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Album Review: Brent Amaker and the Rodeo – Vaquero

Ray Finlayson·October 14, 2025

After an invitation from friend and veteran of Mexico City’s music community Miguel Servin, Seattleite Brent Amaker decided...

Rob Hakimian·October 10, 2025

When the lights dimmed in anticipation of Ethel Cain’s set commencing, the screams of her baying fans gave...

Chase McMullen·October 10, 2025

Being an indie queen sure ain’t easy. Not that it ever was, but for the recent generation in...

Ray Finlayson·October 8, 2025

Take a look at the cover art of any of Gwenifer Raymond’s albums and there is a common...

Nathan Skinner·October 7, 2025

In Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, a filmmaker visits a small village to document the funeral...

John Wohlmacher·October 6, 2025

In 2011, Zack Snyder released his first original movie, Sucker Punch; a strange and unique vision if there...

Ray Finlayson·October 3, 2025

If Pickle Darling’s previous album Laundromat was a stab at whittling down their songs to the bare minimum,...

Mary Chiney·October 2, 2025

Doja Cat has always been hard to pin down. Her rise was shaped by meme virality, sharp-tongued rap...

John Amen·September 30, 2025

While Geese’s new album, Getting Killed, incorporates the New York band’s art-jazz and prog tendencies, definitive structures and...

Ray Finlayson·September 26, 2025

Icelandic band múm have always played with noise, layers, and the very elements of what make up their...