Initially ignored in the UK, Talk Talk’s second album, It’s My Life, marked the first signs of a shifting trajectory. But it stands up on its own merits as a fine synth-pop record. Throughout life, […]
Classic Album: ABBA – The Visitors
Underneath the pristine sheen of ABBA’s The Visitors was a dark undertone laced with break-up and Cold War paranoia. Despite fading sales, it was nonetheless another pop masterpiece, melding high energy with tears on the dancefloor… Body […]
Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan
Four songs into his very ambitious, very serious self-titled album, Zach Bryan anticipates some criticism. “Do you ever get tired of singin’ songs/Like all your pain is just another fuckin’ singalong?” he asks in “East […]
The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories
I n the summer of 2013, the Stanislaus National Forest was as pretty as a postcard. Pristine lakes gleamed bright blue against the dramatic, glacier-carved granite cliffs, and from certain angles you could believe the […]
William Tyler & the Impossible Truth: Secret Stratosphere
William Tyler’s songcraft was forged in the South, but it needed space to grow, so he set his sights on the West like so many musical pioneers before him. The music of the Nashville-born, Los […]
How Karina Longworth Brought Sex and Sleaze Back to Hollywood History
Karina Longworth’s house is, quite possibly, haunted. This is not necessarily something she has experienced herself, she tells me of her pale-pink 1926 Mediterranean, where Longworth could be found one July morning on the frond-shadowed […]
‘The Soundtrack of Your Mistakes In Stereo’: Documenting Every Detail of Life Behind Bars
On a cold morning in upstate New York, I got arrested while walking down the street with a small Tupperware container filled with heroin. Even though I was at the tail end of my senior […]
The Guide to Being a Himbo
TikTok has ushered in a bimbo renaissance, where self-aware babes can unabashedly strut across the For You Page. Now enter: Himbos — internet hunks willing to go shirtless in the name of freedom (or something). […]
[Streaming]: Motohiro Nakashima – “The End Isn’t the End”
Motohiro Nakashima hails from Fukuyama, a city near Hiroshima. Known for his fingerstyle guitar, and an experimental, he debuted from Lo Recordings (Thurston Moore, Susumu Yokota, Luke Vibert) and has three albums from several labels. […]