Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins and Rozonda ‘Chili’ Thomas, aka the surviving members of TLC, just dropped their first single off the group’s upcoming as-yet-untitled final album. The duo (RIP, Left Eye) used Kickstarter to generate funds and is even letting fans help decide the album’s title. A little over two years and $430,255 later, the album…
If you’re gonna name a new track “Fire,” you’ve really gotta deliver the goods. Luckily for Beth Ditto, the former Gossip singer, this one is all the fire emojis. The lead single off Ditto’s upcoming solo debut Fake Sugar, “Fire” is everything that Gossip was built upon: powerful feminist vocals and slow-building grooves that slap you across the…
Sitting at the bar in Hamden, Conn.’s The Outer Space, I overheard two guys talking about the band that was about to unleash that night. “Do you know these guys playing tonight?” Guy 1 asked? “A little bit. They’re like…Mexican punk, but sort of garage-y?” replied his friend. “Whoa, weird. Sounds cool.” It took every effort to not…
When Khalid first dropped the bouncy “Location” on SoundCloud last year, the now-19-year-old just wanted to be prom king. He got the crown, yes, but it also changed his life. The head-bobber about connecting face-to-face rather than in sub-tweets also scored him a major-label deal with RCA. Seventy-five million Spotify streams later, the Georgia-born, military-bred…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 20 today, and it still remains one of the most important and influential shows ever created. When Buffy debuted March 10, 1997 on The WB, it helped the merely two-year old network solidify its audience. While, yes, The WB used Buffy to primarily target teens—along with other mainstays like Dawson’s Creek and Felicity—the show quickly showed what it was capable of,…
Want to feel old? Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 20 this week. That’s right, Scoobies—Buffy hit The WB on March 10, 1997, serving up a bloody good blend of horror, comedy, and drama, garnished with Sarah Michelle Gellar’s biting (pun intended) display of wit and killer 90’s fashion (which almost feels straight out of yet…
This story was originally posted on Stop & Smell the Roses! Despite our presumed differences, it’s safe to say that we’re all looking for that elusive “something” that makes us feel complete. Our specific pursuits are irrelevant when we stop to consider that, deep down, we’re all desperate to find meaning in a world that…
I went back and forth about whether or not I wanted to cover Dreamcar on this blog. When you love something so much (I’ve been a huge No Doubt fan for decades), it’s hard to write about it because ignoring your own bias is impossible. It’s also why I barely covered Veruca Salt’s Ghost Notes…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is about racism and social injustices, but not of the Nazi, alt-right variety. Rather, his film Get Out focuses on the ways middle-class white liberals act and the things they say that in turn make black people feel so uncomfortable. From the “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time if…
Last night’s Oscars snafu was the ultimate live TV moment in a rather conservative broadcast. In a jaw-dropping fuck-up of epic proportions, the wrong envelope ended up in the hands of Bonnie and Clyde stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Holding the actual envelope for the previously announced Best Actress category, Beatty stalled before passing the envelope…