Clayton Purdom's posts

Legendary post-hardcore outfit Quicksand goes contemplative on its first album in 22 years, while the rarities…

This week’s question comes from reader James Cobb:

Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation should drop at midnight tonight, preceded by a string of high-concept singles…

Sturgill Simpson is probably our best modern progenitor of outlaw country. Across three excellent records, Simpson’s…

Eventually, everyone succumbs to the desire to grab an acoustic guitar and illustrate that they, like, really like…

Stop what you are doing, immediately, and watch the above video by the fraternal rap duo The Hoodies. It will be the…

A year ago, the majority of voting Americans—65.8 million to 63 million, to be exact—were walking around in a state…

Twitter users are like characters in some sort of Gothic morality tale, strung up in cages above an abyss, subjected…

Yesterday, the ACLU came to the defense of a music blog that had called on Taylor Swift to denounce white…

In what can only be considered an appropriate introduction to the current state of our actively on-fire planet, a…

There are few people more imminently hatable in the public sphere in 2017 than Richard Spencer, the…

The cast of Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Lion King is already preposterously stacked, from beloved…

Over the weekend you may have come across this response from Uma Thurman, when asked by Access Hollywood about…

Apple’s very expensive and very contentious iPhone X came out last week, and, among its many vaunted new features,…

Earlier this week, Sony held a press conference during the Paris Games Week trade show. If you follow games, you’re…

Hardcore veterans Converge play to their strengths on The Dusk In Us, while Shamir’s Revelations is earnest and…

Not a lot is known about Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming Christmas-day downer Phantom Thread. Ostensibly Daniel…

This week’s question takes the old “best live act you’ve seen” question and restricts it to artists performing on…

Yesterday, noted conservative thought leader and renowned inventor of garlic butter dipping sauce John Schnatter…

Yesterday, as part of an ongoing Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the way Russian troll farms influenced the…