reviews
Kristi Lane Sinclair Offers Rest and Rage on 'Super Blood Wolf Moon'
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
We often describe women who survive terrible things as "brave." It's a swift designation that seems to reward one's bearing the violence of...
Kara Jackson Asks the Big Questions on 'Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?'
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
The first song recorded by Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, is 1923's "Downhearted Blues." It starts with Smith pining after unrequi...
Wavves x Cloud Nothings
No Life for Me
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
After teasing their collaboration for several months, Wavves' Nathan Williams and Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi decided to drop No Life for M...
'Beau Is Afraid' Is Nearly as Fucked Up as Reality
Directed by Ari Aster
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
When I saw 2019's Midsommar in the theatre, someone down the aisle from me spent much of the movie scream-whispering at her seatmate, repea...
Kid Koala Is All Fun and Games on 'Creatures of the Late Afternoon'
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
Montreal-based turntablist Eric San, best known as Kid Koala, has been one of the most wonderfully inventive and wholesomely cathartic arti...
U.S. Girls Settled into a New Shape in Toronto
Drake Underground, April 8
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2023
Three songs into U.S. Girls' Saturday night set at Drake Underground, Meg Remy shot keyboard player Georgie Gordon a look, one that suggest...
Molly Shannon's Return to 'SNL' Hampered by Bad Writing and the Jonas Brothers' Half-Complete Songs
April 6, 2023
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2023
Though Molly Shannon's return was sentimental, the feeling was not enough to hold up a particularly weak episode of Saturday Night Live, wh...
100 gecs Were Joyful Sensory Overload in Vancouver
PNE Forum, April 7
PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2023
100 gecs are music made by and for the terminally online; they exist in corners of the internet where the socially, culturally, and geograp...