Craig Jenkins

1 week ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

“It ultimately came down to curating what a truly inclusive trans-forward music festival could look like,” says Jael Holzman, seen here with her punk trio Ekko Astral. “Also I wanted it not to suck.” Jael Holzman writes and speaks with locomotive urgency, as a political and climate reporter as well as a co-founder of the Washington, D.C., punk trio Ekko Astral.

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

I went to the Nintendo Switch 2 premiere event in New York City this week thinking about New Donk City. That uncanny-valley microcosm of the Big Apple was valued real estate at the 2017 Nintendo Direct where the original Switch’s blockbuster launch title, Super Mario Odyssey, was revealed. The company mascot burst forth from a pothole to do what he tends to do at such showcases. Dodging cabs and scaling skyscrapers, Mario gracefully expressed how the new system outpaced the last one, the Wii U.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

A certain flavor of enthusiast will argue that Skrillex Has Saved Dubstep. Skrillex is a master of misdirection whose trickster tendencies inform everything from his restless, global production purview to loopy release strategies. In 2014, fans playing a mobile game were treated to tracks from the forthcoming Recess as rewards. F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3, his latest album, was dispensed via Dropbox link sent to attendees of a recent show.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Craig Jenkins

Share Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Last week, I received an email announcing the start of Joey Bada$$’s artist-in-residence engagement with Columbia University. He had already done a bit of press about the opportunity, highlighting how it plays into his history of university lectures and men’s mentorship initiatives, but not the elephant in the room.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

“I got way too many allies on the west to just be like, ‘Yo, eff the West.’” Last week, I received an email announcing the start of Joey Bada$$’s artist-in-residence engagement with Columbia University. He had already done a bit of press about the opportunity, highlighting how it plays into his history of university lectures and men’s mentorship initiatives, but not the elephant in the room.