Bands, records, underground scenes, and the rituals of sound, from vinyl culture to the technologies shaping how music is made.
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The suits at OpenAI just signed a deal so fat it could buy every dive bar from here to Memphis and turn them into server farms. They're committing to drop $38 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next seven years—all to build machines that think faster
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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
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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
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Here's a fun fact that would have broken my high school Spanish teacher's brain: the guy who's about to headline the Super Bowl halftime show doesn't need to sing in English to sell out stadiums across America. Bad Bunny—born Benito Antonio
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Here's something beautiful about live music that nobody tells you until you experience it: the best moments are usually the ones nobody planned. Like when your favorite artist suddenly appears at someone else's show, or when a technical difficulty turns into an impromptu acoustic singalong, or
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The death rattle of another indie label echoes through the gutted warehouses of American music, and this time it's Chicago's Trouble in Mind Records pulling the plug after nearly two decades of fighting the good fight. They announced their closure with the kind of resigned dignity
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Here's a thought experiment: What if heavy metal bands aged like fine wine, except the wine eventually announces it's done fermenting and schedules its own funeral? That's essentially what Dave Mustaine just did, declaring that Megadeth will release their final album in 2026 before
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The Metal God is pissed off again, and thank Christ for that. Rob Halford didn't spend fifty years fronting Judas Priest to bite his tongue now. At 73, the man who practically invented the leather-and-studs metal aesthetic is still catching shit for who he loves, and he'
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Wolfgang Van Halen isn't pulling punches. When AI-generated music started creeping into the sonic landscape, he dropped a digital sledgehammer: "I think generative A.I. is really stupid. I just think it's dumb. I think it's a waste of time. I think A.
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Imagine turning your most broken parts into something beautiful. Not metaphorically—literally. This is the wild story of how Elton John transformed his own physical vulnerability into wearable art, a narrative that's part medical marvel, part rock-and-roll alchemy. In a recent documentary that feels more like a fever
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The record spins, but something's different. It's not just music—it's a visual performance that tricks your eyes and bends reality. Optical illusion vinyl transforms the humble turntable into a mesmerizing canvas where art, technology, and nostalgia collide. Vinyl never truly died; it just