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The Top 200 Android Video Games, Vol. 6
A former Indiewire digital culture reviewer ranks the best games for Android phones, looking for games that are art as well as entertainment. This list…
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Seth Abramson
The Consensus Top 100 Underrated NES Games of All Time, Vol. 2
Now that you can use an emulator to play the 900+ Nintendo Entertainment System games, which titles that were overlooked in the 1980s and 1990s are most…
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Seth Abramson
Singular Songs of the Seventies, Vol. 1
A genre-spanning selection of semi-obscure musical wonders from the 1970s, curated by a former DJ and including salubrious tracks from around the world…
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The Best AI Music in the World, Vol. 3
This Retro series catalogues the AI-powered production of “new” music “sung” by great artists we can never again hear from—as well as experiments in…
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Seth Abramson
Retro Music Exclusive: Hounds, Network (LP)
Network is an electronic music album available only at Retro. It features Incredibox beats and mods, Substack embedding, and mixes and curations by Seth…
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“Ahsoka” Is Not a Good Show, But It’s Also Not a Bad Show—and It Might Be An Important Show
If we stop analyzing Disney’s “Star Wars” shows from the standpoint of plot and think instead in terms of their themes, we see resonances that make them…
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A Plan for the Pac-12 to Survive—Yes, Really
With Stanford and Cal bolting for the ACC, the presumption is now that the Pac-12—which at this point comprises only Oregon State and Washington…
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The Best Sports Videos, Vol. 2
Each edition of this Retro series features five events in the world of sport the likes of which you haven’t seen before, curated by a journalist who’s…
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Lost Classics of the Sixties, Vol. 25: What Qualifies As a “Lost Classic”?
A carefully curated selection of obscure musical wonders from an ex-disc jockey with a specialization in American and British psychedelia recorded from…
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Seth Abramson
The Best of the Best Meme Music, Vol. 3
This series offers both entertaining viral videos and explanations from a retired digital studies professor as to why each one went viral in the first…
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The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 7
In this Retro series, a longtime professional art critic and a former professor of digital culture ranks the best television programs of this…
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August 2023
The Rise and Fall of Neal Stephenson
How and why I came to abandon my favorite author—and why I think others should, too.
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