music Celebrate Valentine's Day with this playlist of love songs that other songwriters wish they wrote Thom Dunn

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music The genius who created Pink Floyd then vanished (video) Ellsworth Toohey

COVID-19 Remembering musical legend John Prine, five years after he died from COVID-19 Jennifer Sandlin

music Blondie drummer Clem Burke, pioneering punk-pop percussionist, RIP Ellsworth Toohey

Science Traffic noise creates angry birds in the Galapagos Gail Sherman

music Steely Dan's Donald Fagen curses out the makers of a new documentary on Yacht Rock Ruben Bolling

electronic music The Faint: 25 years of Blank Wave Arcade (Todd Fink Interview) Lee Keeler

fundraisers Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift to host livestream fundraiser for indie rocker Matthew Sweet Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

Space Celebrate the 18th anniversary of downgrading Pluto to a "dwarf planet" Jennifer Sandlin

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music Interview with DJ Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell about the 1973 party where hip-hop began David Pescovitz

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music Solely AI-generated music shut out of Grammys with new rule Rusty Blazenhoff

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