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How the Founder of Lady Gaga’s Biggest Fan Site Ended Up in Prison
Back then, If you visited the website, you would think there was a team running it. If I…
The Drin: I Lost My Way for Centuries Album Review
Perhaps it’s just a strange coincidence that the leader of the Drin bears a name that reads like…
After: Fell Asleep in the Sun Album Review
Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey are a match made in platonic-friendship heaven. The members of After—their anachronistic “trip-pop”…
Emma Ruth Rundle: These Killing Times Album Review
Emma Ruth Rundle is discovering that there’s more to life than loneliness. Across a decade-plus of solo recordings,…
Beck: Ride Lonesome Album Review
Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s as an absurdist poet who mashed together blues, folk, and…
Neil Young / The Chrome Hearts: Second Song Album Review
Second Song is an act of hypnosis. For all of Neil Young’s enduring and endlessly regenerative influence, that…
Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night Album Review
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Carly Rae Jepsen record must be in want of…
Curbside Lambsear: Put Rings on All My Fingers to Weigh Down My Hands EP Album Review
Curbside Lambsear means nothing. As a band name, it’s drawn from a photo Magdalena McLean posted on Instagram…
Making Records, Being a Mom, Writing for Broadway—Carly Rae Jepsen Is All In
Carly Rae Jepsen may identify as a hopeless romantic, but she never actually expected to meet the love…
Bloc Party: Anatomy of a Brief Romance Album Review
In Before Midnight, the final film in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy, Julie Delpy’s character poses a question…
The Raincoats, X-Ray Spex, and the Slits Members Form Supergroup
Members of the seminal punk bands the Raincoats, the Slits, and X-Ray Spex will perform as a supergroup…