CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by…
Mavis Staples Makes ‘Beautiful’ Music With Star-Studded Cast
86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is…
New Paper Finds Cases of “AI Psychosis” Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia
Researchers at King's College London have examined over a dozen cases of people spiraling into paranoid and delusional behavior after obsessively using a chatbot. Their findings, as detailed in a…
The “AI Doom Loop” is here
Subscribe • Previous Issues The Great Hollowing-Out: AI and the Junior Role Crisis I’m coming across more articles about the looming impact of AI on jobs, and many paint a particularly dire…
Crack That Whip: New Documentary Explores the Evolution of Devo
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the…
Every Sparklehorse Album, Ranked
Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles…
OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock
OpenAI isn't a publicly-traded company — yet, at least — and as such, the company's express written consent is necessary for the sale or transfer of its equity. But that massive caveat…
Top Japan News Outlets Sue AI Startup Perplexity for Copyright Violations
Nikkei Inc. and the Asahi Shimbun Co. sued artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity AI Inc. for copyright infringement, joining other news organizations in Japan and the US that are challenging the use…
Kendrick Lamar Makes Surprise Appearance With Clipse In L.A.
During a break between the European leg of his Grand National tour with SZA and the Sept. 23 Mexico City launch of a South American segment, Kendrick Lamar dazzled the…
Carly Pearce Opens Up About Michael Ray Divorce on Bunnie Xo Podcast: ‘It Just Wasn’t the Marriage That I Know I Deserved’
Since her divorce from fellow country music artist Michael Ray in 2020, Carly Pearce has been outspoken about the split and the fallout from it — most prominently on her…