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A new Wilco album for free download, verses from Rome Fortune and Despot, a triumphant Youth Lagoon and more

Youth Lagoon: The Knower Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, returns with his trademark brand of dreamy psychedelic-pop in “The Knower” from his upcoming album Savage Hills Ballroom. It will be his first LP since 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse. The track opens with minimal keyboard and Powers’ intimate, melancholy falsetto before slowly building into a grand fanfare of horns, percussive vocal samples and splashing drums. Mabel: Know …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Flying by Pluto, samurai Darth Vaders, ranting on Gchat and more in this week's look around the web

1. Google Salutes Ida B Wells in its Latest Doodle Google’s homepage doodle this week recognized recognizes fearless journalist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett aka Ida B Wells. At the young age of 25, Wells became co-owner and editor of Free Speech and Headlight, where she unrelentingly spoke out against racial inequality and civil injustices—and continued to do so late into her life and career. In a …

CH25: Tarren Wolfe

The next-generation appliance making kitchens greener—literally

“Our vision has always been to provide an option for everyone to grow their own food,” says Urban Cultivator founder and CEO Tarren Wolfe. Observing how challenging it was to source completely organic, non-GMO food—hitting home personally due to his wife’s severe food allergies—Wolfe developed Urban Cultivator, an indoor gardening system. Not just a useful kitchen appliance, the empowering project puts control in people’s hands. …