Parenthetical Girls: Privilege (Abridged)
There’s something fantastically empowering about assuming alternate identities—all the "should I should I should I"s slough away and unseal a second skin wherein mimicry can become proficiency can become its own gloriously winged being. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsIceage: You're Nothing
Punk rock used to be strictly a young man’s game. It’s still a young man’s game, but it’s also a young woman’s game, and even an old fart’s game—Zeus knows you don’t have everything figured out after the age of 23. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsSwann Dives In by Charles Salzberg
British writer Stuart Evers addressed the question of mystery fiction as literature, observing that, “...at its best, crime writing offers unique insights into society, psychology, and human behavior. It can be both engaging and literate; compelling and well-written. It can be innovative and surprising, but what it can't be, it seems, is feted in the same way as literary fiction. The most crime writers can hope for is to be told, as Ian Rankin indeed was, that their novels 'almost transcend the genre.' Faint praise indeed.” read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsSTRFKR: Miracle Mile
I’ve never seen Starfucker live, but by most accounts their performances are sweaty, physical (as in “let’s get”) good times. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsJamie Lidell: Jamie Lidell
Two tracks into Jamie Lidell, it sounds like player’s finished. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsMark Kozelek: Like Rats
The concept behind Mark Kozelek’s new record—take metal songs, punk songs, classic-rock and pop songs and deliver ’em slow and soft, accompanied only by stripped-nekkid acoustic guitar—is really kind of unimaginative. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Graphic Canon: Volume 2 edited by Russ Kick
There's something seductive about an impossible project … and what would seem more impossible at first glance than The Graphic Canon? read more
Found in: Books, ReviewsSallie Ford & The Sound Outside: Untamed Beast
Please don't let Sallie Ford's demure appearance and thick-rimmed specs fool you. read more
Found in: Music, Reviews21st Amendment Sneak Attack Saison Review
If you’ve been waiting for 21st Amendment to notch an error onto their tight line of powerful, wild craft beer cans, Sneak Attack, the brewery’s latest seasonal offering, seems for a moment to be the first decent gash in the armor. read more
Found in: Culture, ReviewsNick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
After 30 years and 15 albums, you could expect an artist to return to familiar topics. read more
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