When Watchmen premiered last fall, its opening sequence set during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 provided a harrowing entry point into the series’ tangled alternate history. Based on interviews with the makers and a swath of social media reactions,… Read More
You will hardly find a band more defined by the covers they play than the Devonns on their self-titled debut album. The Chicago quartet led by singer-songwriter Mathew Ajjarapu delivers an exquisite fusion of their hometown soul heritage with Motown… Read More
Auteur Publishing have followed up their Devil’s Advocates series of slim volumes on individual horror films with Constellations, an even slimmer set of volumes on science fiction films, of which Susanne Kord’s book on Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) is… Read More
Eleanor Underhill’s Land of the Living arrives on 7 August. The Asheville, North Carolina singer-songwriter has delivered an expansive, LP that touches on familiar elements of Americana, pop, R&B and occasional psychedelic flourishes. Though eclectic, the collection doesn’t suffer from… Read More
Toni Braxton is generously back once again to Un-Break Our Hearts for the millionth time. And this time around, she’s opting to dance away the heartbreak. Ahead of the release of her just-announced studio album Spell My Name – her… Read More
Having worked under the radar for the last 12 years of his career may not have done much for Maestro Gamin’s profile, but it has allowed him to try his hand at anything he likes without the fuss or worry… Read More
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 Morissette from fully enshrining her authentic self. It’s stifling, especially since Morissette has evolved as… Read More
View this post on Instagram Levitating Is Coming…………???. Dua Lipa, Missy Elliot and Myself!! Its so ? ??……………. Aug. 14th. @dualipa @missymisdemeanorelliott #levitating A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Aug 4, 2020 at 2:54pm PDT UPDATE: Madonna spilled the… Read More
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