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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The 10 Best Flaming Lips Sci-Fi Songs
10. “Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World” (Clouds Taste Metallic, 1995) This track off of the Flaming Lips’ seventh album is a Continue Reading