Yap Zone: The September 11 Artifacts Playlist
What were you listening to after the September 11 attacks?
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Sounding It Out: A New Book Celebrates 30 Years of ‘Tape Op’
Publisher John Baccigaluppi on 'Making Music,' a new collection of 24 interviews from the essential record production magazine.
golden lionheart collier’s ‘Hidden Currents’ Is a Masterpiece of Spatial Composition
At SF's Audium, 176 speakers tell the history of Black sound in the Americas through modular synthesis.
World Cup TikTok’s Schadenfreude Is a Thing of Anti-Imperialist Beauty
On the geopolitical thrills of soccer fandom.
What to Catch at the Bay Area Book Festival This Weekend
Learn how to narrate an audiobook or make a zine, or dive into discussions around the politics of sideshow noise and the power of hauntings.
A Pet Week Open Thread (Closed!)
Who are your pets? What are their nicknames? We want to hear from you in the comments!
Merlin Coleman’s ‘DISPATCHES’ Makes Breathtaking Art from a Wildfire’s Rubble
Using found audio and interviews from the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the sound artist processes a tragedy through song.
COYOTE Exclusive: Oakland’s Bake Sum Finally Has Opening Date for Alameda Outpost
Oakland's beloved Asian American bakery is heading to the East Bay island.
Entanglements Lost: My Day at a Geography Conference in San Francisco
On making friends with maps and Marxists.
How It’s Made: A 7,000-Word Story on Coal in Oakland
“This is the only time in my entire life, I think, where I wrote long and someone was like, ‘Well, could you make it longer?’”
How Racket, Minneapolis’s Worker-Owned Newsroom, Is Covering Its Hometown Fascist Invasion
“This is the worst fucking time. But watching people’s response to ICE has been the most affirming thing in the world.”
Local Woman Has Hobby: Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Pigeon Paintings
“Everything that we think is disgusting about human life, pigeons wear without shame.”