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The Same F’ing Song
February 22, 2018
Protests of R. Kelly have returned. What comes next? A singer muted, or a continuation of the same f'ing song?

Cut the Music
February 12, 2018
The NYPD’s secret M.A.R.C.H. operation has been closing the city’s venues for years—should it be abolished?

Slim Returns
January 02, 2018
Given its emphasis on revenge, any real differences between Eminem’s music and a CNN-bashing Trump tweet are razor-thin.

Preserve Yourself!
June 19, 2017
“All Eyez on Me” is the world's first superhero hagiography hologram biopic of black musical mortality.

Daily Bafflements
April 28, 2017
• Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival—a.k.a. Coachella for even richer, and even stupider, people—has been canceled due to Lord of the Flies-like conditions. (Some have also compared it to The Hunger Games.) The “luxury” festival—which promised resort-style accommodations ...

Punk Rock and Protest
July 07, 2016
Growing up, I learned the word solidarity from a vocabulary flash card. It was not something I had ever felt until my shoe became untied in the mosh pit at a NOFX concert in the early 2000s. When I knelt to re-tie it, four strangers formed a wall around my crouching body to ...

Viva El Jay
April 03, 2015
In his 2003 song “Public Service Announcement,” Jay Z claimed he was “Che Guevara with bling on”—a reference to a Che T-shirt he’d worn on an episode of MTV’s Unplugged. In both the MTV stunt and the song lyric, the rapper-cum-entertainment mogul ...