Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World review – a glorious blend of squalling guitars and introspective ballads | Music

Artwork for This Stupid World.

Welcome back to the quietest loud band – or the loudest quiet band – in the world. Their 17th studio album is so quintessentially Yo La Tengoish: Ira Kaplan’s squalling guitars and murmured vocals and […]

Fan Art Imagines a Glorious KNIVES OUT and THE MUPPETS Crossover

Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion with many of the Muppets

The internet loves a Muppet mashup. Once Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery dropped, people started speculating about the next Benoit Blanc movie. And why not make it a Muppet movie? After all, they’ve participated […]

Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food | Culture

Ramen obsessive Ivan Orkin.

Music Between Bonita Applebum, Butter and the Jam, hip-hop titans A Tribe Called Quest are not shy about paying gastronomic homage. On Ham’n’Eggs, floating like croutons over a languid beat-soup, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg tie […]

Cutting up the dancefloor: the glorious, dubious history of the disco edit | Disco

Larry Levan DJing at Paradise Garage, New York, 1979.

Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp […]

Moonage Daydream review – glorious, shapeshifting eulogy to David Bowie | Cannes 2022

Let’s Dance … Brett Morgen dances as he arrives at the 75th edition of the Cannes film festival for the screening of Moonage Daydream.

Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is an 140-minute shapeshifting epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, we’re lovers of David Bowie and that is that. It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, […]

The Glorious Simpsons App That We All Deserved Is Gone Forever

The Glorious Simpsons App That We All Deserved Is Gone Forever

What if there was an app where you could watch any Simpsons episode you wanted at any time?   OK, fair, that app is called Disney+. But what if that app also was crammed full of […]