NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, October 9 (#486) Need help with Connections #486? Here are some hints and the answers. Tom’s Guide · Oct 8, 2024
"Some of his best songs are b-sides": 8 non-album Chris Cornell tracks that showcase his brilliance On what would have been Chris Cornell's 60th birthday we delve a little deeper to celebrate his legacy with Soundgarden, Audioslave and solo MusicRadar · Jul 20, 2024
Revisiting England’s overshadowed summer of perfection, 20 years on Seven wins from seven Tests and a recasting of the XI set the team on its path to Ashes glory 12 months later The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2024
Head-to-head stats highlight why Test cricket is greatest sporting format Every match comprises hundreds of contests between batter and bowler. If statistics are your thing, it’s mesmerising The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2024
"A guy named Alexander Dumble made the amps": Andrew Watt reveals the gear behind Pearl Jam's new album "I have Marshalls, Fenders, Voxes, Oranges, Supros – all different kinds of amps. But since the day we got this amp I've not plugged into anything else," he said of his favourite Dumble modded amp MusicRadar · Apr 22, 2024
“Dumble would refuse to build them for a lot of people, but for whatever reason, he agreed to make four for me”: Pearl Jam used Dumble amps on new album Dark Matter, reveals producer Andrew Watt The late Alexander Dumble made four custom amps for the A-list producer Guitar World · Apr 19, 2024
"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean Metal Hammer · Apr 9, 2024
"It has a riff that gives Matt Cameron the opportunity to be as great as we know him to be": Stone Gossard reveals the new Pearl Jam song that has "probably one of the greatest drum fills of all time" The guitarist also explains why he wants to work with producer Watt on another Pearl Jam album after Dark Matter MusicRadar · Mar 19, 2024
The making of Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever: "George Harrison went to the store and bought a ginger root, boiled it and had me stick my head in the pot to get the ginger steam to open up my sinuses. Then I ran in and did the take" More than 33 years after its release, Tom Petty's solo debut is still making headlines thanks to Grand Theft Autio 6. We dig into the creation of a classic album MusicRadar · Dec 14, 2023
Nabi’s nomadic journey from beating Gatting to historic win over England Veteran has beaten 43 different countries since first being noticed flaying an MCC side to all corners in Mumbai in 2006 The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2023
The rise and 'whimper-not-a-bang' fall of Australia's trailblazing rock press People under 30 don’t need to care about – or even understand – this. But there really was a time when exposure to culture was mediated by curators who had far too much power over what we all saw, heard or experienced. The Conversation · Oct 2, 2023
Superpedestrian pulls out of Chicago scooter-rental market The company blamed stiff competition with competitor Lyft, which operates the city’s Divvy short-term bike rental service. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 7, 2023
AXS TV, ‘Spin’ Present ‘100 Greatest Rock Stars’ Premiere set for October 2 Multichannel News · Aug 22, 2023
Tom’s Hardware · Aug 6, 2023 Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle Residents of Seattle have discovered Raspberry Pi 4Bs inside abandoned electric scooters from the rental company Spin.
Louder · May 26, 2023 Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead Having learned of Matty Healy's comments on a potential Oasis reunion, Noel Gallagher offered some advice of his own to The 1975's frontman
The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023 A coronation during austerity and an Ashes to remember: omens of 1953 England’s game-changing play 70 years ago was nothing like Bazball, but it regained the Ashes in a summer of royal pomp
The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2023 Karen O, self-destruction and rubber bones: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell, 20 years on As ‘Fever to Tell’ celebrates its second decade, Mark Beaumont looks back at the glitter-stained, tequila-soaked origins of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s iconic debut record
The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023 Karen O, self-destruction and rubber bones: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell at 20 years old As ‘Fever to Tell’ celebrates its second decade, Mark Beaumont looks back at the glitter-stained, tequila-soaked origins of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s iconic debut record
The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023 Chaos and creation: are we seeing the last of the backyard cricketers? Every player has their own origin story but might environmental ingenuity be disappearing from the game?
The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023 When Test cricket is this good, even defeats can feel like a triumph New Zealand’s one-run victory over England gave devotees a pinch-yourself moment of glee at one of the greatest Tests
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023 ‘I’m a lucky man’: Ryan Campbell on his ‘seven-day window of nothing’ The new Durham coach on the playing the scoop pre-T20, coaching Ben Stokes and the trauma of spending a week in a coma
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2023 ‘Well bowled, Harold!’ Ninety years on, England’s Bodyline tactics retain heat Nine decades ago this week, Australia’s under-fire cricket board rowed back on complaints against the tourists’ brutal bowling
The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2023 Whose data is it anyway? Behind the fight to control cricketers’ statistics Cricket is heavy with statistics and the battle over fair usage and control of them is just beginning
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023 England cricket tours to South Africa didn’t used to be extended sleepovers ODI series starting on Friday lasts less than a week – a far cry from 13,000-mile round trips made by steamer and 60-hour coach journeys