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Surfbort and ‘Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review’

[ad_1] Surfbort’s Friendship Music Christine FisherContributing writer Surfbort is the music the world needs right now: screaming about anxiety attacks, plastic in the ocean and Trump’s tweets. There’s a chance you’ve heard of the four-person, Brooklyn-based group. It’s been around since 2015, played SXSW a few times and has been called “one of New York’s […]

Surfbort and ‘Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review’

[ad_1] Surfbort – Friendship Music Christine FisherContributing Writer Surfbort is the music the world needs right now: screaming about anxiety attacks, plastic in the ocean and Trump’s tweets. There’s a chance you’ve heard of the four-person, Brooklyn-based group. They’ve been around since 2015, played SXSW a few times and have been called “one of New […]

The Engadget Staff on ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

[ad_1] Devindra HardawarSenior Editor Neon Genesis Evangelion helped me survive high school. I discovered it at the perfect time: It was 1996, and I was an angsty teen who never quite fit in anywhere. Anime and the early internet were my saviors, giving me a community (shout out to the late ’90s Sailor Moon Chat […]

The Engadget staff on that ‘Game of Thrones’ finale

[ad_1] Billy SteeleSenior News Editor The biggest shows on TV rarely get the ending they deserve, or even one that seems satisfactory for us the audience. I think the end of Game of Thrones was fine, my problem is with how we got there. For seven seasons, the show was methodical and meticulous about character […]

A solid MIDI controller that’s also easy to use

[ad_1] Roberto BaldwinSenior Editor Like most people, I have varied musical tastes. That would be fine if I wasn’t compelled to start a band based on every genre of music I like. I have a punk band, an indie-dance band with seven members, a tributes bands for both David Bowie and Prince and there’s always […]

The White Album in high-res

[ad_1] Daniel CooperSenior Editor For all of my airs and graces, there are a number of topics where I’m a philistine, and proud. Take high-end audio. To my uncultured ears, there’s little difference between your pricey cans and my phone’s Bluetooth buds. It happens a lot at trade shows, where people slam a pair of […]

What we’re buying: Google’s discontinued Chromecast Audio

[ad_1] Terrence O’BrienManaging Editor Google has killed a lot of products over the years. Some of them are sorely missed (Google Reader). Others, less so (Wave). But the one that hurt me the most, was Chromecast Audio. I love my regular Chromecasts a lot, but I had been a Roku user for years. Streaming YouTube […]

Star Wars and ‘Keeping the Rave Alive’

[ad_1] Keeping the Rave Alive James TrewManaging Editor In 1994, much to my parents’ dismay, I discovered Gabber — a noisy, anarchic genre of dance music that will test most people’s limits (and eardrums). Decades later, I am pleased to say that my folks were wrong: I neither “grew out of it” nor did it […]