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20 years of DJing comes to an end.

Hope is what we’re choosing to kick off 2024 with.

What the fuck just happened?

Staffers say they toiled for no wages to keep the paper alive. Now they’re fired, owed money, and out in the cold.

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The Linda Lindas serve notice that it's time to duck and cover, especially if you're a racist, sexist boy and all-round subhuman

by Mike Usinger on March 31st, 2021 at 5:28 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Blame Instagram for ruining everything. As difficult as this might be to believe today, there was a time when your cocktails didn’t have to look more styling than Charlize Theron and Bradley Cooper on Oscar night. Lets single out the ’70s for ushering the dark years, throwing the ’80s and ’90s in there for good measure. For a good three decades drinks largely became something that looked like they came off assembly lines...

NOW Magazine Review: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ Carnage is a monumental triumph The frequent collaborators give a troubled world a place to turn on their surprise album By Mike Usinger Joel Ryan A couple of years ago – before the time of the world’s great undoing – Nick Cave found himself in British Columbia’s Massey Theatre. The occasion was one of his Conversations With… shows, and he spent part of the night solo at the piano, and most of the evening answering questions ...

From The Basement makes an ironclad case that the White Stripes were a beautifully pure team The Detroit rock duo have unearthed a full recording of a 2005 live performance in London By Mike Usinger Pieter M. van Hattem Spend enough time pouring over old interviews, and one might conclude that the implosion of the White Stripes still hurts mightily for the legend born John Anthony Gillis. The singer-songwriter’s career has admirably been built on carefully controlling, well, everythi...