Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died within 72 hours of each other this week, both aged 82. They weren't young, nor were they acquaintances of mine. It still sucks. Both revolutionized popular music as we ...

Romanticizing the early 2000s is an easy trap to fall into. Now that modern pop culture is essentially a nostalgia factory, every pre-COVID (or even pre-Trump) era is eligible for glorification, but t...

Romanticizing the early 2000s is an easy trap to fall into. Now that modern pop culture is essentially a nostalgia factory, every pre-COVID (or even pre-Trump) era is eligible for glorification, but t...

Happy Holidays! Drug Music Volume 2 is here for all of your quandaries into the cosmos. Featuring:  Jeff Weiss on his fateful acid-fueled run-in with the first chef of the Grateful Dead Jimmy Iakovos ...

Read Patrick Lyons’ review of the album.

Read Patrick Lyons’ review of the album.

track by Mei Semones

Yesterday at 12:25 PM, the third pillar fell. Skrillex took all of the goodwill he's gotten from making borderline-tasteful music for the past decade and threw it in the trash. Wait no, sorry, I mean...

Yesterday at 12:25 PM, the third pillar fell. Skrillex took all of the goodwill he's gotten from making borderline-tasteful music for the past decade and threw it in the trash. Wait no, sorry, I mean...

THIS IS MY BARBENHEIMER. On one side, a louche Dan Bejar stumbling underneath chandeliers. On the other, a wraithlike George Clarke shrieking in the eye of a hurricane. Ask me to name my favorite ban...

A review of the new Japanese Breakfast album, 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' Last week, I was listening to the Mazzy Star episode of Bandsplain, an incredibly informative and entertaining p...

A review of the new Japanese Breakfast album, 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' Last week, I was listening to the Mazzy Star episode of Bandsplain, an incredibly informative and entertaining p...

Though I grew up 90 minutes north, and more recently spent eight years three hours south in Portland, I've never lived in Seattle. I have, however, spent a ton of time there on childhood trips and adu...

Shout out to long, time-commitment art. Not all of it, obviously—devoting multiple hours of your life to hollow bloat sucks—but there's nothing quite like luxuriating in the sprawl of a rich, excessiv...

Shout out to long, time-commitment art. Not all of it, obviously—devoting multiple hours of your life to hollow bloat sucks—but there's nothing quite like luxuriating in the sprawl of a rich, excessiv...

YouTube video by Dario Romero’s Remastered Concerts

YouTube video by Nicholas Krgovich - Topic

YouTube video by Oklou

"Playing with house money" means gambling with chips you've already won. I had to Google that, though I use the expression all the time. I've only been to a casino once—in high school, some friends an...

In one Super Bowl commercial, an octogenarian actor waxes lacrimal about freedom, a privilege bought for you with the blood of troops 80 years ago, a privilege whose outer bound and cleanest expressio...

His halftime set did little more than underline his beef with Drake.

OR… What we talk about when we talk about “vibes” Remember when I said I would keep the long personal essays to a minimum? I lied – just for fun. Because the last thing I wrote was never intended...