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Bloc Party dance through heartbreak on new single ‘Now We Can’t Be Friends’ and announce UK record store tour
Bloc Party have released a new single, “Now We Can’t Be Friends”, and announced a run of UK record store shows ahead of their seventh studio album, “Anatomy Of A Brief Romance”, due out on 11 September. The synth-driven track finds frontman Kele Okereke singing about running into an ex on the dancefloor after a…
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Best Apple Watch (2026): Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3
Wired has published its updated 2026 buying guide to the Apple Watch lineup, now covering three current models with distinct strengths, alongside the recent return of the blood oxygen sensor after prior legal disputes had forced its removal. The guide aims to help buyers navigate Apple’s expanding smartwatch range, which now includes advanced health monitoring,…
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Microsoft’s Chaotic Server Outage Was Down To A Single Service Failure
Microsoft said a chaotic server outage was traced to the failure of a single service. The incident matters because a fault in one component was able to disrupt wider systems, highlighting the dependence of online services on interconnected infrastructure. The available article text does not provide further details on the affected products, duration, number of…
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I Stopped Playing Palworld For This Creature-Collector Game
The article is unavailable beyond its title and opening sentence, so it cannot be summarised reliably without inventing details. It appears to be a personal games feature about switching from Palworld to another creature-collection game, rather than a report of an industry event. The accessible text frames Pokémon as the longstanding dominant series in the…
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The 1969 song lyric Kris Kristofferson wanted on his tombstone
Kris Kristofferson reportedly wanted the lyric “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” on his tombstone. The line, from his 1969 song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, became one of his best-known expressions of freedom, loss and independence. Although Kristofferson wrote the song, it achieved its greatest commercial success through Janis Joplin’s posthumous 1971…
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Toxic yuri story Kaschei is a marvelous free visual novel that turns your Downloads folder into a little labyrinth of mirrors
Rock Paper Shotgun has reviewed Kaschei, a free experimental visual novel made for the Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2, praising it as an inventive piece of interactive fiction that deliberately fragments its story across multiple linked files and interfaces rather than presenting a single, unified game. The piece matters as a spotlight on the “toxic…
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Anatomy of a Scene: The princess bakes the love cake in ‘Donkey Skin’
The article text supplied for this piece is not available — what was provided consists only of the website’s navigation menu and header links (Music, Film, Travel, Art, News, Shop, Mailing List) rather than the actual article content. As a result, no factual summary of the piece about Jacques Demy’s 1970 film “Donkey Skin” (Peau…
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3 Country Songs From the 80s That Remind Us All of the Heartache of Goodbye
American Songwriter has compiled a short list highlighting three country songs from the 1980s that capture the pain of parting ways, drawing on tracks by Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson and Randy Travis. The feature reflects on how country music of that era frequently explored heartbreak and separation with striking emotional honesty. – “The Sound of…
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“The basement where we rehearsed got flooded and some of our equipment we just had to throw away”: How Meshuggah foresaw the future of extreme metal with 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve
This retrospective from Louder traces how Swedish band Meshuggah’s 1995 album Destroy Erase Improve became a landmark record that anticipated the direction extreme metal would take in the following decades. Formed in 1987 and taking their name from the Yiddish/Hebrew word for “crazy”, the band began in the more progressive corners of thrash metal before…