Music Reviews

Jlin Updates Her Approach to Percussion on ‘Perspective’

Synthetic or acoustic percussion, Perspective is another release that demonstrates Jlin is a genre unto herself and way ahead of the electronic music curve.

Allen Lowe Challenges Ideas About American Music

The Spinners’ Atlantic Singles Were Their Peak

Mikaela Davis Creates a New Blueprint for ‘And Southern Star’

Kylie Minogue Scores Another Dance Pop Classic with ‘Tension’

Laurel Halo’s Music Becomes Even More Glacially Cinematic on ‘Atlas’

Jim Lauderdale and the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Create Bluegrass Alchemy

The Strange World of Devendra Banhart’s ‘Flying Wig’

Zzzahara’s ‘Tender’ Is Exactly That, Plus Irresistible Hooks

Music Features

Funk Producer Jamma-Dee Distorts Time on ‘Perceptions’

Despite not playing an instrument growing up, Jamma-Dee’s love of crate-digging and funk soon birthed their own colorful contribution to the genre.

Fefe Dobson Is Sick With Emotion Over First LP in 13 Years

The Menacing, Grimy Weirdness of Melvins’ ‘Houdini’ at 30

JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Summer 2023

5 Signs Brazilian Funk Is Verging on Global Breakthrough

Girls Against Boys on Their Criticized ’90s Album, ‘Freak*on*Ica’

Telling His Story: An Interview with Bernie Taupin  

Film

Actor Aidan Gillen on His Role in Noir Love Letter to Dublin, ‘Barber’

Irish actor Aidan Gillen talks about his lead role, and the freedom given to him to define his character, in Fintan Connolly’s Dublin-set modern noir, Barber.

Camp and the Hyperreal Telenovela in Almodóvar’s ‘All About My Mother’

A Woman’s War Is Never Done: Wojciech Has’ ‘How to Be Loved’

The Pull of Christian Sparkes’ Mystery ‘The King Tide’

12 Totally Strange and Underseen Animated Films

FrightFest 2023: ‘Cobweb’ Tells a Story Trapped Within Itself 

Budd Boetticher’s ‘Ranown Westerns’ Are Complex and Ambiguous

Books

Daniel Guebel’s ‘The Jewish Son’ Invokes Kafka’s ‘Dearest Father’

In The Jewish Son, Daniel Guebel invokes Kafka’s “Dearest Father” to tell the story of a complicated father-son relationship.

Self-Deprecating Nonchalence: ‘Prine on Prine’

Two Men in a Tub: A Sudsy Interview with Humorist Robert Wringham

Telling His Story: An Interview with Bernie Taupin  

Fragments of a (Diabolical) Dream: Vojtěch Mašek’s ‘The Sisters Dietl’

Television

Comedy Series ‘The Afterparty’ Is Among the Last of Its Kind

The second season of Apple TV’s funny, inventive, and self-indulgent comedy whodunnit The Afterparty is utterly unnecessary in the best way.

Lenny Bruce vs. Lenny Bruce: The Real and the Imagined

Communitas and Comfort Television

Pee-wee Herman: The Existentialist at Play

Drama, Desire, and Diplomacy: The Rise of Turkish Television in India 

Interviews

Funk Producer Jamma-Dee Distorts Time on ‘Perceptions’

Despite not playing an instrument growing up, Jamma-Dee’s love of crate-digging and funk soon birthed their own colorful contribution to the genre.

Actor Aidan Gillen on His Role in Noir Love Letter to Dublin, ‘Barber’

Fefe Dobson Is Sick With Emotion Over First LP in 13 Years

The Pull of Christian Sparkes’ Mystery ‘The King Tide’

Two Men in a Tub: A Sudsy Interview with Humorist Robert Wringham

Lists

JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Summer 2023

Our jazz columnist chooses the best new jazz albums of the summer while reflecting on the passing of Astrud Gilberto and Tony Bennett.

5 Signs Brazilian Funk Is Verging on Global Breakthrough

12 Totally Strange and Underseen Animated Films

The 10 Best Discoveries at Festival de musique émergente 2023

Beyond Incredible String Band: Seven Songs by Mike Heron