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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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