ON ASSIGNMENT: Call Me Ishmael 27 Aug 2013 | 12:16 pm

For the next couple days, I’ll be out in L.A. profiling this guy — whose new album, Innocents, is f*cking amazing — for the October cover story of MAGNET MAGAZINE so updating will be light. But sta...

MEDIA: When Journalists Attack 26 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm

Artwork by MR. FISH NEW YORK TIMES: Mr. Keller said the relationship with sources and competitors on coverage was always fraught with peril, but technology has created significant disruption to both ...

Huffington Post To Eliminate Anonymous Commenting; The 47 Trolls Ruining The Internet For Everyone Make Butthurt Sad Keanu Face 23 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm

CNN: Arianna Huffington is fed up with the trolls. The founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post says that starting next month, she will require readers to identify themselves by name in t...

LISTEN LIKE THIEVES: Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado 23 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm

Law & Order, the solo debut from Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado comes out September 3rd on Woodist. RELATED: Jonathan Rado is a songwriter, a staid performer, an evangelical producer – the 23-year-old Calif...

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME COVER UP? NFL Forced ESPN To Pull The Plug On Brain Damage Doc 23 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm

Watch “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. NEW YORK TIMES: Pressure from the National Football League led to ESPN’s decision on Thursday to pull ou...

BEING THERE: Chelsea Girl 23 Aug 2013 | 08:27 am

Moby, Los Angeles, yesterday. RELATED: The US soldier who was sentenced as Bradley Manning on Wednesday plans to undergo hormone therapy and has asked to be recognised as a woman. In a statement o...

NICO: Chelsea Girls 23 Aug 2013 | 08:20 am

The Problem With Half-Baked Conspiracy Theories Is They Provide Cover For The Fully Baked Ones 23 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am

LA WEEKLY: There’s a sign tacked to the tree where Hastings crashed that night, reading, “This was not an accident.” Taken down several times, it always gets put back up. Another sign says, “Didn’t...

MARVIN GAYE: Got To Give It Up 23 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am

NPR: “Blurred Lines,” this year’s song of the summer*, sounds a lot like Marvin Gaye’s “,” one of the songs of the summer of 1977.vIn fact, it sounds so much like the Marvin Gaye song that Robin Thick...

NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t 23 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am

Artwork by JOSE COCODRILO FRESH AIR If you’ve ever participated in a miserably long pub crawl, you’ll understand the plight of the characters in The World’s End, the latest from Simon Pegg, Nick Fro...