A-list actors, director and material = the biggest Oscar bait of the year. Could be awesome, could be a mess, but either way the trailer looks intriguing, if a bit too revealing of plot.
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D'Angelo's Anti-Producer Project, 'Voodoo'
D'Angelo's Voodoo may well be the working blueprint for "post-Soul" black pop, but are pop fans ready to embrace more than the same five melodies and the same five bass-lines?
25 Jan 2020
Colin Stetson Goes to the Movies with Loud, Garish 'Color Out of Space'
Adventurous multi-instrumentalist Colin Stetson scores the new horror film from director Richard Stanley, Color Out of Space, and it's a noisy, deeply enjoyable headphone trip.
24 Jan 2020
Stephen Tow's 'London, Reign Over Me' Is a Must-Read Tour of '60s British Rock
Historian Stephen Tow's London, Reign Over Me is an insightful, thorough, and welcoming exploration of '60s-era British rock.
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Books
24 Jan 2020
Wire's 'Mind Hive' Shows the Post-Punk Band at Their Inimitable Best
Post-punk pioneers Wire continue their late period renaissance with a new synthesis of all of their most endearing qualities on Mind Hive.
24 Jan 2020
Pet Shop Boys Deliver Another Glorious, Smart, and Relevant Pop Album with 'Hotspot'
Four decades in the music business is no small feat, and yet the Pet Shop Boys enter the new decade sounding just as current and catchy as the pop landscape they helped construct.
24 Jan 2020
Rikke Villadsen's 'Cowboy' Is Warped
Rikke Villadsen's graphic fiction, Cowboy, is an aggressively peculiar take on an already aggressively peculiar genre.
24 Jan 2020
Los Lobos Rock the Fillmore for "Bill's 89th Birthday Bash"
From their early garage band days in East LA to national acclaim and ongoing status as a perennial Fillmore favorite, Los Lobos have truly become a cultural institution.
24 Jan 2020
Only After Dark: A Boxed Presentation of Mick Ronson's 1970s
The late David Bowie sideman, Mick Ronson may not have relished the solo spotlight but he still left behind a trove of rock goodies.
24 Jan 2020
Parallelism and Deliverance in Barbara Loden's 'Wanda' and Natalia Leite's 'Bare'
Natalia Leite's 2015 film Bare picks up where Barbara Loden's 1970 film Wanda left off, each acting, indirectly, as the proto- and fourth wave- feminist renderings of the other.
24 Jan 2020
Honey Magpie Value the Art of Taking One's Time in "Undecided" (premiere)
Indie folk trio Honey Magpie's latest single, "Undecided", examines the art of patience and taking one's time to make fully-formed decisions in a world that can often feel breakneck.
24 Jan 2020
John Hodgman Is Flying High in Memoir, 'Medallion Status'
TV star/writer/podcast host -- just don't call him a standup comic -- John Hodgman tackles class aspiration and other inconveniences in his memoir, Medallion Status.
23 Jan 2020
Joshua Redman and Brooklyn Rider: Sun on Sand
Composer and jazz collaborator Patrick Zimmerli has written a set of themes for string quartet and jazz saxophone trio—and some of the time it all takes off flying.
23 Jan 2020
Folk-pop's the Sweeplings Find Solid Ground "In Between" Connected Projects (premiere + interview)
The Sweeplings might make the most gorgeous music by a folk-pop duo since the unfortunate demise of the Civil Wars following their official split in 2014. The pair discuss their music and new video for "In Between".
23 Jan 2020
Kanye West's New Sunday Service Choir Sings... A Lot
Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir create a debut, Jesus Is Born, that's powerful and, at times, repetitive.
23 Jan 2020
Solas' Seamus Egan Goes Solo For First Time on 23 Years
Seamus Egan, founder of traditional Irish folk band Solas, goes solo with Early Bright. The masterclass here is one not necessarily to impress the intellect as much to leave an impression on the heart and soul.
23 Jan 2020
Why Do We Travel? On Erika Fatland's 'Sovietistan'
Social anthropologist Erika Fatland eschews many of the clichés of Post-Soviet travel writing, providing an incident-packed trip to a vast, often-overlooked region in Sovietistan.
23 Jan 2020
Music As Control: Phase Fatale on 'Scanning Backwards'
Berlin-based techno producer, Phase Fatale discusses how music can operate as a means of control and how technology has entered the most intimate of human affairs.
23 Jan 2020
Frank Lenz Creates a Playful, Mad Scientist Vibe with the Wonderful 'Pyramid'
The latest album from accomplished composer and session drummer, Frank Lenz, is equal parts experimental, amusing, and oddly funky.
23 Jan 2020
Rose Cousins' "The Return (Love Comes Back)" Is a Gentle Reminder of Human Spirit (premiere)
Folk-pop artist Rose Cousins communicates the importance of generosity and kindness in her new single, "The Return (Love Comes Back)".
23 Jan 2020
Texas Psych-Rockers, the Cuckoos Release Debut LP (album stream)
Austin psychedelic rock band, the Cuckoos release their debut LP I Hate Love on 24 January following a series of well-regarded 2019 singles. Hear it in full now.
23 Jan 2020
'Vanity Fair's Women on Women' Is a Missed Opportunity
Women writing about famous women does not a feminist or otherwise interesting collection make.
23 Jan 2020
'Gloria Bell': Silent Suffering and Disco Dancing in Late Capitalism
Gloria Bell painfully conveys that this economic system thrives on our isolation.
23 Jan 2020
'Uncanny Valley': When the Confidence Boys Took Over Everything
Anna Wiener's Silicon Valley memoir, Uncanny Valley, reveals a piratical industry choking on its own hubris and blind to the cost of its destruction.
22 Jan 2020
Bill Fay's Second Act Continues With ​'Countless Branches​'
One of Britain's most underrated singer-songwriters is going from strength to strength in his 70s. As ever, Bill Fay focuses on the search for meaning and substance in everyday life.
22 Jan 2020
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