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Steve Albini’s 10 Essential Recordings

The musician and audio engineer, who died on Tuesday at 61, gave artists including Nirvana and PJ Harvey an authentic…

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The Bragg Case Against Trump Is a Historic Mistake

About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of…

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Lost Tapes From Major Musicians Are Out There. These Guys Find Them.

For decades, recordings left at studios have languished in storage rooms and basements. Master Tape Rescue, a company of two…

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A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’

A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Ireland’s civil war into a model…

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What Are the Largest Wildfires in U.S. History?

The Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle is now one of the largest fires the country has faced. Here…

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Murder Trial Lays Bare a Hip-Hop Pioneer’s Double Life

In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep…

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Kelvin Kiptum, Marathon World Record-Holder, Dies at 24

Kiptum, who came tantalizingly close last year to breaching the mythical two-hour barrier in the marathon, was killed in a…

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Super Bowl Viewership Rose to 123.4 Million, a Record High

The figure easily exceeded last year’s 115.1 million, capping off a big year for N.F.L. ratings.

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See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot.

Month after month, global temperatures didn’t just break records, they smashed them. This year could be even warmer.

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Strata-East Records

This label founded in 1971 gave Afrocentric and psychedelic jazz a home, and found a breakout hit with Gil Scott-Heron…

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