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The week has been building toward something, and you probably feel it in the background of everything you’re doing — a low hum of anticipation that doesn’t quite have a name yet. Uranus and Mars are closing in on each other, stargazer, and they hit exact on Saturday, which means the next two days carry a charge that’s hard to ignore even when you’re actively trying to. Mercury is still retrograde, so the words might not cooperate, but the instincts are in better shape than they’ve been all week. Moon sextiling Saturn tonight offers a real moment of groundedness before the weekend finally opens up. Use the calm while it’s here. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Something is building, and you already feel it in your body before your brain has caught up — a restlessness that isn’t anxiety, more like a coil getting tighter. Uranus is cl...

There’s nothing quite like the sound of 80s heavy metal and thrash. Two distinctive approaches to the genre, but sharing a lot of DNA. Blending the abrasiveness of punk with the whiskey-fueled rock’n’roll of bands like AC/DC and Motörhead. As I’ll mention again later, even bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest—who have roots in the 70s—were transformed during the 80s, breaking ground on renovated sounds in the NWOBHM movement. All this leads us to thrash and death metal, making for one epic, albeit unholy, decade of metal. So, how about we take a look at some 2026 bands who are keeping the torch lit for thrash and 80s metal. Schizophrenia Starting with a heavier band, you definitely need to know about Schizophrenia . Hailing from Belgium, these death-thrashers are very take-no-prisoners about their music. Certainly, the deathy elements are most prominent. You’ll hear, well, Death (think Scream Bloody Gore ), as well as some ear...

There have been so many experimental artists in existence that some of them are bound to feel like artists out of time. The rare few go their entire careers sounding a bit out of place, like time travelers making music when they’re not supposed to. David Bowie and Vashti Bunyan come to mind, pioneers in art-rock and folk. But there were also several artists and bands in the post-punk genre who seemed to be ahead of their time. They often surpassed their peers, transcending the limits of their genre. Here are three tracks that sound like they would fit right in if they came out today. “Never Known” by The Durutti Column The Durutti Column formed in 1978 as the project of musician Vini Reilly, with several different lineups. While they were considered post-punk as one of the first bands signed to Factory Records, Reilly’s fluid guitar work set the band apart from their peers. For example, on the 1981 track “Never Known”, the atmospher...

Good news, everyone! If, like me, you were worried that your plans to live forever were eventually going to be interrupted by Earth being swallowed by the Sun in about 5 billion years, as astronomers have long predicted, you may be able to cross that worry off your list. According to a new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics , Earth might actually avoid being engulfed by our dying star after all. The old prediction was that when the Sun exhausts the hydrogen fueling its core, it will swell into a red giant large enough to consume Mercury, Venus, and eventually Earth. But new computer simulations suggest we might not get burned away like the dry leaf that lands in a hot grill. The outcome will come down to a kind of cosmic tug-of-war. As the sun grows, its increasing gravitational pull will gradually pull the Earth toward it. But, at the same time, this old star will be shedding huge amounts of mass through powerful stellar winds. Losing mass weakens the sun’s grav...

Jay White made a surprise return at AEW’s Forbidden Door pay-per-view on Sunday. The ‘Switchblade’ has been out of action for over a year due to injury. White had to undergo several surgeries because of a broken hand and accompanying shoulder injury. His long absence had fans questioning his contract status. In January, Fightful Select noted that his long-term deal with the company was “nowhere” near up, instead, he’d likely have time added on by AEW because of the injuries. AEW World Tag Team Champions Cope and Christian defended their first tag titles in over 20 years against The Dogs , Clark Connors and David Finlay. At one point, the referee was knocked down, leading the challengers to use cheap tactics to try and win the belts. White wasn’t going to let that slide. The lights went out and appeared the Bang Bang Gang. Shortly after, White’s trademarked knife sound echoed, and he appeared in the ring behind Finlay. He hit the Blade Runner on the former leader of the Bullet Cl...

At some point between your first smartphone and your fifth dating app , something changed about what you found attractive. The preferences got more specific. The list got longer. And somehow, the person sitting across from you at a perfectly decent first date started feeling like a disappointment before they’d even finished their drink. There’s a psychological explanation for how that happened, and it predates Instagram by about 50 years. In 1968, psychologist Robert Zajonc documented what’s now known as the mere exposure effect —the finding that repeated exposure to something makes it progressively more appealing. It’s why the coworker you barely noticed at the start of a job becomes someone you can’t stop noticing six months in. Familiarity, at a neurological level, reads as safety. Safety reads as attraction. The brain doesn’t reliably distinguish between the two. Social media didn’t invent this process. It just got there first. Acco...