As Variety reported last week, Beyoncé's Lemonade is now available to stream via Spotify and Apple Music. The album, which was previously only streamable through Jay-Z's own TIDAL streaming service, was released 3 years ago today, along with its accompanying film, which debuted on HBO. Beyoncé released Homecoming, a new documentary and accompanying album documenting her 2018 Coachella performance,...

Symbols are everywhere in David Robert Mitchell’s new film, Under the Silver Lake. And not just symbols, but maps, codes, allusions, antecedents, and overt reference points—fitting for a movie about a conspiracy theorist. Andrew Garfield plays Sam, 30-ish and unemployed, on the verge of being evicted from his Silver Lake apartment. Rather than looking for a way to pay rent, he spends his days...

Last month, Mac DeMarco announced a new album called Here Comes the Cowboy and released a single called “Nobody.” The news would’ve been met with the expected level of excitement from Mac fans and standard coverage from music publications, had the album and single not been released months after Mitski’s critically acclaimed Be the Cowboy and its single, “Nobody.” The similarities between...