Shiban Khaibri shibankhaibri@gmail.com ” The limitation of rioting , moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it, hence rioting invites defeat involving an emotional ...

Florence Welch is backed by the folk-horror dramatics of a petticoat-clad choir – but quite capable of transfixing the crowd with her billowing voice alone ...

The most effective ways to lose your sh!t without losing your dignity. My family has a semi-strict house rule about not sleeping with sharp objects. Though my toddler had safely enjoyed playing with a ...

Catharsis burned bright and fast: In its eight years, the Chapel Hill band grew from a heavy and heavy-minded hardcore band to an aggressively ambitious genre bully. They developed a reputation as a ...

In our limited edition, long narrative of life, we’re sure to have had many moments where we felt something ardently that which we did not directly experience. Pull up some movies, we cry. Listen to ...

In a 2017 interview on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Metallica’s James Hetfield discussed what compels him to channel his darker emotions into songs. “What it is, is, if I can get it out of my head, it ...

A long time ago I proposed in this column a thing that I’m still determined to turn into an actual Thing: that the ways in which video games are appealing to users can be broken down into three ...