“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...
With his latest music video for “Black Hole,” musician and filmmaker Augustin Adjanohoun, aka Kirab’o, unifies space, nature, humanity, and technology in a dance-ready universe. Utilizing a bevy of editing and motion graphics...
Emerging from Grand Soleil‘s aptly titled 2021 album, Human Error, the music video for “Round Round Round” uses raises ecological consciousness through a dreamy sci-fi frame. The music video is a work of art which personifies the...
Alternatingly celebratory and apocalyptic, moon Over miami — a collaborative album curated by Archival Feedback, a long-time duo consisting of Emile Milgrim and T. Wheeler Castillo — subverts the old standard of the same name with a...
In the cinematic music video for “Wine,” Canadian Chinese singer Carson Cheng — also known as KICCC (pronounced “kick”) — emerges from hot ashes like a phoenix and finds himself face-to-face with a white wolf in the woods. The dramatic result of a...
Photography by Naomi Ishisaka “But those are the most narrow parameters!” balks my well-meaning white friend. We are on our way to On The Boards to see dancer and choreographer Dani Tirrell’s latest ensemble piece, Black Bois, and...
On March 15, 2015, the Washington Post published a typically buzzworthy article titled, “Is the Internet Giving Us All ADHD?”. The article begins with the usual litany of start-of-days, most likely familiar to anyone who works at a desk...
Eight years into its existence, Northside Festival is determinedly future-minded. Dividing itself into thirds, the NYC festival has two- and three-day stretches dedicated to “innovation” and “content”. The other third —...