How often have you, driving by a pasture, said “Look at the oxen”? If you’re like me, zero times. We’re more likely to use ox as a word for a person who is unusually strong, stupid, or (probably) b…
Damon Krukowski: For all the hand-wringing about AI’s effects on music, musicians need labor rights more than copyrights.
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A new album of ambient music satirizes the genre’s frequent use in spirituality recordings.
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Now that the Smiths are a TikTok phenomenon, I want to highlight and appreciate the musicians that sonically staged Morrissey’s musings, misgivings, sarcasm, storytelling, and a reactionary tantrum or two.
An analysis into the regionality of America’s gun violence shows the Deep South is the deadliest of all the major US regions.
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How iTunes “opened the gates to sludge—where playlists completely untethered tracks from albums and even artists.”
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The American Library Association releases its latest Most Challenged Books list.
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High-resolution radar data adds more than 19,000 undersea volcanoes to the 24,000-plus that were cataloged 10 years ago.
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“Locals can’t purchase anything.” The cost of living is spiraling out of control in Marfa.
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