Vee Hua 華婷婷Stitching together “sparkles of ideas,” musician Nandi Rose aka Half Waif and director Kenna Hynes turned one-off creative visions into a four-part video series full of ambitious sequences. Proving their “magical and...
Shot on a secret location in Colima, Mexico, the music video for “Dreamz” by Portland band Night Heron draws inspiration from the natural world to create a lush and colorful dreamscape. Citing mythologically-minded scholar Joseph...
Allen HuangThe recent attention paid to Africa’s contemporary electronic culture has long been overdue. And while there are many reasons for the heightened interest, none may be more responsible than Nyege Nyege, both the collective and the festival. In...
I was a huge fan of Cadence Weapon’s first two records. Hanging out on Pitchfork-adjacent web forums in my teens, I quickly learned about the inequalities inherent to the music blog meatgrinder that ran the early 2000’s all too well...
Alison Jean SmithNo Ordinary Man, a documentary directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, returns again and again to a black-and-white photo of a man wearing a fedora, a cigarette perched between his lips. That dapper figure smirking at the camera is Billy...
In the animated music video for “Isekai (Accidental Spirals),” a hypothetical date goes so wrong that one of its participants would rather disengage from reality and fall into an alternate space-time altogether. Featuring music by...
Over the course of sixteen eye-popping minutes, the music video for “Self Help,” a recently released track by Portland electronic musician Avola, takes viewers on a tripped out textural journey through a 3D-animated multiverse. Animated...
“Have you ever seen ‘Hot Ones’?” he asks me. “The YouTube show?” I’m talking to Kofi Owusu-Ansah, the Ghanian-Australian musician who goes by the stage name Genesis Owusu. He’s halfway across the world...