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The deterioration of character in “Der Blaue Engel” (“The Blue Angel”) is one of the most aesthetically pleasing demises in cinema, like a drowning captured »
If time travel is farfetched as a scientific pursuit, we can at least console ourselves knowing we’ve mastered it by other means. What is music »
The farther away we get from the ’80s, the bigger the era’s musical legacy becomes. It’s like we’re spinning a yarn describing a period a »
If you never saw the late, great Charles Bradley or any of his Dap Records cohorts, you missed an experience that only soul music can »
Taken from the “Love & Rockets” comic universe by his own hand, Eulalio “Speedy” Ortiz was the doomed character and deus ex machina of the »
If you’ve yet to have your “I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard Gary Clark Jr.” experience, you’re long past due. »
Once upon a time human strangeness was a form of entertainment. Its attractions went from town to town, arriving by caravan shrouded in mystery under »
The first time I met Richard Sherfey my band was touring through Athens, Georgia. It was a bit cold but as a bunch of Florida »
How heavy does musical pedigree weigh on folks who are born to rock in the most rocking of towns? How do you stand out without »
Israel-born, Chicago-based Marbin plays a mind-bending mix of psych-, prog- and rock-inflected jazz, honed over more than 1,000 live dates since the band landed in »
In “Black Mirror,” the Netflix series, we see technology reflecting our darker selves. In “Black Mirror and Other Third World Reflections,” a new exhibition at »
Even at his most plain-spoken Lee “Scratch” Perry is cosmic. “I just take up a pen and start to hear the words coming from the »
