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  • Analogue 3D – The Best Way to Play N64 in 2025?

    The Analogue 3D promises a premium, modern way to play your old N64 cartridges without the blurry mess and input lag of original hardware on modern TVs. After unboxing it, wiring it up, and revisiting games like Pokémon Snap, I’m convinced: this might be the best way to play N64 in 2025.

  • Alice’s Restaurant Massacree – Arlo Guthrie

    Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree turns Thanksgiving chaos into satire—a 20-minute folk epic about life, justice, and absurdity.

  • Cast Iron Skillet – Jason Isbell

    Cast Iron Skillet is a lyrical gut punch—Jason Isbell’s haunting storytelling weaves love, hate, and tragedy into something timeless.

  • Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen vs. Jeff Buckley

    Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is solemn and layered, his baritone framed by synths and choir. Jeff Buckley’s cover pares it back to guitar and a lone, elastic voice—intimate and devastating. In this Cover Up, we weigh cathedral versus candlelight and pick a winner.

  • Dear John – Taylor Swift

    Dear John is heartbreak written with surgical precision—tender, bitter, and brutally self-aware, it’s Taylor Swift at her most vulnerable.

  • Becoming Unbecoming – Leanna Firestone

    Leanna Firestone’s Becoming Unbecoming is a raw reflection of burnout and lost innocence—a haunting mirror for the gifted kids all grown up.

  • Dispatch – Sad Boys, Superheroes, and the Z-Team

    Dispatch takes Telltale-style storytelling, throws it into a horny, hungover superhero office comedy, and somehow makes it all work. With sharp writing, a surprisingly deep dispatch system, and a cast of lovable disasters, AdHoc’s episodic drama turns saving the world into a full-time HR problem.

  • John Deere Green – Joe Diffie

    Joe Diffie’s John Deere Green is a boot-stomping love story—heartfelt, humorous, and painted in the most unconventional shade of romance.

  • What’s Up – 4 Non Blondes

    4 Non Blondes’ What’s Up is an anthem of confusion and catharsis—an unforgettable cry of frustration that still echoes decades later.

  • From Stan to Colossus: The Evolution of Obsessive Fandom in Hip-Hop

    Eminem’s Stan and Tyler, the Creator’s Colossus both tackle obsessive fans, but in very different eras and contexts. Here’s how the meaning of “stan” evolved from dark cautionary tale to playful online slang.