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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if I never run a Lancer campaign, I’ve still thoroughly enjoyed the imagination and creativity on display in its lore. Humanity exists in many forms in the the distant future. Lancer is set in ...

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 ...

It’s time for a little slice of CD nostalgia. When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact ...

If you weren’t a church kid in the ’80s and ’90s, the Satanic Panic might be difficult to describe. But here goes… As I wrote in my review of Mike Cosper’s excellent Devil and the Deep Blue Sea ...

And all you need to watch them is a library card. In this Korean fantasy epic (which got its start as a webtoon for smartphones), a firefighter dies in the line of duty and is assigned three guardians ...