Across his decade-long body of work, Rahim Redcar—the artist known until now as Christine and the Queens—has tangled in the interplay between sexual and spiritual surrender. A dynamic, expressive singer, he’s nurtured a perennial fascination with the ways those experiential…
Chappell Roan has announced that she will not be performing at BrainBurst this weekend. The breakout pop star had been due to play the festival’s New York edition, on Saturday, September 28, and the Columbia, Maryland, edition, on Sunday, September…
Formed in Austin, Texas, but of no fixed abode for much of their late-’80s heyday, the Butthole Surfers resembled a cross between Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the early, no-budget Alice Cooper—a roaming freak show of improvised druggy chaos. Along…
SOPHIE’s New Album Feels Preprogrammed, But in the Best Way Possible! It’s tempting to imagine the sequencing as a queering of tradition, with an opening section of mostly noise and spoken-word sci-fi ruminations to preemptively drag any worries of “the…
