Music Reviews

Kamasi Washington Sets Bodies in Motion on ‘Fearless Movement’

Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s latest album, Fearless Movement, inspires motion and emotion by combining contemporary jazz with pop, soul, and rap.

The Jesus and Mary Chain Become Self-Referential

Michael Feuerstack Matches Questions with Infectious Grooves

Snarls Wear Their Hearts on Their Sleeves on ‘With Love’

Camera Obscura Find That Life Goes On No Matter the Direction

Vampire Weekend Return to Form While Adding New Wrinkles

Samuel Goff Faces His Traumatic Childhood on New Album

Mdou Moctar Holds Nothing Back on Extraordinary ‘Funeral for Justice’

Six Organs of Admittance Traverses Life’s Purgatory on ‘Time Is Glass’

Music Features

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of April 2024

In April’s best metal, Locrian fully establish their return, Benighted adorn their anguish in their darkened past, and Inter Arma lead in extreme metal.

Pabllo Vittar’s ‘Batidão Tropical Vol. 2’ Is Brazilian History You Can Dance To

New York Dolls’ ‘Too Much Too Soon’ Lived Up to Its Title (More or Less) 

Shudder to Think Look Back on 1994’s ‘Pony Express Record’

Son of Freedom: Dissident Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi

New Transmissions: An Interview with Brainiac’s John Schmersal

Superchunk’s ‘Foolish’ Is Genre-Defining Indie Heartbreak

Film

Detective Fantasy ‘You Never Can Tell’ Spoofs Film Noir

Fantasy, comedy, romance, reincarnation, animals and murder are ingredients for You Never Can Tell, a whimsical story with spoofs of film noir.

‘Free Party’ Director Aaron Trinder on Fighting for the Right to Party

‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ Keeps the Popcorn in the Bucket

Remembering the Memory Puzzle Film ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

Silent Film Jewels About Mothers, Horses and Gorillas

The Jungian Shadow Looms over Indigenous Drama ‘We Were Dangerous’

The Abortion Discord Sewn into Faded ‘Blue Denim’

Books

Steve Reich’s Music Echoes in Jordan Mechner’s Graphic Memoir ‘Replay’

Like Steve Reich’s Different Trains, Jordan Mechner’s graphic memoir Replay is a work of introspection that looks to history and tragic synchronicity.

‘Trash Talk’ Doesn’t Get Down and Dirty Enough

Jules Verne’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Goes Deeper Than You May Realize

The Tooth Hurts: John Patrick Higgins on Pain and Porcelain

‘Dirty Dancing’ in Pre-Roe v. Wade America

Television

They Tenderly Scream “Camp” and We Lovingly Scream Back

The Traitors head-band wearing Parvati Shallow and Barbie‘s head-shaking Ryan Gosling tenderly scream “camp” and enthralled, we lovingly scream back.

21 Beacon Street’s Impossible Missions

‘The Sympathizer’ Fractures Identity into a Knockout Kaleidoscopic Tale

‘Sugar’ Is an Intoxicating Celebration of Classic Hollywood

Who Will Be the Next Harry Hole? The 5 Best Norwegian Actors for the Role

Interviews

‘Free Party’ Director Aaron Trinder on Fighting for the Right to Party

When the New Age travelers and the newly emerging ravers met in the English countryside, they had to fight for the right to party together for free. They still do.

Shudder to Think Look Back on 1994’s ‘Pony Express Record’

New Transmissions: An Interview with Brainiac’s John Schmersal

Einstürzende Neubauten Discuss Their Improvised Utopias

The Tooth Hurts: John Patrick Higgins on Pain and Porcelain

Lists

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of April 2024

In April’s best metal, Locrian fully establish their return, Benighted adorn their anguish in their darkened past, and Inter Arma lead in extreme metal.

The 100 Best Alternative Songs of the 1980s

Hit the Road: 10 Fresh Driving Songs

Who Will Be the Next Harry Hole? The 5 Best Norwegian Actors for the Role

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of March 2024

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