Vee Hua 華婷婷REDEFINE’s annual Album Covers of the Year feature consolidates interviews from artists and musicians to highlight philosophical, thematic, and conceptual significance of great album cover artwork spanning a wide range of visual and sonic...
Alison Jean SmithEarly on in Beans— a coming-of-age film written and directed by Quebec-based Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer — a teenage girl and her mom shimmy under their seatbelts and sing along to Snap!’s “The Power” on their way to a...
“Number one, it was a great, great role to play, and I was looking for a great role to play,” filmmaker Wendell B. Harris Jr. explains to me over the phone, in his deep and relaxing voice. Harris is detailing why he spent over three...
In July 2020, following the tragic and unexpected passing of independent filmmaker Lynn Shelton — known for such films as Sword of Trust (2019), Laggies (2014), and Humpday (2009) — Duplass Brothers Productions and Seattle’s...
On his latest album, Cashes Out, prolific New Jersey singer-songwriter Kevin Basko, aka Rubber Band Gun, has enlisted the help of animator Ben Montez to craft a delightful mixed media work of art. At nearly a half hour of runtime, each of the visual...
Miles GinozaSynths glittering with starlight. Frenetic breakbeats and chaotic percussion. Within this digital space, Sad China’s brightly autotuned voice emerges on ilyimy, the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter’s debut full-length album. It propels...