“The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.” | Continue reading
If you have two sets of news media, you have none | Continue reading
Deerhoof, Ted Leo, Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, Speedy Ortiz sign No Music for Ice open letter | Continue reading
When it premiered in 2015, the USA Network cyber-hack series seemed to be a show about Big Ideas. It wasn’t, but this final season still offers plenty of reasons to watch | Continue reading
Twelve years ago, a catchy New Wave anthem appeared on the internet with no information about who wrote or recorded it. Amateur detectives have spent thousands of hours since trying to figure out w… | Continue reading
One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation | Continue reading
Inside the battle for the forest’s future — and ours — as Brazilian ranchers and farmers vow to protect their way of life at any cost | Continue reading
Hall of Fame singer and producer-for-hire behind “You Might Think,” “My Best Friend’s Girl” and “Good Times Roll” found dead in New York apartment | Continue reading
With specters of Frank Zappa and Roy Orbison attracting respectable audiences, are holograms truly music’s final frontier? | Continue reading
In the near future, the revenue generated by record sales is likely to surpass the revenue generated by CDs | Continue reading
It’s the epicenter of the tech industry and the wealthiest, most progressive state in the union, but homelessness is surging — and no one can agree on how to fix it | Continue reading
Hasbro, the corporation known for Mr. Potato Head, My Little Pony, and Power Rangers, bought Entertainment One, owner of Death Row Records | Continue reading
Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come | Continue reading
Can she beat Trump? There’s a plan for that | Continue reading
America is the first country to ever elect a Mad King, and the way things are going, we may be dumb enough to do it twice | Continue reading
The economy is showing signs of turning, and the people who saw the least benefit from the latest boom are now the most vulnerable ahead of the next bust | Continue reading
Amid a split in the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton headlined an event that was part music festival, part TED Talk. We went with two hosts from Chapo Trap House to check it out. | Continue reading
President Trump renewed his attacks on wind energy and vowed to cure cancer during a rally in Ohio | Continue reading
“I have my fingers crossed for it not being washed away” | Continue reading
President Trump declared his willingness to betray the country, and Republicans are ready to help | Continue reading
He and the president had been butting heads, with the president choosing to believe what he heard on Fox News rather than believe the intelligence community’s assessments | Continue reading
What if a sizable portion of global economic activity rests on magical thinking? | Continue reading
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s giant leap, this 1998 miniseries tracing the race to put men on the moon is available to stream — here’s why it’s a must-… | Continue reading
Brandon Andrew Clark allegedly posted grisly, disturbing photos of Bianca Devins’ body online | Continue reading
Ripped as a human punchline in his heyday, Ross Perot’s political career foretold violent change in America | Continue reading
The president said he would invite the team to the White House, “win or lose,” but on Saturday, co-captain Megan Rapinoe expressed doubt that any of her teammates would take him up on t… | Continue reading
What does it mean to be popular? That’s a question that music fans and music makers alike have asked for ages — but recently with more urgency than ever before, as listening patterns in the d… | Continue reading
The liberal justice blasted the Supreme Court’s conservatives for abdicating their duty and putting American democracy in danger | Continue reading
New analyses reveal a surprising truth: Over the past three years, the world’s biggest artists have seen their market share of total streams — and therefore total money distributed by the likes of … | Continue reading
He scored timeless hits, befriended Bob Dylan and made the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. But even at 80, the veteran troubadour can’t bear the thought of slowing down | Continue reading
Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization | Continue reading
Though it’s unclear if they’re connected, at least six American tourists have died under mysterious circumstances in the last year alone | Continue reading
Recalling the late Apple leader’s culture-shifting vision | Continue reading
YouTube has declined to ban alt-right commenter Steven Crowder, who has been making homophobic videos about LGBTQ content creator Carlos Maza for years | Continue reading
Farewell to a clunky but world-shattering icon | Continue reading
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers | Continue reading
Apple surprise-launches its first new iPod since 2015, with models starting at $199 | Continue reading
How does an action-hero ex-governor spend his golden years? Loudly | Continue reading
A flurry of power moves shows that being the “leader of the free world” isn’t enough for him. So, for Democrats, when does patience turn into submission? | Continue reading
Recent efforts to sandbag Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard are crude repeats of behaviors that helped elect Trump in 2016 | Continue reading
The United States is goading Iran into taking action so it can justify an invasion | Continue reading
American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change | Continue reading
The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund | Continue reading
From Louis Armstrong to Ornette Coleman, the trumpeter picks breaks down tracks and albums that exemplify different aspects of a great American art form | Continue reading
What if the major music companies teamed with Merlin — the body that represents the recorded interests of the largest independent labels worldwide — and raised the capital to buy Spotify? | Continue reading
A new study shows how the GOP’s 2017 tax bill helped subsidize corporate America | Continue reading
Phoenix “Nedal” band Okilly Dokilly’s “White Wine Spritzer” video played over the closing credits of recent episode | Continue reading
“Have you ever gone to a restaurant and gotten full-service treatment and said, ‘I’ll pay you later?’ Of course not, it doesn’t work like that” | Continue reading