The Streamy Awards, which celebrates the achievements and successes of online media, returned to Los Angeles this year on Sunday, Aug. 27. While the award show began in 2009 to recognize web series, it’s now […]
Elliott Smith: XO
When Elliott Smith sat down to lunch with Lenny Waronker, he hardly spoke a word for 40 minutes. The fact that he’d even been coaxed into a meeting with the co-CEO of DreamWorks—the glittery new […]
Keith Lee, Dylan Mulvaney, Hasan Abi Among Nominees for Streamy Awards 2023
Some of the internet’s top personalities, including MrBeast, Keith Lee, Dylan Mulvaney, and more, will compete for major awards at the 2023 Streamy Awards. Announced Monday, July 24, this year’s Streamy nominees have been recognized […]
The Decathlete-Turned-Grifter Who Conned L.A.
N ov. 27, 2007, was a hot and humid Tuesday in Manila, Philippines, and David Bunevacz was getting the shit kicked out of him. He had been invited to the home of one of his […]
Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow’s self-produced second album begins with a woman scanning the sky for extraterrestrial life. “I swear they’re out there,” she sings, barreling down the highway in hot pursuit. It ends, 12 songs later, with […]
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 — […]
Nakhane: Bastard Jargon
When Nakhane began writing Bastard Jargon, they were hell-bent on making “a sex album,” as they explained to Vogue earlier this year. The South African singer-songwriter, now based in South London, devised their third full-length as an outburst of joy—a jubilee […]
Andrew Tate Built an Empire on Bullshit. Here’s the Real Story
A ndrew Tate had a plan. It was late January, and he sat in a stark jail cell in a bland, four-story police structure in Bucharest, Romania. He’d been there since Dec. 29, detained on […]
Slowthai: Ugly
As a rapper, Slowthai has plenty of technical ability and charisma but the same can’t be said for his singing. One of his signature moves is to change the pitch of his voice mid-line, a […]
White Reaper: Asking for a Ride
White Reaper have been one album away from their big break for a while. Since the early 2010s, they’ve paid their dues as a punk-adjacent band with indie rock credibility, a glorified Iron Maiden T-shirt […]
Break Up With UMila Robert
So happy to add one of the most positive rays of creative sunshine on the Bulgarian scene to our label family! A few months ago I got a random message from Mila (who I’ve known […]
‘Just Evil’: Gunman Kills 19 Kids at Texas Elementary School
It has been less than a decade since 26 people, most of them children, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, and barely 10 days since the last major U.S. mass shooting made national news in […]