A Distant Call is a serviceable rock album, but one…
Music Reviews
Oso Oso: Basking in the Glow
Basking in the Glow, because of its inability to add…
Sanford Clark: They Call Me Country
The folks at Numero continue their winning tradition with They…
Film Reviews
Angel Has Fallen
The MVP here is Nick fucking Nolte.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Tigers Are Not Afraid is equal parts fantastical and gut-wrenching.
Music Features
Discography: Scott Walker: Scott 2
Scott 2 stands out as a shining achievement of the poppiest era of Walker’s career and lays groundwork for the shifts just around the corner.
Concert Review: The Appleseed Cast
It’s a shame the room wasn’t full, because what Appleseed Cast do on stage feels somehow closer to alchemy than anything.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Varda: Murals Murals
Murals Murals embodies all that makes Agnés Varda such a singular and masterful filmmaker, demonstrating her warm humanism, her unceasing curiosity and her unerring aesthetic instincts.
Holy Hell! Girl, Interrupted Turns 20
For a film that marks itself so clearly as being rooted in a specific worldwide moment in time, it also ushers to the surface many insecurities and anxieties…
Books
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019: Edited by Laura Furman
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 is an excellent collection, one that will creatively and intellectually stimulate even the most demanding reader.
Social Creature: by Tara Isabella Burton
A glitzy, frenetic look at New York’s social elite and the toxic friendship that throttles its protagonist into the throes of everything she’s wanted, for a heady price.
Lists
Great Album, Forgotten Song
Even the classic albums have forgotten songs. We right those wrongs.
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 2010s
These are the best debut records of the 2010s.