Skrillex Is Reinventing Himself

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( album review [Skrillex Is Reinventing Himself]( Vibes shift, and the wub man endures. Photo: Anthony Larpin The last time [Skrillex]( released a studio album, it was as an unintentional 26-year-old pop-culture lightning rod, a god in the eyes of revelers at big-tent EDM festivals where the Californian producer born Sonny Moore served maximalist speaker knockers that took cues from the shrieking electro-rock of Daft Punk, the jittery programming of Aphex Twin records, and the unrelenting volume and tempos of U.K. bass music. Dubstep had trickled out, as anything cool often does, from darkened rooms and basements as a chilly music of council-flat decay, and this smiley, onetime [American screamo singer]( was now the face of it, marching across the planet seeding an abrasive mutant variant of the original. But to many of the architects and aficionados of dub, jungle, and garage, he was a usurper, another case of the soul-sucking carelessness of American capitalism. [Read More]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Vanderpump Rules: [Podcast People]( • Snowfall: [Rome Is Burning]( • Poker Face: [Don’t Look Back]( • Star Trek: Picard: [Generations]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Crafting Party Down’s ‘Inside-Out’ Protagonist Adam Scott and showrunner John Enbom discuss Henry’s evolution across three seasons.]( By Jesse David Fox [Rihanna Will Perform at the Oscars, Answering the Navy’s Prayers The drought is over.]( By Zoe Guy [The 2023 Oscars Will Go Back to Celebrating All 23 Categories Live More importantly: Rihanna will perform.]( By Jennifer Zhan [‘Don’t These People Have Jobs?’ Robert De Niro doesn’t get his wealthy in-laws’ leisure in Sebastian Maniscalco’s comedy About My Father.]( By Zoe Guy [The Coldest Case in Laramie Is Serial’s Grimmest Production Yet And yet the show repeats many of Serial’s most familiar themes.]( By Nicholas Quah [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 14-Across: First name of two of the Spice Girls. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images [Into It With Sam Sanders]( Photo-Illustration: Vulture [On this episode of Into It](, one of the last scenes from the TV show The Good Place finds its way into a real-life eulogy. And we hear from series creator Michael Schur about the process of writing it, the process of grieving, and why death doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-vulture?email={EMAIL}&hash=39357a76f6d08b16239fd2ffa65e9c6f¶m=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved