Tablet Magazine published an interesting longread about Ariel Pink being cancelled after attending January 6 attempted coup d'état. "Rosenberg’s career is the story of how indie rock purged monsters that the culture had wrongly tolerated—or perhaps it’s the story of how even the most supposedly open sectors of the American creative scene abruptly slammed shut, losing any remaining patience for the complexities and cognitive dissonances that form the bulk of human existence. Both are really the same story, of how American culture got so stupid and so boring so quickly".

Ariel Pink has officially been dropped by his longtime label Mexican Summer after the artist attended this week's pro-Trump riots at the U.S. Capitol, Rolling Stone reports. Ariel Pink has previously been accused of both sexist and racist behaviour. In similar news, Jon Schaffer, guitarist and leader of Florida metal band Iced Earth is being sought by the police for storming into the Capitol building during the same pro-Trump riots, Blabbermouth reports.

On Cameo.com users pay celebrities - actors, athletes, models, musicians, influencers, YouTubers, wrestlers, drag queens - to record personalized video messages. Ice-T charges $300 for a message, Hannibal Buress $300, Stormy Daniels $250, Sean Astin $150, Brett Favre $500, and Lance Bass $199, and now they have Ariel Pink. He charges $100. Stereogum...