This month’s playlist, titled “ A Slowcore Revival ,” contains 90+ minutes of slowcore classics from some of the genre’s ...

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When he died in 2024, Michael Knott left behind one of the most iconic — and mercurial — catalogs in the history of Christian music, consisting of dozens of titles released under both his own name and ...

With striking imagery, heady metaphysics, and meandering plots, David Zindell presented a fascinating (and frustrating) vision of the distant future. The moment I saw David Zindell’s Neverness sitting ...

My favorite songs are those that communicate timeless beauty and truth, and make life matter just a little bit more than it did before I pressed “Play.” So here it is, the definitive list of my 50 ...

Update: A month has passed, and Google’s AI still doesn’t know how to spell the days of the week. By now, it’s common knowledge that Google’s AI search can be… unreliable. Back in 2024, the world’s ...

Roku’s new ad-free service features thousands of titles from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, and FilmRise. So what, exactly, does Howdy offer? Well, I’ve spent some time going through its archives, ...

The Cure has established one of the most iconic and influential catalogs of music in the annals of alternative, goth, and post-punk. The Cure is my favorite band. And not just because they formed in ...

2026 might not be quite as stacked as 2025, movie-wise, but it still features some of Hollywood’s biggest filmmakers — Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, some guy named Steven ...

The posters include Studio Ghibli titles and Hollywood blockbusters, and I want them all hanging on my walls. It’s hard to see movie posters as anything other than glorified advertisements that are ...

A series of short films explores one of the more bizarre and frightening corners of SCP Foundation lore. One of my favorite novels of 2025 is Qntm’s There Is No Antimemetics Division. Set in the ...