Like so many, I’ve burned my fair share of quarantine hours sitting in front of my television, offsetting those bleak news reports about the coronavirus with a healthy dose of sitcoms, cooking shows, and Marvel movies. While The Office reruns,… Read More
Alpha Cat (Elizabeth McCullough) releases Live at Vox Pop, Brooklyn, NY – July 21, 2005 3 July as a $2 download with all proceeds being split between Bring Change to Mind, and the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation. Both of these… Read More
What is it about tragic, doomed romances that makes them such irresistible reading? Especially in this day and age? We know, at long last, that it’s possible for queer relationships to turn out happily and for queer books to have… Read More
Deeper Graves is the new solo project of Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves, ex-Nachtmystium) and the debut Deeper Graves album, Open Roads, arrives 3 July via Wilson’s Disorder Recordings. Rather than an all-out extreme metal assault, Deeper Graves find nuance and… Read More
1. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” It’s conventional music industry practice for record labels trying to break an up-and-coming band to release what’s termed a “base-building” cut as the first single from an album. The idea is that this lead single… Read More
The previous five articles in my film-by-film analysis of the Marvel Films have covered most of 2018, a year which was an undisputed high-water mark for comic book films. The year began with Black Panther (Coogler, 2018), which so perfectly… Read More
“Plague! We’re in the middle of a fucking plague! And you behave like this!” – Larry Kramer The action in Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart (1985) begins in July 1981, when there were 41 recognized cases of what would… Read More
Klinger: I’ve said in the past that artists’ big statements tend to garner the most attention. And here we are, Mendelsohn, covering our fifth double LP. By my math, just under one quarter of the albums we’ve examined have required… Read More
A well-established rock star isn’t supposed to be doing these kinds of things at the age of 62. Yet here we are. Paul Weller, founding member and chief songwriter of British mod punks the Jam and co-founder of the oft-misunderstood… Read More
In a 2013 interview with John Hind of The Guardian, as Jessie Ware was making the publicity rounds in support of her Mercury-nominated debut, the singer-songwriter playfully discussed her obsession with Marmite, Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, the perfect bagel,… Read More