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Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival stays weird and wonderful and wholly necessary

Joshua Pickard·April 4, 2023

Big Ears still feels like a secret, a hidden treasure nestled in The Marble City. Gathering together artists...

Todd Dedman·April 4, 2023

The title of Liturgy’s sixth studio album is a translation of ‘heaven’ via Thelemic numerological interpretation. Thelema, founded...

Synecdoche Montauk is a London-based Russian musician whose approach to experimental pop always contains an aura of sadness....

Rob Hakimian·April 3, 2023

There’s always been some kind of special aura around boygenius. The trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and...

Lucas Martins·March 31, 2023

Most major stars start young and evolve with time. From Rihanna to Beyoncé to Usher to Madonna to...

Ray Finlayson·March 30, 2023

It’s Kate Davis’ past that makes her present particularly interesting. An immensely talented jazz player (“Prodigy is a...

Tim Sentz·March 29, 2023

After having a banner year in 2021, Sage Elsesser, better known to the world as Navy Blue, secluded...

John Wohlmacher·March 28, 2023

We are still afraid of death. It’s the riddle that has occupied humans for as long as we...

Tom Williams·March 27, 2023

Lana Del Rey’s 2012 debut Born To Die was the album that gave birth to a seemingly endless...

Rob Hakimian·March 24, 2023

There was a sense of celebration throughout Alex G’s headline performance at London’s Roundhouse on Thursday night –...