Ambition drives new artists. It is common to find up-and-coming musicians striving to extend traditions they deem valuable. More often than not, this is a gradual process of maturation, one that takes time to reach its end goal. Denmark’s Scimitar is one of these rare cases where ambition appears to be almost instantly fulfilled. Their

California native Tyler Sabbag has earned a reputation for his television compositions, earning an Emmy for the miniseriesLive to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones and nominations for Lost L.A. and Chef’s Table. So, it’s not at all surprising that his first solo album has an innate cinematic quality. Novella, an EP of sumptuous instrumental

The consolidation of Hollywood studios during the 1910s has never stopped regional independent filmmaking, but it’s obscured much of that history. That’s why researchers still discover odd little flawed gems fashioned from imagination and sweat. A case in point is House of Dreams (1963), a slice of nocturnal horror made by a handful of Indiana

Scottish singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch, also known as Pictish Trail, has been writing, recording, and performing music that blends electronic and organic sounds for more than 20 years. On his new album,Life Slime, Lynch continues to mix and match sounds and moods in surprising and thoughtful ways. Dualities abound throughoutLife Slime: electronics burble throughout the album,

You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love Olivia Rodrigo Geffen 12 June 2026 “I lead a very private life, sort of,” Olivia Rodrigo told British Vogue earlier this year, “that makes me feel protected enough to be able to bare my soul in the songwriting.” With the release of her third studio

Garry Winogrand’s street photography remains compelling decades after he took the pictures, capturing raw human emotions that convey beauty, comedy, absurdity, and heartbreak. His photographs represent the act of creating art in the moment. Winogrand once boiled down his approach to a simple, yet revealing koan: “I photograph to find out what something will look

My memories of 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, are fragments of images pulled from the television news broadcast. Back then, I was too young to recognize the significance of what was happening. For a generation, it wasn’t a surreal moment in time; it was incomprehensible. The event is mentioned briefly in

Two things can usually be expected from the folks at Hausu Mountain: experimental soundscapes and wild, abstract artwork. The Chicago-based label, founded by Max Allison and Doug Kaplan, frequently releases records that feature innovative artists making music that’s often challenging to classify. In addition to giving an outlet to a steady roster of musicians, the

Americana artist Jenny Reynolds understands what it is like to have too much time on one’s hands yet not enough time to get the things that really need to be done. She will sit aimlessly and listen to the rain on one cut, then bemoan having to wait for the next. That situation resembles what

Considering Yes’ long and convoluted history, it would be unfair to compare Aurora to their early records. More fittingly, it should be considered among the albums Jon Davison has sung on. One of three younger members, Davison flits between the new blood (Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen) and older guard (Geoff Downes and Steve Howe)

With 2024’s Dark Times, Vince Staples turned introspective, inventorying his trauma, disillusionment, and sense of being lost in a limbo (neither connected with the reality of his childhood à la 2021’s self-titled set and 2022’s Ramona Park Broke My Heart, nor particularly at home in the world of rap, gangsta-biz, and/or Hollywood). With his new