Ten years ago, Mariah Carey began her eleventh album, E=MC², with a series of cascading, a capella banshee wails, a shameless showcase of her legacy-sealing abilities. At this point, Carey’s voice was still a literally Guinness-worthy force of nature. In her vocal prime, she was able to access upper-echelon dog-whistle notes even her forebear Minnie Riperton couldn’t muster. For years, Carey’s...

During a revelatory Twitter exchange yesterday, Tom DeLonge explained to late-night host James Corden that his former band Blink-182's name is pronounced "blink-eighteen-two," rather than the common pronunciation "blink-one-eighty-two," and definitely not "blink-one-eight-two," which, according to Corden's co-writer Iam Karmel, is how British people say it. This is extremely validating to me personally...

It's the holiday season—a terrible time for something bad to happen to you or your loved ones, wouldn't you agree? Let's say you slip and fall somewhere on a late-December run for presents that you really should have handled earlier, or a razor-sharp icicle drops from the awning of your house just as you're fetching the morning paper, or maybe—and I shudder to even say it out loud—maybe Smashing...