It could’ve been a punk-rock cliché. The Chicago DIY band Lifeguard “grows up,” discovers pop, and loses what made them thrilling to begin with — that dissonant, angular, emotional (but not emo per se ...

The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew into the distance behind me on Interstate 90. Barns and trees dotted the horizon. The speakers in my rental car, playing Spotify from my smartphone, put out the ...

Making art used to be a uniquely human endeavor, but machines have learned to distill human creativity with generative AI. Whether that content counts as “art” depends on who you ask, but Spotify ...