One of favorite psychedelic soul acts, King Khan & the Shrines, is back uploading “Born to Die” for all to hear. Off of their upcoming album Idle No More out September 3rd (Merge Records), “Born to Die” is classic King Khan at their purest. As Khan explains, the album’s opening track is “an apocalyptic ode to […]

In 1993 William Gibson wrote an infamous critique on Singapore in Wired, entitled “Disneyland With the Death Penalty“. 18 years later, chewing gum is still banned, and his portrayal of a sanitized, technocratic, insipidly consumerist culture still has some truth to it. So what would he make of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel? Whether arriving […]