A teacher suing Kanye West and his private school, Donda Academy, claims that students are “at least two years” behind and that they should “get out now.” Cecilia Hailey and her daughter, Chekarey Byers, the two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, allege that they were unfairly fired in March from Donda …
Read More »How Everything But The Girl Got Back Into A Groove After 24 Years
Like many people, musicians Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn found themselves in isolation during the pandemic, conjuring up memories of sharing space with strangers on a dancefloor. The time spent indoors would eventually lead the pair, who began releasing music in the Eighties as Everything But the Girl, to find …
Read More »How Bambi Lee Savage Broke Down the Studio Boys' Club and Worked on One of the Nineties' Biggest Albums
Back in 1988, Shannon Strong was a scrappy young Denver punk musician playing in a band called the Pagan Cowboys while dreaming of something else. Inspired by the magazine ads of Neve recording consoles she taped on her bedroom wall as a kid and the flashing buttons at the fingertips …
Read More »Why Is Drake Still Trolling Kanye?
On Friday, Drake premiered a new single called “Search & Rescue.” The track is classic forlorn Drizzy, seemingly hit by the sting of late-adulthood singledom. He affectionally croons in search of someone to “take me off the market / take me off the map” on the song’s moody Sad Pony …
Read More »Suga, Drake, And All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to ourweekly rundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Drake samples Kim K, Rae Sremmurd make their return, and Suga of BTS, performing as Agust D, shares the first single off his anticipated solo debut album. Plus, …
Read More »Past Drinking and Near Divorce: 8 Revelations in Jason Isbell's New HBO Documentary
In the opening scene of Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed, the new HBO “Music Box” documentary out this Friday, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires can’t seem to get on the same page. As they fumble through a quarantine performance on their front porch, something is always off: the …
Read More »Zelooperz Turns His Pain Into Powerful Lyrical Exhibition on 'Microphone Fiend'
Between 2019 and 2021, Detroit rapper ZelooperZ released six albums — three in 2020 alone. His fans were satiated with his Get WeT.Radio and Might Not Make It tapes, but nonetheless sought out a full-length followup to the stellar Van Gogh’s Ear. Thankfully, ZeelooperZ appeared out of nowhere last week …
Read More »Proper's 'Jean' Celebrates the Life of Jean Jimenez-Joseph, Who Died in ICE Custody
Jean Jimenez-Joseph was a talented drummer, carpenter, and one of the smartest men Proper frontman Erik Garlington ever met. Tragically, in May 2017, he became another victim of ICE’s dehumanizing war on undocumented people. Jimenez-Joseph died by suicide in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center after repeatedly telling officials, and the Immigration …
Read More »Ruston Kelly Got Divorced and Started Fixing Up an Old House (Along With Himself)
There are a few lines on Ruston Kelly’s new album that practically tell the whole story: “My marriage ended and I moved up north to mend,” he sings on “Mending Song.” “Was then I heard the words of my father/Have faith, there’s no storm that doesn’t pass.” On a recent …
Read More »How the Image of Jesus at a Gay Bar Helped Australian Band Cub Sport Tell Their Story
Earlier this year, Cub Sport members Tim Nelson and Sam Netterfield — who have been married since 2018 — shared a kiss on the Grammy Awards’ red carpet. They were celebrating Nelson’s nomination as an engineer on electronic artist Baynk’s recent album and didn’t think much of the public display …
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