Tag: Features

Old Career in an Old Town

On a Friday night at Berlin’s famed Metropol, the two surviving members of David Bowie’s Black American three-man backing rhythm section take the stage. Guitarist Carlos Alomar and bass player George Murray are missing their old percussionist comrade, the late, great Dennis Davis, but are tonight rounded out by a full band. It’s November 7 […]

December 24, 2025
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Daniel Blumberg Built A Body-Percussion Palette For Film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

For his work as film composer for The Testament of Ann Lee, Daniel Blumberg went back in time. The film is a vibrant musical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century ecstatic religious leader who founded the Shakers, and the music was built from the organic sounds of human voices and the percussion of clapping […]

December 23, 2025
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Wild Card: Skrillex

With his album F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT, there were simply no rules. The album, released on April 1 (but no joke), is listened to as a seamless live mix. The 34 track, 46 minute journey lands like a blockbuster movie that doesn’t quit until its playfully arpeggiated end credits. The album is a complete game […]

December 22, 2025
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The Complex Legacy of Queer Villains in Cinema

“The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own specific niche of Euro-flavored antagonists in a career spanning six decades. But remembrance, and inevitable reverence, for villains bears a divisiveness as we’re morally conditioned to demonize them. (Credit: Getty Images) The […]

December 22, 2025
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Taylor Momsen breezes into a Manhattan diner like a benevolent banshee, her pale skin and long blonde hair shock against her all-black silhouette. She’s just come from a makeup trial, lids dusted with iridescent shadow glow against her blue eyes. She orders a Coke Zero with a straw, curling her long fingers around the pebbled […]

December 19, 2025
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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones

Name  Mike Edwards Best known for  Singer from Jesus Jones, EMF’s best known side project. Current city  I don’t live in a city, and without referring to Google Maps to see where my nearest cathedral is, I expect my closest qualifying metropolis would be Birmingham. Really want to be in  Most of the time, I would rather be somewhere in […]

December 19, 2025
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