Author: Gabriel Rivera

I called Anemones For Aphrodite eighties cosplay during its opening minute and had to withdraw…

Most music now reaches the listener through a screen that rewards speed. A title appears,…

George Washington danced to the song that opens this record. I have every reason to…

Thirty-three albums. I want to stay with that number for a second before talking about…

San Antonio has been quietly building a rock scene that runs on its own energy.…

You know dreams aren’t useless, that they can give you more than they appear to…

Matt Hansen, a twenty-five-year-old from Los Angeles with a billion streams behind him and no…

Pete Scales spent half a century playing blues, jazz, and country, balancing on the borders…

Most synthwave albums hold that geometry for five or six tracks before they start repeating…

There is an old argument about what happens to a musician who knows too much.…

A conceptual hip-hop album about power and the collapse of systems sounds ambitious, but King…

Therapists know things about the subconscious that others are even afraid to think about. Anthony…

Municipal arts funding in America is typically associated with experimental performances nobody voluntarily watches, or…

Blues-rock faded from the mainstream around 1974, enjoyed a brief revival in the nineties thanks…

Nic McNamara’s father’s Johannesburg studio became his first musical education. Lucky Dube recorded there, Ladysmith…

Fifteen years between albums is an entire era. Children grow up, cities change, people pass…

You know how the otherworldly is closer than it seems? And how music can convey…

What do you do when the world is falling apart? This question has been asked…

I remember how in the mid-2000s we all lived in some kind of intoxicating state…

Words possess power. They can kill, they can resurrect, they can create a legend out…

Tragedy in life is a kind of threshold or boundary where life divides into before…

It is no secret that the creative path represents an extended odyssey through territories of…

There exist moments in history when geographic identity and global turbulence merge into a single…

Film soundtracks have always been a crucial part of the art form: they shape atmosphere,…