Popstar Benny once said his music is “the soundtrack to a video game that doesn’t exist.” On the surface, that description only applies to the chirpy plugg beats and sound effects the Atlanta-based producer is […]
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King Tuff: Smalltown Stardust
Smalltown Stardust reveals the sensitive side to King Tuff, the garage-rock persona Vermont eccentric Kyle Thomas adopted in the late 2000s. Those early King Tuff records—delivered just after Thomas spent some time playing in Witch, the stoner […]
New ‘Harry Potter’ Video Game Introduces Wizarding World‘s First Trans Character
A new Harry Potter video game is ostensibly trying to distance itself from J.K. Rowling and her string of transphobic comments with the introduction of the series’ first trans character — and many fans are calling it a cynical way […]
Kyrie Irving, the NBA’s Conspiracy Theorist-in-Chief, Is Back on His Bullshit
The Dallas Mavericks have a problem. They have a star player in Luka Dončić, a generational talent who can handle, score, pass, boards OK, has an eerie step-back three-point shot, good size, the exact sort […]
Thousands Dead in Turkey and Syria After Two Massive Earthquakes
Thousands are dead, and the death toll is expected to keep rising after two massive earthquakes struck Turkey on Monday, Feb. 6. As The New York Times reports, the first earthquake hit at 4:17 a.m. […]
The Men: New York City
The Men: Now there’s a band that knows how to self-mythologize. You might associate the punk four-piece with the Brooklyn music scene of the early 2010s, a world of 285 Kent gigs, Northside showcases, and the BrooklynVegan […]
The Waeve: The Waeve
Centuries of obscure folk tradition and a mistrust of isolated rural communities have helped birth a rich vein of pastoral horror in British music and film, from Incredible String Band and The Wicker Man in the late ’60s […]
Dryad: The Abyssal Plain
The opening guitar riffs of “Counterillumination” slither like a predator stalking prey. Named after the camouflaging ability of animals in the mesopelagic zone—the ocean layer where light becomes increasingly scarce—the track sets a foreboding tone […]
Kassem Mosse: workshop 32
Long before “lo-fi house” was blowing up play counts on YouTube, Kassem Mosse, aka Gunnar Wendel, was making hazy, low-visibility house jams that seemed to creep through a sooty midnight fog. Tarnished and corroded, betraying hints […]
Various Artists: Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3
But the money—as always with Smith—wasn’t enough, whether for the drugs he loved or the films he loved to make with them. So Smith sought out a record label head by the name of Moses […]
Popcaan: Great Is He
Popcaan’s music is slathered in sweetness. Andrae Sutherland has a gift for shiny, elastic flows, making him a singjay—a reggae or dancehall artist with an ultra-melodic style—in the purest form. His indelible 2014 anthem “Everything […]
Jury Finds Elon Musk Not Liable Over Tesla ‘Funding Secured’ Tweet
Investor Woes The billionaire was found not liable in a lawsuit brought by investors over a 2018 tweet claiming he secured funding to take Tesla private A San Francisco jury deliberated for less than two […]