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
Vince Clarke is a songwriter and composer whose four-decade-long contribution to synthpop has defined the genre. Forming Depeche Mode in 1980 with schoolmate Andy Fletcher, and Fletcher’s good friend, Martin Gore, Clarke is responsible for the band’s most enduring hit,… Read More
Much of RUI HO’s music has been centered around the complexity of personal journeys forward through space and life. On earlier EPs Becoming Is an Eventful Situation and In Pursuit of the Sun 逐日, the Berlin-based DJ drew on her… Read More
Craft Recordings’ vinyl reissue series of Between the Buried and Me’s early discography continues apace with the band’s third album, 2005’s Alaska. This album started to put the North Carolina quintet on the map outside the relatively insular world of… Read More
I clearly remember the first time I saw Low Cut Connie perform. I felt the way Jon Landau must have when he wrote, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” I was knocked out by… Read More
Rachel Brooke’s The Loneliness in Me releases on 23 October, and serves as powerful reminder of the Michigan-based musician’s marriage of classic country music with contemporary sensibilities. The spare, lived-in music serves as the perfect companion to Brooke’s haunting voice,… Read More
Los Angeles rock band Swerve’s latest track, “Escape” arrives ahead of a full-length album that will be released next year. Led by Gregory Mahdesian (vocals and guitar) and Ryan Berti (guitar and vocals), featuring Brandon Duncan (bass and vocals) and… Read More
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) tracks the journey of painter Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volonté), who has been made a confino; that is, he has been consigned by the fascist administration of Benito Mussolini in… Read More
Rivers are thick with pollution and forests leveled by fire, an autocratic dictator ignores the council of others, refugees are turned away at borders with nowhere else to go, and young people grapple with an uncertain future in the face… Read More
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, John Lennon began to actively endorse a wide variety of progressive and radical political causes. He championed the anti-war movement as well as Native and African-American rights while demonstrating a deepening interest in… Read More