Note: This review discusses major spoilers for the first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale; the articles linked in this review also discuss spoilers. Critical and reader praise for...
Note: This review contains mild spoilers for the first seven episodes of MST3K: The Return. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and an outpouring of fan support from around the...
If the “Great American songbook” is by now a cliché, and musicians making standards albums is even more so, then Diamanda Galas’s two new albums are a metaphorical tearing up—and...
The radical socialist roots of International Women’s Day—which falls this year on Wednesday, March 8—have troublingly given way to a corporate-sponsored “holiday” that has its own...
Strand of Oaks lead singer-songwriter Tim Showalter has made a fine career out of penning songs about topics that most other singer-songwriters—most other musicians—would not dare address. He...
2016 has been a shitty year for a lot of people. From Donald Trump getting elected as the new U.S. President to the loss of several musical legends, many of us have been eagerly anticipating the end...
The phrase “cool” and the idea of “coolness” may seem very 20th century to many people—those in my (millennial) generation included—but the expectation that people in certain age groups,...
If you keep up with celebrity gossip or entertainment news, you’ve seen her: the “promising,” talented ingénue who just can’t stay away from drugs or alcohol, who “parties too much,”...
Classically trained indie piano-pop artist Regina Spektor is back with a new album, Remember Us to Life—her first since 2012’s What We Saw From the Cheap Seats. Like the majority of her catalog,...
Australian elder statesmen of rock Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have a back catalogue that spans over 30 years and a vast array of subject matter—including faith, life and death, romance, and...
