A Reinvigorated U2 Tackle Political and Spiritual Themes
Days of Ash and Easter Lily are the sound of U2 being their authentic selves in their best gatherings of songs since Achtung Baby.
Alison Ross
Clockwise Cat publisher and editor, Alison Ross, uses Zen-Surrealism as her guiding aesthetic. Alison has been a featured poet at Surreal Poetics. In addition, she has published reviews and editorials in various publications, including Fear of Monkeys and PopMatters. Links to her work (poetry, polemics and reviews) can be found at: www.symmetryofbirds.blogspot.com.
Telehealth Disrupt Dystopia with ‘Green World Image’
Telehealth create angular grooves and twitchy rhythms and look askance at our modern-day neoliberal nightmare as we doomscroll ourselves to oblivion.
The Best Films of 2025
Like life itself in these times the visceral, the absurd, and the morbid all take their rightful place in our eclectic compilation of Best Films 2025.
No One Is Crushed in Water From Your Eyes’ Beautiful World
Water From Your Eyes captivate with genre-defying songs sculpted in a utopian sci-fi vein that envision a more hopeful universe.
The Raveonettes Surf the Rave in Their Brilliant Return
Most significantly, the Raveonettes’ Pe’ahi II provides an absolutely essential cathartic sensory overload in their inimitable way.
David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.
40 Years of the Cure’s First True Surrealist Pop Album
Forty-year-old The Head on the Door propelled the Cure toward arena stature with its musical cohesion and a collection of hallucinatory yet accessible songs.
The Cure Lament Aging and Death, Yet Find New Vitality
The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World is a cohesive collection that skews dark, cinematic, meditative exploration of loss in all its forms.
The Cure’s Long-Awaited New Single “Alone” Is a Celestial Lament
“Alone” is one of the most devastating songs in the Cure’s entire catalogue, evoking an agonizing sense of loss that can deeply resonate with many listeners.
Pylon Become Pylon Reenactment Society for New LP
Conceived as a spiritual tangent of the decades-old underground post-punk icons Pylon, Pylon Reenactment Society craft a fresh, fierce, bright, and dynamic album.
Transcending to Badass: That’s How Female Rockers Roll
The female musicians interviewed in Katherine Yeske Taylor’s She’s a Badass have persisted against all odds and infused rock with a feminist verve.
The Wondrous Weirdness of Deerhunter’s ‘Weird Era Cont.’
Deerhunter’s Weird Era Cont., the companion to Microcastle, lives in its shadow and yet eclipses it with a bizarre brilliance all its own.