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Wet Leg’s Tiny Desk Concert: Video

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Wet Leg’s Tiny Desk Concert: Video

Wet Leg did a home version of the Tiny Desk Concert series a few years ago, but now NPR has gotten the band into the office for a proper Tiny Desk performance, which was shared today (July 9). It’s one fans are going to want to pay attention to. Aside from playing “CPR” and “Davina McCall,” Wet Leg also played “Mangetout,” an unreleased song they’ve played live before. They also debuted “11:21,” another unreleased track, but this one, they hadn’t […]

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Lord Huron’s ‘The Night We Met’ Is Sneaky-Huge

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Lord Huron’s ‘The Night We Met’ Is Sneaky-Huge

As a music critic, I’ve always been fascinated by “popular but not famous” bands. The type of act that manages to achieve tangible success without exactly becoming a household name. For years, these bands typically derived from genres marginalized in the mainstream — metal, prog, the jam-band scene, and so on. But in the streaming age, “popular but not famous” acts have become more common across the board, as it’s now easier to quantify popularity (streaming numbers, ticket sales, social […]

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Why Your Brain Loves Love Island

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Why Your Brain Loves Love Island

If you’re anything like me, you’re picky about what you watch. I steer clear of anything that doesn’t deepen my understanding of the world in some way. My watch list is full of documentaries spanning history, murder cases, nature, culture, and white failure (FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is my comfort movie).But over the last few years, my close friends and I have collectively obsessed over shows like Love Is Blind, The Ultimatum, and most recently, Love Island USA.For […]

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The 2025 Essence Festival Put New Orleans’ Rich Food

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The 2025 Essence Festival Put New Orleans’ Rich Food

New Orleans is known for a few things, but somewhere at the top of the list is its food. Local cuisine is one of the most cited reasons for New Orleans’ booming tourism trade, and it has some of the most recognizable regional dishes in American cuisine. If you’re going to NOLA, you’re going for the gumbo, the jambalaya, the po boys, and the beignets. With a Creole grandmother, it’s the food I find myself pining for most that’s hardest […]

todayJuly 10, 2025

Our Review Of Buffalo Trace’s New ,500 Bourbon

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Our Review Of Buffalo Trace’s New $1,500 Bourbon

They don’t make bourbon like they used to, but what if they did? It’s a simple question, one posed by a group of American whiskey luminaries, now dubbed the “Distiller’s Council,” back in 1996, and now, in 2025, we finally have the answer. Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Distiller’s Council is the newest bourbon from Buffalo Trace, but what makes it so unique is that it draws its inspiration from the past. Utilizing production practices that date back to the late […]

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Nicki Minaj Blasts Jay-Z, Roc Nation, Megan Thee Stallion in Social Media Rant

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Nicki Minaj Blasts Jay-Z, Roc Nation, Megan Thee Stallion in Social Media Rant

Nicki Minaj exploded in a series of posts on social media, blasting Jay-Z, Roc Nation and Megan Thee Stallion. After news broke that Megan and Roc Nation’s motion to have a lawsuit thrown out was denied by a federal judge on Monday (July 7), Nicki took the opportunity to mock the news via her Instagram.A cameraman is suing Megan (real name Megan Pete) and her management; saying that he was forced to watch the “W.A.P.” rapper have sex in a […]

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‘Sound Check’ With Jeremy Hecht: Tech N9ne

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‘Sound Check’ With Jeremy Hecht: Tech N9ne

This week’s Sound Check With Jeremy Hecht is also a Sound Check with Tech — as in Tech N9ne, the Midwestern indie stalwart whose tongue-twisting rhymes have upheld the standard for lyrical excellence for the past 25 years. The Kansas City native takes on the challenge of choosing between carefully selected songs to display his taste, and once again, Jeremy has the unenviable task of guessing Tech’s desert-island fave, all while our production team tries to throw him off the […]

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