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Harley Flanagan swung his bass like a medieval mace at CBGB's back in the day, the Cro-Mags tearing through sets sounding like the world ending in a Lower East Side basement. Four decades later, Silicon Valley wants me to believe a neural network trained on Spotify data can
Imagine this: A senator walks into a classroom and sees a six-year-old chatting with an AI tutor about fractions. The senator clutches their pearls, drafts a bill, and declares that certain AI interactions should be kept away from children entirely. Meanwhile, down the hall, another six-year-old is having the time
Something beautiful happens when Ghostface Killah steps on stage in 2026 for his North American tour. Not beautiful like a sunset—beautiful like finding out your weird neighbor who collects vintage calculators also loves the same obscure Japanese game show you thought nobody else knew about. It's the
In his Brooklyn studio, artist Bryce Wymer fills sketchbook after sketchbook with drawings that blur the boundaries between observation and imagination. This detail, mentioned briefly in a recent Colossal feature, caught my attention—not because it's unusual (many artists keep sketchbooks), but because it persists quietly. In our
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The best rock and roll happens when everything goes wrong. Not the calculated chaos of smashed guitars or staged dive-off-the-amp theatrics, but the real deal—when blood meets fretboard, when gear gets stolen after the show, when the whole beautiful machine breaks down and keeps grinding forward anyway. That'
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Screamo legends Saetia pulled their entire catalog from Spotify. If you're expecting another thinkpiece about artistic purity and the death of albums—surprise. This story is messier and more interesting. Saetia's taking a stand on ethics and politics. Veteran rockers Tesla are making different calculations about
You're stumbling out of a club at 2 AM, your ears ringing, your feet aching, and suddenly the floor beneath you whispers "McDonald's." Not literally—that would be concerning—but through optical illusion ads placed strategically near bars and clubs. The golden arches have
The last tyrannosaurs walked through lush Cretaceous forests, unaware that cosmic dice had already been thrown. Millions of years later, we're building artificial minds on foundations that may be quietly crumbling beneath us. The parallel isn't perfect—no asteroid threatens our data centers—but the pattern
The morning commute in any major city reveals a peculiar modern choreography: hundreds of people moving through the same space while actively avoiding each other's gaze. We've perfected the art of being alone together, heads down, earbuds in, creating invisible bubbles of solitude even in the
Here's something beautiful that nobody talks about: somewhere in Japan right now, a sumo wrestler is performing the same pre-match ritual his predecessors did centuries ago. Meanwhile, in Norway, scientists are tucking away heirloom tomato seeds in a vault that looks like it belongs in a Christopher Nolan
A recent United Airlines flight over Utah experienced something extraordinary—an unknown object (possibly a fragment of space debris or a meteor) struck the aircraft’s windscreen during flight. While passengers remained safe, the incident marked a significant moment by turning space debris from a theoretical concern into an immediate
So here's where we are: a major plumbing company wants to put a camera in your toilet, and Americans are marching in the streets with "No Kings" signs. If you told me five years ago these would be defining moments of 2025, I would have assumed