Mac Miller isn’t the Divine Feminine. The Pittsburgh keg-stander turned style-sampling artisan isn’t making a play at defining femininity. This isn’t an attempt to examine feminism in any way. He isn’t being facetious or woke. In fact, he doesn’t even try to explore what being a woman is like in any…

Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include…

Neil Young boasted of steering his career into “the ditch” in the early 1970s, choosing to make sad, lonely, difficult records in the wake of Harvest ’s wide success. The “Ditch Trilogy” (as Young enthusiasts dubbed it) of Time Fades Away , and On the Beach marks his creative peak—yet for decades,…

From Bikini Kill to Elliott Smith, the records that withstand the rain Art by Noelle Bullion PATH OF NO RESISTANCE Pacific Northwest Indie Rock Before and After the Gold Rush By Sean Nelson The suckerest bet in the music writing racket is trying to neatly summarize a regional music scene. But due to…