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It's here. Save something for the Endshow.
Read more . . . →It’s here. Whatever’s left of you by the time the closing ceremony starts is who you actually are. The Endshow is the part nobody can explain to people who weren’t there. Fire, fireworks, a hundred thousand people who are completely wrecked and somehow a little bit crying. Pace yourself today, because the last hour is the one you came for and you don’t want to sleep through it. Here’s the kind of thing that lands when you’ve got nothing left and the sky’s on fire. 1. KELTEK - OG 2 ZOMBIE KELTEK going full throttle for the part of the...
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He Set The Fire, Then Showed Up With A Hose
Read more . . . →On Tuesday Trump stood inside the Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and told the workers he’d saved them. “I imposed a 25-percent tariff on medium and heavy-duty trucks so that Mack Truck could do very well with this factory,” he said, on camera, surrounded by people who still remember what happened in early 2025. Because that’s when Mack warned it might cut up to 350 jobs at this exact plant, and blamed the tariff chaos coming out of his own White House for the call. About 170 of them got laid off. Roughly 150 were eventually recalled, which the...
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THEMBA, Niraj Naik x Manoo feat. Nicolle Rochelle - Sorofe
THEMBA and crew deliver afro house that doesn't rush to the drop because the drop was never the point. Hypnotic, patient, and genuinely transporting.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Tantrum Desire - Step
Tantrum Desire doing what they do best, relentless neurofunk that puts you in a headlock and doesn't let go. The bassline never stops mutating.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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She Got Past The Bouncer
Read more . . . →Nan’s been raving in that warehouse since before your favorite DJ was born. Seen things in there. Says nothing.
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The Death of the Music Blog (And Why This One Exists)
Pitchfork got folded, Hype Machine faded, Majestic Casual got sued. Music blogs didn't die — the business model did. Here's what's left.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Taiki Nulight, Casey Club & Diligent Fingers - Take Out Your Team (ft. P Money)
Taiki Nulight, Casey Club and Diligent Fingers bringing grime-inflected dubstep with P Money on the mic. Full takedown energy.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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The Fat Kitten That Fooled the Whole Timeline
Read more . . . →In late May, Mistral renamed its chatbot Le Chat — French for “the cat” — to “Vibe.” The fans mourning the cat did what the grieving do online: they built a replacement. Le Chaton Fat. Franglais for “the fat kitten,” an oxymoron with a face. It started in Mistral’s own community, hit X around June 11, and within hours actual machine-learning researchers were asking out loud if it was real. Cody Blakeney posted, dead serious, “Can someone tell me if Le Chaton fat is real or an amazingly elaborate joke?” No weights. No API. No model card. It never hit...
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Friday opens with Sefa and that's how you start a weekend
Read more . . . →Tomorrow it’s real. Friday the gates open, and somewhere around 11:30 Sefa walks out for “This is Sefa” and sets the tone for everything that follows. Opening sets are underrated by people who show up at 4pm. Nobody’s tired yet, nobody’s lost their friends yet, the whole thing is still pure potential. These are the tracks for that first hour, when the field is filling up and you still genuinely believe you’ll make it through to the Endshow. 1. Sefa - The Omega Sefa operates in his own lane and barely anyone can follow him there. Piano, frenchcore, classical training,...
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Yellow turns 26 and it still sucks
Read more . . . →26 years ago today, Coldplay released “Yellow.” It still sucks. The whole song rides one metaphor a 15-year-old would’ve crossed out: you’re a star, I went yellow, the end. Chris Martin found four notes on a guitar, decided that was plenty, and pushed the falsetto until “earnest” started doing the job that “good” was supposed to do. Then the ad agencies got hold of it, and for the next decade you couldn’t watch a car drift down a coastal road or a phone spin on a white background without that mopey little riff leaking out of the speakers. It didn’t...
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