Opening track and lead single “Matches” concerns the witch trials, the hideous spellcraft of the male inquisitor’s gaze – “fingers point when hands are tied/sink or swim, the loaded die...”, delivered ...

R-72 Toot-a-Loop Portable Radio from 1971, designed by Daisuke Kajiwara and manufactured by Panasonic. Photo: Matt Flynn The exhibition covers more than a century’s worth of music and design — or ...

Google is no stranger to AI slop. Over the past couple of years, it’s dabbled in slopifying our favorite mediums and platforms, including YouTube content, films, and certain aspects of gaming. With ...

On the heels of Big Machine Label Group's founder Scott Borchetta leaving the label group, parent company Hybe America is rebranding Big Machine as Blue Highway Records. Borchetta founded Big Machine ...

Iowa City’s beloved Family Folk Machine has an amazing band, made up of veteran performers, which is the beating heart, or perhaps the driving engine, of the Folk Machine. In true musician fashion, ...

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As the year nears its end, Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn has offered a playlist and reflections on the music that he listened to the most over the course of 2025. Though the playlist is titled ...

The group Pentatonix are known for their a capella renditions of Christmas classics. They used to start touring after Thanksgiving, but this year they kicked off on Nov. 8. “We’re like, ‘well, we ...

I went deep down the “AI, make me a record producer” rabbit hole last night, and wow, what a blast. I used it to create a tune about my wildly loving 10-month-old golden retriever, Bella, on the left ...

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University The John Lewis Christmas advert has become as much a part of the festive season as tinsel and crackers. These ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

We celebrate the sounds of electroclash with Jonny Slut and Mark Wood, compilers of a new compilation, ‘When The 2000s Clashed: Machine Music For A New Millennium’, celebrating the genre and its ...