Fuck it, we’re doing this again. The monthly hardcore column is back. For those who don’t know, I wrote a monthly hardcore column for about five years, and I stopped doing it last year. But I missed doing it, so now it’s back. This month’s edition is a freebie, but it’ll be members-only after this […]

Charli XCX has a new record coming out, and it’s a soundtrack album, but it’s not the soundtrack album to her movie. Instead, Charli made an LP’s worth of tracks for Emerald Fennell’s new Wuthering Heights adaptation, and both movie and soundtrack drop next month. Meanwhile, regular Charli collaborator A. G. Cook also has a […]

Gracie Abrams is the daughter of Hollywood titan J.J. Abrams, so she could have gotten a movie acting role without going to the trouble of becoming a huge pop star first. But Abrams has gone the folk-pop singer-songwriter route instead — channeling Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers and recruiting the National’s Aaron Dessner to produce […]