What separates My Finest Work Yet from his other albums,…
Music Reviews
Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe
Throughout the album, Yanya uses circularity and ambiguity to her…
Yamila: Iras Fajro
Yamila’s first album warms up slow but steady.
Film Reviews
Us
Beyond all the breadcrumbs left for pop culture detectives and thematic obsessives, Peele was just having a lot of fun telling this story.
The Aftermath
It aims for your heart but hits the funny bone.
Music Features
Concert Review: Crumb
Rather than treat themselves as the main sensory focus, Crumb incorporated the venue’s occult ambiance into their performance.
Discography: Parliament-Funkadelic: Mothership Connection
There’s no better P-Funk album to simply get lost in.
Film Features
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Big Trouble in Little China
Jack Burton survived a better fate than Indiana Jones and John Rambo.
Criminally Underrated: The Lookout
It's sharp as a dagger and bold like a cup of the finest coffee you've ever tasted.
Books
Tim Maia’s Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 (33 1/3 Brazil): By Allen Thayer
The funky misadventures of a Brazilian music legend and his brief time in a mysterious religious cult.
The Fifth Season: By N. K. Jemisin
Basic good fantasy fiction in the making.
Lists
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 1970s
These are the best debut records of the 1970s.
The Ten Best Debut Albums of the 1960s
These are the best debut records of the 1960s.