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What Regency-era cause of death would have been passive, repeatable, and not easily solved by era-appropriate forensic science?
Did any mongol soldiers suffer psychologically from their massacres against civilians?
What music played at the surrender at Yorktown?
Societies where both men and women are treated equally should be more efficient because it would allow half the population to contribute in productive ways other than as sex providers and childbearers, domestics and servants. So why didn't egalitarian societies win out over patriarchical ones?
Who got the apartments of the families of Jews killed during World War 2?
Who are the two people who run onto the field during Hank Aaron's 715th home run and what happened to them?
When and how did dictionaries start to contain clear definitions of sexual terms?
What was happening in Mongolia in the early 13th century that allowed Genghis Khan to unite the tribes? How inevitable was it?
How much of what we consider “historical truth” is actually shaped by what survived rather than what was most representative?
How would a medieval soldiers mental state differ from a modern soldiers?
Confucius was widely known and respected as a philosopher in Early Modern Europe. Was the same true of Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle in China at the same time?
AMA: Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy
Why did the IJN never bomb or attempt to bomb the US Factories or US Shipyards in 1942?
In pre-Emancipation Proclamation Texas, how did "Free Person of Color" families with property and slaveholdings navigate social and legal boundaries?
Who Invented Crack?
Has face-slapping always been understood as a "treatment" to calm someone down?
Why do American diners look the way they do, even exterior wise?
This sub has a number of answers about the popularity of female pubic hair removal in ancient Rome (for example). Going in the opposite direction, what's the history behind the 1980s giant bush era? How detailed is our timeline of pubic hair trends?
Who actually made up Khomeini’s core support base in the 1979 Iranian Revolution? Was it mostly upper middle class leftists and urban religious class and not the rural lower class due to the Shah’s land reforms?
When Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, he was accompanied only by his wife and eldest son, despite having a considerable ideological following even at this late stage. Why send out only him and not the rest of his faction?
What was life in the Kafes actually like for the Ottoman princes?
Was military coup in Rome an accepted institutional norm?
To what extent was the Duke of Normandy aware of Norwegian king Harad's invasion prior his own invasion of England?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation
75% of medicinal plant knowledge is recorded in only one language. 86% of those languages are threatened. New research suggests the most scientifically accurate knowledge is also the most linguistically vulnerable.
Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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Morellet Art Generator
In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system
Fiction About Trans People
Taeliana Creative
Parasite Personality Quiz
The Pelican
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics

Open Culture

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The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow
How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today
How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene
Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

NYT > Technology

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Meta Unveils New A.I. Model, Its First From the Superintelligence Lab
Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Federal Court Denies Anthropic’s Motion to Lift ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
Uber and Lyft Offer Gas Price Relief, but Drivers Say It’s Not Enough
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Took iPhones Into Space
Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children
Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.
The Revival of the Fashion-Tech Love Affair
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.
Goodbye ‘Geeky Hunk’? Gmail Users Can Now Change Their Usernames.
Apple’s Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring

