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

By the beginning of 1993, it was obvious that rap music was the next big thing. The hot streak of massive, radio-devouring smash rap songs… Read more