Mux Mool aka Brian Lindgren blends electronic and hip-hop into a dancey beatfest full of big beats and deep grooves. His latest single, “Latest Sulk”, exemplifies this approach. The song appears on the producer’s upcoming album, Skulltaste II, which releases… Read More
Passage West, the first novel by the US-based writer of Indian origin, Rishi Reddi, revolves around migrant lives in the US, and is shaped by events of the 1900s and the even more momentous decade of the 1920s. This was… Read More
As the traditional narrative has it, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album represented the end of an era: the death of pop and the rise, in its wake, of grunge, alt-rock, and hip-hop. Most critics point to the moment Nirvana’s Nevermind knocked… Read More
There’s a twitter thread from author Lauren Hough that’s made the rounds. Hough lists all of the ways that Generation X is prepared for self-isolation during a global pandemic, based on our experiences as latchkey kids and our consequent familiarity… Read More
Frank Zappa once famously declared, “Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.” That line was uttered onstage for the sake of a good laugh, but there is some twisted truth behind it. To keep the genre alive and well –… Read More
Main Source – “Live at the Barbecue” Foremost among 1991’s superlative beatcraft is Main Source’s LP Breaking Atoms. Astonishingly out of print for more than ten years until 2008, Breaking Atoms was the product of producer/MC Large Professor and Canadians Sir… Read More
Árstíðir lífsins – Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir (Van Records) Iceland’s Árstíðir lífsins are a committed band. The flesh of their pagan Viking black metal is not only immersed but fundamentally constructed from folk and skaldic… Read More
Much like Yann Tiersen and Ludovico Einaudi, the young pianist Gabriel Ólafs comes from the modern school of instrumental performers centered on mood over virtuosity. Based in Iceland, Ólafs’ music shares more in common with the art-rock artists of his… Read More
Is it too early to announce my favorite comic of 2020? Obviously. So I’ll just say Weng Pixin’s Sweet Time is one-hell-of-a contender. Though the art of Sweet Time is by definition comics art, it stands impressively far above most… Read More
Old Crow Medicine Show entered 2020 a different band than they had been in 2019. Founding member Critter Fuqua left the group for the second time after a New Year’s Eve gig at the Ryman in Nashville. Ketch Secor, who… Read More