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“This story crashed unannounced into my life,” Jon Ronson tells me. It’s a lazy summer afternoon in the hamlet where he lives in upstate New York, and the journalist and author of The Men Who Stare at Goats, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, and The Psychopath Test is explaining the genesis of his latest book. He describes a night, almost exactly three years ago, when he slept through a series of texts that came in from his adult son. The messages told a disconcerting story: His son’s friend, a woman, had connected with a man on Tinder, who invited her…
Following huge demand, Jamie T has added more dates to his 2026 UK headline tour. The tour comes in support of his new album, ‘Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)’, which drops on October 9 via Polydor Records, and has already been previewed with the lead single ‘3310’. Announced following a last-minute, intimate gig at London’s Scala at the end of last month, there were originally seven live shows planned for the end of the year, kicking off with a show in Birmingham on December 7 and wrapping up in Brighton on December 20. Now, following huge demand for tickets, three…
25 years ago this week, Jay-Z released The Blueprint, an album that would go on to cement his legacy as a generational figure within hip-hop. The album exhibited a then 31-year-old Jay’s penchant for inventive wordplay and swaggering, easygoing street-level poetics. On one track in particular, he also found him rapping alongside another figure whose own iconic rap career was only just heating up. “Renegade,” featuring Eminem, provided a moment where two rappers, both operating at their respective peaks, existed side-by-side on the same track. By then, Eminem had established himself with a string of electric, critically acclaimed LPs, while…
Saluting the coolest member of the animal kingdom with feline favorites from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Elton John, Prince, and more The Romans believed that cats could see ghosts. In Aztec and Mayan folklore, cats were esteemed as guides to the underworld. For the Greeks, cats shared a cosmic connection with the lunar cycle. In 16th century England, people were convinced that if a cat jumped over a human corpse, the deceased person would turn into a vampire. All of this stuff is true, of course. Cats are the coolest, smoothest, most mysterious members of the animal kingdom. (Their aloof indifference…
Until the extraordinary outpouring of joy that greeted their blockbuster 2025 reunion tour, it was easy to take the impact of Oasis for granted. Noel and Liam Gallagher’s vital, working-class band sing huge, anthemic songs about living forever, being free and believing in each other. They were arguably the last British band that really mattered, even if their best work was made in the mid 1990s. With Don’t Look Back in Anger directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern – along with curiously credited creator/writer Steven Knight – have delivered a momentous, emotionally charged concert documentary which doesn’t contain revelations but showcases exactly why they mean so much to so many. Having set out the band’s history with news archive and fan footage, from having the fastest-selling debut album…
Over the holiday weekend the president claimed the moon, proposed renaming New Mexico and debuted Space Force’s galactic empire uniforms. This absurd theater is embarrassing and debasing Like Minions supervillain Gru, on Sunday afternoon President Donald Trump attempted to steal the moon. Among the barrage of AI slop polluting the president’s Truth Social timeline this weekend, Trump posted an image of the lunar landscape with the caption “THE MOON IS OURS 🇺🇲” Trump has repeatedly suggested his intent to establish a permanent American presence on the Moon. Now he’s advanced to outright ownership, given that the United States was the…
Donald Trump has literally taken a wrecking ball to the White House — and US courts seem helpless to stop him. The East Wing was destroyed without civic debate or congressional approval – and is now in the process of being replaced by a 90,000 square foot luxury ballroom that is double the size of the current White House complex. That is an insult to the rule of law, to American history, and to every US citizen — because the White House ultimately belongs to us, not its current temporary occupant. If you don’t believe this is a dangerous precedent,…
Lola Young has teamed up with Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) for a new Lifelines T-shirt. Find all the details below. The T-shirt is part of CALM’s campaign to raise funds for suicide prevention, with money going towards their services, which include a suicide prevention helpline and the mental health app CALMzone. Launched last year, CALM’s ‘Lifelines’ collection also features designs from Fontaines D.C., Blossoms and Inhaler. Young’s tee features her lyric, “There’s a flicker of light. There’s always morning after the night”, which is taken from her song ‘Flicker Of Light’. “I wrote this song about realising there is hope. I…
Surely, you’ve seen…The Balls. No one expected that country music in the summer of 2026 would be illuminated by the sparkly, gloriously perverse glow of a set of disco testicles. But that low-hanging display, the centerpiece prop of Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere Tour, has come to sum up country’s year of horniness. Amplified by the whirling of Musgraves’ lonely-girl washing machine — not to mention her use of eggplant emojis, an extremely steamy video, and even a lube line — this has undoubtedly been the genre’s wet hot American summer. But it’s not just Musgraves. Nashville first started heating…
Days after fans spotted mysterious postcards in Australia and Japan, Radiohead have officially announced a 2027 tour that will take them them to both countries next summer. The news of the 21-date trek arrives exactly one year after the band announced a fall 2025 tour in Europe, marking their first shows since 2018. Similar to that tour, the Australia/Japan run will feature consecutive nights at a small number of arenas. It kicks off on May 3 at the Rac Arena in Perth, where they’re slated to play four shows, followed by mini residencies in Melbourne and Sydney. They’ll then head…
