Chris Potter/StockMonkeys.com At least one drug company is targeting problematic daydreaming. Have you been daydreaming lately? Does your mind wander? Is your thinking a little slow? You are not alone.
courtesy of Drag City Records Dan’l Boone I’ve only listened to the eponymous debut of Dan’l Boone, which was released by Drag City on Tuesday, a few times this week, and I feel pretty certain it will take many additional spins to fully let the work sink in. The recording was originally planned as a new album by Drainolith, the solo project of Denver’s Alex Moskos, a former member of AIDS Wolf, but in sessions with Neil Hagerty (Howling Hex), Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), and Charles Ballas (Format), it quickly transformed into something else altogether—a swirling, dizzying, and druggy bacchanalia of multidirectional chaos....
After I wrote about Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of education, a few weeks ago, I started getting e-mails from the Friends of Betsy DeVos. That’s why presidential spokesman Sean Spicer had to call a press briefing to make it clear that (in spite of those pesky photographs) Trump attracted the biggest inaugural crowd ever. And that everyone at the CIA is “ecstatic” that he’s now their leader....
When Terrance Scott stood before federal judge Joan Lefkow in June, he was hoping to receive some sympathy for the spot he’d been in—and a lighter prison sentence as a result. “People are scared straight for a number of reasons,” Sassan said. By the time he was in his early 20s, Scott had been arrested 20 times, mostly for drug-related offenses. On one occasion he was picked up after being caught calling out “Blows!...
“The MQ-9 Reaper,” says the United States Air Force’s online spec sheet, “is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily as an intelligence-collection asset and secondarily against dynamic execution targets.” In short, it’s a military drone—a plane with the ability not only to spy on enemy targets from a great and lofty distance but also to obliterate them at the touch of a button, with the Hellfire missiles it carries under its wings....
Q I’m a straight 24-year-old female, and I just recently lost my virginity. I’ve had sex only three times (not with a monogamous partner) and have found each time to be incredibly painful—even when the guy’s just using his fingers. I’ve always been extremely sensitive. In the past, I’ve had guys run their hands over my jeans, and even that hurts. I brought this up when I went to my first ob-gyn appointment, and my doctor assured me that everything was normal down there....
The career of Alabama’s Secret Sisters seemed on the upswing when they dropped their second album Put Your Needle Down (Republic) three years ago, the sweet close-harmony singing of Laura and Lydia Rogers set to catch fire. Instead, their label dropped them, they got tangled up in a lawsuit with a former manager, and they had to file for bankruptcy—Laura was forced to earn her keep more from cleaning homes than from taking the stage....
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In May a seven-member boy band from Seoul called BTS (aka Bulletproof Boy Scouts) won the Top Social Artist prize at the Billboard Music Awards, defeating Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, and Selena Gomez. It was a milestone moment in K-pop’s crossover into the Western marketplace, as was the chart performance of BTS’s second album, Wings, which in fall 2016 debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200—higher than any previous K-pop release....
Top Dawg Entertainment rapper Ab-Soul is from California, like the rest of the members of Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, and Jay Rock). But Ab-Soul’s collaborated with enough Chicagoans over the past couple years that I’d like to think he considers this city a second home—he’s dropped tracks with Twista, Common, Lupe Fiasco, and Cool Kids’ Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks; plus he’s on one the best tracks on Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap and my favorite tune on Vic Mensa’s Innanetape....
Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Emanuel delays briefing City Council on his plan for a CPS bailout Mayor Rahm Emanuel is working on a bailout plan for Chicago Public Schools that “could rely on using a mix of borrowing, tax-increment financing surpluses and job cuts for support staff” so the district doesn’t have to end its school year early, according to the Sun-Times. But he delayed a fuller discussion of his proposals for the second time when he canceled the Tuesday briefing he’d scheduled with the City Council....
Hemera Technologies/Photos.com All you have to do is look it up! Snub is a word you might think has everything going for it. It’s short and simple and it bites; it sounds like what it means. For the job at hand, there couldn’t be a better word. From HuffPo: “Oprah Winfrey’s Oscars Snub Shocks Academy Award Nominations.” These were not snubs! The Yahoo articled called them snubs but at the same time made it clear they were nothing of the sort....
When you take members of unhinged noise-rockers Den, crusty grinders Moral Void, and doomy hardcore outfit Angry Gods and put them together in a band practice room, you can be sure of a couple of things about any music they’ll produce: it’s gonna be intense, and it’s gonna be fuckin’ loud. And that’s exactly what’s happened in Bruges, a local four-piece consisting of bassist Matt Russell, vocalist Pat Nordyke, drummer Nate Kappes, and guitarist Dylan Piskula....
Having spent the last few days examining what led to last Friday’s calamitous carbon monoxide leak that sickened about 70 students and seven adults at Prussing Elementary School, Alderman John Arena has some simple advice for parents throughout the city: I still can’t get over this oversight. I mean, over the years I’ve seen all kinds of boneheaded moves by CPS officials, mostly having to do with personnel, curriculum, and finances....
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