After a six-year hiatus, the Chicago math-rock-turned-pop-rock act returns with a deceptively upbeat album inspired by the death of singer-guitarist Dave Davison’s father. On their first album in six ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Centuries before satellites and GPS, European cartographers got plenty of things right, and one thing very wrong, while charting the North American coastline. Artifacts depicting ...

Math-pop staples Maps & Atlases are finally set to release their first album in six years, Lightlessness Is Nothing New, on June 1 via Barsuk (pre-order). We recently posted lead single “Fall Apart” ...

At one time, Chaska boasted two breweries and a race track. Chanhassen was known as St. Hubertus and all its streets were named after saints.And Carver was a land speculator’s dream, with space ...

When Daniel Crouch heads to The European Fine Art and Antiques Fair in Maastricht next month, he's taking nine lions with him. Crouch is exhibiting, among other things, a collection of beautiful Leo ...

In the 16th century, the Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius created the world’s first modern atlas — a collection of maps that he called “The Theater of the World.” The maps, drawn by Ortelius and ...

Math rock can be a spiky, foreboding genre for intense jazz nerds, but Chicago band Maps & Atlases steer it into more hook-driven woozy prog. They formed in 2004 and have spent the past couple decades ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

The story has become something of a legend in certain circles. Sometime in the early 1970s, geographers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) got a tip that hundreds of historical atlases ...

Maps & Atlases generally sit under the umbrella of indie rock, but the band’s sound can be trickier to define because it never stays quite the same. Pop rock and math rock are both apt descriptions, ...

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