The idea is to bring your pudding and a fork, meet at a public space, count down and attempt to eat. The goal is nothing but ...

Looking for any feint or diversion to avoid discussing last week’s picks and disappointing results, let’s play a game. How about a pop culture quiz, asks he who has dubbed himself the Culture Maven?

Country women have delivered some truly great music in 2025. This list of the 12 best country songs released by females features several contemporary hitmakers, one absolute legend and a woman who ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

Benny Blanco has been behind some of the biggest tracks of the past 20 years, including Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Rihanna's "Diamonds" Julien Hekimian/Getty ; Jerod Harris/Getty ; Unique ...

This house music, it's gonna set you free. In 2025 house music is such a globally popular and varied genre that its origins in early 1980s Chicago warehouses seem improbable. But the myth of house ...

Is it possible to compose your own songs without any instrument or knowledge of sheet music? The answer is now a definitive yes. Thanks to specialized AI services, this is no longer a problem. They ...

Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start.

Whenua is a New Zealand Herald project to show and tell stories of our land and explain how our history affects the present ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Apple Music users just got a ton of new features in iOS 26 last week, but it seems Apple has even more in the works for its next big iPhone update. iOS 26.1 arrived in beta today, and introduces a new ...