Byline: Christian Bischoff

Life After Life on Spotify

“No one thinks of Spotify as a means to immortality. But so long as the platform exists, a sort of permanence is granted. Our long finished playlists will become fuel for Discover Weekly long after we’re gone. We become eternal tastemakers, unconsciously curating mixtapes for future listeners.”

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The Character in Woody Allen Films Who is Clearly Just Woody Allen Played by Someone Else

“the Universe
is Expanding!”

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The Afterparty

“Bobby prays to God and
remembers to call the plumber”

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A Law Against Inaction

The implications of Israel’s anti-BDS travel ban

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Books@ Cafe

The rich history of a gay café in Amman, Jordan and the social change it inspired in a complex metropolis

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Weezer’s Summery Return

Having traded their 90s-style distortion and macho guitar riffs for piano and sad-boy vulnerability, Weezer is certainly stepping in a new direction.

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Saturday Nights at the Marquis

After the show, we sit crosslegged in the theatre and smoke long thin cigarettes

and watch the smoke drift among the rafters, the tattered red velvet of the curtains

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Kanye: The Life of Pablo Reviews

Perhaps it makes most sense to analyze it in the context of Yeezy’s artistry: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and Yeezus are reaches, exemplars of a bravado unparalleled by Kanye’s contemporaries; The Life of Pablo is a revision.

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Take Me to Chvrch

The moment I first lent my ears to a band on stage, I fell deeply in love. Live music has always been my route to something more, supplying me with a sense of rapture a sermon or a nature walk could never quite compare to.

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