It was fitting that Lorde made her comeback this year with a lead single called “What Was That”—there’s perhaps no better phrase to describe the weird, wild year that was 2025. In the span of 12 ...

For over 5 years, Arthur has been professionally covering video games, writing guides and walkthroughs. His passion for video games began at age 10 in 2010 when he first played Gothic, an immersive ...

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Taylor Swift released an album so bad we won’t even talk about it. FKA twigs fucked around with EUSEXUA and found out… it got even better? Rosalía let her hair down from the Tower of Babel. Addison ...

Crowds of spectators lined the streets of downtown Salinas Sunday to cheer on the city's youngest cowboys and cowgirls in the Kiddie Kaper Parade. This year's theme was "Once Upon a Rodeo" and the ...

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Anyone who's dabbled in dating apps probably knows how harsh online dating can feel. But the hit YouTube series Pop the Balloon or Find Love takes the ruthlessness to a new level. On the viral dating ...

When the realities of life get hard, does music get ... happy? “Recession pop” is currently trending as people reach for the music of the mid-2000s for a mood boost. And you know what? It worked.

Customers shop at the flagship Pop Mart store in Shanghai on Jan. 23, 2025. Reporter For years, products stamped with a “Made in China” label have been associated with kitschiness, mass production, ...

The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, “Pop Muzik” seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...

That’s the way we feel as we round the bend into the final days of the year. We really had it ALL in 2024: Era-defining albums, the Olympics, the return of the blockbuster movie musical, a ...

When System76 announced that it would be creating a new Linux desktop environment from scratch and using the Rust programming language, I was skeptical, not in the company's ability to deliver but the ...