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HIGH NOTES7 Songs About MDMA, Because It's MDMAzing

Madonna in an MDNA era shoot by fashion photographers Mert Alaş and Marcus Piggott. MDMA has long been closely intertwined with music. It's many festival and nightclub-goers' drug of choice, and for good reason: it has a way of making every song sound infectious and every flashing light look vivid...

Annie White

NEWS ROUNDUPRIP Nipsey Hussle

Nipsey Hussle Laid to Rest in LA This Thursday, funeral services and city-wide celebrations were held across Los Angeles to honor slain rapper Ermias Joseph "Nipsey Hussle" Asghedom. Shot fatally outside Marathon Clothing, a store he co-owned near the intersection of Slauson and Crenshaw in South...

Lindsey Rhoades

HIGH NOTESMusic Videos That Will Vicariously Get You High

Sometimes, artists drop subtle drug references in their songs that you wouldn't notice unless you carefully studied the lyrics. Other times, they put it right out there, with drug-inspired imagery splattered all over their videos. If you want to vicariously experience a trip, consider these videos...

Annie White

NEWS ROUNDUPRIP Mac Miller, Fashion Week, Pussy Riot Member Hospitalized and More

RIP Mac Miller Last week on September 7th, Mac Miller died at the age of 26 from a drug overdose in his LA home. Since his passing many celebrities such as Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, Childish Gambino, J. Cole, Ariana Grande and many more paid tribute to the rapper. Earlier this week thousands of...

Tarra Thiessen

NEWS ROUNDUPRihanna Snaps Back, Lauryn Hill to Headline Pitchfork Festival and More

NEWS ROUNDUP: Rihanna, Lauryn Hill, Pitchfork and More By Jasmine Williams Rihanna Snaps Back Rihanna has publicly accused Snapchat of victim shaming after the social media app displayed an advertisement the referenced Chris Brown’s 2009 brutal assault of the mega-star. The ad, for online game,...

Jasmine Williams

PLAYING DETROITSam Austins Shines on Ode to Rihanna, "Fenty"

” The song is a lighter follow-up to Austins’ anxiety-ridden 2017 debut album, Angst, and celebrates widening cultural...

Sara Barron

HIGH NOTES10 Female Artists Who Reference Drugs in Their Music

When you hear the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock and roll,” you usually picture male musicians: Lou Reed croaking out the words to "Heroin" or "Waiting For My Man;" The Weeknd's famously numb face; Kurt Cobain finding God in "Lithium;" The Beatles on LSD; Neil Young's coke booger immortalized in The...

Annie White

MORNING AFTERPinball and Miller High Life with Bethlehem Steel

I Googled how long it takes for milk to go sour, and unless Becca Ryskalczyk can chug a gallon in 2 hours and 45 minutes, I shouldn't bring it as a gift. Granted, almost accidentally killing a musician would be such a throwback to when I started Morning After, and I do love things coming full...

Mary Grace Garis

ONLY NOISEWelcome to the Workless Week

Rihanna is doing everything I am not. “Work, work, work, work, work, work/You see me I be work, work, work, work, work, work,” she barks through the café sound system – as if she knows. Another sunny day in the neighborhood. It is loping along at a drowsy pace. Parks are barren – full of empty...

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPSXSW's Deportation Clause, Rihanna and More

SXSW’s Troubling Deportation Policy Yesterday, artist Told Slant announced he was canceling his SXSW performances after discovering the something alarming in the artist contract - there's a clause stating that "foreign artists" performing on certain visas may not participate in unofficial showcases...

Emily Daly

PLAYING DETROITBevlove "Talk That Shit"

The incomparable maven of Detroit pop, Bevlove released her EP Talk That Shit last week which pop, locks and drops feral beats with a disciplined hip-hop assertiveness that undoubtedly rewires the game.

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITBevlove "Do What I Say"

Beverly Johnson is Bevlove, Detroit's premier pop goddess. She writes. She sings. She's changing the game.

Jerilyn Jordan