That Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger Looks as Shady as Everyone Suspected
In news that should shock absolutely nobody, the much-maligned 2010 merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which just about everyone said would create a conflict of interest at the very top of...
View ArticleWe Reviewed Every Song on 'So Fresh: Spring 2000'
In the year 2000, the record industry was making roughly twice as much cash as it makes today. Massive production budgets meant pop was shinier than JT’s teeth and tighter than JT’s curls. Sony used to...
View ArticleCardi B Makes Out With Offset, Wears Big Furs in New "Bartier Cardi" Video
Cardi B's new "Bartier Cardi" video premiered on Love and Hip Hop tonight, and it's glamorous as hell. It starts with someone scooping cash out of a swimming pool, and goes on to feature huge fruit...
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Alison Mosshart Wrote a Sweet Letter to Go with These Photos of The Kills
Last March, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of the the Kills disappeared into the night in the California desert with DJ and producer Myles Hendrik. This story ends well, don’t worry. The rock duo had...
View ArticleCardi B and Petra Collins Are an Aesthetic Match Made In Heaven
Cardi B has, demonstrably, experienced an ascent to the upper echelons of hip-hop in the amount of time it takes most people to go from shagging to pregnant to giving birth. And that means that...
View ArticleThe Weeknd Breaks Up With Himself on 'My Dear Melancholy,'
On “Coming Down”, a cut off his seminal House of Balloons, The Weeknd is lonely. He’s been bad again. Popping pills and lying (to nobody but himself and you and himself, but you, especially). “Coming...
View ArticleBeach House's New Video for "Dark Spring" Makes Me Feel Like It's 2011 Again
Beach House have dropped a third single from their upcoming album 7, this time accompanied by the project's first real music video (prior singles had screensaver-ish placeholder visuals). "Dark...
View Article12 Albums to Start Your Obsession With One of Indie Rock’s Weirdest Labels
It always felt fitting, in a way, that Drag City abstained from participating in the tech-dollar feeding frenzy that is the music streaming ecosystem. It suited the music the Chicago-based independent...
View ArticleCardi B Should Just Replace Jimmy Fallon
Cardi hasn't even dropped her album yet, and she's already slated to make history—again. On April 9, she'll be on The Tonight Show again, serving as the show's first-ever co-host. Somewhere in the...
View ArticleHere's Kendrick Lamar Rapping Over Classic Dr. Dre Beats Like You Wanted
It really doesn't seem that long ago that Kendrick was a promising underground rapper whose Dr. Dre cosign was treated with both excitement (for one Compton legend recognizing another) and trepidation...
View ArticleMOD CON's Steely Punk Will Make You Want to Destroy Capitalism
According to "Scorpio Moon," the first song on MOD CON's excellent debut album Modern Convenience, lead singer and guitarist Erica Dunn's favourite songs are love songs. But most love songs require the...
View ArticleCardi B and Migos Go Hard on New Track "Drip"
Cardi’s on a roll this week –– after releasing the excellent Petra Collins-directed video for “Bartier Cardi” yesterday, she’s dropped a new track today featuring her frequent collaborators Migos. The...
View ArticleBen Lee and Ted From 'How I Met Your Mother' Have A Band, Unfortunately
Here are some proper nouns you probably haven't heard in a while: Ben Lee; How I Met Your Mother; Josh Radnor. Now, here's those proper nouns in a very unlikely sentence: Australian adult contemporary...
View ArticleAdele Officiated a Fucking Wedding
Adele, the brash-but-warm pub landlady of the British music industry has added yet another string to her bow: singer, philanthropist, comedian, and now: ordained wedding minister. She announced...
View ArticleThere's a Walmart Yodelling Kid EDM Remix: Where Is Your God Now?
When I watch the video of the Walmart Yodelling Child, all I can think of is myself. His precocious showiness and how seriously he approaches his endeavour to bring entertainment to the people of the...
View ArticleAn Airport Is Playing Brian Eno's 'Ambient 1: Music For Airports' On Repeat
Travel is the great leveller of people: we all have to pass through stations and airports, all need to stop for a quick piss at a rest stop during a long drive sometimes. You meet people from all walks...
View ArticleFuture and Young Thug Get Weird As Hell In Their "Group Home" Video
Atlanta superstars Young Thug and Future gave fans the ultimate gift towards the end of 2017 when they came together for collaborative album Super Slimey. The project was a perfect blend of Thugger's...
View ArticleWhy I Will Always Love Rob Zombie
In his manifesto Theatre and Cruelty, dramatic surrealist Antonin Artaud wrote, “If theatre wants to find itself needed once more, it must present everything in love, crime, war, and madness…This is...
View ArticleWeird Al Snuck a Bunch of Cheese Puns Into Today's New York Times Crossword
Ben Greenman's brilliant memoir of fandom, Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince, has stuck with me for a bunch of reasons (and with the two-year anniversary of...
View ArticleGrouper’s Ambient Music Goes Way Beyond the Comedown Soundtrack
Liz Harris from Grouper captures it perfectly: the dull sadness between consciousness and unconsciousness, the space between life and death – the place where we go once it’s all over. At least that’s...
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