The Midwest is a deeply haunted place. Indiana resident Ethel Cain is a recent transplant to the Midwest, but she seems intimately familiar with the… Read more
Author: Miles Raymer
RIP Toots Hibbert, a founding voice of reggae and the unforgettably joyful frontman of Toots and the Maytals. Blast some Toots and the Maytals this… Read more
‘The Lost Boys’ is a movie that’s completely obsessed with cool, while also being deeply suspicious of the very concept. Read more
Since the early MySpace days, writer and former A.V. Club editor Kyle Ryan has been collecting terrible band names. He’s keeping his 15-year effort going… Read more
It’s bad enough that the coronavirus nuked an entire touring season, messing up the income of professional musicians who rely on touring to make money… Read more
Smoking weed is one of those things that we’re fine doing at home all the time, but now sort of resent that we don’t have… Read more
Bollweevils frontman Daryl Wilson is a doctor working on the front lines of Illinois’s coronavirus outbreak. Here's what he says you can do to make… Read more
The music gear industry is in the middle of a period of wild experimentation, and NAMM was the center of it all last weekend. Read more
Bloc Party‘s ‘Silent Alarm’ was a dance punk revival record that kept you off balance and on your toes. You‘ll hear the record performed front-to-back… Read more
Navy pilots have been encountering so many “unexplained aerial phenomena” that the Navy has rolled out a new system for reporting and analyzing them. Read more
4/20 came into existence organically—it wasn't decreed by the government or invented by an ad agency, it just kind of happened. That's what makes it… Read more
We navigate scammy situations all day long, every day—yet despite spending so much time and energy avoiding hundreds of scams a day, we can’t seem… Read more