Category: Dance

The Faint’s Todd Fink on ‘Agenda Suicide’ and the Art of Not Playing It Safe

Omaha native Todd Fink was on his way to becoming a professional skateboarder. Much like other teenaged boys who grew up in the 1990s, skating had become a way of life, an obsession, and Fink kept excelling at it—much to his high school guidance counselor’s chagrin.  “That’s not a plan,” he remembers hearing. But skaters […]

January 13, 2026
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A Symphony of Sound

Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne.  Suddenly it all clicked.  Song titles like “Single Mothers,” “Lolita,” […]

January 12, 2026
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Dry Cleaning Dance Themselves Dirty

Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw likes to keep some distance between her vocals and the rest of the band. Shaw’s curious confidences, spoken-word confessions, and bemused monologues appear to have only a passing relationship to the propulsive rhythms and brittle riffs that frame them. That dissonance can be striking at first, but it grows restrictive–stark […]

January 12, 2026
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