On The Protect Yo Heart Graffito & Its Representation of Selfishness As A Defense Mechanism
The twenty-first century is no place to have feelings. Certainly not if you want to make it out of your twenties with any semblance of [Read More…]
Why Is There A Gaga: Five Foot Two When Truth or Dare Already Exists?
For someone who likes to stir the pot with Madonna, even going so far as to drum up viewings by including a cliffhanger snippet in [Read More…]
Not To Be One-Upped By Prince William and Kate Middleton, Kimye, Too Expects Third Child
As a testament to the devolved state of the United States, it’s often been stated that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are the closest thing [Read More…]
Patti Cake$: An Ode to Dream Preservation
“You’re a culture vulture… stick to making drinks, white girl.” So it is that 23-year-old Patricia “Dumbo” Dombrowski’s (Danielle Macdonald) rap idol, O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah), [Read More…]
LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream Comes At An Ironic Moment–And Chooses To Ignore Time Altogether
To listen to LCD Soundsystem’s fourth album, released after a seven-year hiatus, is to be transported back to the exact time you last heard something [Read More…]
The Camp Obsession That Wouldn’t Die: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
After Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp premiered on Netflix on July 31, 2015, one perhaps wrongly assumed this would be the [Read More…]
Diana, Princess of Wales/Queen of Grief
When (ex-)Princess Diana died twenty years ago today, August 31st, she had only just begun to start anew from the wreckage of her marriage to [Read More…]
England Is Mine: The Morrissey Equivalent of Control
There was one single moment in Manchester music history that seemed to galvanize every denizen with even the slightest inclination to start a band: June [Read More…]
Self-Deprecation Looks Better Than It Sounds: Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” Video
“Look What You Made Me Do” is a pile of shit of a song. Worse yet, it’s not even an original pile of shit song, [Read More…]
The 2017 VMAs: An Exhibition of the Enfeebled State of Music
It’s not that you’re getting older (okay, yes, you are). It’s that music has genuinely gotten worse over time. For those who used to watch [Read More…]
