“I remember my brother and I used to fill up a CD-R with songs and drive into the city. We could only pick one song each till the disc was full,” says Adam Kyriakou, who […]
An Anti-Porn Leader Is Accused and the Media’s Silence Is Deafening
As the founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City, or IHOPKC — not to be confused with the International House of Pancakes – Mike Bickle led a successful campaign against the professional porn […]
Pepsi’s 10 Most Memorable Commercials
From Bowie to Britney, here are the best Pepsi ads of all time. Soda goes flat fast. The best soda commercials, however, stay bubbly-pop-fresh for generations. Pepsi arguably leads the pack, having invested record-breaking sums […]
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is a Dire Warning to the True Crime Industry
Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells […]
It’s Time to Kill the Silence
IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. Related As a Black queer millennial journalist, […]
Natalee Holloway’s Murder Case Is Closed — But It Changed the Way We Talk About True Crime
This week, Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud, related to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway. With the plea, Van der Sloot, who is already […]
The Feelies: Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
The Feelies may not be the Velvet Underground’s first disciples—Jonathan Richman was there at the inception, tailing the band with the fervor of a Deadhead. But it could be argued that the New Jersey institution, […]
Sarah Morrison: Attachment Figure
When the physical world is stifling, the internet beckons. It’s a sinister trap, one Sarah Morrison knows all too well. On “This Sorry Day,” the second track off the Tallahassee singer-songwriter’s subdued debut album, Attachment […]
Westside Gunn: And Then You Pray for Me
Westside Gunn has spent his career treating rap music like a high-end commodity through keen juxtaposition: Vivid bars about cooking and selling drugs live side by side with scenic tours of his closet and passport, […]
‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ Is the Best Superhero Game in a Decade
“Anyone can be Spider-Man.” Related That sentiment, often attributed to creator Stan Lee in some form, has always been the core of what makes the character — perhaps the world’s most famous superhero — so […]
Israeli Government Blasts Gigi Hadid’s Extremely Mild Pro-Palestine Post
One week ago, Gigi Hadid condemned the “terrorizing of innocent people” in light of the Israel–Hamas war, a comment sparked by the Hamas attack in Israel that killed more than 1,200 Israelis. In the days […]
Troye Sivan: Something to Give Each Other
On his 2015 debut, Blue Neighbourhood, Troye Sivan pitched himself as a dreamy outsider torn from the pages of a YA novel, taking in the world with a wide-eyed gaze that saw far beyond small-town […]
Helena Deland: Goodnight Summerland
Helena Deland’s stirring new record Goodnight Summerland opens wordlessly, with a measured, melancholy piano sketch played by Lysandre Ménard. On the next song, Deland admits: “Saying something isn’t easy.” The introduction is a small moment […]
Call Super: Eulo Cramps
Something secret is happening in JR Seaton’s work as Call Super. Over the last decade, they have developed a private language for their largely instrumental electronic music, which skirts the edges of the dancefloor like […]
His True-Crime Podcast Stood Up for Victims. Now, He’s Accused of Abuse
W hen Sara Benincasa first met Ben Kissel in 2010, she was smitten with him almost immediately. Tall and handsome with boyish features, a six-foot-seven-inch frame, and an aw-shucks Midwestern mien, Kissel was working as […]
Meernaa: So Far So Good
Meernaa band leader Carly Bond describes her songwriting process as “psychedelic meditation,” an experience so immersive that when she gets into the flow, she forgets to eat. On the band’s debut, 2019’s Heart Hunger, playful […]
Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light On
Shone a Rainbow Light On, by the new instrumental folk trio Setting, evokes the dark, infinite expanse of the night sky with its shimmering stars. The joint project of multi-instrumentalists Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, and […]
Anti-Vaxxers Think an Emergency Phone Alert Will Cause a Zombie Apocalypse
“Is there a Zombie Apocalypse activated by 5G towers on the way?!?!” wrote the QAnon influencer behind a Telegram channel called The Patriot Voice, which is followed by more than 50,000 people, in a post […]