All along, Frank Ocean has been hiding in plain sight. Not on the sites populating your feed, perhaps, because he releases songs and tours sparingly, rewrites music industry conventions with stealth precision, and flouts celebrity social media paradigms at will. But for all the talk of how enigmatic…

In the House, Democrats are inching ever closer to impeaching President Trump. Some are even pushing for drafting articles of impeachment by Thanksgiving and, potentially, sending proceedings to the S

T he Nurse With Wound list is one of the greatest pieces of fieldwork ever conducted in music. It is a secret handshake, a map, a wishlist, and yet it still contains mysteries. A list of 291 artists,

Baroque with details, and teeming with the voices and instrumental contributions of over 20 collaborators, producer Chino Amobi ’s 2017 opus Paradiso drew direct inspiration from epic narratives like

Sonic Hauntologies in Industrial Musics Location: Stawberry Hill, London More Info: Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture Event Date: Mar 8, 2013 Organization: St Mary's University, London Hauntology The Gothic Industrial Music (Un)popular Music 199 Views • PaperRank: • Bulk Download (37…

CAMBRIDGE — On the wall at Harvard Art Museums, Kerry James Marshall and Nicolas Regnier sit shoulder to shoulder and centuries apart. But the idea, really, is to see them on the same level. Marshall, now in his 60s, is the paterfamilias of African-American painting, with decades invested in…

Photo illustration by Scott J. Ross Three artists and a pair of curators came together at The New York Times to attempt to make a list of the era’s essential artworks. Here’s their conversation. On a recent afternoon in June, T Magazine assembled two curators and three artists — David Breslin , the…

Aphex Twin on the Rephlex years Words Oli Warwick Published 20 Aug 2019 Photo Credit Portraits - Paul Nicholson Have an idea for a feature on RA? Get in touch with us here Discover Get RA apps Are you

The American writer Derek de Koff got in touch with us recently to offer us this rarely seen or read Coil interview (with John Balance and Peter Christopherson) from 2001. And we've also got a long extract from David Keenan's excellent England's Hidden Reverse on the narcotic and artistic influences…

Here is a simple statement of principle that doesn’t get repeated enough: if you possess billions of dollars, in a world where many people struggle because they do not have much money, you are an immoral person. The same is true if you possess hundreds of millions of dollars, or even millions of…

Nora K. Jemisin wants to talk about cities. First, Ferguson, Missouri. As Jemisin, along with the rest of the world, watched a city rise up in rage in response to the injustice of then-officer Darren Wilson's murder of Michael Brown, she slowly began to imagine a new way for the world to end. A…

Two weeks ago, at a press conference in London, after Round Five of the twelve-round world chess championship, the two competitors, Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen, were asked to name their favorite chess players from the past. Caruana answered with Bobby Fischer, the brilliant American whose…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration The stereotypical trappings of poker have never appealed to Steve Albini. “Douchebags in sunglasses trying to soul read each other or some macho jagoff with a flaming ace of spades tattooed on his shoulder,” he said recently. “That kind of stuff.” That’s not Steve…

FEATURE: Sprouts for Christmas IN THIS PHOTO: Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon (circa 2013)/ PHOTO CREDIT: Kevin Westenberg The Return of the Peerless Paddy McAloon __________ THIS new announcement and news from Paddy McAloon ... IN THIS PHOTO: Paddy McAloon captured in 1985/ PHOTO CREDIT: Michael…

I first thought of potentially soloing El Capitan in 2009 , but then it took me another eight years to actually do it. Why? You frickin’ look at the wall, and it’s so scary. I mean, it’s one thing to think, oh, I should do that, that’s the next obvious challenge. It’s another to actually do it.…

Tom Maxwell | Longreads | October 2018 | 16 minutes (3,146 words) In 1948, Columbia Records introduced the first commercial long-playing record , which revolved at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute and could hold more than 20 minutes of music per side. The older technology, 78-rpm records, couldn’t hold…

Textbook costs increased 88 percent between 2006 and 2016, according to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Getty Images Hannah, a senior at a private university in New York City, can’t think of a single semester when she bought all the books she needed for her classes. “Even when I was…

Monday’s fish has been around since Friday, under God knows what conditions. Illustration by Adrian Gill Good food, good eating, is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay. It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young…

June 4, 2018 Closing the Gap in Transgender Care The health care system is beginning to respond to the challenges transgender men and women face in getting the care they need. By W ord spread quickly among transgender members of a support group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when a popular clinic closed and…

FEATURED 2 replies Writer John Doran As John Robb of the Gorilla Channel speaks to Martin ‘Youth’ Glover of Killing Joke this week John Doran in turn asks when the ground-breaking British goth groups of the post punk period are going to get the critical respect they deserve It’s undeniable that…

Tarpley Hitt | June 5, 2018 | 8:00am A A Update 6/21: BSO has charged 22-year-old Dedrick D. Williams with killing XXXTentacion. Update 6/18: XXXTentacion has been shot in Deerfield Beach and rushed to a hospital. The Broward Sheriff's Office says he was pronounced dead shortly after 5:30 p.m.…

From New Orleans rap to noughties New York rock, via krautrock, jazz, riot grrrl and the story of political pop, we asked Quietus contributors to pick out forty of the finest music books ever written For this feature, we asked tQ's esteemed contributors to select their favourite books about music.…

Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more than merely brilliant; it is magic.—TONI MORRISON It takes guts, courage, and skill to shoulder the burden of a generation’s mind-set. Culturally, Kendrick Lamar is that compass—in…

There are a number of reasons why movie directors do not generally go around establishing museums. It is not only because most of them do not own enough artworks to put into them or have enough money to start new careers as philanthropists. If you direct movies for a living, you are accustomed to…

B lockchain has been touted as a way to track diamonds or even prevent counterfeit goods — and the hype has spread to health care. A blockchain is essentially a database in the form of what’s called a distributed ledger. That is, information is distributed across a network of participants. The…

After years of escaping into music, writer Mark Richardson finds out what it feels like to hear no sound at all. Illustrations by Tallulah Fontaine Immersive portable audio—the ability to be out in the world while listening to your favorite music privately, on headphones—is a relatively new…

In 2018, what is left to explore of the world? It seems unlikely, say, that humans might find an undisturbed forest to study, some place that hasn’t been bulldozed and burnt and exploited to within an inch of its life for precious minerals or virgin timber. But that’s exactly what happened this past…

Alicia Tatone B efore the automobile , before the Statue of Liberty, before the vast majority of contemporary colleges existed, the rising cost of higher education was shocking the American conscience: “Gentlemen have to pay for their sons in one year more than they spent themselves in the whole…

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, of Penn, has done a forensic examination of the campaign. Illustration by Tyler Comrie Donald Trump has adopted many contradictory positions since taking office, but he has been unwavering on one point: that Russia played no role in putting him in the Oval Office. Trump…

Culture Club/Getty Images German President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Adolf Hitler on their way to a youth rally at the Lustgarten, Berlin, May 1933 As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the…

On a quiet, tree-lined street in Racine, Wisconsin, in a neighborhood known as the Danish Village for its Scandinavian ancestry, sits a two-story white house with a large American flag hanging from the porch and a pro-police “We Back the Badge” sign in the yard. It’s the home of Republican state…

The Birth of Loop A Short History of Looping Music Although repetition is a major force in music it was never used in this way before Terry Riley Repetition is a form of change Brian Eno A way for one person to make an awful lot of noise. Wonderful! Robert Fripp This page tries to summarize the…