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May 15, 2023
All 169 Seinfeld Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best It’s the 25th anniversary of the Seinfeld finale — where did that infamous episode land in our ranking?
highway to hell
Oct. 6, 2022
The Live-Music Industry Is Broken Supply-chain issues, mental health crises, positive COVID tests. As artists continue to struggle, is any of this even worth it?
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Apr. 20, 2021
vulture lists
May 11, 2020
Jerry Stiller’s 8 Best Frank Costanza Moments on Seinfeld A look back at some of the late actor’s most memorable work.
How Yungblud Made a ‘Rock and Roll Version of Jimmy Kimmel ’ in 72 Hours “I woke up one morning after the shows were canceled and was like, ‘You know what? Fuck this. I need to feel that connection and noise, that energy.’”
coronavirus
Mar. 16, 2020
‘It Could Be an Incredibly Quiet Year’: 18 Musicians On a Post-Coronavirus World “We were aware of this in January enough to make jokes about all of it, and now it’s not a joke anymore.”
vulture lists
Sept. 25, 2019
How Woodstock 50 Imploded Right Before Our Eyes: A Timeline From definitely sort of canceled to definitely sort of uncanceled to officially canceled. Here’s what the hell happened.
What Did Martin Scorsese Make Up in Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story ? The Netflix doc blends fact and fiction so seamlessly you might not know what to believe.
The 21 Wildest Celebrity Stories From Moby’s Controversial Tell-all Memoir The Natalie Portman and Lana Del Rey controversies are just the tip of the iceberg from the book sinking Moby’s career once again.
tribeca film festival 2019
Apr. 30, 2019
Tribeca’s Sublime Doc Mostly Misses the Point There’s a hurried slickness to Sublime that ultimately hampers any attempt to offer the definitive account of the band’s history.
pay me what you owe me
Apr. 10, 2019
Bitch Better Have My Money: A Brief History of Artists Not Paying Their Taxes From Shakira to Lauryn Hill to Ja Rule, here are just some of the artists who’ve ducked out on the IRS.
side hustles
Apr. 8, 2019
17 Indie Artists on Their Oddest Odd Jobs That Pay the Bills When Music Doesn’t “Even if you’re working full-time at McDonald’s, you’re gonna make more money than a lot of my peers.”
Marc Maron on Difficult Interviews, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, and More “Neil Young’s another one. I didn’t really know, going in, that he doesn’t like doing interviews … That started off pretty dicey.”
What It’s Like Seeing the ‘Butterfly’ Guys do ‘Butterfly’ Sure, okay: Crazy Town played a tiny Brooklyn venue for some reason.
How Ariana Grande Dominated the Charts Her success story is indicative of the ways in which chart success is measured circa 2019.
Exploring Avril Lavigne’s Complicated Influence “I remember thinking she was the penultimate [alternative] chick … I just wanted to be her so badly.”
Halsey Is Popular, But It’s Surprising That She’s Pulling Double Duty on SNL Nonactors ranging from Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton to Frank Zappa and Justin Bieber have all had their shot at hosting. Why not Halsey?
grammys 2019
Feb. 8, 2019
Here Are the High-Stakes Battles of the 2019 Grammys Ariana Grande vs. Taylor Swift! Childish Gambino vs. Joyner Lucas! Drake vs. Drake!
Cass McCombs on That Time He Painted a Room in the Trump Tower, Jam Bands, More “I regret everything. I don’t trust people who don’t regret things. Where to even get started with regret?”
controversies
Feb. 1, 2019
Why Maroon 5’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Already a Mess It’s an unmistakable apex for a pop-rock band that’s survived myriad shifts in both genres, and seems like a precipice moment in their career.
trend report
Jan. 25, 2019
How TV on the Radio Influenced Popular Rock Music They haven’t released an album in years, but their influence looms large.
A Guide to James Blake’s Fascinating Back Catalogue You might know him for his piano jams, but he’s got a lot of weird and brilliant stuff floating around out there.
the festival circuit
Jan. 11, 2019
Where Do Music Festivals Go Now? What this year’s lineups tell us about the future of the music festival.
An Attempt at Defining Indie Music in the 2010s The beginning of the ’00s offered multiple moments of major shifts in indie music, but this decade has been significantly murkier.
the apocalypse
Dec. 21, 2018
MGMT, Parquet Courts, and the End of the World How two bands became consumed with confronting and questioning the regular horrors of everyday society.
What’s Up With Zayn’s Solo Career? After he left One Direction, Zayn Malik seemed like he was gearing up for a major solo career … and then it didn’t really work. What happened?
lights camera cgi
Dec. 14, 2018
Great Moments in Auto-Tune History From the time that it was invented by some math guy to its liberal application by Kanye West, Auto-Tune has had a long and weird past.
charlie puth
Dec. 12, 2018
The Year of Charlie Puth He was hungies for success, and success was hungies for him.
the internet
Dec. 6, 2018
Grimes: The Complete Timeline (So Far) Photos of Grimes and Elon Musk at the pumpkin patch not included.
vulture lists
Nov. 29, 2018
10 Essential 1975 Songs How to navigate their already-kind-of-overwhelming catalogue.
vulture lists
Nov. 23, 2018
Revisiting Nathan for You ’s Best and Worst Business Ideas From Valley’s Pizza Land to a surprisingly heartwarming gas-station scheme.
Hobo Johnson Is About to Be Huge And it’s hard to define what type of music he actually makes.
Head Full of Dreams Brings Coldplay Back Down to EarthIt’s an intimate look at the biggest band in the world.
winter preview 2019
Nov. 15, 2018
Winter Music Preview: Bruce Springsteen, Ariana Grande, Meek Mill, and More Look out for new albums from a host of major figures, plus a few completely unpredictable surprises.
How Muse Became One of the World’s Biggest Rock Bands The prog-rock heavyweights have functioned as something similar to a modern rock version of QAnon, with lyrics that dive into dystopian diatribes.
vulture lists
Nov. 5, 2018
what is real?
Nov. 2, 2018
Maybe Poppy’s Self-Aware Pop Music Is Too Self-Aware What’s real and what’s another trendy toy in Poppy’s postmodern playpen?
where’s the beef?
Oct. 31, 2018
The Ultimate 50 Cent Super-Villain Timeline All the times the rapper caused trouble for his own amusement.
10 Robyn Deep Cuts Worth Revisiting You already know the hits, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of other good stuff to (re)discover.
How Indie Rock’s Class of 2008 Changed the Music Industry Chairlift, Passion Pit, and MGMT all released groundbreaking first albums, and then went on to quietly change the landscape of music as we know it.
classic rock
Oct. 17, 2018
Who Is Greta Van Fleet’s Music For? This is word-of-mouth music for people who are more likely to literally use their mouth to recommend it instead of the internet.
human weirdness
Oct. 10, 2018
Why Do People Love to Hate Twenty One Pilots? And at what point do they just love Twenty One Pilots?
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