SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music
Artists are furious at the platform's sneaky tactics.
The Life and Mystery of Luigi Mangione
The national conversation about Mangione has made its way to him as he sits in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he receives about five to 10 letters a day. In…
Bobby Weir: ‘I’ve Never Made Plans. I’m Too Busy’
He was the little brother in the Grateful Dead. Now, he’s one of the last men standing. He shares lessons from a lifetime spent on the road {read}
Is Gyrofield the Next Enigmatic Star of Electronic Music?
The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong…
Hanumankind Is Aiming Even Bigger Than ‘Big Dawgs’
In an era when more music is being released each day than in the entire year of 1989, according to one estimate, it takes a singular talent to cut through…
Nemahsis Hopes Her Music Won’t Resonate So Much in the Future
With each note she writes, each word she sings, Nemahsis is crafting a narrative that calls for change, not just in the world of music, but in the world at…
Farewell, David Johansen, the Ultimate New York Doll: He Was Good-Bad But Not Evil
“The world wasn’t ready for them,” Morrissey said in 2004. “Often it takes death within a group and then people say, ‘Ah, yes. We do like those people now that…
How to Get Rid of Tree Stumps By Growing Mushrooms
Grinding tree stumps is usually how we deal with them. If you have land to clear on your homestead, it could become quite a chore to get these stumps taken…
The Ungrateful Stranger: Whose Story Deserves Welcome?
On a spring evening in 2016, the day after Donald Trump won a series of primaries cementing his candidacy, I stepped into a hushed auditorium in midtown Manhattan and found…
The LGBTQ+ Literary Resistance
In November 2024, PEN America released its key findings from over ten thousand documented cases of book bans that occurred in the 2023–2024 school year: Thirty-nine percent of reported books…