Bizhiki‘s debut album, Unbound, released on JagJaguwar, presents a powerful reimagining of contemporary Native music, born from Ojibwe homelands of the present-day Midwest. A multi-genre...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷A narrative feature film co-written and co-directed by Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, Sujo is a powerful, multidimensional work of art about the forces that keep young Mexican boys under the influence of drug cartels – as...
Self-taught experimental musician and interdisciplinary artist, Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakhi), has recently presented Fatima, a haunting debut full-length album released on Aisha Devi’s label imprint, Danse Noire. Paired with a beautiful 48-page...
Backwoods folk music plays quietly as visitors enter The Mistake Room, and they find themselves in the midst of a manufactured landscape. Pathways demarcated by rubber tires lead towards a simple architectural structure, and TV sets are strewn about...
Elizabeth PerryJosé González's music has always maintained a timeless quality. In the realm of contemporary folk, there is no competition for his soothing yet soulful tones and melodic, plucking guitar. On Vestiges & Claws, the first solo album he's released in 7...
In a universe consisting of four percent matter and ninety-six percent negative space, absence is the dominant substance. With the right frame of mind, a void can be an endless possibility. Disappears’ fifth album pounds that clay into a sonic...
Zeb LarsonFolklorists like to romanticize blues music as being a pure expression of culture, but recorded blues music was carefully marketed to its intended audience from its very beginning. As early as the 1920s, music aimed at African-Americans was labeled...
Liars’ 2012 full-length, WIXIW, dwelled in doubt and anxiety, pressed against a curtain of murky fragility. Even if one only looks at the cover art for the band’s latest follow-up, Mess — a robust mass of multihued string that looks like the Love...