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Author: Karma Oak

Jazz Trombonist Nick Finzer Creates a 'Cast of Characters'

August 4, 2020Karma Oak

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 and Joe Fiedler hanging around the top of many lists, certainly mine. Nick Finzer is… Read More

Colonial Pandemics and Indigenous Futurism in Louise Erdrich and Gerald Vizenor

August 3, 2020Karma Oak

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 the diverse and vast network of science fiction authored by Native peoples. In Walking the… Read More

Róisín Murphy Announces Her Fifth Studio Album, ‘Róisín Machine’

July 31, 2020Karma Oak

You know, we talk a good game about all the pop girls getting their disco on in 2020 – but not everyone’s got a discography that goes the distance on the dance floor like Róisín Murphy. The longtime trailblazer in… Read More

July Talk Transform on 'Pray for It'

July 31, 2020Karma Oak

July Talk open their latest record with the lyrics, “I want to be changed / I want to be rearranged” over a fuzzy and haunting electronic buzz. The sound is far different than the more primitive rock and roll for… Read More

The 10 Best Films of Sir Alan Parker

July 31, 2020Karma Oak

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 children, and his son suggested making something with an entire cast of same. Before you… Read More

‘Say Something’: Kylie Dreams of a Less Socially Distant Future

July 23, 2020Karma Oak

“Love is love, it never ends…can we all be as one again?” Kylie Minogue didn’t have to return to us this soon after the release of her 2018 record Golden and accompanying tour through 2019 – and she certainly didn’t… Read More

Watch Matt Pond’s Zoom-made video for his new Thermals cover ft. Anya Marina

July 20, 2020Karma Oak

Like the rest of us, indie veteran Matt Pond is finding new ways to stay busy during this pandemic, and one thing he did is record a new EP (with both covers and originals) with his frequent collaborator Chris Hansen,… Read More

Danielle Ponder and Karate Boogaloo Stand in Solidarity with BIPOC on "Look Around" (premiere)

July 20, 2020Karma Oak

In the past, both Danielle Ponder and Karate Boogaloo alike have been celebrated for their own individual efforts. The former is a commanding soul singer and activist who transcends genre conventions to convey powerful messages; the latter band hails from… Read More

'The Rental' Is an Airbnb Horror of Hipsters in Peril

July 20, 2020Karma Oak

If a filmmaker can winch the bindings tight enough, sometimes the rest doesn’t matter. If all there was to Dave Franco’s The Rental, an economical and somewhat depopulated horror movie, was the slow-then-fast accretion of jumps and jolts in an… Read More

27 New Rap and R&B Songs Out This Week

July 18, 2020Karma Oak

This week birthed the new 20-song double album from Blu & Exile (their first album together in eight years) which you can read about in Notable Releases, and we also got new songs from Drake/DJ Khaled, Kanye West, Joey Bada$$,… Read More

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