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The always-busy Greg Puciato joins Loudwire Nights to celebrate the return of the Black Queen, reflect on his career and look ahead at what's to come. Continue reading…

Belarus metal band Dymna Lotva unveil a stunning music video for “Zory” single, which is also the opening track from their forthcoming new full-length Vyraj (release date: August 7, 2026).
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I liked “Generic Actress,” the lead single from Paycheque’s self-titled debut album, and I like new single “Temporary Love” even more. Here, the LA duo is doing a funky, lo-fi take on a dead-eyed ’80s pop fantasy, like Chromatics crossed with Men I Trust. It’s magnificent, and I can imagine it bringing me refreshment in…

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When was the last time you opened a GPS app? Maybe it was this morning to dodge traffic on Google Maps, or last night to track exactly how many blocks away your Uber Eats pizza was. Maybe it was to drop a pin so your friend could find you in a crowded park. We trust that little blue glowing dot on our screens like it’s pure magic, but the truth is far more incredible. It’s math.

And the reason that math exists is because of a brilliant, fiercely determined woman named Gladys West.

To understand what she did, you have to understand a simple truth: the Earth is not a perfect, smooth sphere. It’s actually a slightly lumpy, irregular shape called a geoid, constantly being pulled and stretched by ocean tides and gravity. If you want satellites in space to accurately pinpoint your exact location on the ground, you need a flawlessly precise mathematical model of that lumpy shape. Gladys West is the woman who built that model. She literally did the math that maps the world.

Her journey to building that foundation, however, was anything but a straight line. Born in 1930 in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and the brutal reality of the Jim Crow South, the world had already decided what Gladys’s life would look like. The default path for a young Black girl in her town was manual labor: working in the tobacco factories or sharecropping the fields. Gladys looked at that path and quietly, stubbornly refused it. Realizing that education was her only viable escape route, she threw herself into her studies. She graduated high school as valedictorian, secured a full-ride scholarship to Virginia State College, and chose to major in mathematics, a discipline fiercely gatekept by white men.

In 1956, she broke into a room that was never designed for her. Gladys was hired at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia. She was only the second Black woman ever hired at the facility, and one of just four Black employees on the entire base. She started her career as a “human computer,” manually executing agonizingly complex equations to calculate satellite orbits. It was grueling, unglamorous work, but she was brilliant at it.

When the base began transitioning to early electronic computers, Gladys didn’t let the new technology push her out. Instead, she mastered it. She learned to program and command the massive, room-sized IBM machines herself. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, she fed these computers immense amounts of data transmitted from early satellites. She accounted for every complex gravitational pull and tidal force, meticulously calculating the exact shape of the planet. While she was doing this monumental heavy lifting that would eventually change global technology forever, she was also raising three children and earning her master’s degree.

For decades, she went completely unrecognized by the public. She was the hidden architecture behind a global revolution, quietly doing the work while history overlooked her.

And that is exactly why Gladys West’s story is so profoundly empowering. She didn’t wait for society to give her permission to be brilliant. She was handed a script that told her she belonged in a tobacco field, and she tore it up and wrote code that put satellites in the sky instead.

For any woman who has ever felt like she has to be the loudest person in the room to matter, Gladys is proof that you don’t. Sometimes, true power is quiet. It’s putting your head down, trusting your own intelligence, and building the foundation that everyone else will eventually rely on. Gladys West didn’t just find herself; she gave the rest of us the tools to never get lost again.

(Oh, and just in case you thought she ever slowed down: in 2018, having survived a stroke and breast cancer, Gladys West completed her Ph.D. via remote learning. She was 88 years old.)

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Kingdom Collapse, Set For Tomorrow & Sorry X will open.

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“I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t the best/ To all the pretty girls I went to school with, I think we should still have sex.” So declares the young Stereogum-endorsed Chicago rap star BabyChiefDoit on his new single “Rambo.” The song boasts a huge, brass-blasted beat like Drake’s “Trophies” gone drill plus…

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The combination of Molly Hamilton’s mystically cooed melodies and Robert Earl Thomas’ subtly virtuosic riffs has been hitting lately. The married couple, otherwise known as Widowspeak, is rolling out new album Roses, and early singles “If You Change” and “No Driver” affirmed their status as one of the best in their field. This week they…

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The 25-year-old Tel Aviv indie artist is releasing his most ambitious project yet. There’s something quietly bold about naming your album Season 3. It implies there were seasons before it — stories already told, chapters already closed. For Daniel, a … Continue reading →

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Did you know Lizzo has a new album called Bitch coming out soon? We did, because it’s our job to know that sort of thing, and also we get emails from people whose job it is to notify us about upcoming album releases. But not everybody can be blessed with such an inexhaustible Gmail inbox; some people rely on social media algorithms to keep up to date with new music. According to Lizzo, those algorithms are the primary hindrance in her album promotion.

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A new box set comprised of their first five albums.

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