The Verge Weekend Questionnaire – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-09-04T21:19:33+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/943285 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=989270 2026-09-04T17:19:33-04:00 2026-09-05T11:00:00-04:00 Andy Holloway headshot.

Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podcasts, netting over 2 million monthly listeners and numerous awards, including Best Sports Podcast from iHeartRadio and People's Choice at the Podcast Awards four years in a row.

Holloway's goal has always been about bringing fantasy football to a wider audience, not just hardcore nerds. With the NFL season starting next week and fantasy drafts in full swing, now seemed like a great time to see how Holloway stays focused during what is probably the busiest part of the year for a serious fantasy …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango ]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=983448 2026-08-21T16:44:50-04:00 2026-08-29T11:00:00-04:00 A portrait of Joseph Fink with his gorgeous flowing gray locks and top notch beard.
10 out of 10 beard. | Photo: Ben Mekler

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships, trauma, and the open road. There's also a sequel series out now called Don't Tell Alice that takes the story down an even darker path in which protagonist Keisha is the one with a secret.

Joseph is also an accomplished author. In addition to co-writing the three Welcome to Night Vale novels, he's also penned the Al …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=980452 2026-08-14T13:20:45-04:00 2026-08-22T11:00:00-04:00 W. Kamau Bell looking confused sitting on the steps outside of a white door.
I’m just as confused as you. | Image: Aundre Larrow

W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has helped him stand out. He's won a Peabody and four Emmys, been a Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, received honors from the ACLU, and been crowned the Ambassador of Fishbone by founding member Chris Dowd. Bell is, if nothing else, a busy man.

So we're very grateful that he took time between episodes of his podcast Who's With Me, his comedy tour, and Substack of the same name, promoting his upcoming …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=980288 2026-08-14T13:01:42-04:00 2026-08-15T11:00:00-04:00 Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding standing against a red background.
They’re the Lennon–McCartney of overanalyzing pop music. | Image: Daniel Randall

As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively dissect pop songs, from the theory behind their musical choices to their production techniques. If you're a student of pop music, then this is a must-listen podcast.

Sloan is a composer and professor of musicology at USC Thornton School of Music, where he researches pop, but also jazz and even Tin Pan Alley. Harding is a songwriter, music journalist, and a professor as well. Their combined …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=976872 2026-08-07T14:01:16-04:00 2026-08-08T11:00:00-04:00 Musician Tom Vek taking a selfie with his Sleevenote music player.
Tom, we can’t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek

Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance on The OC and placement on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack. His follow-up, Leisure Seizure, had a lengthy gestation period, but arrived in 2011 to similar success, reaching No. 79 on the UK charts.

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Vek has continued to release music at regular intervals over the last 15 years, dropping Newer Symbols in 2022. But in 2020 he started toying with this idea he had for a music player called Sleevenote. Inspired by viny …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=974226 2026-08-01T16:13:56-04:00 2026-08-01T16:15:00-04:00 Angela Nissel
Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel

Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times.

Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries, which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student. Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including Scrubs and The Boondocks.

One of her most lasting cont …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=971013 2026-07-25T10:51:21-04:00 2026-07-25T11:15:00-04:00

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He's even written a book tracing the evolution of the synthesizer from 1963 through 1995, charting the change from analog to digital and back.

His new project is Beat Gems, a coffee-table visual history of drum machines from publisher Bjooks. Like other Bjooks titles, Beat Gems is loaded with gorgeous photos, fascinating historical tidbits, and practical advice for making the most of your gear, whether it's …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[The Guardian’s Carter Sherman fondly remembers being terrified by Ocarina of Time]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=967583 2026-07-18T10:26:16-04:00 2026-07-18T10:30:00-04:00 Carter Sherman sitting on a the floor in front of a couch, instead of just on it for some reason.
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Carter Sherman has been covering sex, gender, and the complex personal and national politics that accompany them for years. She was a senior reporter for Vice and has written for Elle, Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles magazine as well. Along the way, she's garnered a Scripps Howard Award, a National Press Club Journalism Award, and four Emmy nominations.

She's also the author of The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future. That book looks at how the internet and our polarized political landscape have changed sex and relationships, from school board battles over sex ed to abortion access. These days she finds herself …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[FL Studio head Constantin Koehncke turns to Reddit for feedback and fun]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=963509 2026-07-10T09:56:16-04:00 2026-07-11T11:00:00-04:00 Image Line CEO Constantin Koehncke.

If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. These days it's called FL Studio, and Constantin Koehncke, is the man responsible for shepherding the pioneering digital audio workstation (DAW) through the modern age. As CEO of Image Line, the company behind FL Studio, Constantin has overseen the introduction of a number of AI-powered features like stem separation and its Gopher chatbot.

Before taking the reins of Image Line in 2022, Constantin was the head of Native Instruments, where he spearheaded the shift towards digital services, did a stint in marketing, …

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]]> Terrence O’Brien <![CDATA[Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=960958 2026-07-09T15:04:29-04:00 2026-07-04T11:00:00-04:00
That is the face of a man who enjoys what he does. | Image: Reato Morris

Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies and his solo debut was released in 2024. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel and Fallon, played Coachella, and collaborated with everyone from Joey Bada$$ and the Rza to James Blake and hardcore punk band Trash Talk. But perhaps the most unexpected collab was with Apple, when Erick popped up following Tim Cook's final WWDC presentation to rap about apps. That was just a precursor to him dropping his new disco and reggae-tinged single, "No Doubt (I'm In Love)."

The new track, produced by Yeti Beats and Federico Vindver, is definit …

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