Posthumous albums always have the potential to feel a bit icky, especially when a life ended in as tragic circumstances as Mark Linkous did. After battling with both physical and mental ill-health for ...

Bird sounds at the crack of dawn are not part of everyone’s morning. If you live in a city, there’s a good chance that bird populations have migrated elsewhere, as they struggled to compete with urban ...

Dan Stowell is a co-founder and shareholder of Warblr Ltd. He receives funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for his research on bird sounds. The sound of birds is ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

As posthumous, mop-up jobs go, Bird Machine is a fine effort. When Mark Linkous, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist behind Sparklehorse, tragically took his own life on March 6, 2010, ...

The concept of the multiverse has become one of science fiction’s hardiest tropes. Like time travel, it taps into the alluring fantasy that our lives may have turned out a different way, that maybe we ...