-
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard wants to help you log off of Claude
Anthropic has launched Reflect, a new dashboard for its Claude chatbot designed to help users review — and ultimately reduce — the time they spend using the tool. Described as a cross between Spotify Wrapped and Apple’s Screen Time, the feature aims to make people more efficient rather than more engaged, marking an unusual move…
-
Boutique Publisher Dynamite Acquires ‘Cherish’ Singer, Songwriter, Terry Kirkman’s Catalog
Specialist music publisher Dynamite has acquired the catalogue of Terry Kirkman, the principal songwriter of 1960s American band The Association and the writer and lead singer of the choral pop classic “Cherish”. The deal, announced on Thursday, brings a piece of “sunshine pop” heritage into the portfolio of a young publisher, with Dynamite’s CEO Alan…
-
Original FOREIGNER Singer LOU GRAMM Says He Is Finally Retiring At The End Of 2026 Tour: ‘I Wanna Go Out With A Bang’
Lou Gramm, the original lead singer of the rock band Foreigner, has confirmed that he will retire from live performing at the end of 2026. Speaking to Steve Harkins of TalkShopLive’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Channel, the 76-year-old said he wanted to stop while he was still able to sing well, rather than continue past his…
-
3 Uniquely 90s Songs That Blend Together Country and Grunge
This American Songwriter article revisits the 1990s to highlight a handful of songs that fused two seemingly opposed genres, country and grunge. The writer argues that although the two styles were enjoying separate golden eras and rarely overlapped, a few crossover tracks captured both the twang of country and the distorted heaviness of grunge, and…
-
Kelela – new avatar
-
Listen to Ed O’Brien’s haunting new solo song ‘Abbeycwmhir’
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has released his one-off single ‘Abbeycwmhir’ digitally, having previously issued it only as a seven-inch vinyl single in May. The track — whose title translates as ‘Abbey In The Long Valley’ and is named after a village in the valley of the Nant Clywedog in Powys, Wales — follows his recent…
-
‘An Icon Is Here’: Juliette Binoche Takes Over Karlovy Vary, Talks Directorial Debut ‘In-I in Motion’ and Explains Why ‘We’re All Creators’
French actress Juliette Binoche was the centre of attention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where she received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Introduced by the festival’s artistic director Karel Och with the words “an icon is here”, she also presented her directorial debut, “In-I in Motion”, a documentary…
-
Electronic artists share stories behind their career-changing records in new book, Breakthrough
A new book titled Breakthrough is set to be published later this year, gathering interviews with 20 electronic musicians about the individual releases that proved pivotal to their careers. Written by Berlin-based Canadian music journalist Emma Robertson, the book explores the ideas, intentions and creative processes behind some of electronic music’s most celebrated records, tracing…
-
PARADISE LOST’s GREGOR MACKINTOSH Names His Three ‘Desert Island’ Albums
In a new interview with the Czech outlet Metal & Rock Zone, Gregor Mackintosh — guitarist of British gothic metal pioneers Paradise Lost — was asked which three albums he would take to a desert island. His choices offer an insight into the early influences that shaped both his playing and the band’s sound, reaching…