I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...

The 2024 Streamer Awards featured a wide array of categories and winners. Some of the notable winners included Jynxzi who won the Gamer of the Year award. Other winners in various categories included Kai Cenat, Valkyrae, Maximilian_Dood and many others. The awards also recognized streamers in niche categories such as music, VTubing, ASMR, speedrunning, strategy gaming, chess, Super Smash Bros., first-person shooter games, roleplaying, and...