Does Eminem deserve to get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Obviously! But his inclusion among the nominees for the class of 2022 has raised equally obvious questions about whether it’s right for him to be inducted before rap legends and pioneers who preceded him, from Rakim to …
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As an infectious disease epidemiologist and research fellow at Boston’s Children’s Hospital who debunks health misinformation on Instagram —where she has more than 380,000 followers — Jessica Malaty Rivera regularly receives tips from her followers about viral content to debunk. A few weeks ago, her followers started sending her a …
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TikTok is not exactly the most sex-positive app. The platform tends to censor terms like “sex” and “stripping” (leading content creators to come up with clever workarounds in their captions, such as “seggs” and “skripping”), and sex workers often complain about being booted from the app for no good reason. …
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Decades ago, Ivy Queen was preparing for the biggest audition of her life: She was about to rap in front of Puerto Rico’s legendary DJ Negro to prove that she had the skills to become a member of the Noise, the underground collective that would often perform at the San …
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UPDATE (5/7): The Podcast Academy has tapped Cameron Esposito to host their inaugural ceremony, held on May 16th. Rainn Wilson, Hank Azaria, Este Haim, Kenan Thompson, Darren Criss, Neil Strauss, Whitney Cummings, Ashley Flowers, DeRay Mckesson, and others will present awards. ** The Podcast Academy has announced the nominees for …
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Matador Records has announced Revisionist History, a new podcast featuring the label’s artists and collaborators in conversation. Linked to the catalog reissue series of the same name, the podcast celebrates album anniversaries with artists discussing each other’s processes and careers. The first episode features Liz Phair, Snail Mail‘s Lindsey Jordan, …
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One of the cleverest ads I’ve ever seen from a music-streaming service arrived in April 2018 — and it was geared toward other business players, not consumers. Following years of strong growth for the record industry, labels had been facing up to the idea that annual increases in audio-streaming subscription …
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In the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums, our new podcast on Amazon Music, we go inside the emotional true story of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, a 1994 solo album that Petty thought was the best work of his career. Long after he released it, Petty never could stop …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-show journalist and historian Thomas Frank. For this week’s Democrats Suck, Katie takes issue with Democrats “punching left,” citing a leaked conference call among House Democrats where some Dems reportedly blamed the poor …
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Kanye West talked about his presidential campaign, the coronavirus, religion, his mental health, a possible run for California governor and the “treacherous” music industry in a wide-ranging, three-hour interview with Joe Rogan. “I think very three-dimensionally. I don’t think in the black-and-white lines that I’ve been programmed to think in. …
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