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Album Review: SUMAC & Moor Mother – The Film

Nathan Skinner·April 25, 2025

Halfway through Robert Mugge’s 1980 documentary Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, the avant-garde musician describes a place that...

Grady Penna·April 14, 2025

It feels like a lifetime ago that Justin Vernon sequestered to his father’s rural Wisconsin cabin to make...

John Amen·April 7, 2025

As Perfume Genius, Michael Hadreas has long straddled the gap between pop and the avant-garde. Had he been...

John Amen·March 26, 2025

Led by singer Zack Borzone and juggernaut drummer Sam Pickard, YHWH Nailgun release their debut, 45 Pounds. On...

In Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart, she relays, in painstakingly intimate detail, the long process of...

JT Early·March 19, 2025

Lady Gaga has been many different Lady Gagas. She has been the blonde vixen who wishes she could...

John Wohlmacher·March 18, 2025

A lot of spirituality and religion is formed by archetypes that connect with the deep recesses of our...

When Ichiko Aoba‘s Windswept Adan was suddenly released at the tail end of 2020, it felt like a...

Kyle Kohner·February 27, 2025

There’s something sacred about a debut record; it can be a pristine burst of unfiltered emotion tethered through...

John Amen·February 21, 2025

Home movies, whether they feature our own lives or the lives of others, rouse a blend of nostalgia...