19+ hour, 38+ min ago   (418+ words) A guy in a Ghostbusters suit milled around outside Portland’s Moda Center. Even though you could be forgiven for believing he was about to queue up to see Weezer play, the Venkman stand-in had just departed the Rose City Comic…...

19+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1640+ words) Spectrum Culture Back in 1990, it seemed like the Pixies were on the verge of a commercial breakthrough, but that never really happened. Instead, Bossanova offered a softer, glossier and more conventional take on the Pixies sound at just the point…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (540+ words) Spectrum Culture The common knock on Interpol — that they’re rip-offs of old post-punk bands, namely Joy Division — never really applied to them in the first place and feels more and more inapplicable as they’ve continued making music, and it’s especially…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (870+ words) Spectrum Culture Tsui Hark, one of the most prominent directors to come out of Hong Kong’s New Wave, is at home with wuxia, the genre of his debut feature, The Butterfly Murders, and of his more famous films like the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (588+ words) Nicola Miller’s Living Things: Spit! Spectrum Culture Miller, whose tone and phrasing blend the ragged slouch of Jackie McLean with the sharp, elegant tonal ambivalence of Ornette Coleman, appears to delight in the unpredictable and nonstandard, beginning with the makeup…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (507+ words) Spectrum Culture Some of the best albums have titles that tell you exactly what to expect. Braxton’s Splayed Werks isn’t “the best,” but its playful title hammers its purpose home: it’s a collection of assorted works, tinkered with between 2018 and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (220+ words) The story begins on the literal edge of the country: Key West, a permanent vacation spot for drifters and buskers. It was here that Buffett fell in with the musicians who would shape his sound: an alchemy of country, calypso…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1211+ words) Occupying the interzone between creativity, criticism and academic writing, J. Simpson idealistically believes that great art makes the world a better place. Specializing in the "dark," experimental, surreal and strange, he believes there's more to life than chasing profits. He is…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (483+ words) Spectrum Culture Executive producer P2J constructs the rhythmic architecture of What Are the Odds, threading UK garage, funky house and Afro House across a taut, 37-minute runtime. On “This City,” the arrangement leans into classic UKG 2-step swing, driven by punchy…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (750+ words) Spectrum Culture The musical movement matches the album’s lyrical approach. Strings unexpectedly lost his mother last year, and not only does the new album explicitly honor her, it also contains its fair share of grief, and some of Strings’ most…...