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...
The 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...
By the time I enter the spacious warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Danish-Kenyan movement artist Phyllis Akinyi has already begun her performance. I hear her before I see her. A repeating loop plays overhead, with an off-kilter rhythm and the...
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...
No 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...