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
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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
Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' Builds Identity From Afrofuturism
“Let Black be synonymous with glory,” says Beyoncé in the opening sequence to her visual album Black Is King. The album amplifies the voices and Continue Reading
Porridge Radio's Mercury Prize-Nominated 'Every Bad' Is a Wonderful Epistemological Nightmare
How do we know what others think of us? How do really know that we truly understand each other? There is no real answer other Continue Reading
The Beatles' 'Help!' Redefined How Personal Popular Music Could Be 55 Years Ago
“When Help! came out in ’65, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it’s just a fast rock ‘n’ roll song.” That’s Continue Reading
Performing Race in James Whale's 'Show Boat'
Whether you are discussing the 1926 Edna Ferber best-selling novel, the stage adaptation by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern first produced in 1927 by Continue Reading
Padma Lakshmi's 'Taste the Nation' Questions What, Exactly, Is American Food
In the era of peak TV, food shows have become a popular fixture on streaming services. Hulu’s latest entry into the genre, Taste the Nation, Continue Reading
July Talk Transform on 'Pray for It'
July Talk open their latest record with the lyrics, “I want to be changed / I want to be rearranged” over a fuzzy and haunting Continue Reading
The 10 Best Films of Sir Alan Parker
10. Bugsy Malone (1976) This unusual project is pure Parker, no question about it. The filmmaker wanted to make a movie that would appeal to Continue Reading
Paranoia Goes Viral in 'She Dies Tomorrow'
It is possible that ten years from now, when COVID-19 cases have hopefully gone the way of the bubonic plague, people will say that films Continue Reading
With 'Articulation' Rival Consoles Goes Back to the Drawing Board
“I love that something on paper can appear rigid and calculated,” says Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, “but then take on new meaning based Continue Reading
The President of Pop Channels His Outlook On Social Media Via New Single ‘Google-ized by Google’s Eyes (The No Internet Song)’
The President of Pop is channeling his outlook on social media and the damage that it can, has, and will cause regarding real human interactions, Continue Reading
The Naked and Famous Go All-Out Pop on 'Recover'
Is the Modern Rock Band the king of the concert? The answer is an obvious ‘no’, but there is ‘rock’ DNA embedded in the idea Continue Reading
Electronic Producer Nahash's Debut Feels Handmade for Revolution
Revolution is in the air. Unrest in 2020 has moved across the globe like a social contagion. With neo-fascism on the rise, police states run Continue Reading
The Academy of Sun Combine Goth, Musical Theater, and Prog on 'The Quiet Earth'
The Academy of Sun’s new album The Quiet Earth is an interesting mish-mash of styles. Singer-songwriter-pianist-bandleader Nick Hudson prefers to use “Gothic dystopian post-punk” to Continue Reading
Steve Cardenas' 'Blue Has a Range' Is Steeped in Blues Tradition and Expressed with Elegance
It is tempting to call guitarist Steve Cardenas understated or tasteful or consummately collaborative. These are accurate descriptions of this contemporary creative guitarist, but they Continue Reading
Catholic Guilt Deliver Accidental Anthem for Pandemic via "A Boutique Affair" (premiere)
Melbourne’s Catholic Guilt release their second EP, This Is What Honesty Sounds Like, on 28 August via Wiretap Records. In the meantime, the group offer Continue Reading
Kolohe Kai Is "Catching Lightning" with His Catchy New Love Song (premiere)
Kolohe Kai first caught the eye of the Pacific reggae scene when he released “Ehu Girl” in 2009. Ever since, the Hawaiian singer-songwriter has been Continue Reading
Electronic Music's Photay Discusses His Warm, Humanistic Sound and Making a Difference
New York-based artist Evan Shornstein makes music as Photay. The music he creates under that title is heavily indebted to a little bit of everything Continue Reading
On Hillbilly Elegy, 'Spring Night Summer Night'
Emerging from the oubliette of film history and inspired partly by the starkly beautiful films of Ingmar Bergman, partly by the semi-documentary non-professionalism of Italian Continue Reading