goal of his since shortly after he took control of the company and social platform in October. This, ostensibly, means that any […]
Elon’s Blue-Check Rapture Is a Total Shitshow
On the same day Elon Musk watched his SpaceX Starship explode just minutes after a historic launch, he could still claim one triumph: he has maybe, apparently, finally succeeded in removing the unpaid “legacy” blue […]
How Alix Earle Became TikTok’s It Girl
As the blond, willowy daughter of a New Jersey construction magnate, Alix Earle, 22, doesn’t seem like an everywoman on the surface. Yet, since her TikTok debut in early 2020, viewers have flocked to the […]
The 10 Stoniest Places in America
Riding High It’s 4/20. Let’s take a road trip from Smoketown to Weed Road-trip across America, and you’re sure to pass signs that give even the casual toker a case of the giggles. We refer, […]
Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society
Dinner Party offers incontrovertible proof that great music requires great restraint. The group comprises three of the most highly rated jazz musicians of modern times—saxophonist Kamasi Washington, pianist Robert Glasper and multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin—plus North Carolina producer 9th Wonder, […]
Poison Ruïn: Härvest
Rage and oppression are historical constants. Poison Ruïn’s Härvest marries feudal revolt with contemporary punk wrath, holding up a medieval mirror to the genre’s familiar symbols of disenfranchisement. The Philadelphia band trades the defiant cityscape of Bad […]