The Pet Sounds Project is Paste’s two-week celebration of the Beach Boys’ eleventh album, which turns sixty years old on May 16, 2026. Of all the magic that exists within the archive of in-process ...

God bless rock and roll music. Florry makes a whole lot of it, and it’s all quite good. The Philly-bred, Vermont-based septet sounds like a bunch of punks who can’t stop listening to Gram Parsons.

Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres like rock and hip-hop to “paranormal dark cabaret afternoon” and “synth space,” ...

These days, social media plays an integral part in life, influencing how we communicate, obtain information, and share information with each other. Although less than 30 years old [1], we have seen a ...

This past November, soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT, a software developer named Thomas Ptacek asked it to provide instructions for removing a peanut-butter sandwich from a VCR, written in the style ...

It’s the stuff of nightmares: you sit down to tuck into a tasty salad when, suddenly, one of the tomatoes starts to scream as you cut into it. While the above scenario is a gross exaggeration, ...

Abstract: Drums are difficult to recognize not only because the sounds overlap when many instruments are played simultaneously, but also the notes and beats vary depending on how they are played. This ...

Like many social media platforms and apps, TikTok feeds are built using a recommendation algorithm that uses a number of tools and factors to personalize it for each person. Now, TikTok has published ...

Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands. (No, I want this banana, not that one, which looks identical in every way but which you just started ...

Did Facebook’s Big New Study Kill My Filter Bubble Thesis? Not really. Let’s dive into it and see why not. A few years ago, I gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I ...