Considering its rhythmic complexities and instrumental demands, at first glance funk music would appear to make for an unlikely partner for punk rock. Add its focus on the bass and drums, its mostly mid-to-slow tempos, and its African-American roots, and… Read More
In early 2018, 12 February specifically, musician and comics artist Tommy Siegel embarked on an artistic project to create 500 comics over 500 days. He borrowed the original 365 days of comics idea from another cartoonist, Brandon Reese, eventually extending… Read More
Like foodies or vinylphiles, blues fans are a passionate lot. Go to any blues club and—between sets—you’re sure to find a group of aficionados debating over the greatest musicians and albums. It’s a time-honored tradition. While it’s unlikely that a… Read More
San Diego-based Kimm Rogers offers a new single with animated video for the track, “Lie”. Produced by Julian Coryell (guitarist with Alanis Morissette), the track arrives in the midst of one a politically charged moment in time. It’s a no-holds-barred… Read More
Black Magnet – Hallucination Scene (20 Buck Spin) It was back in the 1980s when the precision and weight of industrial music started to infect the rock form. Post-punk pioneers like Killing Joke were amongst the first to experiment with… Read More
As a musician, Matt Berninger achieved something more difficult than it appears: he’s created a distinct musical identity for himself while at the same time shaping that identity to the style of the band that’s made him famous. In rock… Read More
Maybe it’s because of his use of futuristic themes or the fact that he named his band the Extraterrestrials, but Jeremy Ivey’s latest record Waiting Out the Storm evokes the spirit of science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut. That doesn’t seem… Read More
Politics of Attraction, the full-length debut from Louisville power trio Bad Wires, is a Frankenstein’s monster of a rock record. The group, technically adept but still engaging in guttural and primal ways, are well-studied pupils and make the proceeds unfurl… Read More
The cultural art-as-facts taking place on “deserted islands” are something akin to taking the human animal outside his habitat, to be examined in conditions far from conditioning, and relatively free from consequence, in a big old research lab. There we… Read More
“Enduring” is an ideal word to describe the legacy of filmmaker and activist Marlon Riggs, whose award-winning documentaries explore the ever-pertinent issues of race, media representation, and sexual politics. Adopting both a conventional style of documentary-making and a more innovative… Read More