LCD Soundsystem’s entire career has been an exercise in irony. Disgruntled producer and DJ James Murphy, annoyed with the way his music career had stalled in his thirties, wrote the group’s deadpan...

In the second scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating magnum opus “Megalopolis,” protagonist Cesar Catalina stumbles onto a scaffold, towers over a model city and manically recites the entire...

This month, Leeds-based band English Teacher won the Mercury Prize for their debut record “This Could Be Texas”. I missed this one when it came out; it was not until the award that I decided to delve...

After a three-year hiatus, Irish global phenomenon Sally Rooney has returned to the shelves with her fourth novel, "Intermezzo." Rooney, best known for her novel "Normal People," has drawn attention far...

Students at Clemson have a myriad of options available throughout the community to keep themselves in shape. One of the biggest is Fike Recreation Center. Not only is Fike the largest gym on campus,...

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” now in theaters via Mubi, opens with a card touting its Best Screenplay win at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The movie that follows led me to call the Cannes...

BookTok, a community on TikTok that shares book reviews and recommendations, has taken the publishing industry by storm, significantly impacting book sales and literary trends. However, certain books get...

The experience of watching Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” is best encapsulated by a line that Owen, the film’s main character, utters early on. “It feels,” he says, “like someone took...

Over the past few months, tastemakers and artists on the trendier side of the pop spectrum have become obsessed with reviving “indie sleaze.” Indie sleaze is an aesthetic defined, as far as I can tell,...

Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth studio album, “Short n’ Sweet,” has delivered the musical embodiment of a brazen wink. Throughout the record’s tracklist, which includes smash-hit singles “Espresso”...

Synthpop duo Magdalena Bay’s sophomore album, “Imaginal Disk,” opens with a short burst of mechanical noise, followed quickly by a single word: “Hello,” placidly intoned by vocalist Mica Tenenbaum....

‘Sociopath: A Memoir’ by Patric Gagne Patric Gagne’s 2024 memoir “Sociopath” is one of the best I have read in years. I was hooked from the book’s opening lines. Gagne takes the reader through...