Honestly, it’s just fucking uncanny to watch the rest of the world realize Rowling was incoherent in her worldbuilding after a whole subset of the fandom thought she jumped the shark hard by Half Blood Prince, and that’s not even getting into the neoliberal/Blairite philosophy bleeding through the subtext that might…

The fact that nobody’s talking about Lori McKenna’s The Tree is a goddamn tragedy. Just dropped today, one of the most criminally underrated country folk artists of the past twenty years, and her last record The Bird & The Rifle would have been AOTY material in 2016 in a year with exceptionally strong country records.…

Given the author of this piece and the general ignorance he’s shown towards anything related to music (that horrorcore piece was one of the worst hip-hop thinkpieces I’ve ever had the misfortune to read: https://www.avclub.com/horrorcore-is-rap-s-monstrous-creation-that-refuses-to-1819622903), this is sadly no…

...you haven’t hung around a lot of punks, have you? Cordoning the genre is as timeless of a tradition as mosh pits, semi-improvised political rants, and thinking Green Day is just the fucking worst for ‘selling out’.

Was the tweet cringey and is Olbermann prone to hyperbole? Undoubtedly so. Hell, I’ll even concede his condescending side can tread into obnoxious territory (even then more often than not he’s right when it comes to the content - I’d take condescending with good intentions and real research than being earnestly,…

Better have your receipts before you play keyboard warrior, because right now you look like a troll. Considering I’ve got well over a thousand videos in my archive, where’s your evidence? ;)

A few factors:

Hate to be one of those folks who has actually collaborated with Fantano within the past week on a review and has had somewhat regular conversations with him, but that Fader piece was a total hack piece and borderline libelous to boot, deliberately stripping out context because Fantano has taken aim at some of their…

Yeah, it was cowritten by Teddy Geiger, who is old enough to know better, as was most of the rest of the crew that wrote that abortion of an album. Shawn Mendes himself might have potential, but he's being managed and directed into the same chasm of douchebaggery that plagued his genre of music in the mid-2000s - he…

It's actually kind of funny how therapeutic it was when you find the video of when Jake Paul tried to 'sell the house' where a bunch of David Dobrik's crew and friends (mostly other Viners) were living - along with the typical borderline doxxing of showing license plates and addresses because fuck this kid - and when…

Counterpoint: Marianas Trench gets a rough rap because of an incredibly douchey lead-off single from Fix Me (and even then I'd argue there's a case for irony)… and then with Masterpiece Theater, Ever After and especially Astoria went on to make some of the best and most consistent pop rock on the market. Ridiculously…

It's that scene with Britta that remains one of the highlights of Gillian Jacobs' magnificent acting on that show. Fuck, that scene guts me every time, and even hearing Oliver's non-acting method there, it still works.

Well, there is a Keith Urban album out right now, but we don't want to talk about it.

Yeah, because an extended, tabloid-encrusted sexual assault trial across multiple states extending for years, killing your momentum, and probably destroying your career along the way is the BEST way to get out of a contract!

So let's actually take a look at that case, shall we? This was done back in 2011, when Kesha signed up with DAS Communications, who wanted to move her over to Warner Bros. So they took a look at her contract's enforceability with Dr. Luke, and when Kesha decided to go back to Dr. Luke, DAS sued them both.

See, I would buy this… except Dr. Luke's production credits over the past two years have been kind of lackluster, with only one top 10 hit in 2015 (from another group signed to Kemosabe known as Rock City, whose debut album sold miserably. In fact, if you dig into Kemosabe's financials, they haven't turned a profit…

Okay, still haven't finalized my list yet - because it's not the end of December and I haven't heard the new Cage The Elephant yet, so it's time for the comment I normally reserve for the Rolling Stone board until I realized they're never going to change.

Nobody can explain banding. Nobody.

I think you're mixing up Kendrick with Future. And Young Thug. And Rich Homie Quan.

Solid list there. Let's add a bunch more: