Before her Little Monsters tortured her on replay, re-replay-ay-ay, Lady Gaga – “our Stefani Gerrmato” – was only just crash-landing onto Planet Earth for the first time with a simple message: just dance, it’s going to be okay. Over a… Read More
What’s forced to hideaway always sees the light again eventually. Kiesza‘s been quietly been killing it this year, from her euphoric “All of the Feelings” to “Crave” to her latest single, “Love Me With Your Lie.” The Canadian crooner, who… Read More
Red lip? NO. Earrings? NO. High heels? NO. Comeback? Why yes, actually. The girls of CLC – Crystal Clear, if you’re nasty – are returning to us in just a month’s time. News1 reported on Thursday (August 13) that the… Read More
“If I back it up…is it fat enough?“ It’s a question that keeps me up at night, as well as the entirety of (the maybe-soon-to-be-banned) TikTok, all thanks to viral star Cookiee Kawaii‘s “Vibe (If I Back It Up),” resulting… Read More
The entire world is adapting to the New Normal™ amid the pandemic – and that includes our South Korean pop favorites as well. With touring no longer an option – for at least the next year, potentially, if not longer… Read More
The Who began their "Join Together @ Home" series, which "will be streaming live and rarely seen footage every week," with footage from their show at NYC's iconic, now-closed Shea Stadium, which was part of their 1982 "farewell tour." The… Read More
Things change slowly at Cat’s Cradle, the storied North Carolina rock club that turned 50 last year. It took half that time to meander from a basement in Chapel Hill through several nearby locations to its current home in a… Read More
Ernest Greene seemed like he was finally about to turn a corner on 2017’s Mister Mellow. He switched labels, moving from the long-running Seattle indie Sub Pop to the more beat-oriented label Stones Throw, and shapeshifted samples from crate-digger classics,… Read More
It’s tempting to compare the shebeens of apartheid-era South Africa to speakeasies elsewhere. Legal now, shebeens offered specific freedoms in a time of horrific oppression, both in terms of libation — Black South Africans were not allowed to drink at… Read More
How many artists have created their own genres? Robert Sikoryak may stand among few, especially for genres within the comics form. He has an eloquently simple concept: combine a set of words with incongruous drawings in the styles of famous… Read More