Reality Blues wades into the mysteries of our uncanny world, trying to catch a vibe. Today, Meaghan Garvey offers an ontological bonus cut from her time in Sweden with King Nothingg.

Drainers, critics and longtime readers mingled in a night celebrating the art of Bladee and Pitchfork’s new foray into print.

For most of Bladee's career, the Swedish rapper released almost all of his full-length material with the Stockholm-based label YEAR0001. That came to an end in 2024 with the release of his solo ...

The Korea-born, New York-based singer and DJ is also a part of a new AI project with Microsoft and TBA Agency called Artifacts, along with Swedish rapper Bladee, Mexican-American singer-songwriter ...

But then there’s Drain Gang, whose eldritch vision of rap represents peak e-boy cool, and whose de facto leader, Bladee, is exalted by gothic teenagers, esoteric shitposters, and pop It Girls alike.

In the first week of February, Bladee un-retired from X.com. We’d talked a bit about the site when I visited him in Stockholm in early January; he said he used to like it for its low-stakes ...