The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

From the Nord Lead to the MicroKorg, virtual analogue powered some of the most beloved instruments in synth history. We tell ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

The pop star and the Swedish producer connected on her 2012 LP, “Red.” They’ve reunited (with his collaborator Shellback) for “The Life of a Showgirl.” By Brian Raftery In August, a billboard in Times ...

The all-new Urbanoid Booba is an impossibly cute, tiny acorn of a trailer designed to be towed by vehicles right down to electric microcar size, providing a stylish, carefree way of instantly escaping ...

Trent Reznor usually keeps his highbrow Oscar-winning soundtrack composer side relatively separate from his main gig running Nine Inch Nails. But the soundtrack he and longtime collaborator Atticus ...

VITURE has now launched Luma Ultra AR glasses, which pack in Sony’s latest micro-OLED to go along with spatial gesture tracking thanks to onboard sensor array. Priced at $600, and now shipping ...

Formant-shifting is a vocal production technique that can be heard all over the charts in 2025, from Billie Eilish to Travis Scott. Often confused with pitch-shifting, formant-shifting manipulates the ...

Andy Cohen candidly revealed he recently lost “a good chunk of weight” this summer after he started “micro-dosing” on a GLP-1 weight loss drug. “I was really unhappy with my weight. My doctor and I ...

Ever trawled forlornly through the raft of indie sleaze nostalgia accounts, craving the hedonism, unruliness and excitement of a party scene that prioritised giddy abandon over algorithms and fun over ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the blizzard of TikTok-optimised tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that – a way ...

You know the whole LED TV or PC monitor thing and how misleading it is on account of the "LED" bit being just a big, dumb backlight for an LCD panel? Well, it's kinda happening again with Samsung's ...