Hallelujah: Why Art Can Help In Contentious Times
Two things in the last 48 hours have reminded me why those of us who care about art continue to do so.
Two things in the last 48 hours have reminded me why those of us who care about art continue to do so.
After a week like this one, we all could use a little smart reflection, and the Chicago Book Expo offers two opportunities for just that.
He joins an august list of American winners including Toni Morrison, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway.
Norwegian musician Jenny Hval has called her sixth album “an investigation of blood that is shed naturally.”
The earnestness and sincerity James Alex displays onstage, in interviews, or indeed in every note he growls, cannot be faked.
It’s a mix of the organic and the electronic/experimental and it’s never sounded better, fresher or more necessary.
Who doesn’t need a little brilliant back-porch weirdness in their lives?
There’s no better purveyor of the fun spirit of the odd genre dubbed ‘vaporwave’ than Skylar Spence.
Rarely in the history of electronic pop or rock has anyone done as much with as little as Washington, D.C.’s young multi-ethnic auteur Sneaks on Gymnastics.