NYT > Arts

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An Audacious $724 Million Building Reinvents LACMA
‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death
Frankie Muniz Refuses to Stay in His Lane
‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Talks Tragedy, the Internet and the End of the Show
‘Faces of Death’ Set the Bar for Hardcore Horror. It’s Baaack.
Fanciful and Fabulous: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway
Matisse Is a Crowd-Pleaser. Here’s What the Crowds Rarely Get to See
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Detroit Jazz
This Audacious Film Festival Should Be Better Known
Duke Ellington and John Adams: Titans of Classical Americana
Taylor Frankie Paul Files Competing Court Petition Against Dakota Mortensen
Irvine Wanted a New Concert Venue. But Not on Live Nation’s Terms.
Review: ‘Innocence’ Tackles School Shootings at the Met Opera
Duchamp Made a Urinal Into Art in 1917. We’re Still Discussing It.
Popeye the Art Icon
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Joy to Your Day
Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74
Modern Love: My Husband’s Breakdown Was My Breakthrough
Late Night Puzzles Over Trump’s ‘Mixed Message’ on Iran
Nathan Farb’s Roving Lens
Nathan Farb, 85, Dies; Photographed Hippies, Siberians and Mountains
Peter Schrag Dies at 94; Wrote of Dangers of California’s Populist Streak
9 Ethereal, Emotional, Chaotic and Goofy Cloud-Rap Gems
Joe Conzo Sr., Guardian of Tito Puente’s Legacy, Dies at 83
Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain
Wireless Festival Canceled After U.K. Blocks Kanye West From Entering Country
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Bids to Buy Universal Music Group
At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky
How Duchamp Inspired These 4 Artists
Justice Dept. Resolves Broadway Touring Company Investigation
Europe’s Museums Confront the (Literal) Skeletons in Their Closets
Netflix Explores a Buzzy Chess Cheating Scandal
A Brief History of 4 Urinals
Presto! In Chicago, a High-End Magic Palace Appears
Is This Bach’s Most Underrated Music?
How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” Live From the New York Times Office
Finding Trends in Sports Stats and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Puzzles
Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s Expletive-Filled Post Threatening Iran
In Paris’s Catacombs, Can a Restoration Breathe New Life Into City’s Dead?
‘Becky Shaw’ Review: Funny vs. Likable? Funny Wins.
Ronald H. Spector, Who Traced Social History in Books on War, Dies at 83
Elisabeth Waldo, 107, Who Fused Indigenous and Western Music, Dies
In Savannah Guthrie’s Return to ‘Today,’ a Rare TV Example of How to Live With Not Knowing
The Volcano Lover: An Anarchic Young Composer’s Masterpiece
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
‘Firebird’ Finds Its Wings Again at Dance Theater of Harlem
‘Euphoria,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 3: The Aww-Ick
On ‘S.N.L.,’ Bondi Boasts of Being ‘First Woman Ever Fired as Attorney General’
Despite Poor Reviews, ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Is a Megahit
‘Hacks’ Has the Last Laugh
How Did You Feel About ‘The Drama’ Plot Twist? Tell Us Your Thoughts
How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Experts Weigh In
U2, Anne Hathaway: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Regé-Jean Page on the Album He Considers Flawless
After 11 Years in Court, Heir Reclaims a Modigliani Looted by the Nazis
Carol Mullins, Who Illuminated Dance for Decades, Dies at 86
Dolores Keane, Singer Known as the ‘Soul of Ireland,’ Dies at 72
‘The Drama’ and the Secrets That Can Unravel a Relationship

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What are the chances that there are more islands (not discovered or not public knowledge) in the Pacific Ocean?
For the first time in history, Europe is set to overtake China in terms of annual births
An expedition team has discovered a previously unknown mini-island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
Altough the villages Beğendik (Turkey) and Rezovo (Bulgaria) are only a few hundred meters apart, seperated by a river, the shortest travel distance between both villages is almost 250km, since there is no border crossing.
Which landlocked countries would have the chance to become coastal states if sea levels rise?
A third of earth's habitable land is used for animal agriculture
Why are ex Portuguese colonies so likely to have mixed race people who are half Portuguese, when most other colonizers (except Spain maybe) have none or barely any?
Why is this border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan straight as a line?
Malaysia and Singapore are both multiethnic former British colonies. As such, why are there virtually no white Malaysians or Singaporeans?
Why does every Continent or (big) Island have a Mountainrange only on one edge, while the other Side is flat?
Why do most modern "Earth in the future" maps not include the split somali plate?
Im starting to get curious of how well do people actually know basic geography?
Why is this section of I-82 routed around the Yakima River?
Batagaika Crator, the fastest growing sper- uhh Thermokarst
Why doesn't Chicago have multiple skylines?
Does anyone else feel like map memory only “works” while you’re looking at it?
Can anyone tell me about this little island south of Jamaica?
Passau, Bavaria is the city where the three rivers Danube, Inn and Ilz meet
Question for a Geography Club
I made a geography site and would love some feedback
So, who controlls north syria now?
Why does the water temperature in northeast US vary so much by season compared to the water temperature of the northwest?
Satellite imagery of the dried up Zayandehrud in Isfahan, Iran
Theoretical Geographic Classifications

