Music Reviews
Philip Bowen’s “Lightning Bugs” Is a Feel Good Fiddle Tune (premiere)
Fiddling maestro Philip Bowen’s “Lightning Bugs” is a feel-good Americana love song fit for summertime, and it’ll put a smile on your face.
Music Features
When Record Labels Blasted Through the Barriers in Segregated America
While their motives were more mercenary than musical, American small record label impresarios could hear the barriers falling between the races right before their ears.
Film
How Women-Centric Bollywood Films Reinforce Patriarchy
Bollywood films purposefully bring out the negative aspects of “uncontrolled” female desire to maintain the patriarchal structure of Indian society.
Books
In ‘Girlfriend on Mars’ a RomCom Competes with Climate Change
Girlfriend on Mars equips itself nicely on the climate change front, but subsuming that narrative and the tensions within it into the love story redirects the novel’s orbit.
Television
Drama, Desire, and Diplomacy: The Rise of Turkish Television in India
Netflix represents an opportunity to internationalize and escape the pressures of a volatile domestic market in Turkish television. It has forced Turkish producers to tell Turkish stories in a globally compelling way.
Interviews
Ralph Gives Canadian Queer Pop a New Name with ‘222’
Eschewing male producers who didn’t necessarily see her creative vision in the past, Ralph also came out as a member of the LGBTQ community this year.
Lists
The 10 Best Progressive Rock Albums of the 2000s
This list is a reflection of the many great efforts of progressive rock artists of the 2000s and a tribute to the style’s most important musician of the decade.
