‘House isn’t a subculture. It’s my culture’: Cakes Da Killa on ballroom, Beyoncé and Black love | Music

Cakes da Killa performing at House of Yes, New York City, in 2018.

A few years ago, Cakes Da Killa felt trapped. The Atlanta-via-NYC rapper and producer had released a few acclaimed mixtapes, each showcasing his blooming talent as a lyricist and stylist. But, no matter how dexterous, […]

Don’t Worry Darling, Barbarian, and every new movie to watch at home

florence pugh and harry styles getting cozy

This weekend, Pearl, the second installment in Ti West’s new slasher series starring Mia Goth, finally comes to VOD. If slasher films inspired by golden-age Hollywood classics like Mary Poppins and The Wizard of Oz […]

The Late Pharoah Sanders’ Seminal 1969 LP ‘Karma’ to Be Reissued as an Acoustic Sounds Audiophile Vinyl

The Late Pharoah Sanders' Seminal 1969 LP 'Karma' to Be Reissued as an Acoustic Sounds Audiophile Vinyl

Photo by Eric Welles-Nyström It was announced that the late Pharoah Sanders’ classic 1969 album Karma will be pressed on 180-gram black vinyl as part of Verve/UMe’s Acoustic Sounds, an acclaimed audiophile vinyl reissue series. The LP is set […]

Tom G Warrior of Celtic Frost: ‘Metal was so limited. We were anarchists’ | Music

Celtic Frost photographed for Morbid Tales in July 1984.

Back in the 80s, the 4AD record label was synonymous with a certain ineffable otherness. Its albums had beautiful covers, designed by Vaughan Oliver, and inside those covers was music routinely described as “ethereal”. 4AD […]

Commentary: Redemption, writ large, in L.A. Opera’s divine ‘Omar’

A woman in a head wrap and dramatic blue costume printed with Arabic lettering on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage.

“Omar,” the new opera by composers Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, finds its strength in the simplicity of prayer. The work, which is too fluid to be classified in discrete musical or dramatic genres, is […]

Doja Cat’s Masquerade Ball Birthday Gala Brings Out Big Stars

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Doja Cat knows how to make an exclusive Hollywood event feel even more elite — her 27th birthday brought out a huge list of big names, who were reminded this is as inside as inside […]

Kim K, Chris Tucker & More Support Babyface’s ‘Girls Night Out’

Babyface - Girls Night Out Album Release Event

Babyface brings ’em out Source: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Capitol Music Group Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds is still slow-simmering panties as one of the greatest songwriters ever who celebrated his new R&B compilation album ‘Girls Night […]

Psychedelics, spies and Swedish jazz: how Deathloop made video games sound cool | Games

Deathloop soundtrack composer Tom Salta with his Minimoog.

How do you make music sound cool? How can you explain why the soundtrack to, say, any of the spy films of the 1960s still sound cool decades later? How can Foxy Lady still get […]

Alis Lesley: the ‘female Elvis’ who takes centre stage on Bob Dylan’s new book cover | Bob Dylan

Alis Lesley pictured in Australia, 1957.

In the early days of modern US pop music, female artists struggled to achieve the recognition of their male counterparts. So a new marketing trope emerged. It labelled jazz trumpeter Ernestine “Tiny” Davis as “the […]