Willow’s latest album, lately i feel EVERYTHING, is an absolutely stunning entry into the pop punk canon and a vivid glimpse into the future of rock and roll. Anyone who’s been following Willow’s career shouldn’t be surprised by this. Willow has always been a futuristic artist, one step ahead of everyone else in terms of […]

Have you ever found yourself in a windowless room, illuminated by fluorescent lights? Perhaps the room had nothing in it except for a musty smell and some faded yellowish carpet? If any of this sounds familiar, you may have stumbled upon one of the backrooms. Like most eerie internet memes, the Backrooms as we know […]

“I wish I could tell myself / don’t do it for anyone else,” sings Nandi Rose Plunkett on “Party’s Over,” one of the many bittersweet tracks on her latest release, Mythopoetics. As Half Waif, Plunkett has been crafting strangely beautiful, buoyant, and sad music for years. With a knack for nimble electronic beats and thought-provoking […]

The rules are wrong.

If you’ve been following the tangled saga of #FreeBritney, you’ll know that this past week was one of massive significance for the movement and for the person at the center of it all. After years of public silence about her conservatorship, Britney Spears finally delivered an impassioned 26-minute speech detailing some of the injustices she […]

Most of us are guided, consciously or unconsciously, by our pasts. Confronting those patterns that we learned as kids takes a lot of bravery, and many people spend their whole lives running from those memories. But on Home Video, her latest and most ambitious album, Lucy Dacus takes a deep, fearless dive straight into the […]

The MCU’s Loki, nemesis of Thor and “God of Mischief,” is now the first openly queer major character in the MCU. The reveal occurred in the third episode of the Disney+ series Loki, in a scene where the title character has lunch with a version of himself from an alternate timeline. “What about you?” Sylvie, […]

Joni Mitchell’s classic album Blue first tore through the emotional defenses of listeners 50 years ago today. To commemorate the album’s release, her label has dropped Blue 50, an EP that features five previously unreleased recordings from the album. Among the tracks featured are a demo version of “A Case of You” that features unreleased […]

Once written off as a baseless conspiracy, the lab leak theory — the idea that COVID-19 was spread thanks to a lab accident — has been gaining traction in recent months. Recently, on the first in-person episode of Stephen Colbert’s A Late Show in over a year, none other than Jon Stewart expressed his support for the idea. Or […]

Wolf Alice’s Blue Weekend, out last week, has soared to the top of the UK charts, ousting Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR from the top spot. This is the London-based band’s first number one album (their last two went to number two), and it cements the indie rockers as future megastars. Blue Weekend feels like a career-defining […]