Lessons in Crime’s new single, "Reply ASAP," bounces along with the kind of infectious energy you’d want for a summer road trip, but it’s a smokescreen for a uniquely modern state of inertia. It feels less like a rock song and more like one of those old pneumatic message tubes from a 1940s department store—all zip and kinetic energy on the outside, but inside,...

There are nights when a glance across a party seems to gain the weight of weather. A small look becomes evidence, evidence becomes a case, and the mind, pleased with its own bad carpentry, starts building rooms no one asked to enter. "Oh My God", the new single by Don Drapery from the forthcoming 2026 album "Something Worth Repeating", lives inside that jump from minor...