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Machinedrum Announces New Mini-Album BL00MS: Hear Two Tracks

North Carolina producer Travis Stewart, better known as Machinedrum, has been making dance music for a quarter century. In recent years, Machinedrum has made tracks with stars like Freddie Gibbs and Tinashe, and his most recent album 3FOR82 came out on Ninja Tune in 2024. Now,

Hooky Release Surprise New Album World Music

The Philadelphia duo Hooky have worked with some of the top names in modern shoegaze, including They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and Winter. Today, we get a fresh chance to hear them on their own. Monday night, with minimal notice, Hooky released World Music, a new 14-song

CHIME tracks a hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source

Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), an international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of FRB 20220912A—a highly active source of repeating fast radio bursts. Results of the monitoring campaign, published April 10 on the preprint

Sex bias against women skews government violence statistics

The extent of violence in England and Wales, especially against women, is obscured by official government statistics, a new study reveals. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and Lancaster University, have found that government statistics on violent crime

US official says gas prices have peaked despite Iran war

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Tuesday that gasoline prices appeared to have peaked after a surge linked to the Iran war -- a marked shift in tone a day after President Donald Trump publicly rebuked his earlier, more cautious outlook. "I don't know the future of energy

‘My Hero Academia in Concert’ Sets U.S. Fall Tour

“My Hero Academia in Concert,” a live show pairing a 15-piece band performing Hayashi Yuki’s anime score with projected footage from the series, will tour the U.S. this fall, Toho Co., Ltd., GEA Live and RoadCo Entertainment have revealed. The U.S. run opens Sept. 12 in

The holy war America needed

Pope Leo XIV has been butting heads with Trump and the GOP over their use of Christianity to justify war and their mistreatment of immigrants, calling for an end to the conflict and advocating for grace, charity and forgiveness.

Are you ready for universal Trump pardons?

President Trump has reportedly boasted that he will issue pre-emptive presidential pardons to hundreds, if not thousands, of administration staff and officials, which could raise questions about the potential for abuse of the Pardons Clause and the potential for unethical or

Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine for service members

The Pentagon is ending mandatory flu vaccines for service members, phrasing the change as giving troops “medical autonomy” and “freedom to express their religious convictions,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday. “Our new policy is simple. If you, an American