It’s the perfect song for drifing in and out of a fever dream: Living Colour performing “Love Rears Its Ugly Head” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001.

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It’s the perfect song for drifing in and out of a fever dream: Living Colour performing “Love Rears Its Ugly Head” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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