Stefano Mancuso loves plants. The Italian scientist is one of the world’s leading plant neurobiologists, but he also has an exceptional knack for good storytelling. Continue Reading
Music Dose
Ashnikko's Debut 'Demidevil' Attempts to Birth a Pop Star From the Endless Feed
Having a number one single used to mean something. It signaled a cultural phenomenon: looped on the radio at all hours of the day, parodied Continue Reading
Why Racially Diverse British Period Dramas Matter
As a still wet-behind-the-ears English professor on a spring day in 2000, I stood completely flummoxed in front of my 19th century, British literature class. Continue Reading
Alex Bent + the Emptiness Releases “2sides” Single & Video
Alex Bent + the Emptiness returns with his first new single since his 2019 debut album ‘Baby’ titled 2sides. Made in isolation at The Store, a Continue Reading
Eggshells Unveil Third Album “Hopeless Romancers”
Coming off last month’s ‘Expectations’, Seattle-based experimental pop outfit Eggshells (Peter & Benjamin Verdoes and Sera Han) unveil their third album Hopeless Romancers. Through eight Continue Reading
Popular Culture Is Eating Its History and OMD Are Not Complaining
“Enola Gay”, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s (OMD’s) wonderfully indulgent synthpop classic named after the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, has just turned Continue Reading
Landing Instructions for Derrida
Once upon a time, wearing a Jacques Derrida T-shirt was a hip way to declare one’s cerebral aspirations but to do so now is more Continue Reading
Nicki and Patrick Adams Offer an Engaging Classical/Jazz Hybrid on 'Lynx'
The restless musical spirits of siblings Nicki and Patrick Adams have found a pared-down yet bracing place to land on their latest musical collaboration. With Continue Reading
LOG ET3RNAL Is a Dubbed-out Beauty of Soft, Skeletal Ambience
The paradox of all great ambient music is that it sounds easy to create, but it isn’t. All the different parts are simple, but the Continue Reading
On Finnish Film 'Open Up to Me' and Trans Portrayal in Film
Open Up To Me (Kerron sinulle kaiken) is Finnish director Simo Halinen’s award-winning 2013 drama portraying the tribulations of Maarit Majantie, a middle-aged trans woman. Continue Reading
BTS Master the Art of Timeless, Universal Songwriting with 'BE'
In an interview for Rolling Stone India (2020), BTS member SUGA said: “I want to be like the ’90s folk musicians whom I’ve been listening Continue Reading
Filmmaker Diane Paragas on 'Yellow Rose' and the Heartbreak Behind Anti-Immigration Policies
Yellow Rose (2019) centres on Filipina teenager Rose (Eva Noblezada), who dreams of becoming a country music performer. When her mother is picked up by Continue Reading
OAKUM Returns With Vibrant “Golden Sky” Single & Video
Vancouver-based Kieran Jenkins is one half of the electronic duo with post-rock influences Sampson Mews. As OAKUM, he experiments with more energetic and atmospheric sounds Continue Reading
COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism
Take heed that thou wash said the Angel to Dante before opening the gates to the Purgatory with two keys, a silver key for remorse Continue Reading
'Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives'
One of the exciting aspects of the explosion in queer studies in recent decades has been the growing body of work on place-based queer histories. Continue Reading
Elvis Costello Gets Dark and Brooding on 'Hey Clockface'
When Elvis Costello crashed into the consciousness of rock fans in 1977 with his debut album, My Aim Is True, he seemed like the bastard Continue Reading
Maxwell Stern Gives Us a Warm Car in Frigid Winter with 'Impossible Sum'
I first noticed Maxwell Stern from a pleasant, unassuming tweet that somehow snuck into my usually gloomy feed. Stern’s tweet said something about not really Continue Reading
Shanghai Restoration Project Offer Innovative Alternate Reality on 'Brave New World Symphony'
The worlds that the Shanghai Restoration Project create are unfailingly sublime. Soothing, the group intrigue with their intricacies rather than overwhelm. Over the last 15 Continue Reading
Susan Alcorn's 'Pedernal' Is a Chamber Jazz/Americana Blend
By now, creative music fans know Susan Alcorn for her feat in bringing the pedal steel guitar to New York’s downtown music scene, with guitarist Continue Reading
The Mandalorian's Political Allegory: Diversity Is the Way
For a television show that centers on a masked, male individual, the final episode of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian Season 2 (which premiered on Disney+ Continue Reading