Viewed in a vacuum, the selection of Maroon 5 for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show made a lot of sense. Led by Adam Levine—adult-contemporary sex-ish symbol, coach on “The Voice,” clothing designer —the group has ridden the shifting tides of 21st-century pop better than most other entities. In…

Secret Dunny Box About The Secret Dunny Box is a bathroom installation that lets you listen to a secret message left for you by the previous visitor, but only if you leave a message for the next person. It was installed at BAR SK in Melbourne as part of the Artworld Videogames exhibition. "Dunny" is…

John Coltrane was a late bloomer. Born in 1926, the same year as Miles Davis, he spent his twenties in and out of small-time bands, a promising journeyman moving between playing jazz and the more bar-friendly music that was starting to be called R&B. During these early years he had problems with…

Killer Mike wants to shake shit up and he’s willing to hurt a few feelings to do it. As a politically and socially inquisitive rapper of over two decades, one half of the Run the Jewels duo with songs like “ Kill Your Masters ,” he has been tinkering with ideas on how to develop a system to work for…