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
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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
Jerry Leger Teams with Moby Grape's Don Stevenson for "Halfway 'Til Gone" (premiere)
Singer-songwriter Jerry Leger has teamed with Moby Grape’s Don Stevenson for the new single, “Halfway ‘Til Gone”, which arrives on digital and streaming platforms 6 Continue Reading
Titan to Tachyons' Experimental Heaviness on Full Display via "Earth, And Squidless" (premiere)
Titan to Tachyons features guitarist Sally Gates(ex-Orbweaver, ex-Gigan), backed by the powerhouse rhythm section of Kenny Grohowski (Secret Chiefs 3, Imperial Triumphant, Brand X) and Continue Reading
Soul Blues' Sugaray Rayford Delivers a "Homemade Disaster" (premiere + Q&A)
Sugaray Rayford delivers his latest single, “Homemade Disaster” on 7 August. The song finds the Arizona-based vocalist in fine form. His Muddy Waters-crossed with-Otis Redding 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
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
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
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
Roots Rocker Webb Wilder Shares a "Night Without Love" (premiere + interview)
Webb Wilder’s latest album is Night Without Love. Released in April 2020, the collection captures the Mississippi native in fine form, including on the titular Continue Reading