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Thursday 27 August 2026

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A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young

I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination of two existing drugs which they call 1 Generation. This wasn’t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that…

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David Byrne Reveals New Concert Film, ‘Who Is The Sky?’

Directed by filmmaker Brady Corbet, it was captured across multiple shows in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore during his most recent tour Photo by Shervin Lainez David Byrne is releasing a new concert film, titled Who Is The Sky? Directed by filmmaker Brady Corbet, who previously wrote and directed the 2024 Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist, it was captured across multiple shows in Byrne’s hometown…

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Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?

EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the single biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in the country. One thing that could help turn that around? Slate Auto’s new truck—a vehicle that seems…

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Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 30

JR Moores looks back three decades and finds it was No Code that provided grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero A massive fan of massive bands, the radio disc jockey Zane Lowe once tried to draw a parallel between three of his favourite big hitters: Pearl Jam, Radiohead and Kings Of Leon. Interviewing the second upon the release of In Rainbows, Lowe compared the Oxford group to their apparent Ameri…

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Sounds of Praise: Olúsín [Worshippers] by Ibukun Sunday

The UK-based Nigerian producer stretches and pulls the sonics of sacred spaces into mind-bending new shapes Ibukun Sunday on 25.10.2025 at Daylight Music at St John’s Leytonstone [credit Kat Ciemiega Photography] Every year the Semibreve Festival takes attendees on a side quest through the churches of Braga. Each day brings at least one performance of deep, reverberating music in one of the Portu…

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Duet Emmo Return for ICA Performance

The gig is part of an autumn series of 'in the round' concerts presented in Spatial Audio, also featuring Gilla Band and Tara Clerkin Trio Ana Roxanne at ICA London, 2026 by George Brown Duet Emmo, the trio of Wire's Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert with Daniel Miller of Mute Records and The Normal, are to play live for the first time at the ICA this autumn. The gig, which takes place on 27 October…

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The Low Culture Essay: Kirsteen McNish on Jason Molina’s Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go

Two decades on from the week of its release, Kirsteen McNish reflects on how a rainy night in Hull connected her to a quiet, moving album from the Mid West rust belt. One rain-soaked evening in a coastal city I discovered an album that has stayed with me for nigh on two decades, glimmering in the periphery of my memory. I wish it onto film soundtracks when scenes feel like they might be improved…

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Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker – Songs for Sad Poets, Vol. III

Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker Songs for Sad Poets, Vol. III The third collaboration between the Tehran-based composer and American philosopher splinters the voice into scintillating, timeless fragments Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III by Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker The line between poetry and music has always been a blurry one. Christopher Nolan recently claimed he cast musician and hip hop artis…

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