Nick Aranda is best known for his contributions to the experimental rock of Paper Route, but he’s also hit the alternative scene as his alter ego solo project, Vacay Nick. While much of the project’s initial aesthetic might be full-on… Read More
In the liner notes for The Game, Queen’s eighth studio album and their first release of the 1980s, there’s a sentence that may seem unimportant to casual Queen fans but was borderline sacrilege to many of the die-hards. “This album… Read More
During a interview with Atwood Magazine, Jordan Lehning said the impetus for his most recent album (Little Idols) came from a vision he had about the end of an affair. The couple would be parked in a car that would… Read More
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Kinberg, 2019) is the seventh and final X-Men team film in a series dating back to X-Men (Singer, 2000). Blade (Norrington, 1998), X-Men, and Spider-Man (Raimi, 2002) were three increasingly successful and acclaimed films that jump-started two… Read More
Harlem-based singer-songwriter River Hooks began her career at the age of 11 and by 16 was uploading covers of songs by Billie Ellish, Chelsea Cutler and others to SoundCloud. Soon after, she was writing and recording her own material, culminating… Read More
In a time of sickness and great division, Front Country aims to heal with “The Reckoning”. The hopeful hymn was written around a year prior to the rise of COVID-19 but eerily strikes a chord in its potent lyricism: “Maybe… Read More
A little over 15 months after music critic Jon Landau declared, “I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen”, the promise and burden contained in that declaration were manifested in the release of… Read More
There’s something undeniably sexy about the Montreal-based eight-piece collective Busty and the Bass’ latest release, Eddie. The overall vibe is that of a basement make-out party with dim lights, smoke-filled air, and a pile of R&B based rock, funk and… Read More
As the LGBTQ+ movement for equality increasingly shifts its focus from mainstream representations of the acceptability of lesbian and gay people toward full inclusion of those groups that have historically been marginalized as too radical, queer books themselves have to… Read More
Bettye LaVette has many talents. During her 50-plus year career, she’s been celebrated as a soul, rock, R&B, Americana, funk, gospel, and country music singer, as a songwriter and an interpreter of other people’s work, and recently was inducted into… Read More