Moshpits are mid now

Moshpits are mid now

Conventional wisdom blames social isolation for rude concert behavior. There’s a simpler explanation. Rich Fury / Getty Images Monday night at the skaiwater show in Brooklyn, The FADER editorial director Steffanee Wang watched as several fans clambered on stage and launched themselves into the crowd. At some point, the crowd stopped catching the stage divers…

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Jim Legxacy labors through grief on “idk idk”

Jim Legxacy labors through grief on “idk idk”

With backing harmonies by Natanya, it’s his first single since last summer’s Black British Music. We might be demanding too much of ourselves. That seems to be the crux of “idk idk,” the newest single by Jim Legxacy, and his first since last summer’s world-beating Black British Music. “I was livin’ on the floors, didn’t…

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18 songs for an amped-up Aries season

18 songs for an amped-up Aries season

For a high-energy solar transit, listen to songs by underscores, Iceage, MIKE, Latto, Rustie, Nettspend, Ebril, RRoxket, Six Sex, Kuru, and more. Mars and Six Sex.   NASA / Catalina Jacobo I’ve never planned my life around a horoscope, but I enjoy astrology as a meditative practice. I find astrological charts mesmerizing, and reading someone’s…

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