Best of Riot Fest 2024 Photo Gallery + 3-Day Recap Video
So many great pictures, it’ll probably crash your tabsRiot Fest is over, and yeah, we’re bummed too. But don’t worry, the memories live on (and so do the porta-potty lines). There were crowdsurfing newlyweds, reunions, anniversaries, and of course, you beautiful maniacs. We’ll have a few more galleries, videos, and cool shit to share in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait until…
Robert Pattinson’s Batman is Goth AF
Welcome to the bat paradeSad, brooding bangs? Smudgy dark eyeliner? Yep, Robert Pattinson’s take on Batman is goth as fuck.
Premiere: Pool Holograph’s “Medieval Heart” Unlocks Something Transformative
The Chicago quartet’s refreshing third album is out October 2Chicago-based art rock quartet Pool Holograph have clearly been hard at work reinventing themselves. They’re set to release their third album, Love Touched Time and Time Began to Sweat, on October 2—and the first single, “Medieval Heart,” is evidence of lot of methodical tinkering. We’re stoked to premiere the track for you here today. Listen…
Wasps Can Tell Other Wasps That You Suck, Says Science
Fun fact: if a wasp hates you, it can drop a pheromone on you that tells other wasps you suck. Thanks wasps. We probably deserve it.
RZA and Good Humor Team Up to Make Ice Cream Trucks Less Racist
The hip-hop icon proves Wu-Tang is still for the childrenUnless you’ve researched the roots of popular music in pre-Civil War America (some of us like doing research, okay?), you might only know “Turkey in the Straw” as the old-timey song you sang in preschool and as the nagging, tinny jingle blaring out of just about every ice cream truck in every American city, all…
‘Bossanova’ Turns 30: Joey Santiago on his Favorite Pixies Record
Revisiting the band’s spaced-out third album as it celebrates its 30th anniversaryPixies have long held the reputation of that band some bigger band emulated, to put it kindly. To Joey Santiago, the Pixies’ calculated lead guitarist, the secret recipe—the one pretty much every loud alternative act rolling into the 90s looked towards for inspiration—didn’t completely formulate until the band’s third full-length album, Bossanova, released 30 years…
You Can Spend the Night in the World’s Last Blockbuster for Just $4
The Airbnb-converted store will let four lucky winners spend a night with unlimited movies and snacksThere’s only one Blockbuster left in the world—and if you’re lucky, you can spend the night in it with all the movies and snacks you want for just $4.
‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Really, Really Loved Green Day’s ‘Dookie’
He went so far as to name his email and dog after the 1994 albumMany people hold Green Day’s landmark 1994 album Dookie near and dear to their little punk hearts. The late James Gandolfini of The Sopranos, as it turns out, may have been the biggest Dookie fan of them all. Last week, after a fan online asked Sopranos co-star Michael Imperioli what kind of music Gandolfini enjoyed, Imperioli had one…