The ship is on fire. Again. It’s also what happens when you haven’t played a video game in about a decade. I used to love gaming—and still nurse a mild Mario Kart habit—but it hasn’t been a regular ...

If you’ve perused social media in recent weeks, you may have come across people singing chanteys, which were work songs employed on merchant sailing ships. Historically, chanteys – which are also ...

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Perhaps the latter is the key. Late last year, TikTok unveiled the ...

Long before TikTok and Colbert turned their attention to sea chanteys, the South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan has explored them, even doing so virtually once the pandemic began. The series will ...

In late December, Nathan Evans, a twenty-six year old singer from Scotland, posted a TikTok of himself performing a multi-part sea chantey titled “The Scotsman.” Evans sang the piece a capella, in a ...

It may be one of the best compliments that chanteyman Don Sineti can give out after he invites audiences to join him for choruses of “Barett’s Privateers” or “Rolling Down to Old Maui” or even a ...

If you’ve perused social media in recent weeks, you may have come across people singing chanteys, which were work songs employed on merchant sailing ships. Historically, chanteys – which are also ...

Daily life on a ship could be monotonous and dreary, so songs were sung to lighten the mood. Heritage Images via Getty Images If you’ve perused social media in recent weeks, you may have come across ...