St. Louis musician Martin Meyer used to lead the punk band Lumpy And The Dumpers and run the label Lumpy Records. Since 2020, Meyer has been cranking out playful lo-fi power-pop under the name Soup Activists. (He's really the only Soup Activist.) Thus far, Soup Activists have released a handful of…
An AI agent can read a thousand restaurant reviews in seconds. What it can't do is hear whether the café is actually quiet enough to work in. This is the sensory gap nobody talks about. We fixate on what AI can see — cameras, image recognition, computer vision — but hearing is just as blind. An…
Audio recordings capture months of warnings, confusion and attacks in the U.S. Navy’s blockade of Iranian oil exports.
Lorenzo Senni is back. The electronic producer has announced his first new album in six years, All Ages , set for release on Warp next month. It features Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart on one track, and on the opener, Senni brings in two of the biggest names in American skateboarding. The post Lorenzo…
It's been years since we've checked in with Scottish composer and electronic musician Anna Meredith. In recent years she's released all kinds of projects including the bumper car sound installation Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies For Dodgems , a collaboration with the string quartet Ligeti Quartet…
The Portland-based singer-songwriter and composer Gabriel Kahane already graced us with one ambitious album this year: Elevator Songs , a theatrical, high-concept collaboration with the vocal group Roomful Of Teeth. Today he announces another collaborative LP, this time with Finland's Pekka…
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from two Michigan middle school students barred from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, leaving a lower-court ruling in place that the slogan could be prohibited as vulgar speech. The justices gave The post Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case of…
The Omaha-born, New York-based DIY indie rocker Anna McClellan released her Space, you big cloud on Father/Daughter earlier this year, and she just sang backup on a bunch of songs from Greg Freeman's new album All Set The Bone . Next month, McClellan will release another EP, her first for new label…
The experimental London jazz trio helped define a moment and released three adventurous albums and a handful of EPs before breaking up in 2023. They canceled what would've been their final show out of solidarity with Palestinian people, since it would've fallen on the day of a one-day global strike…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Moscow is aware of reports that NATO is hammering out a plan for a possible war with Russia and is staying alert, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
