In the seven years since Laura Les and Dylan Brady first released music as 100 gecs, they’ve been elevated to the patron saints of hyperpop: musically chaotic and poly-gluttonous, profoundly specific and yet totally random, ideal […]
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Zulu: A New Tomorrow
Zulu have no time to waste. In the five-second gap after “Africa,” the reverent orchestral introduction of their debut album A New Tomorrow, but before the forceful drop-tuned power chord buzz of “For Sista Humphrey,” the […]
Bub Styles: Outerwear SZN 3
As residential districts fall prey to Bloomberg-era economic policy, New Yorkers have watched their city become a parking lot for foreign capital, a disposable plaything for the millionaire class. Chinatown Sound, a video series from Brooklyn […]
NBA Suspends Ja Morant for 8 Games Following Gun-Flashing Video
The NBA has suspended Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant for eight games without pay following the league’s investigation into the incident where the all-star guard flashed a handgun on social media. However, Morant has already served […]
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 […]
Lonnie Holley: Oh Me Oh My
The Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children was the kind of educational institution that traumatized its students more than it educated them. Founded in 1911, after the state of Alabama took over a large farming […]
KMRU: Glim
KMRU’s 2020 album Peel was a formidable addition to the long list of great electronic albums released on the Editions Mego label. The shadowy six-track release established the Nairobi-born, Berlin-based artist (aka Joseph Kamaru) as one […]
MSPAINT: Post-American
Without hearing their music, it would be reasonable to assume MSPAINT is a hardcore band. The Hattiesburg, Mississippi quartet spent the past three years opening for the likes of Soul Glo, Militarie Gun, and Gel with a fervor that […]
Sluice: Radial Gate
Sometimes it seems like Justin Morris wishes he were an eagle. Planes and birds of prey soar above Radial Gate, the Durham, North Carolina folk musician’s second album as Sluice. From the ground, Morris sings of dirt […]
Backstage With TikTok Star Dylan Mulvaney, One Year Into Girlhood
On a stormy Monday night in New York City, a girl in a massive pink ballgown appears at the top of a spiral staircase. “Hi everyone!” she calls as the audience below her erupts into […]
“The More” Is A Wonderfully Soulful Single By R&B Rising Talent Jade Latrice
“The More” is the title of Chicago-based R&B singer-songwriter Jade Latrice, a wonderfully soulful track that confirms the high potential previously heard on the rising talent’s past releases like “I Choose Me,” “Somebody to Somebody” […]
How the Horatio Alger Lie Helped Shape the Myth of American Upward Mobility
Journalist Alissa Quart’s new book, “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream,” seeks to discover the origins of two important American myths: that of the self-made man and that of the “the undeserving poor.” What is […]