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A poem by Kortney Morrow: ‘French 75’
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (116+ words) A poem Crush 200 million shells into a champagne flute. Twist 200 million lemon rinds, using only French carbon steel, rocking back & forth. Imagine even bubbles bust a cap in the ceiling. Imagine my brain stuck spinning like a pair of rims…...
Enough With the Bros
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (897+ words) Enough With the Bros'The Atlantic David Foster Wallace's famously long novel, Infinite Jest, turned 30 this month, and an old specter came back with the anniversary: the lit bro, annoying and probably sexist, smugly reading a book that you didn't. "The…...
Slow Down, Charli XCX
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (92+ words) The Truth Behind Charli XCX's Pivot to Hollywood'The Atlantic The singer believes that music isn't the point of pop stardom. Is she right? Read: Taylor Swift's fairy tale is over Mostly, though, I wondered when the movie would end. The…...
Is AI Ruining Music?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (836+ words) What we can learn from one band's fight to protect its creative core Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Stu Mackenzie: This ship has, like, well and truly sailed. I mean, it is totally wack to be able to train…...
Protest Concerts Are an American Tradition. The Gaza Ones Have Been Rather Quiet.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (142+ words) Music history is full of united actions against war and humanitarian crises. So what's changed? Music history is full of united actions against war and humanitarian crises. So what's changed? In early January, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles,…...
Finally, a Halftime Show That Represents Real America!
2+ week, 6+ day ago (520+ words) Isn't Bad Bunny an American artist? Don't millions of people love his music? At the Turning Point USA alternative show, we forget about all that. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Everybody, to the bunker! It is halftime at the Super Bowl, and…...
‘Together, We Are America’
2+ week, 6+ day ago (35+ words) The Undeniable Fun of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show'The Atlantic Bad Bunny's critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong. Read: How Bad Bunny did it...
Bad Bunny’s All-American Grammys
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (145+ words) Like a lot of immigrants lately'like a lot of Americans lately'Trevor Noah is mulling life after the United States. Early in this year's Grammys, during an interlude between speeches and performances, ... The singer was among a raft of stars who…...
The Tragic Familiarity of a New Springsteen Protest Song
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (801+ words) Rage in the U.S.A.The Atlantic The first few strums of Bruce Springsteen's new song make you feel like you're in for, well, a Bruce Springsteen song'a rollicking sing-along about rough-and-tumble but ultimately hopeful times in some troubled American town. And…...
The Soul of the Grateful Dead
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (98+ words) The Soul of the Grateful Dead'The Atlantic The late Bob Weir was crucial to shaping the sound of the world's greatest jam band. Weir lived his entire adult life in the shadow of Garcia, a formidable genius who died too…...