Culture

Founded by New York-based Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ Riobamba, the label APOCALIPSIS aims to bring queer people of color to the front, giving emphasis to music from marginalized voices. It's an inherently radical concept: a record label focused on…

Shakespeare was constantly making up new words, and this was well before we had a million different ways to communicate our thoughts and ideas with each other. It only makes sense that now, as words and meanings are as fluid as ever, our language…

Next week, the US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments over whether Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” was a ripoff, and the outcome could shape the fortunes of generations of artists. The band Spirit alleged their…

Azealia Banks teased new music on her Instagram Tuesday night, and one song in particular, "96'Corolla (Motorman)," seems to be a thinly-veiled fantasy about executing Elon Musk. The song is about an “ungrateful technocrat who's [sic] ego becomes…

Earlier this week, the musician Lizzo caused a stir when she took to Twitter to accuse her Postmates delivery person of stealing her order. Critics pointed out that Lizzo leveraged her nearly one million followers against someone who works as a…

Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” was released in 1997, alongside James Cameron’s film Titanic. Before she starts singing, a gentle flute plays, and the song seems like it could be a soft, crooning meditation on love lost. Then, when she begins,…

For years, Taylor Swift famously avoided any discussion of politics, maintaining a silence so total that it was eventually co-opted by white supremacists. But in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Swift built on her previous tentative steps toward…

Musicians and labels are realizing there’s still money to be made from physical album sales, which is surprising considering 80 percent of industry revenue came from streaming in the first half of 2019. Nevertheless, two of the most visible case…

The prominent Democratic donor and political activist Ed Buck was arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday in connection with the overdose of an unidentified man last week. Buck, who was the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit in 2017 after a man died…