Singer-songwriter and composer Amirah has just released her latest project, a wonderful single and lyric video titled “You Are My Land.” The gorgeous and extremely Continue Reading
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Premiere: Andy Keels Announces The Release Of A Music Video For His Debut Single “Dead To Me,” Off Upcoming EP Fifteen Years
UK-born actor, songwriter, singer, and producer Andy Keels, who has been residing in NYC for the past three years, luckily for us all got inspired Continue Reading
1979's 'This Heat' Remains a Lodestone for Avant-Rock Adventure
This Heat, the innovative trio of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, and Gareth Williams, were not short of humor. Naming themselves after a 1976 UK heatwave, Continue Reading
'People of the City' Is an Unrelenting Critique of Colonial Ideology and Praxis
Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi’s (1921-2007) debut, People of the City was shepherded into the literary spotlight by novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). Achebe chose Ekwensi’s novel Continue Reading
The Power of Restraint in Sophie Yanow, Paco Roca, and Elisa Macellari's New Graphic Novels
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even more accurate for graphic novels. This surprised me when I Continue Reading
15 Overlooked and Underrated Albums of the 1990s
15. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing [1998] Placebo have never really been taken as a serious band. Probably because of lead singer Brian Molko’s ridiculously Continue Reading
Mary Halvorson Creates Cacophony to Aestheticize on 'Artlessly Falling'
The word “artlessly” has several meanings. It’s usually used as an adverb suggesting something authentic and direct. The implication is that there is no attempt Continue Reading
The Pogues' 'The BBC Sessions 1984-1986' Honors Working-Class Heroes
Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, frustrated that there was no antonym for the word “catastrophe”, invented the term “eucatastrophe”, something that would describe Continue Reading
'The Edge of Democracy' and Parallels of Political Crises
When the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro caught coronavirus in July 2020, it seemed like a matter of time until Donald Trump followed. Sure enough, three Continue Reading
Call Super's New LP Is a Digital Biosphere of Insectoid and Otherworldly Sounds
After releasing his first two LPs on Houndstooth, Joe Seaton’s latest album, Every Mouth Teeth Missing, is out via Incienso Records. If you know anything Continue Reading
Clipping Take a Stab at Horrorcore with the Fiery 'Visions of Bodies Being Burned'
Last year, the unique, brilliant hip-hop trio Clipping released their third full-length album, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, notable in that it showed them Continue Reading
Aalok Bala Revels in Nature and Contradiction on EP 'Sacred Mirror'
In the sprawling rainforest of electronica that opens up the album, Aalok Bala (short for Balachandran) finds something definitively human: connection. The LA-based Chilean artist Continue Reading
Magick Mountain Are Having a Party But Is the Audience Invited?
Magick Mountain are the kind of band that sounds like they would be a lot more fun to play in than to listen to. The Continue Reading
Flirting with Demons at Home, or, When TV Movies Were Evil
We may safely declare that people who care about American made-for-TV movies consider the Golden Age to be the 1970s. As the networks discovered the Continue Reading
The 10 Best Horror Movie Remakes
10. Piranha 3D [2010] While he also scored big with the update of Wes Craven’s cannibals in the desert effort The Hills Have Eyes, French Continue Reading
Delightful 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' Is Good Escapism
Bharat Nalluri’s film, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, covers a glamorous 24-hours in London on the precipice of WWII. Although the film is deemed Continue Reading
20 Songs From the 1990s That Time Forgot
“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips (1990) The last remnant of ’80s pop music, “Hold On” not only topped the charts in 1990, but it was Continue Reading
'A Peculiar Indifference' Takes on Violence in Black America
“[There have been] few other cases in the history of civilized peoples where human suffering has been viewed with such peculiar indifference.” – W.E.B. Du Continue Reading
Brother. Explores Addiction And Shares Video For “Honey”
Following last year’s stellar video for ‘Don’t Worry’ and follow up ‘Oxidate’, Brother. returns with Honey. With a mix of psychedelic and punk influences, the quartet captures Continue Reading
Sixteen Years Later Wayne Payne Follows Up His Debut
The first sound you hear on Waylon Payne’s new album, Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me, is a young boy enthusiastically Continue Reading