Dr. Luke Still Casts A Shadow Over Kim Petras’ Success
Kim Petras, the German-born transgender pop star who’s collaborated with Charli XCX and toured with Troye Sivan, has been nominated for a GLAAD Award. The GLAAD Awards seek to “recognize and honor...
View ArticleLoco City Makes Sense Out Of Chaos
Loco City is in limbo. Between certainty and uncertainty, between being an emerging artist and catapulting his way into the limelight. Despite all this, there’s one thing he knows for sure: he wants to...
View ArticleAngel-Ho Makes Genuinely Radical Electronic Music
Angel-Ho has just finished shopping in Cape Town. She’s bought a Chanel jumpsuit, which is absolutely covered in the designer’s logo. Her mornings are always quite busy, she tells me. She starts by...
View ArticleBlood Orange's Tiny Desk Concert Is As Soothing As a Good Massage
Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes is one of those musicians who make it hard for you to imagine them doing anything else. Like, in some parallel universe, Dev could have ended up working in east London in sales...
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Azealia Banks Is Still Really Good Live, Sorry
It feels like a lifetime ago now. When a 20-year-old Azealia Banks ranked third in the BBC’s Sound of 2012 poll, the national broadcaster featured her in a breezy snippet of an interview. She sat down...
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40 Years Later, Robert Ashley's 'Private Parts' Is Still a Hilarious Mystery
Words like “confounding” and “singular” and “visionary” get thrown around a lot and can sound like hype, but they actually apply to Robert Ashley. A true pioneer of the American compositional...
View ArticleDirector Stands By Film Detailing Michael Jackson Sexual Abuse Allegations
On January 25, Sundance was home to a screening of Leaving Neverland, a four-hour documentary detailing the sexual assault allegations that have surrounded Michael Jackson since the 90s. Directed by...
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Stephen Malkmus Listens to LCD Soundsystem: “It’s a Dance-Rock Workout”
Before LCD Soundsystem became the Grammy-winning, festival headlining force in indie rock and dance music, it was a vehicle for James Murphy to release 12-inch singles. The first, 2002’s “Losing My...
View ArticleTim Heidecker’s New Trump Parody Songs Remind Us Things Are Still Very Bad
In 2009, CNN asked comedian Chris Brown why it was hard to make fun of President Obama. He responded, “It's like "Ooh, you're young and virile and you've got a beautiful wife and kids. You're the...
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jaycouldneverdie Sings the Seasonal Blues on “Blueberry Love”
Toronto can’t escape a narrative of being a little bit gloomy. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, it’s miserable. Sure, we go through this every winter. When it comes to the city’s extraordinarily vibrant hip-hop...
View Articleanaïs Is Learning How to Let Go
Standing in the middle of an art exhibition, anaïs is having an existential crisis. The exhibit, Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde at the Barbican in London, focuses on famous artist...
View ArticleAn Appreciation of All the Bops About Hooking Up on Grindr
Unless you’re one of those annoyingly together people who is always in a relationship, chances are that at some point in the last few years you’ve downloaded a hook-up app. If you’re straight this most...
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The Apocalypse Is Mellow on Shlohmo’s New Track, "The End"
Elusive Los Angeles producer Shlohmo has kept a relatively quiet public profile in the four years since his last LP, Dark Red , an album that found the producer maturing his sound into a fuller and...
View ArticleThe Guide to Getting into the B-52s, Pop's Most Surprising Party Starters
Everyone knows the B-52s' signature song, “Love Shack,” which the band even parodied on The Simpsons as “Glove Slap.” It’s a blessing and a curse; "Love Shack" is quintessential B-52s: exuberant,...
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Joy's Genre-Hopping Hardcore Is All About Suffering
Paradoxical to their name, Joy make music about immense suffering. The Raleigh, North Carolina quartet play a monstrous hybrid of blackened hardcore, chaotic metalcore, and tried-and-true death metal...
View ArticleNakhane Is Sick of Your White Saviour Bullshit
When I first began reading about Nakhane, the 30-year-old South African artist slash actor slash writer, the dominant narrative surrounding him was that of cultural oppression. Many the articles I...
View ArticleWe Should All Be More Like Thelma Plum
We could all afford to be a bit more like Thelma Plum. The newly Melbourne-based Gamilaraay woman has learned some lessons about forgiveness and letting go of anger over the past few years, and she's...
View ArticleAriana Grande's Ridiculous Tattoo Drama Is Killing Me
Now, I don't really believe tattoos have to mean anything. I think it's kinda cool and stupid to just like, get a dumb weird tatt for the hell of it. I have a list of potential tattoo ideas in my phone...
View ArticleWe Asked People the Weirdest Fantasies They Have While Listening to Music
The other day, I met up with one of my oldest friends, and she reminded me of something. We used to meet at the end of my street before school so we could walk there together. But I would never let her...
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Skin from Skunk Anansie Will Always Be a True Original
Find me an angsty, sexually confused teenage girl in the 90s who wasn’t in love with Skunk Anansie’s frontwoman, Skin, and I’ll find you a liar. Skin stood out in the 'four white guys and guitars'...
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