All that certain film fans will need to hear about Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono’s post-apocalyptic samurai-western Prisoners of the Ghostland is that it’s directed by Sono. It features Nicolas Cage squeezed into a black leather suit strapped with bombs, engaging… Read More
As 2020 drew to a close, Craft Recordings’ yearlong Between the Buried and Me remaster and vinyl reissue project arrived at 2007’s Colors, their fourth and most significant album. This was the record that brought the band more attention outside… Read More
1. “She Takes Me” “Folding corners into perfect shapes / Went forlorn in a vapor of Elysian escapes” That’s how these lines to “She Takes Me” read in the liner notes of lowercase’s Kill the Lights, at least. Coming out of… Read More
“If you are working with a radioactive substance, don’t let it escape…it may come back to you.” — National Educational Television video on plutonium (1963) Much like forthcoming generations will find it difficult to imagine a pre-Covid-19 world, most of… Read More
10. “My Favorite Things” from My Favorite Things Coltrane popularized the use of the soprano saxophone in jazz, and this track had a lot to do with it. “My Favorite Things” demonstrates the broad appeal of Trane’s art. He managed to take… Read More
In the early-mid 1970s came a chain of albums recorded in London that grabbed elements of popular music and fused them to form something unprecedented; a kind of upper-echelon rock that had no obvious direct forebear. It used some of… Read More
When Danish documentary filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee ends, it truly feels like there’s nothing left to say. It’s already one of the most lauded films of this year’s Sundance and, thanks to Neon, the first film to be acquired… Read More
There are so many interesting intersections of identity at play in Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing that it’s easy to forget a film is happening in front of you. It’s rare to find a first-time director who is so… Read More
One of the bright, albeit brief, marvels to have flashed upon the ’80s with a singular approach to rock music, JoBoxers filled a niche of their own creating. Bridging a nifty ’50s aesthetic with the urgency of new wave pop,… Read More
10. “Andy’s Chest” (Transformer, 1972) Lou Reed helped define a subgenre with this seminal glam rock record and yielded some of the most memorable hits of his career, such as “Perfect Day” and “Walk on the Wild Side”. Yet early in… Read More