We’ve Got Another Essential Song for Your Feminist Rage Playlist
Dan Anderson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long week? For us too. The sheer misery of the ongoing Kavanaugh drama has just amplified the horrors of the Trump administration, and we needed a song that could channel that national feminist rage into something soulful, hopeful, and even constructively combative. We have all that for you and…
Alec Byrne Had Unparalleled Access to ’60s and ’70s Rock Heavyweights. His New Book Reflects How Special That Was.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. My advice: This is the book to get that special person who loves both ’60s and ’70s rock and roll and photography—even if that special person is yourself. Gorgeously packaged in a case made to look like a box of Kodak photo paper, London Rock:…
Republicans Are Deploying Staggeringly Racist Ads in Upstate New York
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Antonio Delgado, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 19th District, was raised in Schenectady—just outside the district he aims to represent—and currently resides in the town of Rhinebeck, a few hours north of New York City. Before that, he lived in suburban Montclair, New…
“Town Burned Down” Is a Searing Triumph
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam’s House CatTown Burned DownATO “Town Burned Down” is the great lost Drive-By Truckers album—sort of. The first band of DBT principals Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley recorded their sole album in 1990, only to see it go unreleased at the time. Adam’s House Cat…
The New M.I.A. Documentary Isn’t the Film She Would Have Made, But This One’s Probably Better
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Getting people to care about conflicts in faraway lands is a losing battle. But try telling that to 43-year-old Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (stage name M.I.A.), whose family fled war-torn Sri Lanka for London when she was nine, leaving her “terrorist” father behind with the Tamil…
Friday’s Find Is a Familiar Narrative Told by Unfamiliar Artists
Nicole Mago Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Friday! That means it’s time for this week’s “Friday Find,” our new weekly Instagram series where we spotlight a song, record, or artist worth blasting all weekend long. This week: Melt by Shaed (Melt, PhotoFinish Records, 2018) Why we’re into it: Part ballad, part dance track, part anthem, this will hit…