10. The Ocean Collective – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic [Metal Blade] One of the pillars of modern German progressive metal, the Ocean Collective’s album-by-album Continue Reading
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Actress Explores the Voice on 'Karma & Desire'
The music of Darren Cunningham—aka Actress—has always placed a special emphasis on texture. It’s full of clicks, glitches, static-crackle, and synthesizers so corroded they sound Continue Reading
Director Sean Durkin on the Dark Corners in Our Minds and in 'The Nest'
Set in the 1980s, Sean Durkin’s sophomore feature The Nest (2020), centres on Rory (Jude Law), an entrepreneur and former commodities broker who returns to 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
Silent Classic 'The City without Jews' Wavers between Satire and Grim Prophecy
Flicker Alley presents a DVD/Blu-ray combo of the Austrian Film Archive’s restoration of H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Continue Reading
Try To Not “Bounce That Ass” Under JGOTITT’s New Release
When music makes your soul move, it’s beautiful. When it manages to also make your body move, it becomes awesome. The hip-hop’s new monster mastermind Continue Reading
Art Historian Dora Apel Queries What We Choose to Remember
There is a frequently quoted passage from Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History in which he riffs on Paul Klee’s 1920 artwork Angelus Continue Reading
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of November 2020
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Laveda Shares Cinematic Debut Video For “Better Now”
This past summer saw the release of Laveda’s debut album ‘What Happens After’ including a track by track rundown from Ali and Jacob. They’ve now Continue Reading
Pale Moon Share New Single & Video For “Stranger”
Barcelona-based duo Pale Moon released their debut EP ‘Dust of Days’ last year – including a stellar video for ‘Exile’ which we spoke about here. Continue Reading
The 10 Best World Music Albums of 2020
10. Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers – Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) In Haiti, mizik rasin, or roots music, serves important roles in many culturally engaged Continue Reading
The 10 Best World Music Albums of 2020
10. Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers – Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) In Haiti, mizik rasin, or roots music, serves important roles in many culturally engaged Continue Reading
Hard Times, Easy Listening: 10 Albums for Autumn 2020
10. Bridget St. John – Ask Me No Questions (1969, Dandelion) Singer-songwriter Bridget St. John became a British cult figure in the wake of her critically-lauded sophomore LP Continue Reading
Eraserhead's Stylistic Tics Leave Traces of Infection
With Eraserhead (1977) there is only ever the first time. Re-watching director David Lynch’s debut feature, the experience is entangled with the impact of that Continue Reading
New Compilation Collects Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' Covers
Losing Sharon Jones to cancer in 2016 felt particularly unfair. Jones didn’t breakthrough until she was in her mid-40s when Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones Continue Reading
Chris Stapleton Moves Forward on 'Starting Over'
It’s hard to imagine why Chris Stapleton would feel the need to start over just now. Five years ago, his debut solo album Traveller put Continue Reading
The Fall's 'The Frenz Experiment' Gets an Expanded Edition
By the late 1980s, the Fall were in as stable a place as their confrontational frontman, lyricist, and only constant member Mark E. Smith would Continue Reading
24-Carat Black's 'Ghetto' Is the Most Sampled Album Never Heard
Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series has gained a stellar reputation over the years for meticulously and lovingly analyzing classic and important albums. Almost every self-respecting rock Continue Reading
Forest Whitaker Film 'Ghost Dog' Is a Sampler's Paradise
An out-of-time transmission from the late 1990s, when auteurs were fully embracing genre and pre-millennium jitters was tossing old artistic certainties out the window, Jim Continue Reading
Are Marjane Satrapi's Works Comics or Graphic Novels?
I love Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis , I love Habibi, and I love Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. However, there’s one word choice that I’ve always hated Continue Reading