Angus Stone of Dope Lemon and one part of folk sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone brings some sun to this winter with Kids Fallin’ Continue Reading
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LA Dream Popster Coco Reilly Releases Hazy Debut
Singer-songwriter Coco Reilly’s self-titled debut album sounds like it was recorded behind a layer of gauze. It’s as if one were listening to the record Continue Reading
Cerebral 'Mank' Is a Gabby and Stylized Origin Story for 'Citizen Kane'
There are two aspects to David Fincher’s Mank that make it a more enjoyable piece of December prestige cinema than you might expect. The first Continue Reading
New Orleans Bluesman Alabama Slim Teases New Album with "Rock Me Baby" (premiere)
The Parlor, the latest release from New Orleans bluesman, Alabama Slim and arrives 29 January 2021. The project is a joint effort between Cornelius Chapel Continue Reading
Viggo Mortensen's 'Falling' Binds Art and Life
I recall a creative writing class one autumn evening in 2012, and the tutor offering the advice not to be overly adventurous, instead to tell Continue Reading
The 25 Best Americana Albums of 2020
25. Frank Jacket – You Say Adios (Mula) Chilean artist Frank Jacket is a living testament to the far-reaching quality of honest-to-goodness classic country movement. Inspired by Continue Reading
Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines (excerpt)
Excerpted from Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines, by George Zarkadakis (footnotes omitted). Copyright © MIT Press, 2020. Distributed by The Continue Reading
Winston C.W.'s 'Good Guess' Is a Skewed, Beguiling Take on Piano-Based Pop
Nearly every aspect of Good Guess, the new album from Brooklyn-based Winston Cook-Wilson (who records solo albums under the abbreviated moniker Winston C.W.), seems oddly Continue Reading
The 10 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2020
10. Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers [Dirty Hit] Fake It Flowers, the debut from the British singer-songwriter Bea Kristi, is such an earnest homage to Continue Reading
Exploring the Sci-fi Worlds of Ishirō Honda in 3 Films
Ishirō Honda Honda is perhaps best remembered for co-writing and directing the original Godzilla (1954) for the Japanese film studio Toho. However, he went on Continue Reading
'Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer's Gang War!' Is a Time Capsule and a Car Crash
By the close of 1980, punk rock had a body count. Dave Alexander (the Stooges), Darby Crash (Germs), Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Peter Laughner (Pere Continue Reading
Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx on the World of Captain Beefheart
From the opening bars of “Suction Prints”, we knew we had entered The World of Captain Beefheart and that was exactly where we wanted to Continue Reading
Giddy and Buzzy 'The Prom' Compresses 'Glee' into a Single Film
Sometimes a filmmaker can match their material almost too well. Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin’s 2018 Broadway musical The Prom is a high-energy comedy about Continue Reading
Heather Maloney Mixes Bitter With Sweet in Gift-Wrapped Christmas Package (interview + premiere)
Even if it seems like the Grinch and Scrooge conspired to ruin the 2020 holidays by spreading the coronavirus months ago, leave it to Heather Continue Reading
Troll Dolly Shares Majestic Debut “Sauna Song”
Jen Yakamovich spent much of her early twenties performing as a live drummer, percussionist, improviser, and more recently as a session musician and recording artist. Continue Reading
The 10 Best Indie Pop Albums of 2020
10. Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna [Slumberland] Fully in dream-pop/soft shoegaze mode, the New York-based band Peel Dream Magazine’s second album further expands their sound until Continue Reading
NIHITI's Dark Ambient Electronics Suit the Season on 'A New Kind of Weather'
The night is coming down across most of the western world, cold winds rising while rolling waves of COVID lockdown seem inevitable. NIHITI’s new album Continue Reading
Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' and the Geometry of Suffering
There is a moment in director Bong Joon-ho’s celebrated film Parasite (2019), a pivotal moment in my estimation, that brings to mind verses 5:43-45 from Continue Reading
The Risky and Limited Life of Burt Reynolds' Macho 'Hooper'
A film’s opening scene, when done well, may reveal a great deal about the feature’s main character. The establishing credit sequence to Hooper (1978) performs Continue Reading
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings 'Every Day We Get More Illegal'
When I saw Juan Felipe Herrera perform his verse in Atlanta a few years back, I was struck by the musicality of his delivery. Herrera, Continue Reading