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How Soviet teenagers bootlegged Western rock and jazz onto discarded hospital X-rays — and what that tells us about the stubbornness of desire.

On phantom melodies, auditory pareidolia, and the brain's compulsion to finish what was never started.

Alan Lomax spent decades recording voices that history was about to erase — and what he captured tells us something strange about preservation itself.

On ambient music, lo-fi streams, and the strange art of making something designed to be ignored.