Earlier this year, the Digital Culture Beat had the pleasure of attending the “8-bit Music Exhibit” for the Digital Studies Institute, planned by Toni Bushner and Norah Vulpes — a digital scholarship ...

The Recording Academy has officially named the 2026 Grammy nominees, and now the world is waiting for February 1st to see who will take home an award during the Los Angeles ceremony. And one of the ...

This Pink Floyd song (and its album of the same name) was far from their only release on 8-track. Still, it’s a fine release, and it was one you could find easily on this old-school medium. Some of ...

James Gunn confirmed the additions on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Six brand new songs added to the #Peacemaker Official Playlist featured in the super-sized finale this Thursday on @StreamOnMax.” ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Surrounded by thousands of objects bearing the likeness of Nintendo's moustachioed plumber, 40-year-old Kikai reflects that his "life would be totally different without Mario" who also marks four ...

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Mario Kart 8: Deluxe was one of the top-selling games in the U.S. last month across Nintendo Switch 1 and 2. Huh? Now in its 11th year, the racing game refuses to go gently into that good night even ...

Shuck yeah! I counted a whopping 8 Luke Bryan songs that mention corn. It's hard to count exactly how many songs Bryan has recorded in his career, but we do know he has released eight studio albums, ...

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 ...

Let songs from Lorde, boygenius, Mitski and more help push through a sticky, sludgy August. By Dani Blum This is Dani Blum, a health reporter and sometimes music writer at The New York Times, back ...

The eight best Iron Maiden songs over eight minutes long don't just give you a double album's worth of top-class heavy metal — they offer lessons on history and literature that span centuries. Iron ...