Lake Street Dive/Cuddle Magic/Okkervil River members, Bridget Kearney and Benjamin Lazar Davis’ Still Flying has been received with wide critical acclaim since its release earlier this year. The record features music the pair created in Ghana during 2019 and includes… Read More
The question of authenticity has been a cloud over the life and career of Bob Dylan since his 1961 arrival in New York City. Who was this chubby-cheeked folk star with a Woody Guthrie fixation and a seemingly endless well… Read More
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
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
The last release from Wetware – the Brooklyn-based duo comprised of Roxy Farman and Matt Morandi – was 2018’s Automatic Drawing, an album of intoxicating industrial beats that have a definite experimental thrust but still contain a hint of accessibility.… Read More
As an artist, Lee Jones always seems to linger on the fringe of things. Sonically, his music is notable for its delicate qualities, its microtonal precision and attention to detail. His most well-known album is, after all, titled Songs for… Read More