Music Reviews
Craig Finn’s Narrative Songwriting Doesn’t Achieve Liftoff
Craig Finn delivers his typically strong songs about broken promises and dead ends, but producer Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs fails to elevate them.
Music Features
Jeffrey Martin: Emissary of Heartrending Songs
Jeffrey Martin doesn’t just sing a song; he unearths its pain. His songwriting is exhilarating in its honesty and grief, constantly storming forward like a tempest.
Film
Television
Books
The Zombies’ Inhuman Staying Power
The Zombies only had a couple of hit songs, yet Robin Platts’ Times and Seasons shows their almost inhuman staying power to this day.
Games
33 Immortals’ Brutal Roguelike Burns within Dante’s ‘Inferno’
33 Immortals‘ grotesque, hellish landscapes and haunting soundtrack immerse players in a nightmarish journey into Dante’s Inferno.
Lists
PopMatters Picks
Claire Rousay and More Eaze Make a Fascinating Collaboration
Ambient/experimental artists More Eaze and Claire Rousay join forces once again in what may be their creative apex as a duo with no floor.