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The 10 Best Fleetwood Mac Solo Albums
Fleetwood Mac are the rare group that feature both a fine discography and a successful series of solo LPs from their many members. Here are ten examples of the latter.
10 Aug 2020
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Jamila Woods' "SULA (Paperback)" and Creative Ancestry and Self-Love in the Age of "List" Activism
In Jamila Woods' latest single "SULA (Paperback)", Toni Morrison and her 1973 novel of the same name are not static literary phenomena. They are an artist and artwork as galvanizing and alive as Woods herself.
10 Aug 2020
Film
The Erotic Disruption of the Self in Paul Schrader's 'The Comfort of Strangers'
Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers presents the discomfiting encounter with another —someone like you—and yet entirely unlike you, mysterious to you, unknown and unknowable.
10 Aug 2020
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'Can You Spell Urusei Yatsura' Is a Much Needed Burst of Hopefulness in a Desultory Summer
A new compilation online pulls together a generous helping of B-side action from a band deserving of remembrance, Scotland's Urusei Yatsura.
10 Aug 2020
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Jess Cornelius Creates Tautly Constructed Snapshots of Life
Former Teeth & Tongue singer-songwriter Jess Cornelius' Distance is an enrapturing collection of punchy garage-rock, delicate folk, and arty synthpop anthems which examine liminal spaces between us.
10 Aug 2020
Books
Sikoryak's 'Constitution Illustrated' Pays Homage to Comics and the Constitution
R. Sikoryak's satirical pairings of comics characters with famous and infamous American historical figures breathes new and sometimes uncomfortable life into the United States' most living document.
10 Aug 2020
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South African Folk Master Vusi Mahlasela Honors Home on 'Shebeen Queen'
South African folk master Vusi Mahlasela pays tribute to his home and family with township music on live album, Shebeen Queen.
10 Aug 2020
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Planningtorock Is Queering Sound, Challenging Binaries, and Making Infectious Dance Music
Planningtorock emphasizes "queering sound and vision". The music industry has its hierarchies of style, of equipment, of identities. For Jam Rostron, queering music means taking those conventions and deliberately manipulating and subverting them.
10 Aug 2020
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'History Gets Ahead of the Story' for Jazz's Cosgrove, Medeski, and Lederer
Jazz drummer Jeff Cosgrove leads brilliant organ player John Medeski and multi-reed master Jeff Lederer through a revelatory recording of songs by William Parker and some just-as-good originals.
10 Aug 2020
Books
A Fresh Look at Free Will and Determinism in Terry Gilliam's '12 Monkeys'
Susanne Kord gets to the heart of the philosophical issues in Terry Gilliam's 1995 time-travel dystopia, 12 Monkeys.
07 Aug 2020
Music
The Devonns' Debut Is a Love Letter to Chicago Soul
Chicago's the Devonns pay tribute the soul heritage of their city with enough personality to not sound just like a replica.
07 Aug 2020
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Jaye Jayle's 'Prisyn' Is a Dark Ride Into Electric Night
Jaye Jayle salvage the best materials from Iggy Pop and David Bowie's Berlin-era on Prisyn to construct a powerful and impressive engine all their own.
07 Aug 2020
Music
Kathleen Edwards Finds 'Total Freedom'
Kathleen Edwards is back making music after a five-year break, and it was worth the wait. The songs on Total Freedom are lyrically delightful and melodically charming.
07 Aug 2020
Television
HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Is Heady, Poetic, and Mangled
Laying the everyday experience of Black life in 1950s America against Cthulhuian nightmares, Misha Green and Jordan Peele's Lovecraft Country suggests intriguing parallels that are often lost in its narrative dead-ends.
07 Aug 2020
Music
Jaga Jazzist's 'Pyramid' Is an Earthy, Complex, Jazz-Fusion Throwback
On their first album in five years, Norway's Jaga Jazzist create a smooth but intricate pastiche of styles with Pyramid.
07 Aug 2020
Music
Finding the Light: An Interview with Kathy Sledge
With a timeless voice that's made her the "Queen of Club Quarantine", Grammy-nominated vocalist Kathy Sledge opens up her "Family Room" and delivers new grooves with Horse Meat Disco.
07 Aug 2020
Books
'Bigger Than History: Why Archaeology Matters'
On everything from climate change to gender identity, archaeologists offer vital insight into contemporary issues.
06 Aug 2020
Film
'Avengers: Endgame' Culminates 2010's Pop Culture Phenomenon
Avengers: Endgame features all the expected trappings of a superhero blockbuster alongside surprisingly rich character resolutions to become the most crowd-pleasing finalés to a long-running pop culture series ever made.
06 Aug 2020
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