I'm a trans woman who's dreamt of becoming a musician since I was 13, and after having my life saved so many times by music, I want to become an artist who people can relate to and felt heard by. Which is why I write a lot about darker and real things I've experienced, like depression and being trans itself. Don't Hyde originally started as a bitter revenge song, but after sitting with it for a while, it took on a new meaning: about trying to come to terms with yourself. Trying to move out of a dark place and emerge from the darkness as a more positive and hopefully person. It soon became about the internal struggle, wrestling between the good and darker side inside of you before one of them - hopefully the good - emerges as the new victor.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
In Sig...
