Back before your newfangled Spotifys and Apple Musics made endlessly streaming music extremely easy, people had to content themselves with listening to the built-in soundtrack when playing the same video game for hours on end. In the case of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, a series of mostly excellent skateboarding games that…

We’ll have to continue waiting for the Elton John biopic as its creators finish figuring out how to transfer the singer-songwriter’s charisma to Taron Egerton, an actor who is, notably, Not Tom Hardy. In the meantime, however, British department store John Lewis & Partners has provided a smaller recounting of the…

Kanye West, always one step ahead of the rest, has found an unlikely collaborator: Mark “World’s Oldest Boy” Zuckerberg. In the past, fans may have balked at his decision to work with Bon Iver or Katy Perry, but the results have been better than expected. Now, though, in a year when West has been working tirelessly to …

The modern world is full of important things to get upset about, not least of which is the future of global society’s only true lingua franca: the emoji. Testament to this is the ongoing war being raged over the fate of the little pictures deemed least important to our daily, smiley face-filled lives.

At first glance, Nirvana and Bobcat Goldthwait appear to have very little in common. But, think again and the similarities come rushing in: Both, for example, were important in shaping the direction of 1990s entertainment, both communicated their art through lots of growly sounds and raw onstage energy, and both, it…

Join us now for the tale of two cats, hungry not just for stinky salmon treats, but also the intellectual nourishment that comes from contemplating great art. Living in the Japanese city of Onomichi, this pair of feline critics has been trying to gain entry to a local museum only to be stymied, again and again, by…

Trumpy Bear—a stuffed bear decked out in the American president’s trademark too-long tie and floppy, spoiled mayonnaise-colored hair—is impossible to understand. Though we assumed that it had retired to the den of a shipping warehouse forevermore after first appearing in a disorienting commercial last year, the plushy…

The cast of Seinfeld always had an affinity for doom. Sure, their hair was kept trimmed, their apartments well lit, and they wore more primary colors than black, but “the show about nothing” understood the philosophy of existential dread on a fundamental level.

The proud warriors of House Michigan and House Penn State are engaged in a bloody war for control of the realm of college football. While the fighting between the two contestants, banners flying Penn State’s mighty lion and Michigan’s wolverine sigils, was fierce, a half-time break saw something of a truce emerge…

The only real connection between SpongeBob SquarePants and The Office is that they’re TV shows starring at least one character apiece who wears a tie. Otherwise, there is absolutely no reason to expect the two series to intersect in any way—and certainly no precedent for a clip to exist of SpongeBob voice actors…

The new season of Stranger Things, a show whose last season released more than a year ago, isn’t set to arrive on Netflix until next summer. This wait has made the series’ fans so ravenous for new information that they’ve started trying to gather facts from any possible source, including the 19th century’s favorite…

Talk show host and comedian Dennis Miller has become something like the American right’s leading comic in recent years. Nevertheless it turns out that the frequent Fox News guest—who used to have a segment called “Miller Time” where he made hilarious jokes about stuff like “doing pot” and global warming with Bill…

The internet has encouraged fans of upcoming movies and TV shows to get downright obsessive about promotional material. Case in point: a nice tweet from Brie Larson, the star of upcoming superhero movie Captain Marvel, telling Americans to go vote in this week’s midterm elections.

Kid Rock, most of us are thankful to know, was never actually running for Senate. Though both material and psychological damage has already been done by the mere idea of his candidacy, we were previously able to imagine that the world had begun to heal after learning that his bizarre performance art bid was never…

While gerrymandering wreaks enough havoc on the American democratic system to sufficiently undermine elections on its own, that doesn’t mean we can’t blame foreign agents for homegrown ills, too. As much attention as has been made paid to nefarious Russian plots, though, the nation has overlooked another deeply…

Pop music is mercurial, changing in unexpected new ways as the result of an untold number of influences. Sometimes, a breakthrough artist puts on an old record to discover a new take on a forgotten genre. Sometimes, a technological innovation creates brand new sounds. And sometimes, as we’re now learning, DJs hear…

Mike Myers, seeing that America is eagerly awaiting further news on both the outcome of its midterm elections and sequels to its favorite Bond-parodying film series, took to late night TV to capture this specific moment in time. He did so, of course, by dressing up as Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil and announcing the…

The Beastie Boys have just put out a new book and so, once again, they are out doing a promotional tour. This, as we can see in clips of Mike D and Ad-Rock guesting on last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, is a very good thing.

1982's Koyaanisqatsi is a meditative, absorbing look at modern life that forgoes traditional narrative for a selection of largely slow-motion scenes of humanity’s impact on our world overlaid by a Phillip Glass score. Aside from the rest of the so-called “Qatsi trilogy,” there’s really nothing else like it out…