The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1 is a compilation of lost Memphis gospel music from the 1970s and is out 18 September via Bible & Tire. The set features liner notes from Michael Hutt and… Read More
The Cradle, the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paco Cathcart (Big Neck Police, Eyes of Love, Shimmer), has curated a thoughtfully multifarious album. His Laughing in My Sleep, released by NNA Tapes, is an impressive collection of 21 tracks,… Read More
Claire Denis’ masterwork of cinematic poetry Beau travail is not a traditional anti-imperialist film, but it is one of the most elemental. Set in the rugged desert terrain of Djibouti among a diverse troop of French Foreign Legionnaires, the film… Read More
Kudos to those artists who have managed to get some work done despite the political strife and pandemic lockdowns rocking the US this year. Nat Puff — who goes by the stage name Left at London — has been one… Read More
There’s no mistaking where the political loyalties of the makers behind All In: The Fight for Democracy lie. The documentary is ostensibly about voter suppression, which has been used by different parties in different ways throughout American history. But in… Read More
Tobin Sprout is most widely known as a former member of the incessantly present indie rock act Guided By Voices. He’s been in and out of the band a few times and has been the principal songwriter for some of… Read More
Lars and the Magic Mountain is a new act formed by the Netherlands’ Lars Kroon of the band St. Tropez. The title of the new group hints at their space pop and psychedelic inclinations, and indeed, their latest single, “Invincible”,… Read More
Otis Junior is an alternative R&B singer from Louisville, Kentucky with a silky, mellifluous voice that recalls some of the sweetest soul music of the 1970s. Speaking of “sweet”, for Otis Junior’s latest single, he teams up with noted Kentucky… Read More
Australian First Nations singer-songwriter GLVES creates dense, deep, and darkish electropop that mesmerizes with its blend of electronics and native sounds. Her second single, “Heal Me”, out today is very much of that ilk. It’s an even “bigger” song than… Read More
As he prepared to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965 on what was to become known as ‘Bloody Sunday’, the late civil rights leader and one-day congressman John Lewis prepared for what he anticipated would be his… Read More