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It was on track to be the dumbest year on record before it became a horrifying one. You know you’re in trouble when you find yourself longing for the more dignified days of Rick Perry, Harambe T-shirts, and Mike Posner’s “I Took a Pill in Ibiza.” But here we are, dizzy and sore at the end of a year when stupid and outlandish things came too fast and too furious to lodge themselves in even our short-term memory. Like, did you know there was a tenth Fast Furious movie in cinemas this calendar yea…
3 months ago
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“I think some people thought we were a joke band,” Justin Hawkins says of the misconceptions surrounding The Darkness during their early Aughts breakout. “A parody of some sort. Some people thought we’d been assembled by a nefarious music industry string-puller, like a Simon Cowell type who designed the band to do a big joke on rock fans.” At a time when nu-metal and teen pop were fading and young rock bands were straining for credibility, an all-frills glam band inspired by Queen and AC/DC didn…
4 months ago
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“I didn’t love the world of pop music, to be honest” Rick Astley says, “because what I dreamed it was and what I wanted it to be, it kind of wasn’t.” Well, here’s to never giving up: 36 years after his first, biggest, and completely career-defining hit, 28 years after walking away from the industry, seven years after dipping a toe back in and getting a surprise number one album, Rick Astley is having one hell of a moment. He’s got a fresh perspective on pop stardom, a surprising side project or…
6 months ago
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I don’t want to alarm you men, but you’re not men anymore. You can be forgiven for not noticing that men aren’t men anymore, because men are always not men anymore. “Men aren’t men anymore”—like “nobody younger than me wants to work” and “this isn’t real music”—has been said every day in every language since we’ve had days and languages. It’s a particular concern in America, where men haven’t been men anymore from the jump. Almost certainly one of our founding fathers told his son, “Don’t leave…
6 months ago
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I tested as many shoes, clothes, and as much gear as I could. Here’s what I’m arming myself with for the next 26.2.
6 months ago
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There are more than eight billion people on planet earth, and very few of them can remain relatable while they’re telling you about the time the diamond fell out of their mouth. Not just relatable, likable. Your heart breaks when you hear how he hungrily bit into a Chicken McNugget that night in Rome, and how he just knew he’d lost that $600,000 fang. It hardly matters that the story has already been spoiled. The two massive, real-ass jewels are right there on his canines where they belong; a h…
6 months ago
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Counting Crows’ August and Everything After turned thirty this month, which feels wrong because I remember going to the Auburn Mall to pick up the CD like it was last week, even though things like “CDs” and “the Auburn Mall” have not been a part of anyone’s life for what feels like much longer than 30 years. August hitting the big 3-0 also feels absolutely right, because it always sounded like an album that was approaching middle age: still energetic, still eager, still hopeful, but getting comf…
6 months ago
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If you live near a major metropolitan area, or a college town, or anywhere with a street that can be referred to as “the strip,” you’ve seen them. Pedal pubs: those long, slow-moving, party-music-blaring picnic tables on wheels. You’ve seen those rows of revelers, pedaling and drinking and whooping away, celebrating the bride-to-be, or toasting the graduate, or enduring the corporate team-building exercise. You’ve seen them, and you’ve shaken your head. “What kind of idiot does that,” you’ve gr…
7 months ago
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Our waitress crouched down to eye level and said, “Hey, bitches,” then, earnestly, perhaps less joyfully than she might have earlier in her shift: “Are you thirsty bitches?” She said it with a sense of duty. We were at a restaurant called Bacon Bitch, and this is what is done there. Bacon Bitch had come up in a Google search for “brunch nearby” on a Sunday afternoon in Miami Beach, and when I’m presented with an option that sounds like a waking nightmare, I am powerless to pass it up. So we went…
9 months ago
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Our editor at large went hunting for a suit that’s a step up (or two) from
what’s already in his closet. He got more than he expected.
over 1 year ago
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We’re in the throes of a culture-wide freakout over men. Here’s a solution.
almost 2 years ago