For 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,...

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...

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Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Ben Jacobs grew up in London. He went to the same school as Jude Law and a Chemical Brother, but didn’t know them.

Episode 105 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Green Onions”, and how a company started by a Western Swing fiddle player ended up making the most important soul …

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