Auteur Publishing have followed up their Devil’s Advocates series of slim volumes on individual horror films with Constellations, an even slimmer set of volumes on science fiction films, of which Susanne Kord’s book on Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) is… Read More
Kathy Sledge’s voice is tonic for the soul. When COVID-19 sent millions into lockdown earlier this March, the classic Sister Sledge song “Thinking of You” quickly became a staple of “Club Quarantine” hosted by DJ D-Nice on Instagram Live. “That’s… Read More
As a former electropop artist who once hit the road with distracting dancers or fading teen idols past their prime time, Toronto singer-songwriter DYLYN grew out of that role during a seemingly extensive effort to transform herself into the fierce… Read More
With everything going on in today’s fraught world, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. Fortunately, there are scientists struggling on both ends of the human experience to keep that big picture in focus. On the… Read More
After years of licencing comic book properties to Hollywood studios, Marvel Entertainment launched Marvel Studios in 2005. Marvel Studios developed the properties to which they had the cinematic rights, mostly lesser-known or second-string superheroes, into a series of lightly interconnected… Read More
Eleanor Underhill’s Land of the Living arrives on 7 August. The Asheville, North Carolina singer-songwriter has delivered an expansive, LP that touches on familiar elements of Americana, pop, R&B and occasional psychedelic flourishes. Though eclectic, the collection doesn’t suffer from… Read More
According to recent polls, Americans are having more sex in the daytime than ever before. The conventional wisdom says this is likely because people are stuck home during the recent pandemic and have an increased opportunity to do so. Why… Read More
JOBS thrive on tension. Their music is suffused with jitters and anxiety. Monotone-sung mantras, shards of twitchy effects, electric guitar bursts, atonal squalls: it’s not unusual to hear all of this within the first minute or two of any given… Read More
From the Balkan Wars to the Iraq conflict and London’s 7/7 terrorist attacks, the electro-ambient-classical composer Max Richter has never eluded socio-political and humanitarian concerns in his decorous, heart-swelling and yearning brand of post-minimalist contemporary classical alchemy. His latest outpouring,… Read More
Nnamdï’s sounds are a testament to the continual melting away of genre distinctions in the current era of (particularly Black) music. There are material and immaterial circumstances which produce the conditions for such an atmosphere of aesthetic experimentation. During times… Read More