Month: February 2025

With each successive album, since he realized his rock god potential on 2019’s Ilana (The Creator), Nigerien singer-songwriter Mdou Moctar has been bringing more heat. Last year’s Funeral for Justice was an electric firestorm of guitar skill and trenchant political critique. Where could he possibly go from there? The opposite direction. Well, kind of. Tears
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WASHINGTON, DC – May 2, 2024: U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) speaks at a press conference at the Capitol. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) ripped Fox News for confusing her with a different female senator after Smith made network headlines for referring to transphobic billionaire Elon Musk as a “d**k.” Smith made her comment Saturday after
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Pitchfork and AdHoc Projects are happy to announce a live event to celebrate the release of a new zine. The event takes place on Tuesday, March 4, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, at New York’s Printed Matter. The event is free, and the zine will be available for purchase exclusively at Printed Matter. RSVP
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What else has the investigation included? As the prosecutor’s office noted in its Nov. 7 release, “exhaustive and meticulous actions and measures were taken to clarify the circumstances” around Payne’s death. These include, the release continued, “several dozen testimonies” from hotel employees, family, friends, medical professionals, biochemists and psychiatrists. What’s more, the release added, a
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It is a strange time to be in Berlin. Germany’s capital, for decades known as one of Europe’s social hubs of inclusivity, affordability, and artistic freedom, has been bent into a gentrified, “expat” rather than “immigrant” Mecca with $6 lattes and casually right-wing attitudes. Immediately preceding the hotly anticipated federal elections in which (far) right
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its 2025 Oscar nominees Tuesday night with a dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. The event was used to finally get the 97th Oscars nominees class photo, which traditionally is snapped during the AMPAS Oscars Nominees Luncheon, a rare moment when nominees are
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Former Donald Trump advisor Stephen Miller speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Stephen Miller, a prominent political advisor who serves as President Donald Trump‘s White House deputy chief of staff for policy and U.S. Homeland Security advisor, has long been
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Last summer, I joined Pitchfork as its new editor from the world of 2020s independent music blogging. It is an unglamorous world, but one I’m deeply fond of, all janky websites and Substack newsletters. It is where a lot of terrible, unedited writing is happening, but also where some of the most vital and urgent
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Blood Babes, you know who I really appreciate amongst the denizens of the horrorsphere? Aside from each and every one of you, of course. And the Lost Skeleton. Horror Hosts. These charismatic devils are educators of the horror scene, teaching both those just sinking their teeth into genre and seasoned Gorehounds alike about films, books,
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2025 International Booker Prizes Nominations Announced This is the most prestigious prize for literature translated into English,
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I first met Tom Robbins in the editorial department of The Village Voice in the summer of 2006. At the time, I was a newly hired reporting intern working for Wayne Barrett, and I was thrilled when I discovered that Tom was also working at The Voice. When I approached him, Tom was sitting behind a desk
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Neil Young and his new band, the Chrome Hearts, have announced a tour of Europe and North America. They’ll kick things off with European shows in June and July, followed by North American concerts in August and September. See the dates for the Love Earth Tour below. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts released their
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