Louie Anderson Loses Cancer Battle at 68
Comedian Louie Anderson died in Las Vegas this morning at the age of 68. He’d entered the hospital earlier in the week for treatment of…
Boston Calling Lineup Revealed: Metallica, Foo Fighters + More
Boston Calling has finally revealed its official 2022 lineup. The three-day event will be headlined by Metallica, Foo Fighters and The Strokes. The festival is…
Cypress Hill Drop Politically-Tinged ‘Bye Bye,’ Announce Album
Cypress Hill expect to be quite prominent in 2022, kicking off the year with a brand new song “Bye Bye,” as well as word on…
Dust Grains Escape a Dismal Fate To Build Planets
In protoplanetary disks — the gas and dust clouds from which planets are made — the orbits of millimeter-sized dust particles drift inward. If these…
Rockers React to the Death of ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Singer Meat Loaf
Rock singer Meat Loaf died on Thursday (Jan. 20) — as was confirmed by his manager the next day — and other musicians are starting to share tributes, condolences and remembrances…
In This Moment’s Maria Brink Guests on New Asking Alexandria Song
Inspired by the single off their 2021 album See What’s On the Inside, Asking Alexandria have just dropped the Never Gonna Learn EP, which features two new…
Metallica Gift Street Performer New Drums After His Are Stolen
Metallica recently gifted a Los Angeles street performer a new set of drums after his were stolen. The performer, a drummer named Sheriff Drumman, is known in…
What Happens If a Space Elevator Breaks
So what if, instead of launching atop a chemical rocket, your object could just ride up on a cable that reaches all the way into…
Film Festivals Are Evolving for the Better
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. This time…
This AI Trainer App Wants to Make You a Faster Cyclist
TrainerRoad is a bit of an outlier in the universe of cycling training apps. It lacks the candy-hued gamer bling of Zwift, the off-beat humor…