We tend to think of beauty and harshness, sensitivity and anger as opposites. While it’s understandable that language hews towards a dichotomous model for sorting Continue Reading
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The Passion of Diego Armando Maradona
There are some who confer beatitude – or, at the very least, that quality that the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges called everness – simply Continue Reading
IceBeatChillz Released One Of His Best Tracks Yet Called “Area”
When two musicians feeling the music through their whole beings collaborate, the new release has all it takes to be epic. Young producer and artist, Continue Reading
5’2 Drops Her New EP Titled Pages Of Me: Chapter One
American female rapper 5’2 continues to surprise the Hip Hop industry as her talent seems to know no bounds on her new 7-track EP Pages Continue Reading
Wilma Nea Shares Charming “Part Of A Club” Video
When Wilma Ås isn’t singing backup vocals for the band Children of the Sün, she’s releasing music for her solo project Wilma Nea. Earlier this Continue Reading
The 15 Best Experimental Albums of 2020
15. DJ Cactuar – Bolsonaro Obaluaê [Independent] We naturally take comfort in the familiar. Likewise, we often turn away from forms and concepts we cannot easily identify. Continue Reading
Memoir 'Kiss Myself Goodbye' Dims the Brightest Subject
Sometimes, a book aims such a blow to the guts I have to put it down and come back to it after a few deep Continue Reading
Jordan Reyes: From Industrial Noise to Ambient Americana
“The idea was to create electronic music with the ethos and trappings of what Gram Parsons called ‘Cosmic American music.’” That’s how experimental musician Jordan Continue Reading
Neil Gaiman's Faustian Bargain with William Shakespeare
The first time we meet the character of William Shakespeare in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, he is striking a deal with Morpheus, the eponymous Continue Reading
The 15 Best Experimental Albums of 2020
15. DJ Cactuar – Bolsonaro Obaluaê [Independent] We naturally take comfort in the familiar. Likewise, we often turn away from forms and concepts we cannot easily identify. Continue Reading
The 20 Best Folk Albums of 2020
20. The Sweater Set – Fly on the Wall [Independent] Recorded with a live audience of 50 lucky fans—something that would be nearly unthinkable at the time Continue Reading
On IDLES' Danceable Relatable Battle Hymns
“…we’re fighting slogans with slogans. We’re trying to unify and you can’t do that by being convoluted and murky. This isn’t an essay in the Continue Reading
Frank Zappa Documentary Unveils the Man Behind the Mythos
Frank Zappa was many things: a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s, a shredding guitar virtuoso, a creator of bracingly cynical and satirical rock music, a Continue Reading
Dejhare Drops Her Latest Dance-Pop Banger – “Do What You Gotta Do”
Singer-songwriter Dejhare drops her latest dance-pop single, a sublime banger she simply titled “Do What You Gotta Do.” The track sees Dejhare talk about our Continue Reading
The Mystery of History in Jia Zhangke's 'I Wish I Knew'
Although it’s only this year released in the US through Kino Lorber, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew (Hai shang chuan qi) was commissioned in Continue Reading
Balanced on the Thin Edge of Democracy, Can We See the Tipping Point?
There is a common notion that incoming President Joe Biden has a responsibility to “heal America”. “It’s time to put aside the partisanship and the Continue Reading
Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics (excerpt)
Excerpted from Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics, by Juan Enriquez (footnotes omitted). Copyright © 2020 MIT Press. Excerpted by permission of MIT Press. All Continue Reading
The 60 Best Albums of 2020
60. Thin Lear – Wooden Cave [EggHunt Records] Queens-based singer-songwriter Matt Longo, who records under the moniker Thin Lear, may only be in his mid-30s, Continue Reading
Dope Lemon Shares The Nostalgic “Kids Fallin’ In Love”
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
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