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Rhymes with “Bliss”. By Stephen Macaulay.
Rhymes with “Bliss”
Kissing has long been—more than a century–a common topic in popular music. Tin Pan Alley songwriters, who mass-produced songs in the early 20th century as though they’d picked up on the notio…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rhymes with “Bliss”. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Red Button
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work on “deep learning” techniques. Those techniques have facilitated the proliferation of…
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work on “deep learning” techniques. Those techniques have facilitated the proliferation of…
The Red Button
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work on “deep learning” techniques. Those techniques have facilitated the proliferation of AI. (The award comes along with a prize of $1 million. It is no small feat.)
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November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Red Button
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work on “deep learning” techniques. Those techniques have facilitated the proliferation of…
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work on “deep learning” techniques. Those techniques have facilitated the proliferation of…
The Red Button. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Red Button
Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist at the University of Montreal who is the first person to exceed one million citations on Google Scholar. Bengio won the A.M. Turing Award in 2019 for his work …
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November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Red Button. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Physical & the Fleeting. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Physical & the Fleeting
While there was greater revenue for the U.S. music industry in the first half of 2025 than ever before--$5.6 billion, according to the RIAA—most of that--$3.2 billion—is from paid subscriptions...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Physical & the Fleeting. By Stephen Macaulay.
“Never Heard of Him”. By Stephen Macaulay.
“Never Heard of Him”
When Bad Bunny—the 31-year-old Puerto Rican rapper and record producer—was announced as the NFL’s Super Bowl LX halftime show headliner, those on the U.S. political spectrum who are aligned with...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Never Heard of Him”. By Stephen Macaulay.
New Juliana Hatfield: Popsicle
New Juliana Hatfield: Popsicle
Video: Juliana Hatfield - "Popsicle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHTFbz8AnU Directed by Paige Applin. From Lightning Might Strike, out December 12 on American Laundromat. Watch your favorite 90s indie rocker do yard chores and...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New Juliana Hatfield: Popsicle
New Courtney Barnett: Stay In Your Lane
New Courtney Barnett: Stay In Your Lane
Video: Courtney Barnett - "Stay In Your Lane" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP9TaFDe7qk Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Single out now on Mom + Pop. Ew. This video is gross. But the song is...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New Courtney Barnett: Stay In Your Lane
The Money Is Good. Sometimes.. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Money Is Good. Sometimes.
Opening 1 In calendar 2024, the Taylor Swift Eras tour grossed an estimated $1.65 billion. There were 83 shows during this period. Opening 2 The Monterey International Pop Festival was...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Money Is Good. Sometimes.. By Stephen Macaulay.
New Weird Nightmare: Forever Elsewhere
New Weird Nightmare: Forever Elsewhere
Video: Weird Nightmare - "Forever Elsewhere" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4hhk-meh4 Directed by Colin Medley. Single out now on Sub Pop. The guy from METZ is back with a new single from his Weird...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New Weird Nightmare: Forever Elsewhere
What If. By Stephen Macaulay.
What If
“When you play a piece of music there are so many different ways you could play it. You keep asking yourself what if. You try this and you say but...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What If. By Stephen Macaulay.
Zeppelin Going Digital. By Derek Phillips.
Zeppelin Going Digital
Hot on the heels of the announcement that the band will reunite on November 26 in London comes news that Led Zeppelin will finally make their catalog available via digital...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Zeppelin Going Digital. By Derek Phillips.
Glorious Noise Interview with Owsley "Bear" Stanley
Glorious Noise Interview with Owsley "Bear" Stanley
Back in July 2006, I read somewhere that Owsley Stanley was still alive and selling jewelry in Australia. I found his website, read a bunch of his essays, and got...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Glorious Noise Interview with Owsley "Bear" Stanley
Taylor Swift Sold More Albums in a Week Than Anybody Ever (Probably*)
Taylor Swift Sold More Albums in a Week Than Anybody Ever (Probably*)
When Adele shattered the weekly album sales record in 2015, it didn't seem like it would ever be beat. Adele had sold 3.378 million copies of 25 in the United...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Taylor Swift Sold More Albums in a Week Than Anybody Ever (Probably*)
Adele's Album Sales Are Historically Bonkers
Adele's Album Sales Are Historically Bonkers
Adele’s new album, 25, sold 3.38 million copies in its first week in the United States. This is bonkers. That's more -- way more -- than any other album has...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Adele's Album Sales Are Historically Bonkers
Marvel & Music. By Stephen Macaulay.
