Iron & Wine: Claim Your Ghost

The lead track on Iron & Wine’s brand new Beast Epic album, “Claim Your Ghost” wins listeners from the start. It’s been four years since Iron & Wine, namely Sam Beam and collaborators, has released new music. There’s much here for longtime fans to love—beauty and sadness mingling throughout, lyrics of thoughtful consideration, empowered arrangements—but a renewed simplicity defines the album from start to finish. …

Wired’s Very Accurate Tech Anxiety Matrix

Ranging from the frivolous and least likely to substantiated worries, Wired magazine has assembled a chart of our biggest tech fears and anxieties. Aside from being a beautiful piece of data visualization, the graph addresses everything from addiction to phishing and puts it all into context. Maybe the tech bubble will burst again. Perhaps a robot will take your job. Get ready for more cyber-attacks …

Interview: “Watch Tailor” Alexandre Meerson

The designer discusses the history behind the brand and their new Mutiny Chronograph

For all the round-faced watches out there, rarely does one cross a bold, new design that employs the shape. Alexandre Meerson, the designer and self-described “watch tailor” behind Meerson Watches has achieved this with all four of his automatic, Swiss-made collections. The latest, the Mutiny Chronograph references the first watch he ever worked on—back in 1984 under his father’s eponymous brand Emmerich Meerson. He wore …