“It took me few years to recognize that I was always writing about outcasts or people living a little bit outside of the world – characters who obey their own laws and conscience” explains director Denis Côté. His 2010 drama… Read More
Square Haunting tells the story of five important British women from the early 20th century, most of whom (with the exception of Virginia Woolf) are sadly neglected in this day and age. The book’s short, lively sketches of these women… Read More
Funeral Fires is a new band with some familiar faces — drummer Adam Cichocki (Gatherers), bassist Brandon Gallagher (Coarse, Trace Amount), guitarist Matt Popowski (Tidal Gloom, ex-Gatherers), and vocalist Kyle Galloway (ex-Lakota De Kai, Kingmaker) — and they're gearing up… Read More
A Pop Smoke mural was finished this weekend at 8125 Flatlands Avenue in the late rapper's neighborhood of Canarsie, Brooklyn. Complex points out that the project is being undertaken by Hattas Public Murals, who wrote, "We are honored to be… Read More
Quality Control-signed Atlanta rapper Marlo (real name Rudolph Johnson) has reportedly been shot and killed. TMZ reports: Rapper Lil Marlo was shot to death over the weekend in Atlanta … law enforcement confirms with TMZ. Cops tell us, they responded… Read More
One unforeseen side effect of the pandemic is that our collective sense of time has been thrown out of whack. The arrow of our days no longer flies true; it moves more like a crinkled paper plane—soaring briefly, plunging without… Read More
The Ontological Zoo Maybe it’s just from all the sheltering in place and self-isolation, but one of the most popular pieces of quarantainment has been a Netflix docuseries about Joe Exotic, a gay roadside zoo owner in Oklahoma currently serving… Read More
Mendelsohn: The Doors’ self-titled debut is one of those albums where I understand why it’s in the Top 25. They surfaced in the heyday of rock, they had a different approach to the music, and they had a charismatic singer… Read More
The term ‘high cotton’ originated in the antebellum South and referred to the seasons when the cotton yield was plentiful and the exchange rate was lucrative. The idiom has since been adapted as slang, communicating a feeling of doing well… Read More
This has been a pretty busy week in the hip hop/R&B/etc world, thanks to the great new Apollo Brown & Che Noir album and the great new Dinner Party (Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, 9th Wonder, Phoelix) album, both… Read More