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Ekko Astral received much-deserved praise for their 2024 full-length debut, pink balloons, which was filled with angular ...

Greg Brown, whose grungy guitar licks helped propel the band Cake, which he helped found, to the top of the alternative rock charts in the mid-1990s, and whose irony-laced lyrics for their hit song ...

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop ...

Step back in time at this famous Arizona ghost town where wooden boardwalks, historic saloons, and Wild West legends come to life.

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This week, I’ve got another four albums for your listening ears. There will be three new albums from the past week (on a ...

Heavy gunfire was heard in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The shooting began shortly after midnight, according to residents. Niger’s military leadership has forced out French and US forces who had been ...

After a bunch of battles with enemy pirates using my saber and an occasional carefully aimed flintlock pistol shot, I freed seven of my crewmates. I crafted new cannons for my ship and even located a ...

Should the United States buy more destroyers, or would the money be better spent developing bases, munitions, or software? These are the kinds of questions the Department of Defense confronts every ...

Marijuana moon rocks are extra-strong cannabis nuggets made by coating flower in hash oil, then rolling it in kief. Potency varies by ingredients and how they’re made, but moon rocks often reach about ...

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive ...