Beach Fossils, "Tangerine"
Eat a tangerine a day, all summer long, and savor this lazy, sunny tune from Beach Fossils and Slowdive's Rachel Goswell.
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Catching up on the appeal of cassettes
Catching up on the appeal of cassettes with today's electronic music pioneers. It's a little bit about rejecting convenience and a lot about creating atmosphere.
June 5, 2017
Seeking to block NATO expansion, the Kremlin has been stirring political discord in Macedonia since 2008. / The Guardian “That governments, businesses, and friendly liberal types are falling over themselves to import exciting new tech that has been explicitly designed to undermine them is a bit of an inside joke.” For
READY: La Caverna
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," told in two dimensions. See also: "The Unbearable Lightness of Declaring a Liberal Arts Major."
Of Oz the Wizard
The Wizard of Oz—rather, Of Oz the Wizard—recut entirely in alphabetical order. Related: Name that song, based on its alphabetized lyrics.
Showtime Goma, Propel
A brilliant new song (and equally brilliant video) from Showtime Goma, the solo project from A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Jen Goma. Via Hype Machine (go support them!).
June 2, 2017
Writer Denis Johnson died last week—his stories of people on the margins are now more central than ever. / The New Republic Reports show many are drawn to working in porn by the promise of social media fame, which nixes anonymity. / The Daily Beast France says Macron hack “was so.
How the USA formed over almost 400 years
Colony by colony, state by state: An animated map of the contiguous United States shows every boundary change since 1629.
June 1, 2017
Xi Jinping is able to remake China because few people want democracy; people want a revived China. / The Atlantic “Most of us respond to what we’ve read and in the process try to create something that has its own life apart from the source novel.” Martin Scorsese responds to
May 31, 2017
Dozens killed by a giant blast during morning rush hour in Kabul’s embassy quarter. / BBC “The only chance to best this problem from hell might be to protect transatlantic relations from Donald Trump as best we can.” Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff offers the German perspective on Trump’s visit to