Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The members of the rock/new wave group the B-52s in front of a staircase. (Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) By 1978, with the Beatles eight years in his rearview mirror, John Lennon had stopped making music — and found himself vacationing apart from his wife and muse, Yoko Ono. That same year, a group of eclectic…
Clockwise from top left, Drake, Kanye West, Prince and Michael Jackson. (Washington Post illustration; Getty Images; iStock) Drake and Kanye West — two reigning kings of pop music — both flooded the American consciousness with music this summer in strikingly different manners. West released a series of seven-track albums, including one bearing his name and…
On Wednesday, a fan account tweeted out Elon Musk’s home and factory addresses, along with a picture of the K-pop girl group Loona, leaving many to ask: What? Why? Well, the answer is complicated. Elon Musk works at 45500 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94538 🌙 and lives in 10911 Chalon Rd Los Angeles, CA 90077…
Of all the telling moments in the new Whitney Houston documentary Whitney — and there are many — the most revealing may be a small anecdote from Debra Martin Chase, the producer of The Preacher’s Wife and the 2012 remake of Sparkle. Houston, the woman everyone seemed to like and no one really seemed to…
Nearly six months before his death, the embattled 20-year-old rapper XXXTentacion shared an urgent manifesto via Instagram Live. Eerily prescient, his words belied a sense of macabre resignation. “If I’m gonna die or ever be a sacrifice, I wanna make sure that my life made at least 5 million kids happy or they found some…
Image: Youtube If you were thinking that Spotify’s new “hate content and hateful conduct policy”—which was faulty to begin with—would stop other alleged abusers’ music from being promoted, think again. Only R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion (who was charged with battery of a pregnant woman) were initially singled out as part of the policy, which…
Drake Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images for TNT) Drizzy Drake brought all the smoke to Pusha T and Kanye West, getting out a clapback to Pusha’s recently released diss track in record time but he also issued a six-figure invoice to the duo for “promotional assistance” and “career reviving.” Pusha, whose West-produced Daytona dropped on…
Photo: Paras Griffin (Getty Images) I spent Saturday evening in a room full of black people, celebrating the birthday of a friend and the genius possessed by two people who were not in that room: LeBron James and Donald Glover. The first part of our night was devoted to the second half of the Cleveland…
Yesterday, Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover released a music video for his new song, “This Is America.” The internet damn-near broke, because people were obsessed with the many layers and multiple meanings behind the 4-minute visual. youtube.com The video looks incredible. It was directed by Hiro Murai, the same guy who, according to Noisey, has “been behind videos for…
I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like…