Reggae Drum Pioneer Sly Dunbar Dies At 73
Sly Dunbar performing in London in 2009 (photo: Gus Stewart / Redferns). Drummer Lowell Fillmore “Sly” Dunbar, who with the late Robbie Shakespeare formed the iconic reggae rhythm section Sly…
Disturbed’s David Draiman Responds to Kanye West’s Public Apology
Disturbed's David Draiman had a response after Kanye West took out a full Wall Street Journal ad publicly apologizing for his antisemitism. Continue reading…
Kid Cudi Bringing M.I.A., Big Boi On Tour
Kid Cudi (photo: Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic for HBO). Rapper and multi-hyphenate Kid Cudi will embark on his first tour since 2022 this spring, and he’s bringing along a star-studded…
Yungblud Responds to Backlash Over Photo With Rammstein Singer
Yungblud has responded to backlash for taking a photo with Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann because of the past allegations made against him. Continue reading…
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped from the internet. Scientists are still trying to better understand what will…
The Best Albums of 1986 (According to Us)
Beastie Boys in 1986. (Credit: Michel Delsol/Getty Images) From left: Bono, Sting, Bryan Adams, Peter Gabriel (holding a video recorder), Lou Reed, and Amnesty International USA’s Executive Director Jack Healey…
The Damned Turn 50 and Pay Tribute to Founding Member Brian James
The Damned: (Credit: Sasha Lecca) “Brian wasn’t like everybody else.” The Damned’s guitarist Captain Sensible remembers first meeting his late bandmate and founding member Brian James toward the end of…
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a…
Lucinda Williams: “I didn’t realise I was writing about myself”
Originally published in Uncut Take 268 [September 2019 issue], the making of the totemic title track from Lucinda Williams' 1998 album, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road... Originally published in…
Samsung Nears Nvidia’s Approval for Key HBM4 AI Memory Chips
Samsung Electronics Co. is getting close to securing certification from Nvidia Corp. for the latest version of its AI memory chip, called HBM4, making progress in narrowing the gap with…