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Vigdis Hjorth’s translated novels are a universe unto themselves. They present a networked constellation of recurring themes, archetypes, and interpersonal dynamics that are swapped, slightly inverted, and subtly recontextualized in service to a central character’s moral transformation. The consistency of Hjorth’s authorial voice holds everything together, putting each work in conversation with one another and

Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally Harry Styles Erskine / Columbia 6 March 2026 “Oh, what a gift it is to be noticed,” sings Harry Styles on his highly anticipated fourth studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. “But it’s nothing to do with me.” The track in question, the eloquently titled “Paint By

Scrawled on the plaza stone, in both the front and back of the ornate Corinthian portico of Mariupol’s Drama Theatre, the word “дети” — “children” in Russian — was unmistakable.Days later, only one was still legible under the rubble where the building once stood. The theater, a cultural cornerstone for more than six decades, was

There’s something delightfully uncomplicated about the music of Unwed Sailor. Founding member and bassist Johnathon Ford (Pedro the Lion, Roadside Monument) infuses the instrumental tracks with his distinct, melodic bass lines while drummer Matt Putman and guitarist David Swatzell fill in the blanks with a sound that embraces the basic framework of so many different

Cocanha transmit an energy more befitting a choir than two singers. Such is their energy that vocalists Caroline Dufau and Lila Fraysse dot Flame Folclòre with a multitude of harmonic jumps and counter-melodies, mostly through articulated energy alone. “Diurê Tremblar” is one hugely impressive collage, an audio sample making way for bustles of chorale singing.

Once upon a time, in the comparatively simpler dark ages of the 1970s, a group of musicians from Akron, Ohio, emerged,presenting a provocative ethos about the “devolution” of humanity. They forged a playfully intense musical persona, fusing bouncy synthpop grooves with a ragged-yet-rigid punk rock sound. They are called Devo, and perhaps the most compelling

Kevin Morby’sLittle Wide Openserves asthe final instalment of what was conceived as a trilogy, withSundowner(2020) andThis Is a Photograph(2022) documentingspecific aspectsof his return to Kansas City.The record is penned as a love letter to the Midwest, but it also celebrates the great expanse of middle America in subtler ways. Morby‘s eighth studio album comes across

The 1990s were great because they were an entire decade with absolutely no rules. Everything from the music to the films to the fashion was so objectively arbitrary that in retrospect they seem completely absurd. This was a time when music videos still mattered, unflattering clothing was in style, Ben Stiller was given his own

Taking the mickey out of pop culture and music specifically is nothing new for Laibach. The Slovenian group, sometimes called an “art-pop” outfit, have been at it for 40-plus years. During that time, they’ve had their go at everything from Queen to the Beatles, Jesus Christ Superstar to The Sound of Music, “White Christmas” to