Americans can’t agree on much these days, but at least we agree unanimously that 2018 was a shitty year. It sucked more than 2017, which had somehow outdid 2016 before it. …

Thinking about the LA teacher’s strike today. I have so much respect for teachers. My mom was a teacher so I know the amount of work they put in to those thankless jobs. And one of the primary complaints of this strike has to do with class size and support…

Earl Sweatshirt just released the first track off his upcoming album, to understandable fanfare. Last week, Vince Staples announced “Earl is back,” after the misanthropic rapper graced us with his presence for 20 glorious seconds on Vince’s excellent release FM!. …

The cover is “Postcards from Asia: The Floodplain,” by Pat Presley, a landscape of walking houses with steampunk spider legs, reminiscent of Howl’s Moving Castle. In the foreground, a figure guides a similarly stylized catamaran towards the crawling houses. The scene is portrayed simply, sentimentally, like a future drawn by…

We’re a week out from the release of Death Grips’ sixth album, Year of the Snitch. Let’s review the singles the group has released so far. Death Grips gave us the first hint of the their new album with the video for “Streaky,” which is viscerally uncomfortable in a way…

Witch Mountain is back with their new self-titled album, their fifth overall and their first with new singer, Kayla Dixon. Dixon was only 19 when she replaced the band’s previous singer, Uta Plotkin, and her youth has certainly imbued the band with a renewed energy and momentum. But don’t mistake…

It’s been widely cited that Madlib sent Kanye a beat tape for the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sessions, but Kanye passed on all of them. Until his most recent album, that is, which features a classic Madlib beat on the Kendrick-collabo “No More Parties in L.A.” This is probably…

When Kanye teased “No More Parties in L.A.” at the end of the “Real Friends” premiere, there was no indication that the final product would be this behemoth of a track. Kanye and Kendrick are a dream team, but a great song still needs a great foundation. Here we have…

First off, it’s my journalistic duty to inform everyone that I am in fact a cat person. I think we can all agree that cats are objectively great. They’re tiny murders that we genetically engineered to cuddle with us. What’s not to love? And personally, I’m impressed that not only…