Cover Me is a column highlighting the stories behind great album covers, as told to Grant Sharples by the artists and bands who made them. “That old-time, lo-fi, DIY, rock and roll… nights!” So goes ...

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages (typically on TikTok) ...

Apple discontinued the iPod in 2022, but older models are surging in popularity as young people seek distraction-free music and a break from smartphone dependency. eBay searches rose 25% for the iPod ...

Of all the film festivals to fill the theaters throughout the year in Chicago, the Chicago International Film Festival offers the broadest scope and the biggest selection of films from names familiar ...

Any day now, the new sandwich shop Casa Cugine will open in Brooklyn. “We’re just waiting on the last permits,” says the shop’s namesake, Cugine, the Staten Island–born influencer known for videos of ...

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As mathematical abstractions go, graphs are among the simplest. Scatter a bunch of points in a plane. Connect some of them with lines. That’s all a graph is. And yet they are incredibly powerful. They ...

A 16-year-old from Argentina is blowing up with the most puerile plugg rap ever produced. AgusFortnite2008’s deeply overwhelming aesthetic teeters between creative and corny (think Chief Keef worship, ...

In July 2022, a pair of mathematicians in Belgium startled the cybersecurity world. They took a data-encryption scheme that had been designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers so ...

Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist. When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or ...

If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms. We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in ...