The Public Domain Review

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Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer

The Quietus

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Nine Inch Nails Reveal New Collaborative LP with Boys Noize
Fan-Made SOPHIE Archive Launches Online
Björk is Throwing a Rave in Iceland to Mark the Total Solar Eclipse
Loraine James, Laurel Halo and More Contribute to New Compilation Honouring Women Who Have Shaped Electronic Music
Kelela Returns with New Single, ‘idea 1’
Crisis Energy: An Interview with Guttersnipe
Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg
Parasocial Security: Why Harry Styles’ Meltdown is Fireproof
Iceage Detail New Album, ‘For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter’
Boards Of Canada Trigger Comeback Speculation Amid Cryptic VHS Mailouts
Kanye West Blocked From Entering the UK, Wireless Festival Appearances Cancelled
Norman Records Announce Birthday Special Edition LPs
Different League: Mark Gatiss’ Favourite Albums
Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley
Mr Vast – Upping The Ante
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG – Pompeii // Utility
The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine
Reissue of the Week: Connecters by Larrison
Ghosts in the Machine: Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge Talk Doublespeak
Thundercat – Distracted
Wanderfal Festival at The Cornish Bank for April 10 – 11
Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996
The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie
The Shits – Diet Of Worms
Inner Ear: Croatian Music for April, by Jakub Knera
The Strange World Of… Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Our Subscriber-Exclusive Playlist for March 2026
Triple Threat: An Interview with Orcutt Shelley Miller
Prince’s Parade (Under The Cherry Moon) 40 Years On
Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past

Bandcamp Updates

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The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepieces Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Robber Robber, “Two Wheels Move the Soul”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Various Artists, “Fight The Fire: Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots and Dub in Nigeria 1986–91”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2026
Maryam Saleh’s Secret
Foote/Dickow, “High Cube”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026
Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026

dusted

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Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead — Live At The Hungry Brain (Trost)
Hässlig / Opresija — Kali Yuga Aural Terror (Self-released)
Chronotope Project — Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary)
Third Coast Percussion — Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)

Pitchfork

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Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal Is Writing an “Astrological Memoir”
“Idea 1”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Confirm Collaborative Album
Olivia Rodrigo to Host and Perform on SNL
Björk Will Spend the Eclipse Raving in Iceland
Juvenile on the Music That Made Him
Lindsey Buckingham’s Stalker Charged After Attacking Him in Santa Monica
Kelela Drops Video for Grungey New Song “Idea 1”
Radiohead Announce Kid A Mnesia Touring Installation
American Football Enlist Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for New Song
Otoboke Beaver Return With “I Don’t Need to Be in Your Strike Zone”
VOLUMES: ONE “SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND”
The Former Site Of
Jeune Morty Vol.1
Highway to Hell
Isaiah Rashad Teases Return With It’s Been Awful
Michael Jackson Estate Spent Up to $15 Million Removing Child Abuse Allegation Scenes
Thaiboy Digital Plots the Underworld Tour
“Addicted” [ft. Fivio Foreign]
Listen to the Strokes’ Auto-Tuned New Song “Going Shopping”
Iceage Announce New Album For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
M.I.A. Launches M.I.7 With New Song “Everything”
Kurt Vile Announces First Album in Four Years and Massive Tour
Kanye West Banned From Entering UK
Coachella 2026 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
Distracted
Boiling Point
Dear Nashville
DJ-Kicks

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Semi Chellas
The Science Book / Encyclopedia of Sensors
Folding Bikes
Retro Recomendo: Followable
Book Freak #204: Living for Pleasure
Happiest Countries/Monthly Flight Pass/Favorite US Airports
What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes
Weeders
The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
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