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A card-carrying Glaswegian weighs in on whether A Sunny Day in Glasgow really deserves their name. The answer will amaze you.

It’s tempting to say that Jenny Lewis’ song “Just One of the Guys” is to outdoor festival sing-alongs as Friday the 13th is to horny summer...

I freakin' love summer. I love that you can just wear basically nothing and don't have to put on a coat and, like, five million other things that...

It’s just before sunrise. Hours in, I feel I have given all I can, the battle is slipping through my fingers. I reach for my phone, I call in...

I’m not sure I believe in summer songs. Summer is my least favorite season. I grew up in Minnesota where it’s mostly cold. I can deal with cold.

I was in seventh grade, and I was a future burnout kid riding BMX bikes with my best friends. We lived somewhere between nowhere and somewhere else.

Every year on the 26th of December in Clovis, New Mexico, a pageant takes place. It is known as the Real Feast of St. Steven. Hundreds of...

First of all, thank fucking Christ this album is tough. It's not "summery" or "soaring" or "shimmering" or any of that other shit that bands with...

Maybe we all have missing pieces. Maybe life, in its seemingly endless procession of days, strips things away until it feels like we're just...

The tragedy about a solid debut album, one where you've created a whole new sonic universe and vocabulary, is that you suddenly realize that you're...

Forget everything you know about Lana Del Rey. That’s what I had to do to hear — really hear — her latest album Ultraviolence. Like when you...

When I first took LSD, it felt like coming home.