If you’re looking for a corrective to the anti-immigrant sentiment that is a core attribute of the Trump administration, you could do a lot worse than the film Bridge of Spies. That may sound like a strange claim to make about a 2015 Cold War thriller directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, but

Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change Kyle Devine Verso July 2026 From protest songs to charity concerts to celebrity political endorsements on social media, pop music has long sustained its cultural legitimacy through engagement with political causes. Yet mixed results have also revealed the limits of music’s ability to shape the world outside its immediate sphere.

It seems like a calm Sunday evening in San Francisco here on the 19th of April, but a musical storm is brewing at the SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab. The “future fusion collective” known as Instant Alter are in town, bringing jazzy improv and uplifting vibrations to help listeners transcend the chaos of the modern

It would have been difficult to envision back in 1992, when a young British band, Radiohead, from Oxfordshire, named after an obscure Talking Heads song, released their breakthrough single “Creep” and its accompanying albumPablo Honey,that they would someday become far and away the most important band of their generation. Sure, there were flashes of brilliance

Certain moments feel made for taking stock. A 25th-anniversary. A tenth album. Metric hit both of those marks recently, having passed the quarter-century mark as a band not long before recording their latest album, Romanticize the Dive. Maybe the numbers played a part in looking back. Either way, the Emily Haines-fronted quartet moved in the

Across two centuries of literature and film, the vampire has proven less a monster we flee than one we cannot resist. Unlike most monsters, the vampire in its many forms, not least the Romanian Nosferatu, evinces a capacity to attract us, to draw us in. Surveying the history of the vampire is all the evidence

The story of Lip Critic’s second album, Theft World, is a strange one indeed. While their widely acclaimed debut, Hex Dealer, turned heads for its manic, danceable rhythms, their new album is driven by a bizarre, real-life conceptual crisis. During a previous tour, an obsessed fan stole Kaser’s identity to purchase the band’s entire discography,

The acoustic and electric tremolo-treated guitars that usher in “…Another World”, the opening track on Pat Kelly’s new album, Hook, are almost like a balm, a soothing ointment to the rough state of the world. Kelly complements them with his distinctive baritone voice: “Give us another try / Another world where we can waste our

It’s a late winter Saturday night here in San Francisco’s Mission district on 28 February, yet it’s starting to feel like springtime thanks to the week’s pleasantly warmer weather. The mood of the US is uneasy, though, due to the government having just launched a war on Iran. Thus, it feels particularly timely to have

After three years away, electronic duo Pick a Piper (Caribou drummer Brad Weber and vocalist Sophia Alexandra) return with a new album, Dandelion. It takes the listener on a bold, kaleidoscopic sonic journey whilst also acting as a manual for emotional survival. Finding emotional depth in the exquisite soundscapes, the record focuses on the fortitude

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