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CF Watkins Embraces a Cool, Sophisticated Twang on 'Babygirl'
CF Watkins has pulled off the unique trick of creating an album that is imbued with the warmth of the American South as well as the urban sophistication of New York.
21 Oct 2020
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Helena Deland Suggests Imagination Is More Rewarding Than Reality on 'Something New'
Canadian singer-songwriter Helena Deland's first full-length release Someone New reveals her considerable creative talents.
21 Oct 2020
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Floodlights' 'From a View' Is Classicist Antipodal Indie Guitar Pop
Aussie indie rockers, Floodlights' debut From a View is a very cleanly, crisply-produced and mixed collection of shambolic, do-it-yourself indie guitar music.
21 Oct 2020
Books
Bishakh Som's 'Spellbound' Is an Innovative Take on the Graphic Memoir
Bishakh's Som's graphic memoir, Spellbound, serves as a reminder that trans memoirs need not hinge on transition narratives, or at least not on the ones we are used to seeing.
20 Oct 2020
Music
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of September 2020
Oceans of Slumber thrive with their progressive doom, grind legends Napalm Death make an explosive return, and Anna von Hausswolff's ambient record are just some of September's highlights.
13 Oct 2020
Music
Matt Berninger Takes the Mic Solo on 'Serpentine Prison'
Serpentine Prison gives the National's baritone crooner Matt Berninger a chance to shine in the spotlight, even if it doesn't push him into totally new territory.
13 Oct 2020
Film
The Human Animal in Natural Labitat: A Brief Study of the Outcast
The secluded island trope in films such as Cast Away and television shows such as Lost gives culture a chance to examine and explain the human animal in pristine, lab like, habitat conditions. Here is what we discover about Homo sapiens.
13 Oct 2020
Music
'Waiting Out the Storm' with Jeremy Ivey
On Waiting Out the Storm, Jeremy Ivey apologizes for present society's destruction of the environment and wonders if racism still exists in the future and whether people still get high and have mental health issues.
13 Oct 2020
Music
Bad Wires Release a Monster of a Debut with 'Politics of Attraction'
Power trio Bad Wires' debut Politics of Attraction is a mix of punk attitude, 1990s New York City noise, and more than a dollop of metal.
13 Oct 2020
Music
Low Cut Connie Share Their 'Private Lives'
Low Cut Connie's Private Lives captures the spirit of the times. Adam Weiner is the James Dean of our time. We are the Sal Mineos and Natalie Woods in his orbit.
12 Oct 2020
Music
'Alaska' Was Where Between the Buried and Me Clicked
After a couple of albums figuring out what they wanted to do musically and a few years shuffling members, Alaska is really where things started to click into place for Between the Buried and Me.
12 Oct 2020
Music
RUI HO Creates Ecstatic Electropop on 'Lov3 & L1ght'
Heavenly sonic colors flow freely in RUI HO's artistic sanctuary, and the view from the audience is one of sheer euphoria.
12 Oct 2020
Television
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Nudges Out Conscience in Our Time of Crises
Avatar shows us that to fight for only the people we know, for simply the things that affect us personally, is neither brave nor heroic, nor particularly useful.
12 Oct 2020
Music
Future Islands Continue to Soar on 'As Long As You Are'
Future Islands' sixth album, As Long As You Are, is more of the same -- deeply confessional synthpop -- and that's a beautiful thing.
09 Oct 2020
Books
Heathen's Queer Feminist Vikings Are the Heroines Pop Culture Needed
Natasha Alterici's comic series, Heathen, has single-handedly redeemed the disaster that pop culture has been making of Norse mythology.
09 Oct 2020
Music
Cut Worms Keeps Mining the Past on 'Nobody Lives Here Anymore'
Despite its ambitious concept, Cut Worms' Nobody Lives Here Anymore is as much a product of nostalgic consumer culture as the society it criticizes.
09 Oct 2020
Music
The Doors Check Into the 'Morrison Hotel'
Fifty years after its original release, the Doors' Morrison Hotel is reissued as a two-CD /one-vinyl set that includes 19 bonus cuts.
09 Oct 2020
Music
Touché Amoré's 'Lament' Subtly Reinvents the Past
Touché Amoré's Lament doesn't push the band's sound in new directions. Instead, it builds on what the Los Angeles post-hardcore band do so well already.
08 Oct 2020
Music
Tallah Revive Those Familiar Nu-Metal Blues with 'Matriphagy'
Though marvelous at executing their musical ideas on Matriphagy, nu-metal's Tallah sacrifice creativity for fidelity.
08 Oct 2020
Music
Budokan Boys Ruminate on Loss with 'So Broken Up About You Dying'
The third album by the impossible-to-categorize no-wave duo Budokan Boys is a meditation on death filled with songs that are both strange and strangely moving.
08 Oct 2020
Music
Sly5thAve's 'What It Is' Is Sleek, Soulful, and a Good Time
What It Is, the new album from multi-instrumentalist, producer, and Quantic collaborator Sly5thAve, represents a triumph of musicianship over genre conventions.
08 Oct 2020
Music
Bob Mould Goes Back to the 1980s for the Sound of 'Blue Hearts'
This year looks a lot like 1984 to Bob Mould and he is most definitely, not happy. Not happy at all. His guitar sounds like it's on fire.
07 Oct 2020
Music
The Replacements' 'Pleased to Meet Me' Gets a Deluxe Edition
One of the best rock bands of the 1980s, the Replacements show what alternative rock was all about on Pleased to Meet Me.
06 Oct 2020
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