Vistas are a trio hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, consisting of vocalist Prentice Robertson, guitarist Dylan Rush, and bassist Jamie Law. It’s always interesting when a Continue Reading
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The Chad Taylor Trio Get Funky and Fiery on 'The Daily Biological'
Sometimes it’s the little things—the small changes to routine that free you up to feel or do something fresh. In the case of Chad Taylor’s Continue Reading
Between the Buried and Me's Baby Pictures Star in 'The Silent Circus'
Back in May 2020, Craft Recordings issued a remastered edition of Between the Buried and Me’s 2002 debut album. That gave longtime fans a chance Continue Reading
Hip-Hop's Raashan Ahmad Talks About His Place in 'The Sun'
An unknown entity in many hip-hop quarters (despite his prolificacy), Raashan Ahmad has been game in trying all sorts of odds and ends to get Continue Reading
Alanis Morissette's 'Such Pretty Forks in the Road' Is a Quest for Validation
It’s acutely problematic to require Alanis Morissette to recreate the music of Jagged Little Pill. To consistently return her to a 25-year bygone standpoint prevents Continue Reading
Graphic Novel 'Cuisine Chinoise' Is a Feast for the Eyes and the Mind
There are few books of which it can be said they’re worth buying for the art alone. Zao Dao’s Cuisine Chinoise is one of them. Continue Reading
How Hawkwind's First Voyage Helped Spearhead Space Rock 50 Years Ago
If space rock’s essence can be distilled into a single moment, it would be Hawkwind’s 1972 tour to promote their third LP, Doremi Fasol Latido. Continue Reading
John Lewis, C.T. Vivian, and Their Fellow Freedom Riders Are Celebrated in 'Breach of Peace'
It is tempting to think America, and the world, lost something precious on 17 July 2020, with the passing of Rep. John Lewis and Rev. Continue Reading
The 10 Best Experimental Albums of 2015
10. Battles – La Di Da Di [Warp] It seems like just yesterday Battles released their striking debut Mirrored. In the mid-2000s, Battles spearheaded a new generation Continue Reading
Of Purges and Prescience: On David France's LGBTQ Documentary, 'Welcome to Chechnya'
“Imagine in the 21st century, in a supposedly secular country, you have cases where people are killed, simply because they are homosexual…” —David Isteev, LGBTQ+ Continue Reading
Eyedress Sets Emotions Against Shoegaze Backdrops on 'Let's Skip to the Wedding'
The gradual emergence of more and better low-barrier tools for the creation and dissemination of media has reached unprecedented heights in recent years, and the Continue Reading
Murder Is Most Factorial in 'Eighth Detective'
Alex Pavesi’s debut novel, The Eighth Detective, posits mathematical rules defining ‘detective fiction’ and serves up a fresh and multi-layered homage to that well-worn genre. Continue Reading
Old Man Gloom Mourns Loss on 'Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning' and 'Seminar IX: Darkness of Being'
Aaron Turner has been a staple of the Boston metal and hardcore scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s as a musician and entrepreneur. He Continue Reading
Datura4 Travel Blues-Rock Roads on 'West Coast Highway Cosmic'
“The desert is a spiritual place and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.” These words are from Land’s Edge: A Coastal Memoir, a Continue Reading
Jazz Trombonist Nick Finzer Creates a 'Cast of Characters'
Are we in the midst of a trombone renaissance in creative music? Young and not-so-young voices on the instrument suggest so—with recordings from Ryan Keberle Continue Reading
Unwed Sailor's Johnathon Ford Discusses Their New Album and 20 Years of Music
Look Alive, the latest release from Oklahoma instrumental rock outfit Unwed Sailor, finds the veteran band in fine form more than 20 years into their Continue Reading
Mike Mentz Looks to Adventure in "Ain't That the Life" (premiere + interview)
Mike Mentz has worked his way around the world time and again to garner inspiration for his songwriting, right down to the point where he’s Continue Reading
Track By Track: Safari Room – Look Me Up When You Get There
Following the premiere of Safari Room’s ‘Young Water’, the boys recently dropped their debut album, Look Me Up When You Get There. The Nashville-based trio reflects Continue Reading
John Fullbright Salutes Leon Russell with "If the Shoe Fits" (premiere + interview)
Back to Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music is out 28 August via Horton Records. The sprawling collection gathers some of the finest music Continue Reading
Colonial Pandemics and Indigenous Futurism in Louise Erdrich and Gerald Vizenor
In 2012, Grace L Dillon (Anishinaabe), a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies program at Portland State University, coined the genre “Indigenous futurism” to recognize Continue Reading