We're back. This week's is from singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle, with "God's Picture" off her new record These Killing Times. This one is equal parts beautiful and crushing, and as she says, the ce...

We're back. This week's is from singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle, with "God's Picture" off her new record These Killing Times. This one is equal parts beautiful and crushing, and as she says, the ce...

In April, the the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad. According to the DOE, these companies can now begin discussion with NRIC on the enhanced technical, regulatory, and deployment support that the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad can […]

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This week's is a fun one from Indianapolis indie band Wishy, Sensational off their upcoming record Nature's Pill due out on October 2, 2026. When I first heard it, I almost thought it was some forgott...

the internet is in a complicated battle between knowledge, access, and compensation — one I inadvertently became a part of

Psychology researcher Peter Gray accuses his ex-colleague of stoking a moral panic.

This week's is Seethe, from California folk/doom/metal songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, off her new album The Dark, which was released on August 21, 2026. Wolfe has been around a long time in the metal scene...

This week's is Seethe, from California folk/doom/metal songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, off her new album The Dark, which was released on August 21, 2026. Wolfe has been around a long time in the metal scene...

Here’s a question nobody asked me: What do I think about AI? Fuck it, let’s go. I think it’s nowhere near as great as its backers think it is, but I also think it’s far more useful than its skeptics t...

The universities that educate the majority of Americans are struggling. How college closures will reengineer America’s class system.

This week's is "Spinning," a recent single from Sacramento dream-pop shoegaze band Soft Science and their first off their upcoming record Sand set to be released 4 September 2026. As you would expect,...

This week's is "Spinning," a recent single from Sacramento dream-pop shoegaze band Soft Science and their first off their upcoming record Sand set to be released 4 September 2026. As you would expect,...

Ceuta, the small Spanish enclave on the coast of North Africa, has been in the news lately. And I’ve seen a couple of articles mentioning that Ceuta has been a Spanish possession since 1668. Which triggered my inner history nerd, because on one hand actually Ceuta has been under the Spanish crown since 1560, not […]

The great Dolly Parton has died. One of the last living major figures from 1960s country, Parton transcended anything any other country musician has ever done in the world of popular culture, becoming...

E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909)

This week, we have New Orleans outfit Tank and the Bangas with a track off their new record The Last Balloon. The Last Balloon finishes a trilogy of albums starting with 2019's The Green Balloon and c...

This week, we have New Orleans outfit Tank and the Bangas with a track off their new record The Last Balloon. The Last Balloon finishes a trilogy of albums starting with 2019's The Green Balloon and c...

Donovan Casey made it to the cusp of his lifelong dream. His biggest challenge has been learning to live with that.

You might think a “view” means you watched something. You’d be wrong.

This week's is from Indianapolis, Indiana dream-pop/shoegaze outfit Wishy, with their new single All the Rage, off their upcoming record Nature's Pill, due out October 2, 2026. If this is your thing, ...

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

Back at it this week with a new single from North Carolina-based electropop duo Sylvan Esso. If this is your thing, note they are embarking on a North America tour this fall. On Bandcamp. https://www....

This is a guest post by Steve Mathis, part of the 2026 LGM Fundraiser Auction. Since we talk about movies a lot here at LGM I thought it might be fun to explain how a Gaffer with 50 years of experience lighting sets (but ZERO experience acting) came to play the part of “Tupelo” in […]

Patriotism is a weird thing. Like, to be proud or whatever of a country you just happened to randomly, through no action of yourself, be borne into. But it does differ from nationalism; that is to say...

Patriotism is a weird thing. Like, to be proud or whatever of a country you just happened to randomly, through no action of yourself, be borne into. But it does differ from nationalism; that is to say...

This week's is a fairly new single from Minneapolis rock outfit Pullstring. Definitely getting huge 90s vibes from this one with some more contemporary flourishes. Off their upcoming EP "Final Call" d...

This week's is a fairly new single from Minneapolis rock outfit Pullstring. Definitely getting huge 90s vibes from this one with some more contemporary flourishes. Off their upcoming EP "Final Call" d...

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

Scientific American has been acquired by LabX Media Group, which holds Discover Magazine, IFLScience, and a number of other science publications. I haven’t looked at IFLScience since it was a Twitter account stealing other people’s material. They say it’s different now. And they have started out by firing writers and editors. The Writers Guild of […]

So, it's been a nice couple of weeks watching World Cup action: three games a day, one at a time. That all changed today. As the group stage enters the half-way point, the schedule abruptly changes. N...

So, it's been a nice couple of weeks watching World Cup action: three games a day, one at a time. That all changed today. As the group stage enters the half-way point, the schedule abruptly changes. N...

This week we have a long-time live staple of Caroline Rose's that they just released as a single in May. It's a genre-bending good time. On Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4

This week we have a long-time live staple of Caroline Rose's that they just released as a single in May. It's a genre-bending good time. On Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4

Alan Greenspan, iconic economist of the New Gilded Age and capitalist extremist who made the world worse for his ideological running of the economy, is dead at the age of 100. With rare notable except...

Yesterday, good friend and former V+V contributor Jack Burden took to The Social Network™ and shared ghosts's outstanding World Cup coverage with a note "World Cup discussion for Americans beyond the ...

The "Change the World Kids," young volunteers in Woodstock, Vermont, are hoping to make a difference in their community, one meal at a time.

I have no idea how to describe this week's song. From alternative electric pop star Gelli Haha, "Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep" is an alien pop manic dream that was appended (?) to her recent album Sw...

Anyways, here's a song. On Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGAc3pniCc

Kinda a different one this week. We have Ecca Vandal, a Melburian (who apparently has been hyped by and on tour currently with the Deftones?), with the pretty bombastic and genre-bending track Bleach,...

Kinda a different one this week. We have Ecca Vandal, a Melburian (who apparently has been hyped by and on tour currently with the Deftones?), with the pretty bombastic and genre-bending track Bleach,...

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

This week's is from Woodstock, New York, outfit The Bobby Lees, a cover of PJ Harvey's 50 Ft Queenie, off their upcoming Epitaph debut New Self, due out on June 12. On Bandcamp. https://www.youtube.co...

Memorial Day is too early this year. From what I can tell, it's actually the earliest it can be. Fascinating, I guess, to some. It just seems odd for it to fall earlier than the birthday of one of our...

In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.'s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.