Lorde is back just in time for Hot Vaxxed Summer with a sunny new single called “Solar Power.” The song, Lorde’s first in four years, comes along with an appropriately sunny video that features Lorde in a brilliant yellow dress, dancing on a beach and looking like the embodiment of joy. Lyrically, the song seems […]

Recently David Attenborough — the soothing British narrator of every nature documentary ever who is also a devoted advocate for the nature he loves to speak so soothingly about — delivered an impassioned interview on 60 Minutes in which he described climate change as “a crime humanity has committed against the planet.” Attenborough is one […]

Japanese Breakfast’s third album, Jubilee, breaks open with a bang. The first song, “Paprika,” is one of the artist’s biggest, brightest songs. It rolls in with a giant crescendo about 30 seconds in, and from there it rides on a buoyant, trumpet-laden beat that marks a stark contrast to the more meditative qualities of the […]

In a recent TikTok, electronic-alternative musician Grimes — who happens to be dating Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men — attempted to pitch artificial intelligence as “the fastest path to communism.” “I have a proposition for the communists. So, typically, most of the communists I know are not big fans of AI But, […]

This is a transcript of our interview with Blood Cultures. Listen to it on Crossroads Cafe, and read more about it here. POPDUST: Welcome to Crossroads Cafe. I’m your host, Eden. Today’s episode is an interview with Blood Cultures, whose new album, LUNO, is an innovative and brave expedition into the farthest reaches of multimedia […]

If some of the images in Blood Cultures’s music videos look familiar, perhaps it’s because they’re drawn directly from the collective unconscious. Carl Jung defined the collective unconscious as a deeply buried part of the subconscious mind that is not shaped by experience, but rather is shared by all humans. According to Jung, the collective […]

At the end of the second season of The OA, the series’ protagonist falls from a great height. Then the lights go up. We see that she’s in a film studio. Concerned crew members rush around the lead actress, calling her by her actual, real-life name — Brit. She is pulled into an ambulance. Just […]

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Netflix’s “Behind Her Eyes.” I watched Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes earlier this year, and I still can’t stop thinking about it. As someone who has always been obsessed with stories about dreams, fractured realities, and flawed memories (somehow always involving fires and mental institutions, both of which the […]

The singer’s debut is rank with heartache

Billie Eilish has had a major week. A new photoshoot on the cover of British Vogue featured Eilish in stockings, heels, and a corset, a highly stylized and feminine look that was a sharp difference from her usual baggy clothes. To say the photos went viral was an understatement — one after the other quickly […]