Raye’s world tour is the latest proof that a British woman with a laptop full of heartbreak and a TikTok algorithm can still make the planet shudder. In an age when most pop acts outsource their charisma to LED walls, Raye—born Rachel Keen, South London, classically trained, statistically underpaid until last year—has managed to stitch…
Morrissey Takes His Misery on a World Tour: Global Gloom, Local Whining It’s official: the Pope of Mope has mapped his 2024 pilgrimage of pain. Steven Patrick Morrissey—still clinging to that single surname like a life raft of relevance—has announced a fresh itinerary that will drag his baritone lament from Mexico City to Manila, with…
Athletics vs Cardinals: When Cosmic Irony Dresses in Spandex and Feathers By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Pacific If you tuned in expecting a quaint American baseball rivalry, congratulations—you’ve just been punked by the universe. The phrase “Athletics vs Cardinals” is no longer the exclusive property of two teams that trade…
