Robyn to return with first album since 2018

Sexistential is a product of Robyn “exploring my sensual life,” she says. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Tracking Humans’ First Footsteps in North America

Fossilized footprints, preserved in gypsum mud that hardened over time, are estimated to be 23,000-21,000 years old. NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands ...

The 55 Most Anticipated Albums of 2026

The ragtag group of respected hardcore and punk figures are six albums deep and still packing hefty riffs into their songs.
MusicRadar

“He feels it should be in the hands of people who will put it to good use”: John Paul Jones’ studio gear goes up for auction – including a rare £24,000 Moog Model 15

There are a number of rare collector’s items in the sale, including a modified Moog Model 15 synthesizer purchased by John in ...
IEEE

RingFormer: A Neural Vocoder With Ring Attention and Convolution-Augmented Transformer

Abstract: While transformers demonstrate outstanding performance across various audio tasks, their application to neural vocoders remains challenging. Neural vocoders require the generation of long ...
IEEE

V2Coder: A Non-Autoregressive Vocoder Based on Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders

Abstract: This paper introduces V2Coder, a non-autoregressive vocoder based on hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs). The hierarchical VAE with hierarchically extended prior and approximate ...