Thundercat is the bard of absurdist masculinity. His career is a comic character sketch of a certain sort of dude: one who loves Mortal Kombat and named his cat after Tron; whose childhood changed course when he found out about Goku; who goes to Tokyo and buys a suitcase worth of anime; who simultaneously fleesRead More
Mingus was so disgusted by bad news wafting up from below the Mason-Dixon line that he broke his career’s mold and wrote a song with lyrics, the kind of loose barroom call-and-response that his hero and former collaborator Charlie Parker swaggered through on the lighthearted Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke tune “Salt Peanuts.” Mingus’ contentRead More
Though he’s lost a great many things, Ye still has an undeniable touch for this kind of production spectacle. But these people didn’t just come to see a stage; a set is only as good as the actors foregrounding it, and as Ye launched into the opening stretch of songs from Bully, he instantly stumbled.Read More
The most fascinating song on ARIRANG features little more than 98 seconds of silence. Named “No. 29” after South Korea’s 29th designated national treasure, it is a field recording of the Sacred Bell of King Seongdeok. Legend has it that the bell wouldn’t ring until a child was cast into the bronze; its sound isRead More
On a beach in Mexico, the Minutemen awoke to pain. They had spent the previous day swimming for hours along Rosarito Beach. Now, on the morning of Mexico’s 1982 election, the three punks were hungover and sunburnt, their newly shaved heads red and raw. Before decamping to a taqueria, they watched a woman make herRead More
James Blake sometimes feels like pop music’s arch, ultra-serious older brother, floating above the scene with warbly torch songs that never quite come down to earth. He’s left his ghostly prints on artists ranging from Beyoncé to Rosalía to Lil Yachty, and it’s a testament to his influence how widespread his once novel, weightless styleRead More
Throughout the 2010s, the YouTube algorithm would summon a mysterious transmission. Uploaded in 2012 by a user named “taia777,” the video featured a 15-minute loop of David Wise’s “Stickerbush Symphony” over a cascading image of thorn bushes in the sky, taken from the levels scored by the song in the 1995 Super Nintendo (SNES) gameRead More
I had been considering the nature of nostalgia when I learned that Andrew Bird was rereleasing his 2005 album The Mysterious Production of Eggs, wondering whether it was possible to be nostalgic for something lost abruptly, or if nostalgia implied a loss so slow as to be imperceptible. Eggs wasn’t my introduction to Bird—2007’s ArmchairRead More
There is no question more charged, more human, or more unanswerable than “Why?” We are surrounded and acted upon by forces we often can’t understand, and we’d all like more answers than are readily available. Even the unexpectedly good is unsettling: What’s the catch, you wonder. When will the other shoe drop? But ask “Why?”Read More
You’ll be sorely disappointed if you pick up Wuthering Heights after this. Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel is a slow read with an out-of-time atmosphere, really one of the most virginal and repressed romance stories of all time. That’s not something I picked up on myself as a child, but reading as an adult, you’re like,Read More
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