Drake has removed himself from Grammy contention, withdrawing from the two categories he was nominated for, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Drake picked up a Best Rap Performance nod for “Way 2 Sexy” as well as a Best Rap Album look for Certified Lover Boy. The Recording Academy received a request …
Read More »Do These Viral Stories About Shitty Bosses Signal an Anti-Work Revolution?
Kevin McKenzie used to work six days a week at a South Carolina bar — on his only day off, he says, he was required to return to work to water the plants. So you could say he intimately understands why a rash of text screenshots depicting workers quitting their …
Read More »The Song Behind Cuba's Recent Protests
Historic protests swept Cuba on Sunday as thousands of people gathered across the island and expressed their outrage over longstanding economic hardships, food scarcity, and vaccine shortages, marking one of the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations in the last decade. Social media videos captured Cubans marching through city streets, shouting “Libertad!” …
Read More »XXXTentacion's Estate Will Drop His Unreleased SoundCloud Songs as NFTs
It’s been nearly three years since XXXTentacion was shot to death in Florida at the age of 20 — but his team is keen to keep his legacy alive. Next week, the controversial rapper’s estate will release a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) containing tracks that have never been commercially …
Read More »Texas and Mississippi Say It's Time to Reopen Without Masks. Live Venues Say No Thanks
When Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Tate Reeves of Mississippi both rescinded statewide mask mandates this week and declared their states were reopening at full capacity, the news caught live music venues in both states off-guard. It also left them with a decision to make: follow their governors’ rosy …
Read More »How the Christian Right Helped Foment Insurrection
This story was produced by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Get their investigations emailed to you directly by signing up at RevealNews.org/newsletter. The January 6th Save America March, where then-President Donald Trump incited a crowd to attack the U.S. Capitol, opened with a prayer. …
Read More »Make 'Y.M.C.A.' Great Again
It’s time to make “Y.M.C.A.” great again. People in the streets of Philadelphia are dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” in celebration of the news that Joe Biden has taken the lead in Pennsylvania. That means he’s nearly clinched the presidential race — hopefully to be called tonight. The Village People’s Seventies disco …
Read More »As Music Venues Shutter, Former Owners Describe Devastating Toll
In 1969, Jeff Wolfram was carried into the Red Chimney — a Los Angeles restaurant his father had bought two years earlier — and placed on the bar. He was two days old. His father Horst had arrived in America from Germany in the 1960s. Horst wasn’t planning on staying …
Read More »500 Greatest Albums: How the Beatles Made Magic on the Verge of a Breakup With 'Abbey Road'
As part of our newly updated survey of the500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. The Beatles‘ Abbey Road came in at number five. The following piece originally appeared in a Beatles special issue …
Read More »It Was Time For That Speech
We have a tradition of addressing politicians by their honorifics after they have left office, and it has always made me a bit uneasy. Walking up to former officials and saying “Mr. Mayor” or “Congresswoman” or “Mr. President,” when they are now everyday citizens again, confers a certain unintended royalty …
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