With his album F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT, there were simply no rules. The album, released on April 1 (but no joke), is listened to as a seamless live mix. The 34 track, 46 minute journey lands like a blockbuster movie that doesn’t quit until its playfully arpeggiated end credits. The album is a complete game […]
When Kevin Bacon got bludgeoned to death in bed while smoking a post-coital joint in the 1980 classic Friday the 13th (four years before hitting it big in Footloose), it began a frightful and fruitful entertainment trajectory for him and his family. He went on to star in a string of horror and sci-fi flicks […]
“The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own specific niche of Euro-flavored antagonists in a career spanning six decades. But remembrance, and inevitable reverence, for villains bears a divisiveness as we’re morally conditioned to demonize them. (Credit: Getty Images) The […]
Taylor Momsen breezes into a Manhattan diner like a benevolent banshee, her pale skin and long blonde hair shock against her all-black silhouette. She’s just come from a makeup trial, lids dusted with iridescent shadow glow against her blue eyes. She orders a Coke Zero with a straw, curling her long fingers around the pebbled […]
Name Mike Edwards Best known for Singer from Jesus Jones, EMF’s best known side project. Current city I don’t live in a city, and without referring to Google Maps to see where my nearest cathedral is, I expect my closest qualifying metropolis would be Birmingham. Really want to be in Most of the time, I would rather be somewhere in […]
You know that overwhelming feeling of uneasiness you’ve been experiencing lately? That sense of dread and uncertainty, as if you’re waiting for the next bad thing to happen? Perhaps you’ve felt an unexplainable tightness in your chest, followed by a shortness of breath, and thousands of “what if?” thoughts invading your head. If so, you […]
“Sometimes I wish I didn’t feel so much,” says Mon Laferte. “On a normal day, I probably find myself crying 10 different times. I wake up, walk into my garden, and suddenly I feel everything: the sky, the clouds, a butterfly. I find beauty even in a garbage dump. I start making up stories: who […]
On the song “Café con Ron” from Bad Bunny’s latest and greatest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (I Should Have Taken More Photos), the musical ensemble Los Pleneros de Cresta creates a sonic bomb of classic plena, a Puerto Rican folk-rhythm originated by the jíbaros on the island’s mountains. The track, mixed with an electronic […]
In one of the more transformative events of 2025, the Your Shot DJ Academy & Competition opens up the world of DJ instruction and live set performance to a group who typically would not have access. For the homeless, deaf and disabled, Your Shot democratizes DJ culture “by empowering young people to step behind the […]
Sometimes even Mike Dirnt must escape from loud noises. The Green Day bassist and founding member has just been running around his Bay Area house shutting windows and doors, after gardeners unexpectedly turned up the blowers just when Dirnt was about to jump on the phone. “It was dead silent here until about five minutes […]