California-based husband-and-wife duo Andrew Stern and Laura Arias of 3 Pairs of Boots will release Long Rider in January 2021. The record demonstrates the pair’s unmistakable chemistry and honing of their Americana-driven sound, as evidenced by the single, “Everywhere I… Read More
The music of Jonnine Standish is not exactly sunny. As a member of the duo HTRK (pronounced “Hate Rock”), she and Nigel Yang have made a career out of somber, brooding, skeletal rock songs that often deal with grief and… Read More
It’s a story that almost seems like a publicist dreamt it up, but it really happened. In the fall of 1968, a 16-year-old jazz fanatic and high school student named Danny Scher had the audacious idea of inviting legendary jazz… Read More
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler calls his new album Generations because the songs look back at where his personal and familial heritage connect and how that impacts him living in the present. The multi-instrumentalist creates bouncy, infectious rhythms and covers them… Read More
It’s been over two decades since the Deftones broke free of their status as nu-metal/rap-rock avatars with the addition of experimental DJ/keyboardist Frank Delgado in 1997. Unorthodox in his approach, Delgado didn’t partake in anything close to traditional scratching, instead… Read More
PopMatters has been following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series The Golden Age of Exploitation, a collection of films made outside of Hollywood’s studio system by independent mavericks. These filmmakers defied the Production Code and censor boards by making movies with taboo… Read More
Introduction Since our earliest days, we humans have been cataloguers of the natural world. Once, our survival depended entirely on remembering what was safe and tasty, and what was ferocious, or toxic. Today, the survival factor may have lessened, but… Read More
WEIRDO – INSOMNIAC IDEAS [EP] British electropop producer WEIRDO has captured serious BBC radio play with his emotive and tuneful alternative pop, and Annie Mac has been a big supporter of his music. WEIRDO has a stunning collection of new music… Read More
Two years ago, French singer-songwriter Tiphanie Doucet delighted listeners with her debut LP, Under My Sun. A “richly poignant and pastoral journey that reveals Doucet as a master of the style”—as I put it back then—the record certainly led to… Read More
In spite of everything that’s happened since Trump joined the stage of the 2016 Republican presidential debates, even just a year ago it might have been difficult to imagine a comics magazine with a taste for futuristic political dystopia overshadowed… Read More