Clay Risen

Countless independent acts in every genre — punk, hip-hop, church choir — relied on him to create small runs of high-quality records and CDs.

When he wasn’t playing with the groundbreaking dark-wave band Das Ich, he was a prominent figure in his country’s fight for online free speech and digital privacy rights.

After her diagnosis in 2022, when she was only 33, she became a vocal, witty advocate for people confronting the disease.

Bruno Kramm, a German musician who pioneered a brooding, pulsating electronic style in the early 1990s, then took a break from his art to enter politics — promoting digital freedom, online privacy and direct democracy — died Sept. 25 in Granada, Spain, where his band, Das Ich, had recently finished a concert. He was 58.

Brooke Eby, who after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, at 33 brought her story to social media, using her dry wit and irrepressible charm to raise awareness and build connections among the hundreds of thousands of people who also struggle with the fatal disease, died Thursday in Maryland. She was 37.

Joe Romm was a prolific writer who never hesitated to take on climate change deniers and the fossil-fuel industry — or even ostensible allies.

Every year, more than $870 billion in goods and services move across the United States-Canada border. Whiskey traditionally accounts for less than a third of 1% of that total. Yet in the 18 months since President Donald Trump started his…

He brought rigor and strategy to the sport, rising to No. 2 in the world and eating 141 pieces of nigiri in six minutes in the process.

Cheetah Chrome, a snarling, red-haired guitarist who kicked out the jams for two of the earliest and most influential punk bands in America, Rocket From the Tombs and the Dead Boys, died Sept. 13 at 71.

More than just the owner of an adult venue, Joe Redner was a political gadfly and fierce advocate for free speech and gay rights. He was 86.