Slouching in front of a lo-fi green screen image of a temple in Japan, a platinum-blonde white woman in a skeleton suit sings the opening lines to her song: “Day off in Kyoto / Got bored at the temple / Looked around at the 7-11.” A dear friend of mine once described “Kyoto” by Phoebe […]
After coming off a number of A-list releases last week, this new music Friday is relatively tame.
If you’re not already part of the dark, dreamy electro-pop cult of Lydia Ainsworth, let this be your initiation. Today (May 21), the Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and producer shares her fourth album,Sparkles & Debris, and it’s just as dazzling and dystopian as its name suggests. Ainsworth crafted the album across several cities and many years, […]
Music played a huge role during the #EndSARS protests of October 2020 in Nigeria. Across protest grounds, music boosted the morale of the crowds, inspiring the masses to demand changes in Nigerian policing. A video posted on Twitter of a man, later identified as Joshua Ambrose, being thrown out of a moving vehicle by SARS […]
Hot Girl Summer? No — Hot Well-Read Summer.
The celebration has added Daniel Dae Kim, Naomi Osaka, Lisa Yang and more to their roster
Is it normal for a candle to come with this many warnings?
Some video games over the years have really pushed the envelope when it comes to violence
The singer and actor shared the news on their new podcast, 4D with Demi Lovato.
Fleeting and intimate and profound, Marina Allen‘s new song sounds like dusk. “Original Goodness” — premiering below — is the third single off the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Candlepower, and it’s a spare, staggeringly beautiful folk number — the type of song that might make you cry without you even realizing it. “There’s […]
