After the success of last year’s ‘5 Noteworthy Rock Albums of 2017,’ I’ve decided to stay the course by altering the format with a surprise ‘best of’ list […]
New Sounds + Images: ‘Ave Cantora’ + ‘A Kinder & Gentler Nation’
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Pop Kultur 2018: An Interview with Daníel Böðvarsson (of Pranke)
Like last year, I visited the 2018 edition of Berlin’s Pop-Kultur festival. My personal favorite discovery was far and away the Berlin-based prog-math-indie band Pranke (the German word […]
TROUT FUN #4: Tijana Perovic on ‘Hi, Mom!’ (1970, dir. Brian De Palma)
A brief journey through the wild world of De Palma’s take on a style akin to the French New Wave.
“I Don’t Know Why.” An Interview with Jeff Rosenstock
Jeff Rosenstock has been making music since 1995. After years spent in a band called The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, 2004 saw the formation of another band, Bomb […]
An Interview with Felix Rodriguez (of Open/Honest)
Under the moniker Open/Honest, Felix Rodriguez makes music which soothes the soul while unafraid to look at troublesome emotions, albeit wordlessly. The first EP to blossom out of […]
“The Conversation Goes Where It Goes”: An Interview with Yoni Wolf (of WHY?)
The first time I saw WHY? was on their tour supporting Mumps, etc. in 2012. It was the night before I left for Germany to do a year of […]
New Images: leaning to datamosh
I first tried datamoshing about 3 or 4 years ago. You can see the results of that test, blending a Haneke clip with Godard here. I was such a […]
New Sounds: ‘Upcoming Memories’ and ‘My Whole Life’
I’ve got two new songs which were released over the last couple of months. Check them out below: [bandcamp width=100% height=120 track=323441071 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=0f91ff tracklist=false artwork=small]Lyrics: Getting […]
A Conversation with James Benning
“Alright,” nodded Benning. “It would taste the same though,” as she left. Then, “Alright, that’s enough. Bye.” He waved farewell to my phone and once I had stopped recording, lived up to the challenge of his own demanding filmmaking style, “Now you have to remember the rest.”