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Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Wife and Son
Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison Friday, a day after he was found guilty of the murder of his wife and son. Murdaugh, the scion of South Carolina’s Lowcountry […]
Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus
According to astrologers and ancient mythology, a blood moon, or red moon, is a bad omen, a portent of natural disasters, economic catastrophes, or the death of a great patron. Luckily, a red moon is […]
Morgan Wallen: One Thing at a Time
Morgan Wallen has met the girl of his dreams; he has fucked up considerably and lost her forever; he is drowning his sorrow in whiskey; he feels the spark of new love; he pledges to […]
Phiik / Lungs: Another Planet 4
It would be nice to resist the reference points, but Lungs offers them so readily. When he was in the fifth grade, he told the blog RhymeBeat, his mother gave him a birthday present: the Fugees’ The Score. The […]
Gee Tee: Goodnight Neanderthal
A good punk demo can feel either like a riveting mission statement or the fuck-around doodles of some booger trying to make their friends laugh. Kel Mason’s first bedroom-recorded outing as Gee Tee, in 2016, was […]
Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty of Murdering Wife and Son
Alex Murdaugh was found guilty on two counts of murder at his trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C. The disbarred lawyer was convicted of killing his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, […]
Tennessee Is About to Restrict Drag Shows With an Ominously Vague New Law
Tennessee’s legislature is racing to make it the first state in the country to restrict public drag performances, with the senate adopting a bill on Thursday that will now head to Governor Bill Lee. The […]
Jussie Smollett Appeals Hate Hoax Conviction, Seeks New Trial
Lawyers for Jussie Smollett have filed to appeal the former Empire actor’s conviction for lying to police, the latest chapter in the legal battle relating to Smollett’s alleged role in a hate crime hoax. Smollett […]
How an HQ Trivia Documentary Started a ‘Drama Vortex’ Online
Three months. That’s how long it took for HQ Trivia to go from unknown mobile game to household name with a record 2.38 million users at once. Now, six years later, a new documentary, Glitch: […]
Model/Actriz: Dogsbody
In Model/Actriz’s music, sex is everywhere and might sound like anything—a meltdown in a crowded train, a terrible fight heard through the wall, the crunch and squeal of two colliding cars—but never, at any point, does […]
BigXThaPlug: Amar
With his viscous, authoritative baritone, impenetrable Southern drawl, and hard-earned street smarts, BigXthaPlug’s trap tales possess candy-painted Texas cool. Most importantly, the Dallas rapper is a dramatist. He taps into his inner playwright on “Dream,” a […]