Marvel & Music
Robert Downey Jr. has been nominated for three Academy Awards, one for Best Actor and two for supporting roles. He received an Oscar in 2023 for his supporting role in...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Marvel & Music. By Stephen Macaulay.
New Weakened Friends: Smoke and Mirrors
New Weakened Friends: Smoke and Mirrors
Video: Weakened Friends - "Smoke and Mirrors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqTv3YddT4 Directed by Tadin Brego. From Feels Like Hell, out now on Don Giovanni. I saw the end of Weakened Friends' set at...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New Weakened Friends: Smoke and Mirrors
New Rocket: Another Second Chance
New Rocket: Another Second Chance
Video: Rocket - "Another Second Chance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMFWEEbFrgY Directed by Steph Rinzler. From R is for Rocket, out now on Transgressive. The video is dopey but the song is cool. Not...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New Rocket: Another Second Chance
New Florence + The Machine: One Of The Greats
New Florence + The Machine: One Of The Greats
Video: Florence + The Machine - "One Of The Greats" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL4ehHoE0 Directed by Autumn de Wilde. From Everybody Scream, out October 31. What's up with all these long songs lately?...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Florence + The Machine: One Of The Greats
The Digital Exchange: Profit Trumps Privacy. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Digital Exchange: Profit Trumps Privacy
Last year—which seems a long time ago—Congress passed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.” The long and short of it is that this was to prevent ByteDance,...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Digital Exchange: Profit Trumps Privacy. By Stephen Macaulay.
New Ratboys: Light Night Mountains All That
New Ratboys: Light Night Mountains All That
Video: Ratboys - "Light Night Mountains All That" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgF8ugvCbr0 Directed by Marcus Nuccio. Single out now on New West. Ratboys are a Chicago band that's been around for more than...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New Ratboys: Light Night Mountains All That
UK Takes on Ticketmaster (Sort Of). By Stephen Macaulay.
UK Takes on Ticketmaster (Sort Of)
What some people may remember. . .vaguely. . .is when getting tickets for a concert required going to a record store or other physical outlet and waiting in line, hoping...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
UK Takes on Ticketmaster (Sort Of). By Stephen Macaulay.
Riot Fest 2025: When the Going Gets Weird
Riot Fest 2025: When the Going Gets Weird
After attending a couple Lollapaloozas it was comforting to get back to a festival where the target demographic is essentially me: greying dads with receding hairlines, faded Misfits t-shirts, and...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Riot Fest 2025: When the Going Gets Weird
New Dean Johnson: Before You Hit the Ground
New Dean Johnson: Before You Hit the Ground
Video: Dean Johnson - "Before You Hit the Ground" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NdOcLQUWRs Directed by E. Ryan McMackin. From I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, out now on Saddle Creek. I saw...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New Dean Johnson: Before You Hit the Ground
The Pop Burgers Paradox. By Stephen Macaulay.
The Pop Burgers Paradox
Last week The Washington Post ran a comparatively long story about. . .Katy Perry. Some 2,100 words. Who knew that readers of the primary paper of the Capitol City would...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Pop Burgers Paradox. By Stephen Macaulay.
WHO MADE WHO: Rock radio, targeted males, and the tyranny of nostalgia. By Johnny Loftus.
WHO MADE WHO: Rock radio, targeted males, and the tyranny of nostalgia
In January 2018, rock radio in Chicago met its eschatological fate when K-Love ran the flaming sword of the archangel Uriel through the prostrate body of WLUP. The Loop had...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
WHO MADE WHO: Rock radio, targeted males, and the tyranny of nostalgia. By Johnny Loftus.