Thirty years ago (July 12, 1990, to be exact), Northern Exposure premiered on network television. The six-season series depicts life in a fictional small town called Cicely in the wilds of Alaska. It does not shy away from the spiritual nor the surreal, in employing...
Some artists are prolific, churning out project after project at a speed that leaves onlookers wondering about their superhuman pace. Some have a much slower process -- painstaking in intricate detail -- and Eric Beltz is one of the latter. A drawing teacher at University of...
In reviews for Kikagaku Moyo's House in the Tall Grass, some have implied that the Japanese psych folk up-and-comers are simply rehashing old ground. Consider a sentence from Danny Riley of The Quietus, who writes, "The problem comes when artists fail to recognize the elements of...
"We spent ten days crossing a thousand nautical miles. It was the first time we have properly been to sea in the open ocean. It was so remote that we wouldn't see another ship or plane for days, and yet, every time we trawled, we...
Like leaves in the wind, a repetitive keyboard line flutters about on "Strange(r) Work", as if to usher in the fall season. Though plenty beautiful in aural form, the evocative nature of Mind Over Mirrors -- a project by Chicago musician Jaime Fennelly, who is...
"The most important victory was getting everyone on the same wavelengths as well as in the same head space to be able to achieve this video. Everyone understood that this was a higher calling that would impact the world in a big way...
"For me, my individual works are those emotions via the music. The exploring, the playing, and the transmission...
"I think what ended up happening with the film is not so much about us as it is about listening through us. Seeing the landscape through our ears...
"Culturally, there is the expectation that when a woman wears certain items of clothing, she is expected to act a certain way. I wanted to wear clothing that made me feel sexy, without the demands of needing to act that way. I could scream and...
Archival Feedback, the new audio-visual collaboration from Florida's Other Electricities Records straddles the fence between both natural and manufactured environments, as well as people's relations to them. Its origins come from Emile Milgrim and T. Wheeler Castillo, who set out to document the landscape of...