In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by third-time guest of the show Shahid Buttar, who is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in California. In a double edition of the segment “Democrats Suck,” Katie and Matt look at the Massachusetts …

Don’t call it a comeback. LL Cool J‘s powerhouse fourth album, Mama Said Knock You Out, came out 30 years ago this week and its rhymes and production techniques still resonate today. At the time, the record was a response to critics and fans who thought he’d sold out or …

The music industry is not known for immediately embracing new technology. So it was a surprise that last month, as Miley Cyrus prepared to release “Midnight Sky,” her first solo single in almost exactly a year, the singer was teasing the track through Reels, a new feature of Instagram that …