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A Musician Created a Fake AI Band to Test Its Limits. Here’s What Happened

A researcher and songwriter spent a month generating thousands of songs and an entire fictional post-punk band to test the ...

James Bernard, founding editor of ‘The Source’ and co-founder of ‘XXL,’ dies

James Bernard, a pioneering hip-hop journalist who co-founded influential magazines The Source and XXL, has died ...
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Anne Lamott’s battle against writer’s block

First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott has far outlasted the era of its origin, becoming ...