Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode He’s opened shows for Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran, has been compared to one of his heroes, Zach Bryan, and somehow made it out of a town of roughly 200 […]
Maggie Rogers’ Vulnerable Folk-Pop Is Worthy of a ‘90s Rom-Com
Lana Del Rey, Maggie Rogers, boygenius Team for All Things Go Festival Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget MeCapitol Records It would have been easy for Maggie Rogers to embrace the fully-formed pop star trap that […]
Beirut: Hadsel
The note of surprise on Hadsel, Beirut’s sixth studio LP, is not so much that Zach Condon has recorded an album on a remote Norwegian island with free access to a church organ, it’s that […]
How Ziwe Got Tender on Her Own Terms in Her First Book
Ziwe Fumudoh is not performing at BKLYN Clay, but glimpses of the eponymous character she took from buzzy Instagram Lives to a late-night premium cable show emerge as soon as she arrives. She’s direct, clear […]
Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI
Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made Wednesday at Meta […]
Colin Kaepernick Asks to Lead Jets’ Practice Squad
Colin Kaepernick, who hasn’t been on an NFL roster since 2017, has formally requested that he join the New York Jets practice squad after their loss of quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a torn Achilles in […]
Hella: Hold Your Horse Is (Deluxe Reissue)
Has there ever been a genre name that sounded more eager to be shoved into a locker than math rock? Even the bands who spearheaded the sound—Polvo, Don Caballero, Ruins—distanced themselves from the term, rejecting […]
Streamy Awards 2023: The Complete Winners List
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 […]
Three White Men Charged With Assaulting Black Boat Captain in Alabama Riverfront Brawl
Three white men have been charged with assaulting a Black riverboat captain in Montgomery, Alabama over the weekend. The attack sparked a fight that was captured on video and shared widely on social media. Montgomery […]
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 […]
Pilgrims Are Flocking to This Psychedelic Temple
U pstate New York has been the birthplace of many Great Awakenings. In the 1820s, religious fervor so swept the region it became known as “the burned-over district.” In the 1960s, Timothy Leary’s commune in […]