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Is Okay Kaya Living in Pop Music's Future?
There’s a mural of angels ascending to heaven above Okay Kaya. While performing on a stage in The San Damiano Mission, a 100-year-old Catholic church-turned-sometimes venue in North Brooklyn, the...
View ArticleWatch Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Post Malone, and More at Coachella 2018
Whether you aren't a fan of crowds or your pockets just weren't deep enough, Coachella is doing the Lord's work again as they provide live coverage for those of us who couldn't make it to the festival...
View ArticleWhat Is Taylor Swift's Problem?
I don't know what I expected after I heard that Taylor Swift was going to release a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's classic "September." Swift, fresh from releasing an inevitably controversial and...
View ArticleThe Guide to Getting into Chic
Chic is the rock band that disco direly needed, even if neither the genre’s fans or detractors didn’t fully understand their significance at the time. Let’s be real, things were a bit blurry back then....
View ArticleKanye West Is Writing a Book of Philosophy
Kanye West is writing a book. This finally confirms that all of our historical and philosophical texts in the future will be composed entirely of quotes from his interviews. The news was revealed in a...
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SZA Is the Pop Star of the Future, Long Live the Queen
The last time SZA played Coachella, she barely made a dent. It was 2016, and she was still over a year out from releasing Ctrl, the album that took her from the fest poster's small print and into the...
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We Are All Dead Inside, Just Like The Weeknd
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. – Aristotle All my hoes are trained, I make all of...
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Tyler, The Creator Would Like to Reintroduce Himself
The Tyler, the Creator of 2018 is not the boy we once knew. Before say, last year, when I thought of Tyler, one video in particular would come to mind. It’s a 2012 clip from a Jimmy Fallon appearance,...
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There Is No One On Earth Like Beyoncé
Where were you when Beyoncé played Coachella 2018? Maybe you had been camping out all day against the front rail, beginning to question your decision, only to then be touched by her shadow as she...
View ArticleJanelle Monáe Is Complicated and Fine with It on "I Like That"
This business of being a human can be absolutely knackering, can't it? It's basically our fate as a species to be constantly erring between opposites, and that can be difficult to come to terms with as...
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I Took Every Member of 5 Seconds of Summer on a Date to Nando's
Have you heard of 5 Seconds of Summer? You should have, because they’re huge. I’m not talking ‘huge’ as in ‘could gather quite a big crowd at a festival on a hot day’. I’m talking ‘huge’ as in they...
View ArticleCardi B Brought Out, Well, Everyone For Her Coachella Set
Even before the release and massive success of her major label debut Invasion of Privacy, Cardi B had become contemporary rap royalty. Though, if you were in any doubt, I'd like to turn your attention...
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It's Time to Forgive Eminem
The former host of the Man Show is on the main stage at Coachella, via canned video, to defend Eminem against an Internet that he doesn’t understand. About three minutes ago, Eminem announced to...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar Just Won a Pulitzer Prize
Kendrick Lamar has been awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music in recognition of his fourth studio album, DAMN. The Pulitzer organization announced the news on Twitter this afternoon:This is a...
View ArticleMeek Mill: "I Feel Like I Will Be Free One Day"
Meek Mill has been extremely vocal on his experience with the criminal justice system since his arrest last November. He spoke out to Rolling Stone and even gave an optimistic phone interview with...
View ArticleThe Sidekicks' New Video Will Make You Dance, Even if They Don't Feel Like It
The evolution of The Sidekicks is one that most bands struggle to pull off. Started by four high school friends back in 2006, the Cleveland band wasted little time dashing off raucous pop-punk songs,...
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A Bunch of Things Celebrities Have Tweeted, Possibly While High
Look, we can’t prove these tweets from celebrities were all sent under the influence of weed... but we can’t prove that they weren’t either. We want to believe they were. Nothing would please us more...
View ArticleTy Dolla $ign, Future, and Swae Do Some Living in the “Don’t Judge Me” Video
Ty Dolla $ign's "Don't Judge Me," a standout from Beach House 3 that featured Future and Swae Lee, was one of our favorite songs from last year. It was, we wrote, a "justification to live and let live,...
View ArticleDeafheaven's New Song "Honeycomb" Hits Like a Dang Meteorite of Emotion
Deafheaven songs are punishing yet uplifting experiences, and we've been bereft of them for almost three years since 2015's New Bermuda. That changes today, as the shoegaze/experimental metal band has...
View ArticleWe Talked To G Herbo About How He's Accidentally Running Rap in 2018
Society's collective attention span makes it difficult for any piece of art to resonate with the public for more than a full week. In music, the span of time is even shorter. Unless an artist strikes...
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