The Sandman is on Netflix — here’s what you need to know from the comics

Tom Sturridge as Dream in Netflix’s The Sandman

Netflix’s fantasy series The Sandman opens with a small chunk of exposition explaining its protagonist Morpheus, the King of Dreams — which is much more than comics readers got when Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series launched […]

SoundCloud Lays Off 20% of Staff, Citing ‘Challenging’ Economy

SoundCloud Lays Off 20% of Staff, Citing 'Challenging' Economy

Photo Credit: Brusk Dede Berlin-headquartered music-sharing platform SoundCloud is preparing to lay off 20 percent of its global workforce. SoundCloud CEO Michael Weissman acknowledged the unfortunate news in a LinkedIn post today, following a general […]

Mo Ostin, music executive who shaped the industry, has died

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Mo Ostin, the music executive who helped transform Warner Bros. Records into one of the most admired music labels in the world and who earned respect and lasting allegiance from musicians from Los Angeles to […]

Review: ‘Stray’ video game argues that sci-fi dystopia is better with cats

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“Stray” was announced in summer 2020, and shortly thereafter it colloquially became known as “the cat game.” After spending nine hours with and completing “Stray” — sorry, the cat game — I can confirm the […]

TikTok Begins US and UK Layoffs As Part of ‘Reorganization’ Plan

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Photo Credit: Eyestetix Studio TikTok has reportedly started laying off team members on both sides of the Atlantic as part of a potentially far-reaching reorganization. Word of the popular (and controversial) short-form video-sharing app’s cutbacks […]

QUEENSRŸCHE Releases Music Video For ‘In Extremis’, First Single From ‘Digital Noise Alliance’ Album

QUEENSRŸCHE Announces New Album 'Digital Noise Alliance'

QUEENSRŸCHE will release its sixteenth studio album, “Digital Noise Alliance”, on October 7 via Century Media. The record was once again helmed by Chris “Zeuss” Harris, who previously worked with QUEENSRŸCHE on 2015’s “Condition Hüman” […]

Grace Jones opens 27th Meltdown festival in spectacular style at the Southbank Centre – Music News

Grace Jones opens 27th Meltdown festival in spectacular style at the Southbank Centre - Music News

Grace Jones opened her curated edition of the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival with an enthralling concert in the Royal Festival on Friday 10 June. Visibly ecstatic to be performing for an audience that has had […]

Love, Death and Robots’ most beautiful episode was ‘a love letter to Moebius’

Love, Death and Robots’ most beautiful episode was ‘a love letter to Moebius’

Volume 3 of Love, Death and Robots covers a lot of ground: haunting alien landscapes, frighteningly realistic sea monsters, cute zombie apocalypses. But, even still, one episode in particular manages to stand out: “The Very […]

Netflix is cutting back, but not on L.A. productions

Netflix is cutting back, but not on L.A. productions

At the Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood on a recent afternoon, teenager Reyn Doi rehearsed lines for the new sitcom “That ’90s Show.” He was sitting at table in a meticulously designed set that featured […]

Spotify Introduces Open Source Audio-to-MIDI File Converter ‘Basic Pitch’

Spotify open source MIDI converter

Photo Credit: Spotify Spotify introduces Basic Pitch, an open source audio-to-MIDI file converter. Spotify’s R&D team has unveiled Basic Pitch, a free, open source tool to convert audio files into MIDI format. Using machine learning to transcribe […]