The nonprofit AI safety org MLCommons has teamed up with Hugging Face to release a public domain dataset of speech recordings ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

The Canadian pop supernova born Abel Tesfaye has indicated that this album will be the final one under the moniker the Weeknd, his unknowable persona. The title is a big fat clue: Tesfaye can’t wait ...

These days Frànçois writes slow, demure synth pop songs, close in spirit to his early DIY recordings and to the mournful minimalism of bands such as The Field Mice. On the surface, F&AM’s songs are ...

Sonicware’s excellent ELZ_1 synth gets a major update with new looping features. Greg Scarth checks out this affordable rival ...

Every week, dozens and dozens of albums manifest from the ether. (Or, wherever records get pressed, really.) It’s hard to tell what’s good, what’s bad and what’s just mostly undeserving of your time ...

The veteran producer and multi-instrumentalist—a key figure in Beirut’s independent music scene—turns samples of his peers into an ambient meditation on community.

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In an era dominated by synth-pop and the rise of new wave, Prefab Sprout carved out a niche of their own.' Indigo's anonymous explores the influence of Durham's own Prefab Sprout on 80s music.

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