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The disastrous “Celebration of Life” was the Fyre Festival of 1971, but much worse

Celebration of Life festival 1971

The mostly forgotten Louisiana festival had organizational hiccups, biker gangs going rogue, and at least a couple of drownings.

Spotify bot-farming lawsuit gets dismissed by California judge

Spotify

A class-action lawsuit accusing the streaming giant of turning a “blind eye” to artificially-inflated streams was rejected yesterday by Judge Josephine Stanton.

A near-death experience delivers transcendence on Ibrahim Alfa Jnr.’s Infinite Black Inside

Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. Infinite Black Inside

The rave scene vet provides wonky excellence and, thankfully, not a final testament.

This is Lorelei announces new album, shares “Billy Came Back”

This Is Lorelei

The Singer In My Band is out September 11 on Matador Records.

Beck offered listeners a strange and beautiful invitation on the genre-shattering Odelay

Beck Odelay

Thirty years ago, one of alt-rock’s greatest chameleons shed his slacker label to create one of the most puzzling and innovative albums of the nineties with the help of one Hungarian sheepdog, a pair of Dust Brothers, and two turntables and a microphone.