The UK producer SG Lewis has been making joyously playful club music for a long time. Last year, he and Tove Lo released the collaborative EP “Heat,” and he teamed up with likeminded dance explorer Shygirl on “ mr useless ,” the biggest underground hit on her first Club Shy EP
Yemen's Huthi rebels have resumed their attacks on Red Sea shipping, saying they aim to force Israel to cease fire in Gaza -- a move that threatens a truce with Washington and rattles maritime trade. The Iran-backed rebels allege that the two vessels they attacked earlier this
Musical tributes come in every variety, from loving homage to desecration, and they never go out of style. They’re usually one-off songs or projects — from Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s lurid early ’70s soul pastiche Silk Sonic to Billy Joel’s nods to the music of his
In the pantheon of prestige rap, it never gets fancier than a Clipse reunion. While Pusha T and Malice predated the whole “play this street rapper at New York Fashion Week” motif, their stylishly spare soundscapes and high-brow dexterity made them couture rap before couture
Before James Gunn was tapped by Warner Bros. and DC to revamp its superhero slate of films and TV series, Warner Bros. tried to poach someone else from Marvel: Kevin Feige. After Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s Justice League flopped in 2017 — it made about $660 million and has a
Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system.
Anita and Brad’s message floated all the way from Canada’s Bell Island to Ireland’s west coast — leaving online detectives wondering: Were they still together?
Not too much, not too little. Perfect.
Fred Thomas, the Michigan DIY-music lifer and Saturday Looks Good To Me founder, has been awfully busy lately. About nine months ago, Thomas released the impressive solo album Window In The Rhythm . Last month, his trio Idle Ray released a new LP called Even In The Spring .
The fearsome “Axis of Autocracies” bent on disrupting the U.S. led global order — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — looks pretty brittle.
Vice President Vance will travel to Pennsylvania next week to tout the benefits of the massive reconciliation package signed into law last week by President Trump. Vance will visit West Pittston, Pa., next Wednesday, the vice president's office announced. He is expected to
A groundbreaking analysis of 750,000 household records by Heriot-Watt University reveals Black families accepted as statutorily homeless are less than half as likely to gain social housing as their white counterparts.
Officially, Brussels is cooperating with the government of national unity based in Tripoli. However, exchanges are also taking place with General Khalifa Haftar, who controls large swaths of Libya's east. The last visit turned into a fiasco.
Harrowing dashcam footage captured a horrific crash involving a semitrailer that left at least two people dead, and an unknown number of people injured Thursday morning in Riverside County, California.
Residents of eastern DR Congo say the country's appearance at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations provides hope at a time of conflict.
In a letter to the FCC, the wireless carrier said it would end its diversity, equity and inclusion policies "not just in name, but in substance."
New research has found increasing levels of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants, with downstream impacts on the environment.
In many countries, there is an academic cheating crisis with students misusing artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to write essays, dissertations and other assignments. According to new research, certain personality traits make some students more likely to pass off
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed tear gas. “Trump calls me 'Newscum' — but he’s the real scum,” Newsom wrote on
The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their observed oscillations suggest that they do in fact have a mass, which is very low. A further characteristic of these particles is that they only weakly
“War,” as Thucydides once wrote, “is a violent teacher.” But it teaches in strange and terrible ways.
The mysterious firing of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds’ founders earlier this month keeps taking unexpected turns, and the latest is that the veteran game developers are now suing publisher Krafton over the dismissals, which occurred with a $250 million payout on the line
Aeroitalia, the Italian airline that launched with bold promises to shake up domestic and short-haul routes, is now facing public backlash over its management practices and decision-making. The airline has raised eyebrows across the aviation sector with a string of operational
Justin Bieber addressed his instantly memed paparazzi moment on his new album “Swag” — you know, the one where he says, “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business.” Throughout the album, he includes three interludes that play like therapy sessions with comedian
Compared to most octogenarians, Mick Jagger seems to have a pretty good grasp of contemporary popular music. (I’m sure having a girlfriend 40 years his junior helps.) A couple years ago, he praised Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud for having a nice “post-punk vibe” that brought
Sometimes you have to remind your diehard fans to be chill around the talent, and that’s just what Umamusume: Pretty Derby is doing after the horse girl gacha game has become a viral sensation. The game depicts real-life race horses as reincarnated high school student racers,
Way back in 1982, when cable television was new, the Home Box Office network ran the Billy Joel concert special Live From Long Island . Now, HBO is back in the Billy Joel business, in a very different way. Earlier this year, HBO Max — that’s what it’s once again calling itself
[The Conversation Africa] Winter in some parts of South Africa is a time of low (or no) rainfall and high fire danger. Sheldon Strydom studies the relationship between weather and fire, in particular how Berg winds, also known as mountain flow events, are linked to periods of
We’re a week short now of the six-month mark of Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, and while a lot remains to be seen (gulp), we should have a pretty clear idea of how a democracy becomes an authoritarian police state. The five key ingredients: lies, corruption, idiocy,
