Rising Sacramento rapper Bris (real name Christopher Treadwell) was shot dead on Sunday (6/21), Pitchfork reports. He was 24. According to the Sacramento Police Department's news release: On June 21, 2020 at approximately 12:42 a.m., Sacramento Police Department patrol officers… Read More
‘Feedback’: BoA, Queen of K-Pop, Returns With a Nostalgic Summer Bop BoA, Queen of K-Pop™, is back – because she’s got to keep carrying the entire K-pop industry on her back. (Kidding, although I do secretly love seeing comments like… Read More
Today, King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard released a new documentary titled RATTY, which details the making of their 2019 thrash album, Infest the Rats' Nest. As the band put it, "The doc shows the path of creation from gag… Read More
For all its Yiddish inflection, Netflix’s 2020 miniseries Unorthodox is plainly a thriller. Esty (Shira Haas) a young, recently married woman, makes a shocking and sudden break from her insular Hasidic world in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She bides her time until… Read More
On 14 June The New York Times published Douglas Brinkley’s long important interview with Bob Dylan on the occasion of the release of his new album Rough and Rowdy Ways, and every Dylan fan will want to read it. There’s… Read More
One of our favorite summer events in NYC, the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade, was forced to postpone its 2020 edition due to coronavirus, but organizers remain dedicated to throwing some form of the parade this summer. On Saturday (6/20),… Read More
Kern Vol. 5 is not a subtle record. That’s not Helena Hauff’s style. The German DJ didn’t earn her accolades by playing it safe. True to her roots—Hauff got her start as a resident at Hamburg’s grungy (and much loved)… Read More
On the Soft Pink Truth’s Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? Drew Daniel, otherwise one half of the electronic duo Matmos, finds himself walking a fine line between personal frustration and musical ecstasy. Outraged by the… Read More
LADAMA began as a celebration of the similarities and differences of three women from three countries. Now spanning four members from four countries—Brazil’s Lara Klaus, Colombia’s Daniela Serna, Venezuela’s Mafer Bandola and the United States’ Sara Lucas—LADAMA are a cultural… Read More
This song came out over two years ago, but I can’t stop listening to it, so I thought I’d feature it 🙂 Better late than never, right? “Cosurmyne” hails from the group’s second album, For Ever, which did insane numbers… Read More