Carlos Watson, the MSNBC anchor-turned-CEO of the beleaguered Ozy Media, was arrested Thursday on charges related to securities fraud. The Wall Street Journal reports that Watson’s arrest comes less than two days after Ozy’s former […]
Latest Posts
BigXthaPlug Is Booming in Texas
Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. BigXthaPlug speaks as he raps. On the phone and on record, the Dallas, Tx native sounds like […]
Gorillaz: Cracker Island
As a band supposedly made up of cartoon characters, Gorillaz could theoretically do anything: record in outer space; make hip-hop beats out of fish teeth; revive the lambada—an unlimited horizon. Which makes it slightly frustrating that […]
Nappy Nina: Mourning Due
If Nappy Nina were a comic book character, her thought bubbles would fill whole panels. In her music, the Oakland-raised, Brooklyn-based rapper’s thoughts flow in arcing run-ons that skip from prayers to confessions to flexes. Her […]
Screaming Females: Desire Pathway
Screaming Females don’t immediately seem like a band that’s been around for 18 years, but perhaps their longevity can be chalked up to their consistency. They’ve maintained the same power trio lineup, and all eight […]
‘Very Ugly and Scary’: Ben Platt Addresses Neo-Nazi Protesters Outside of ‘Parade’ Musical
The first preview of a Broadway revival of Parade — a musical about the lynching of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915 — was disrupted by antisemitic protesters outside the theater Tuesday night, […]
‘What’s the Wendy’s Food Truck Menu?’: Brooklyn Beckham Was Every Bored Groom During Wedding Planning
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz threw one hell of a wedding last April. So much so that the multi-million-dollar bash has still left them with a slight hangover: a lawsuit. Peltz’s billionaire investor father, Nelson Peltz, […]
Fake Biden Speeches Are the Hottest Trend in AI Voice Tech
Over the weekend, the Twitter account for a London police department shared that officers had arrested suspects for possession of “a large amount of cannabis,” including a picture of what appeared to be some truly […]
Blast Rites: Memoriam’s Karl Willetts Returns to the Battlefield, and More of February’s Best New Metal
It’s shaping up to be a huge year for live metal. The amount of stacked festivals and unmissable tours is growing by the week. Baltimore’s venerable Maryland Deathfest may be taking a year off — […]
Malcolm X’s Daughter to File Lawsuit Alleging FBI, CIA ‘Conspired’ to ‘Assassinate’ Her Father
57 Years Later The family plans to sue the agencies for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his 1965 murder Ilyasah Shabazz, 60, was two-years-old when her father, civil rights activist Malcolm […]
Skrillex: Quest for Fire / Don’t Get Too Close
Skrillex is what tech folks would call a disruptor. For decades, there was only dance music: a patchy network of underground nodes and connections that made sporadic incursions into the mainstream. Then, sometime in 2010, […]
Phew: Our Likeness
In 1981, a young man sat quietly in Conny Plank’s legendary Cologne recording studio, watching Japanese singer Phew record her debut album. She had been whisked from Osaka to Germany at only 20 years old […]