At some point in the last 15 years, Metallica started sounding like themselves again. Certain hardcore fans might say it began with the Rick Rubin-produced Death Magnetic; the more skeptical among us started caring again eight years […]
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Daniel Caesar: Never Enough
Life after Graduation humbled Kanye West. Struggling with invasive tabloid coverage amid the death of his mother and a broken engagement, he mused, “Do I still got time to grow?/Things ain’t always set in stone.” Daniel Caesar would later […]
Tisakorean: Let Me Update My Status
In the fall of 2013, the Treasury Department issued the first new $100 bill design in nearly two decades. The Series 2009A was a radical change mostly because it was, well, blue. These bills present […]
Desire Marea: On the Romance of Being
Desire Marea’s healing powers don’t vanish when he steps off stage, and now he has the credentials to prove it. After the release of his eponymous debut, a record of otherworldly club music suffused with erotic […]
Feds Won’t File Charges in Mysterious Death of Shanquella Robinson on Mexico Vacation
Ever since 25-year-old Shanquella Robinson died in unexplained circumstances on a group vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in October, her family has demanded a thorough investigation as to what happened. But on Wednesday, U.S. […]
Stephen Colbert Proposes Penis-Shaped Shaft Beer for Bud Light Boycotters
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NPR Quits Twitter After False ‘Government-Funded Media’ Tag
Stop the Posting The public broadcaster accused the platform of “taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent” NPR will no longer use Twitter, accusing the platform of […]
Why Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On ‘Gaylors’: Report
There’s some bad blood in the Taylor Swift community. According to a new report from social media tracking firm Graphika, the largest harassment in Swift fandom spaces is happening between radical Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor accounts […]
Elon Musk on His Twitter Tenure So Far: ‘Were There Many Mistakes? Of Course’
In his first major interview since buying Twitter — and then gutting about 80 percent of its staff — Elon Musk told the BBC that running the social media company has been “quite a stressful […]
Rae Sremmurd: Sremm 4 Life
The repeat reveler learns that partygoing is as much a skill as an activity. At some mundane but critical point—having a kid, dropping a phone into a bar toilet, turning 30, falling asleep in a […]
Nathan Fake: Crystal Vision
When Nathan Fake emerged in the early 2000s, he was part of a small, upstart crew making splotchy, rough-hewn dance music, a volatile amalgam of techno, trance, and IDM that sounded little like anything else in […]
Ben Sloan: muted colors
Ben Sloan is a percussionist whose touch is so light and musical that it melts the border between beat and melody. In his collaborations with other artists, from the National and Moses Sumney to producers like Mouse on […]