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Album Review: Swans – Birthing

John Amen·June 3, 2025

The term “Zen” is part of the cultural vernacular. Used as an adjective, a noun, even a verb,...

The cyberpunk genre is so conducive to feminine perspectives because it’s all about software – not hardware. Where...

John Amen·May 9, 2025

On “Make No Mistake,” from his new album, GOLLIWOG, billy woods tells us: “I told a few lies...

Futurismus is, by far, the most interesting thing happening in contemporary rock music. As I laid out in...

Tom Williams·April 28, 2025

Edgar Degas’s depiction of ballet dancers stand among his most popular and enduring paintings, capturing delicate movement in...

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...