This is What We’re Listening to All Stuck at Home
Timothy Allen/ZUMA Most of Mother Jones is working from home. The organization decided it would be best (and it is best) that we all make less contact with the outside world. And, while I can only speak for myself, it’s been quite the dream. (Editor’s note: It has been a nightmare.) The ability to work from home…
How Do You Make Music When The World Really Is Ending?
Gonzales/Tord Litleskare/Avalon/Zuma The cover of The Slow Rush—the latest album from Tame Impala, Kevin Parker’s one-man-band from Perth, Australia—looks like the old red moon desert Windows desktop wallpaper invading an uninhabited house. Maybe that association is an accident. But I find it fitting that a wisp of memory common to anyone who used a PC in…
Kesha Will Never Apologize for Being Herself. Even As She Changes.
Kevork Djansezian / Getty For over ten years Kesha’s unabashed shamelessness has been a constant in our lives. It started in late 2009 when the number one hit “Tik Tok” introduced Ke$ha as the pop party girl—our pop party girl. She happily confirmed her status as a next-wave popstar singing about sex (“Blah Blah Blah”), drugs…
Hear the Bern: Why Bernie Sanders Strikes a Chord With Musicians
Evan Vucci/AP Evan Weiss was surprised when he got a text message asking if his band could perform at a rally for Bernie Sanders in Coralville, Iowa, in November. The text came from an old friend of Weiss who works for Sanders’ campaign as an event coordinator and has a hand in booking the music…
Heroes of the 2010s: Lenny Kravitz’s Giant Scarf
Mother Jones Illustration The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Before Americans bastardized the Danish coziness lifestyle trend called hygge, before HBO revolutionized winter wear with a hit series about media ownership and turtlenecks (mostly turtlenecks), before Baby Yoda sipped tea in a sheepskin cloak, there was Lenny…
Monsters of the 2010s: Drake
Mother Jones illustration; Frazer Harrison/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Aubrey Graham is a person. “Drake” is a social phenomenon. He’s that dude who lives in sweatpants and Adidas slides, who ignores your texts for weeks then sends “Wyd” at 2 a.m. and you end up…