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Anarchist Cody Wilson Takes on the Government in The New Radical
It’s difficult to watch a documentary like The New Radical without bringing in your own biases. That’s likely the point, considering the title and the subject matter. It’s supposed to feel alienating...
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Bingo Love has Laudable Aims but Its Storytelling Falters
Queer people don’t usually get to see themselves live happily ever after in most media. We get the love stories that end in tragedy. This is largely because non-queer people are making most of the...
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Vs #1 is a Captivating but Muddled Exploration of War as Entertainment
Almost exactly two years ago, Image Comics teased Ivan Brandon and Esad Ribic’s “space gladiators” series Vs, whetting the appetites of sci-fi fans looking for some Heinleinian exploration of military...
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Friendship is Key to Survival in Katherine Lang’s Soul to Call
Rarely in discussions of apocalyptic fiction is friendship brought up. My personal observation is that the genre focuses on whatever topic is relevant in the current political discourse (i.e., Planet...
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Moodie Black’s Lucas Acid is an Unflinching and Powerful Album of Trans Anthems
Late into Moodie Black’s new album Lucas Acid, MB mastermind K Death growls “I ain’t really screaming/There’s no pain” and there’s a good chance you’ll think this is a lie based on what you hear...
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Happy Rhodes’ Ectotrophia is a Gumbo of Moody 80s Musical Staples
Numero Group’s press release for Ectotrophia, a compilation of long-out-of-print tracks by dream pop solo act Happy Rhodes, mentions that the artist’s vocals and neoclassical stylistic flairs “are...
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A Million and One Places to Go: Revisiting the Art of the Hustle in Susan...
Do you have a picture in your head of New York? Does it come from real life? Or the memory of art? I know the New York I see when I close my eyes. It is rooted in history but still basically myth,...
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Learning to Appreciate Life in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die is certainly a Jim Jarmusch film. In his career, he’s brought his own idiosyncratic approach to quiet dramas, mafia films and Westerns. It never quite approaches parody or...
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Let’s Do the Panic Again: Phantom Planet Returns
It’s been seven years since Phantom Planet played a “proper show” in Los Angeles. But at the Lodge Room on Friday, May 10 (after a last-minute shift from Downtown’s Resident), it seemed like the band...
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Git Out: Torn Hearts and the Horrors of the Music Business
In the pilot episode of Mike Judge’s sorely underrated music history series Tales from the Tour Bus, Judge explains he wanted to do the show because he found it funny that conservatives constantly...
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