When I listen to new music, one of the biggest influences I hear—both in the sound and the choices of samples—is video games. Specifically, the games and sounds I remember hearing constantly while I ...

At some point in the thick of the pandemic, I became briefly obsessed with a silly-seeming online controversy over what is known as the double-beat theory. The argument concerns classical music, which ...

In 2018, Mitski released her fifth album, Be the Cowboy. She had been putting out music that was as critically acclaimed as anything in the American indie world, and promoting it in the only way that ...

Saturday marks 48 years since Elvis Presley was found dead inside a Graceland bathroom. And so, for the 48th time, his devoutest followers are gathering in Memphis for a week of concerts and various ...

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If it feels like white rappers are sprouting up all around us, it’s with good reason. Though they never really went ...

It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us ...

For most of my 20s, I did not believe that I had clinical depression. No, what I had was clinical depression’s cuter, more ...

One of the things that a visit to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg gets across very effectively is that a policy of ...

There’s a scene in the new Superman movie that illustrates the precarious nature of music compatibility and how touchy it can ...

Some people are fans of the Atlanta Falcons. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Atlanta Falcons. This 2025 ...

That’s right. It’s Puja Week and I’m Puja—everyone has to do what I say, or else. Don’t worry, this isn’t my first rodeo. A ...