reviews
A Rejuvenated J. Cole Attacks Rap Like a Contact Sport Again on 'The Off-Season'
PUBLISHED May 18, 2021
In the mini documentary that accompanies J. Cole's sixth studio album, the rapper openly ponders a creative crossroads. Having already pr...
Yautja Infuse New Life into Sludgecore on 'The Lurch'
PUBLISHED May 18, 2021
Nashville-based three-piece Yautja set the bar high with their 2014 debut, Songs of Descent, and sophomore album The Lurch exceeds all expe...
Allison Russell Demonstrates Versatility and Resilience on 'Outside Child'
PUBLISHED May 18, 2021
Allison Russell already belongs to two supergroups as the co-founder of Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago, but Outside Child marks...
Those Years in Production Limbo Didn't Make 'The Woman in the Window' Any Better
Directed by Joe Wright
PUBLISHED May 18, 2021
This is the end of an era. As probably the final production of Fox 2000 Pictures prior to its recent dissolution, Joe Wright's The Woman in...
Jayda G's DJ-Kicks Mix Is Eclectic, Invigorating and Well-Deserved
PUBLISHED May 17, 2021
When Jayda G dropped her Both of Us / Are U Down EP last summer, the Grand Forks, BC-bred DJ and producer's paean to vintage Chicago and ea...
CHAI Add Contemplation to Their Manic Sweetness on 'WINK'
PUBLISHED May 17, 2021
CHAI are a whirlwind of a band. The Japanese quartet of identical twins MANA and KANA, YUNA and YUUKI deal in the kind of joyful abandon th...
Mdou Moctar Takes His Peerless Guitar Rock to New Heights on 'Afrique Victime'
PUBLISHED May 17, 2021
In his native Tamasheq, one of the Tuareg languages, Mahamadou Souleymane (a.k.a. Mdou Moctar) sings the following on "Chismiten": "To beco...
'Enfant Terrible' Paints a Painful Picture of Punk Provocateur Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Directed by Oskar Roehler
PUBLISHED May 17, 2021
"Everything is film. Everything," says Rainer Werner Fassbinder to one of his on-set collaborators in Enfant Terrible. For the German filmm...