On May 27th, 1988, Killer Klowns from Outer Space first beamed onto screens around North America. Directed, written, and produced by the talented Chiodo Brothers, the film follows a pair of young ...

We employ various degrees of freedom and strategies to really blur the line between improvised/composed, unplanned/planned, however you want to think about it. The ensemble's members write their own ...

Missy Elliott lyrics blasted off into space as NASA transmitted her song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" 158 million miles from Earth to Venus, the space agency said Monday. It took nearly 14 minutes for ...

Muse about the universe to a playlist stocked with Björk, Sufjan Stevens, Frank Sinatra and more. By Maya Salam Outer space is my Roman Empire: I am on some level obsessing about it whenever I have a ...

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From the earliest days of hip-hop, rap artists have referenced the extraterrestrial to help us escape our earthbound existence. In “Rapper’s Delight” — the pioneering 1979 rap song by the Sugarhill ...

About a year and a half after the release of her album Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers is finally able to take her album on the road. She’s been performing across the country at venues and festivals, like ...

A selection of songs from the launch of the space age. The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 50 years ago this week marked the dawn of the space age — and sparked songwriters' imaginations. When ...

Editor’s note: A.D. Carson, an assistant professor of hip-hop and the global south in the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music, wrote this piece for The Conversation. Last summer, ...