One of the first sequences in the documentary series City So Real shows the mayoral candidates in Chicago marching in the 2018 Bud Billiken Parade, Continue Reading
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MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of January 2021
Balothizer – Cretan Smash (Louvana) <a href=”https://balothizer.bandcamp.com/album/cretan-smash”>Cretan Smash by Balothizer</a> Full disclosure: I’m cheating a bit. Balothizer’s Cretan Smash was released back in November, but Continue Reading
10cc's Kevin Godley on Crowdsourcing and Going Solo After All These Years
Kevin Godley has been a vital part of some of the most innovative music of the last six decades. As a quarter of the original Continue Reading
Actress Nina Hoss on the Art of Performance
German actress Nina Hoss’ lengthy collaboration with German director Christian Petzold, from Wolfsburg (2003) to Phoenix (2014), saw the pair become inseparable. The characters she Continue Reading
Vuillard's 'The War of the Poor' and Historical Storytelling
Éric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor lifts readers from the contemporary battlegrounds of class struggle and deposits us in the frenzy of the 16th Continue Reading
The Underestimated Resilience of Peace and Modern Society
Watching Steven Soderbergh’s film Contagion (2011), in light of a year of COVID-19, I was struck by the accuracy of much of the writers’ vision. Continue Reading
Shame Are an Unstoppable Force on 'Drunk Tank Pink'
“I think the idea of the leather jacket-wearing, womanizing, drug-fuelled rock star should be burned,” Charlie Steen, the frontman for London’s Shame, told The Guardian Continue Reading
Unknown Neighbour Shares “Million Miles” Single & Video
Following last year’s ‘We Have To Discover’ and ‘Home’, which Unknown Neighbour (Sascha Zemke) spoke out, the indie-folk artist returns with Million Miles. Serving as the opener Continue Reading
Top Latin Rising Stars To Stream In 2021
New emerging artists keep bringing their signature-styles and charm to the music scene even during the global pandemic. Up-and-coming Latin artists were no exception. Their Continue Reading
Granny Smith Shares Prince Inspired “Ode 2 A King”
Following last month’s ‘Delusions of Grandeur’, Granny Smith’s (Jason Bhattacharya) first release of the year serves as an ode to Prince aptly titled Ode 2 Continue Reading
On Jean-Luc Godard's Game of Despair, 'Pierrot le fou'
“A man alone always talks too much.” — Ferdinand Griffon Pierrot le fou (1965) was the tenth 10th feature film in five years from French Continue Reading
Amanda Gorman's History Lesson: An Inaugural Poem in the Shadow of White Supremacy
On 20 January 2021—in the shadows of the terrorist attack on the US Capitol just 14 days earlier—Amanda Gorman became the United States’ sixth inaugural Continue Reading
Rhye's 'Home' Is Ambitious in Approach
It’s been ten years since Rhye began recording their debut album, Woman. Eventually released in 2013, the album caused a storm with the performers’ identity Continue Reading
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Worry, Freetime, and His Band's New "Head" Trip
American Head, the latest release from the Flaming Lips, stands as a marker of time. It’s wrapped in anxieties about the future, whether that future Continue Reading
Buzzcocks Beat the Bootleggers with 'Late for the Train'
Think about Buzzcocks for a moment. What did they look like? The image that popped into your head was probably from about 1978. Four stick-thin Continue Reading
Post-rocker Chris Brokaw Is Onto Something with 'Puritan'
Chris Brokaw’s onto something. The post-rock mainstay (Codeine, Come) and longtime supporting player (everyone from Thurston Moore to G.G. Allin) borrows the title from the Continue Reading
Paul McCartney Goes Back to the Home Studio for 'McCartney III'
Paul McCartney was made for lockdown. 2020 saw musicians downloading long-distance song contributions from far-flung bandmates at such a rate that it’s a miracle that Continue Reading
SZNS Say Women Don't Have to "Behave"
SZNS are a rising Los Angeles women-fronted pop quartet that sport the sort of earworm melodies that Little Mix dropped so generously on their latest Continue Reading
Josh Fudge Drops Bedroom Pop Debut Album “Fun Times”
Newcomer Josh Fudge is an 18-year-old multi-talented artist from Oklahoma City who just dropped his debut album, Fun Times. Through nine tracks, Fudge explores youth, new loves, Continue Reading
Top 5 Up-And-Coming Female Artists To Keep An Eye On In 2021
The New Year brought us new music, and we know you are as excited about it as we are. 2021 may well be the most Continue Reading